Hellenistic+World+Decline+-+Events+and+Leaders

Events and Leaders
-172 BC, Third Macedonian War declaired by Rome -June 168 BC, Macedonia lose Battle of Pydna to Rome, end of Third Macedonian War, 1st Hellenistic kingdom abolished (Green, 2007, 93) ·royal officials deported ·kingdom divided into four republics ·gold, silver mines closed -July 168, Antiochus IV told to leave Egypt or face war against Rome ·returns home (Seleucid), held games, proved what Ptolemy II did: expensive displays made good propaganda (Green, 2007, 95) -133 BC, Attalus III (Attalid) bequeath kingdom to Rome (Green, 2007, 100) -64 BC, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus (last claim to throne) dies, end of Seleucus empire (Green, 2007, 123) -31 BC, Cleopatra VII comit suicide, end of Hellenistic Era (Green, 1990, 679)
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- Attalus I defeats Gauls & confinds them to Galatia -Philip V, king of Macedonia fights many of the Macedonian Wars -Cleopatra VII, last Macedonian monarch of Hellenistic period (Martin, 200) -Ptolemy VII Physcon, abducts son, dismembers him, send pieces back to boy's mother on her birthday (Green, 2007, 106)
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The Decline of the Hellenistic World  