Rome annexes Nabataea
The caravan kingdom of Petra becomes the province of Arabia
In 106, after the death of the last Nabataean king Rabbel II, Trajan annexed his kingdom and created the province of Arabia with its capital at Bostra. The New Trajan Road was laid across it from Bostra to Aila on the Red Sea.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 106 Trajan conquers Dacia — same year
- 122 Hadrian's Wall — 16 years later
- c. 126 The dome of the Pantheon — 20 years later
Africa
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Claudius Ptolemy (aged 6)
- Ban Zhao (aged 61)
- Epictetus (aged 56)
- Zhang Heng (aged 28)