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The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era , epoch , or historical period . In the Mediterranean Basin , the first few decades of this century were characterized by a balance of power between the Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, and the great mercantile ...
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The 3rd century was the period from AD 201 (represented by the Roman numerals CCI) to AD 300 (CCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar.
[a] The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708, [5] and became more widely used in the mid-19th century by Jewish religious scholars. Since the late 20th century, BCE and CE have become popular in academic and scientific publications on the grounds that BCE and CE are religiously neutral terms.
Moggaliputtatissa (ca. 327–247 BCE), was a Buddhist monk and scholar who was born in Pataliputra, Magadha (now Patna, India) and lived in the 3rd century BCE. He is associated with the Third Buddhist council, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka and the Buddhist missionary activities which took place during his reign. [1]
Map of the world in 300 BC. A coin used as currency during 300 BC in ancient Greece. A sick child brought into the Temple of Asclepieion, by Waterhouse (1877). Year 300 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
A.M. (or AM) – for the Latin Anno Mundi, meaning "in the year of the world", has its epoch in the year 3761 BC. This was first used to number the years of the modern Hebrew calendar in 1178 by Maimonides. Precursors with epochs one or two years later were used since the 3rd century, all based on the Seder Olam Rabba of the 2nd century. The ...
'Bel is his shepherd') [1] [2] was an early-3rd-century BCE Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk [3] and astronomer who wrote in the Koine Greek language. His original works, including the Babyloniaca ( Ancient Greek : Βαβυλωνιακά) , have been lost but fragmentarily survive in some quotations, especially in the ...