Rome destroys Corinth
The richest city in Greece falls in the same year as Carthage
In 146 BC Rome crushed the Achaean League, and on the orders of the consul Mummius Corinth was burned: the men were killed, the women and children sold into slavery. Carthage fell the same year, and Greece passed for good under Roman rule.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 167 BC The Maccabean Revolt — 21 years earlier
Africa
- 149 BC–146 BC Third Punic War — 3 years earlier
Asia
- c. 138 BC–126 BC Zhang Qian's mission to the West — 8 years later
Alive at the time
- Emperor Wu of Han (aged 10)
- Zhang Qian (aged 18)