218. Hannibal crosses the Alps into Italy; he defeats the Romans on the Ticinus and Trebia. See ["THE PUNIC WARS," ii, 179].
217. Philip V continues his victorious way against the Aetolian League.
Hannibal defeats the Romans at the Trasimene Lake.
Antiochus the Great cedes Coele-Syria and Palestine to Egypt.
216. Crushing defeat of the Romans by Hannibal at Cannae. See ["THE PUNIC WARS," ii, 179].
214. Rome has her first encounter with Macedon; Philip V allies himself with Hannibal and begins the war.
Marcellus is sent into Sicily and besieges Syracuse, which had declared against Rome.
213. Aratus, strategus of the Achaean League, is poisoned by Philip V of Macedon; this alienates from him many Greek states.
Hwangti crushes out literature in China.
212. After a two-years' siege the Romans under Marcellus take Syracuse.