Judas Maccabeus (In Our Time)
160 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus. Born in the second century BC, Judas led his followers, the Maccabees, in a rebellion against the Seleucid Empire, which was attempting to impose the Greek culture and religion on the Jews. After a succession of battles he succeeded and the Seleucid king granted the Jews religious freedom.
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Around 160 BCE
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Spartacus slave revolt (73 BCE)
- Fall of the Roman Republic (133 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)