Battle of Carrhae
Parthian archers destroy Crassus and halt Rome's eastward push
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Parthian cavalry under Surena — horse archers and cataphracts — crushed the Roman legions of Marcus Crassus, who was killed. The defeat halted Rome's eastward expansion and made Parthia its chief rival.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — 5 years earlier
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — 9 years later
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — 22 years later
Africa
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Julius Caesar (aged 47)
- Cleopatra (aged 16)
- Augustus (aged 10)
- Cicero (aged 53)
- Pompey the Great (aged 53)
- Herod the Great (aged 19)
- Virgil (aged 17)
- Amanirenas (aged 7)
- Livia Drusilla (aged 6)