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1200 BCE – 500 CE

Conflicts of antiquity

88 conflicts whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

Europe · 52

Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts 1194 BCE – 1184 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence 911 BCE – 824 BCE Sargonid Assyrian Conquests 745 BCE – 631 BCE Messenian Wars 743 BCE – 668 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 720 BCE – 650 BCE Lelantine War 710 BCE – 650 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire 626 BCE – 605 BCE First Sacred War 595 BCE – 585 BCE Lydian–Median War 590 BCE – 585 BCE Roman–Etruscan Wars 509 BCE – 264 BCE Greco-Persian Wars 499 BCE – 449 BCE Ionian Revolt 499 BCE – 493 BCE Sicilian Wars 480 BCE – 307 BCE Peloponnesian War 431 BCE – 404 BCE Corinthian War 395 BCE – 387 BCE Theban–Spartan War 379 BCE – 362 BCE Third Sacred War 356 BCE – 346 BCE Samnite Wars 343 BCE – 290 BCE Latin War 340 BCE – 338 BCE Conquests of Alexander the Great 334 BCE – 323 BCE Lamian War 323 BCE – 322 BCE Pyrrhic War 280 BCE – 275 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 279 BCE – 275 BCE Chremonidean War 267 BCE – 261 BCE Punic Wars 264 BCE – 146 BCE Cleomenean War 229 BCE – 222 BCE Illyrian Wars 229 BCE – 168 BCE Roman Conquest of Greece 214 BCE – 146 BCE Roman–Numidian Wars 206 BCE – 46 BCE Numantine War 154 BCE – 133 BCE First Servile War 135 BCE – 132 BCE Cimbrian War 113 BCE – 101 BCE Jugurthine War 112 BCE – 106 BCE Second Servile War 104 BCE – 100 BCE Social War (Italian War) 91 BCE – 87 BCE Mithridatic Wars 88 BCE – 63 BCE Sulla's Civil Wars 88 BCE – 82 BCE Third Servile War (Spartacus) 73 BCE – 71 BCE Gallic Wars 58 BCE – 50 BCE Caesar's Civil War 49 BCE – 45 BCE Final War of the Roman Republic 44 BCE – 30 BCE Roman–Germanic Wars 12 BCE – 16 CE Roman Conquest of Britain 43 CE – 84 CE Boudica's Revolt 60 CE – 61 CE Dacian Wars (Trajan) 101 CE – 106 CE Marcomannic Wars 166 CE – 180 CE Crisis of the Third Century 235 CE – 284 CE Sassanid-Roman Wars of the 3rd Century 260 CE – 298 CE Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy 306 CE – 324 CE Hunnic Invasions of Europe 370 CE – 454 CE Fall of the Western Roman Empire 376 CE – 476 CE Frankish Conquest of Gaul 486 CE – 507 CE

Middle East · 19

Elamite–Babylonian Wars 1764 BCE – 1150 BCE Kassite Conquest of Babylon 1595 BCE – 1155 BCE Sea Peoples Invasions 1208 BCE – 1178 BCE Aramean Migrations & Wars 1100 BCE – 900 BCE Wars of David & Solomon 1010 BCE – 930 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt 747 BCE – 656 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests 612 BCE – 562 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great 559 BCE – 530 BCE Persian Conquest of Egypt 525 BCE – 522 BCE Wars of the Diadochi 322 BCE – 281 BCE Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid) 274 BCE – 168 BCE Maccabean Revolt 167 BCE – 160 BCE Roman–Parthian Wars 53 BCE – 217 CE Jewish–Roman Wars 66 CE – 135 CE Bar Kokhba Revolt 132 CE – 136 CE Early Sassanid–Roman Wars 224 CE – 260 CE Aksumite–Himyarite Wars 270 CE – 525 CE Palmyrene Empire 270 CE – 273 CE Aksumite Conquest of Kush 330 CE – 350 CE

South Asia · 5

Seleucid–Maurya War 305 BCE – 303 BCE Kalinga War 262 BCE – 261 BCE Kushan Empire Conquests 30 CE – 375 CE Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta 335 CE – 375 CE Hephthalite Wars 420 CE – 560 CE

East Asia · 9

Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye) 1046 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars 771 BCE – 476 BCE Warring States Period 475 BCE – 221 BCE Qin Wars of Unification 230 BCE – 221 BCE Chu–Han Contention 206 BCE – 202 BCE Han–Xiongnu Wars 200 BCE – 89 CE Yellow Turban Rebellion 184 CE – 205 CE Three Kingdoms (China) 220 CE – 280 CE Wars of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304 CE – 439 CE

Americas · 3

Maya City-State Wars 400 BCE – 900 CE Monte Albán Zapotec Conquest State 200 BCE – 500 CE Teotihuacan Entrada into the Maya Lowlands 378 CE