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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 111 BC 110 BC 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC - 106 BC - 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC 106 BC - Events. Sulla captured Jugurtha, thus ending the Jugurthine War. The Chinese and t ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC 106 BC 105 BC - 104 BC - 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC 100 BC 99 BC 104 BC - Events. Aristobulus I succeeds John Hyrcanus as king of Judea. Sima Qian starts writing his Shiji. Athenion starts a slave rebellion in Segesta. Gaius Marius is consul of Rome, the fir ...

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Due to its remote location, and difficult accessibility, Petra is often speculated to be the city of refuge that God will one day use to supernaturally protect the remnant of Israel from the forces of the Antichrist, during the end times (a view based on several passages of the Book of Revelation, in the Bible). In these passages, Israel (represented by the figure of a pregnant woman who gives birth to a man child—a reference to Christ's advent from Israel) is allowed to flee to the desert (Petra?) in order to escape the forces of t ...

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Starting about 113 BC, Emperor Wu appeared to begin to display further signs of abusing his power. He began to incessantly tour the commanderies, initially nearby Chang'an, but later extending to much farther places, worshipping the various gods on the way, perhaps again in the search of immortality. He also had a succession of magicians whom he honored with great things, even, in one case, making one a marquess and marrying a daughter to him. (That magician, after he was exposed to be a fraud, however, was executed.) Emperor Wu's expenditur ...

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