Scipio Africanus
236 BC – 183 BC · 53 years · Rome · Europe
Defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC, ending the Second Punic War.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 3rd century BC
Portrait: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Archimedes — mathematician, physicist and engineer, 51 years older
- Cato the Elder — Roman statesman and writer, 2 years younger
Africa
- Hannibal — Carthaginian general, 11 years older
- Eratosthenes — scholar, head of the Library of Alexandria, 40 years older
Asia
- Qin Shi Huang — first emperor of China, 23 years older
- Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) — founder of the Han dynasty, 20 years older
- Empress Lü (Lü Zhi) — Han empress and regent, 5 years older
- Modu Chanyu — chanyu, founder of the Xiongnu empire, 2 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 221 BC Qin Shi Huang unifies China — aged 15, Asia
- 218 BC Hannibal crosses the Alps — aged 18, Europe
- 216 BC Battle of Cannae — aged 20, Europe
- c. 214 BC Great Wall of China — aged 22, Asia
- 210 BC Terracotta Army — aged 26, Asia
- 202 BC Founding of the Han dynasty — aged 34, Asia