Author: Rock Justice

0240 BC-12-01 00:00:00 240 BC Archemides Shows Value Of Pi- Archemides the Greek mathmatician was the first to determine the value of pi. He also successfully calculated the area of a circle. 122000

0230 BC-12-01 00:00:00 230 BC Aritstarchus Of Samos – Aristarchus died in 230 BC. He calculated the size of the earth, sun and the moon. He showed that the earth orbited the sun and the[…]

0221 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The Great Wall of China was begun in 221 BC by Shih Huang Ti. The wall was built along 1,200 miles of China’s northern border. It was between 20-50 feet high and[…]

0216 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Defying their previous losses, Rome rushes into battle again, and Hannibal takes advantage of this and traps the army in a strategy that is used today 125000

0205 BC-12-01 00:36:20 “World’s first computer”—was retrieved from an ancient shipwreck on the bottom of the sea off Greece in 1901. 126000

0202 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Carthage Hannibal approx. 50,000 infantry 4,000 cavalry 80 elephants Rome Scipio Africanus 34,000 infantry 3,000 cavalry 6,000 Numidian cavalry 127000

0168 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Re calibrated dates using the animal skin which the scrolls were written on, shows that the ‘Scrolls” were harvested post 168 BC. 128000

0149 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The final blow came in 148, when the Romans finally annexed Macedonia, added southern Illyria (capital: Apollonia), and transformed it into a tax-paying province. Greece followed two years later. 129001