Trajan conquers Dacia
Dacian gold paid for Trajan's Forum and Column
After two wars (101–102 and 105–106) Trajan took the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa; King Decebalus killed himself rather than be captured. Dacia became a Roman province, and the captured gold paid for Trajan's Forum and the column carved with scenes of the war.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 116 Trajan takes Ctesiphon — 10 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)