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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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Classical Antiquity is a period in the history of the Near East and Mediterranean, extending roughly from the 8th century BC to the 6th century AD.It is conventionally taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th to 6th centuries, the period during which ...
2 BC, 1 BC, 1 AD, 2 AD ...; there is no "year zero". Treat the 1st century AD as years 1–100, the 17th century as 1601–1700, and the second millennium as 1001–2000; similarly, the 1st century BC / BCE was 100–1 BC / BCE, the 17th century BC / BCE was 1700–1601 BC / BCE, and the second millennium 2000–1001 BC / BCE.
The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1', '1 BC' is equal to astronomical 'year 0', and so forth. In the Gregorian system , the Nth century AD starts in the year (N-1)*100+1 and ends in year N*100, so for example, the 16th century begins on January 1 ...
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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.
Late 4th century BC: Potassium nitrate manufacturing and military use in the Seleucid Empire. [252] [verification needed] Late 4th century BC: Formal systems by Pāṇini in India, possibly during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya. [253] 4th to 3rd century BC: Zinc production in North-Western India during the Maurya Empire. [254]