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Ptolemy V Epiphanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (428 words) |
 | In 202 BCE however Tlepolemus, the general in charge of Pelusium put himself at the head of a revolt which ended with Agathocles and several of his supporters being killed by the Alexandrian mob. |
| In 197 BCE Lycopolis was held by the forces of Ankmachis, (also known as Chaonnophris) the secessionist pharaoh of Upper Egypt, but was forced to withdraw to Thebes. |
| The elder of his two sons, Ptolemy VI Philometor (181-145 BCE), succeeded as an infant under the regency of his mother Cleopatra the Syrian. |
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| Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa. |
| The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius) began a reform movement to redistribute senatorial lands to the landless poor; Tiberius was slain in 133 BCE. |
| In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East. |
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