200s_bc

Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades:	230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC
Years:	209 BC 208 BC 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC 202 BC 201 BC 200 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Eastern Hemisphere in 200 BC.

Events and trends

• Han Dynasty founded in China.
• After severe losses, Roman determination kept them fighting in the Second Punic War against Hannibal. As a result, they wore down Carthaginian forces in Spain and Sicily, then launched a series of raids across the Mediterranean Sea that forced Hannibal to withdraw back to northern Africa, where he was at last decisively defeated in the Battle of Zama.
• The earliest period that some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written.

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Deaths

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