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198 BC
198 BC
Anastasios, governor of Ypernoteia and prominent member of the Palaioi company, convinced the Palaioi company council to make a military expedition south east from Mesopotamos to conquer the big gold mines in the region(now under Soninke control)
More than 10000 Greek/Gauls settlers went to west Africa.
By place:
Asia Minor
Eumenes II becomes King of Pergamum following the death of his father Attalus I Soter.
Carthage
Because of his administrative and constitutional reforms in Carthage,Hannibal becomes unpopular with an important faction of the Carthaginian nobility and he is denounced to the League for inciting the Romans to join him and take up arms against the League. The league demands that Carthage surrender Hannibal. However, Hannibal voluntarily goes once again into exile.He journeyed to Tyre, the mother city of Carthage, and then to Antioch, where he was honourably received by Antiochus III of Seleucid empire.
Ptolemaic empire/Seleucid empire
With Ptolemy IV having internal issues to deal and Antichous III fearing the rumours of an invasion from the Diodotian empire a new peace agreement is singed between Ptolemaic empire and Seleucid empire. The agreement is concluded with the marriage of Antiochus III to Ptolemy IV sister, Cleopatra. Antiochus divorces his previous wife, Amalthea.
Sri Lanka
Agathocles king of the Eschatians, to strengthen his power in Sri Lanka, marries the daughter of Bindushuka, the king of the Ruhuna kingdom.