Editing 188 BC

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Year '''188 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Salinator''' (or, less frequently, '''year 566 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 188 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* The leader of the [[Achaean League]], [[Philopoemen]], enters northern [[Laconia]] with his army and a group of [[Sparta]]n exiles. His army demolishes the wall that the former [[tyrant]] of [[Sparta]], [[Nabis of Sparta|Nabis]], has built around Sparta. Philopoemen then restores Spartan citizenship to the exiles and abolishes Spartan law, introducing [[Achaea]]n law in its place. Sparta's role as a major power in [[Ancient Greece|Greece]] ends, while the [[Achaean League]] becomes the dominant power throughout the [[Peloponnese]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* The continuing quarrels among the Greek cities and leagues increases the conviction in [[Roman Republic|Rome]] that there will be no peace in Greece until Rome takes full control.
* Through the peace [[treaty of Apamea]] (in [[Phrygia]]), the Romans force the [[Seleucid]] king, [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]], to surrender all his Greek and [[Anatolia]]n possessions as far east as the [[Taurus Mountains]], to pay 15,000 [[Talent (measurement)|talents]] over a period of 12 years and to surrender to Rome the former [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] general [[Hannibal]], his elephants and his fleet, and furnish hostages, including the king's eldest son, [[Demetrius I Soter|Demetrius]]. Rome is now the master of the eastern [[Mediterranean]] while Antiochus III's empire is reduced to [[Syria]], [[Mesopotamia]], and western [[Iran]].

==== Asia Minor ====
* [[Hannibal]] flees via [[Crete]] to the court of King [[Prusias I of Bithynia]] who is engaged in warfare with Rome's ally, King [[Eumenes II]] of [[Pergamum]].
* Following the peace of [[Apamea (Phrygia)|Apamea]], Eumenes II receives the provinces of [[Phrygia]], [[Lydia]], [[Lycia]], [[Pisidia]], and [[Pamphylia]] from his Roman allies, as the Romans have no desire to actually administer territory in Hellenistic Anatolia but want to see a strong, friendly state in [[Anatolia]] as a buffer zone against any possible [[Seleucid]] expansion in the future.

==== China ====
* Following the death of [[Emperor Hui of Han]], his mother [[Empress Lü]] makes Hui's son [[Emperor Qianshao of Han]] and appoints members of her clan as kings, thereby establishing her effective control over China.

== Births ==
* [[Emperor Jing of Han|Jing of Han]], emperor of the [[China|Chinese]] [[Han dynasty]], who ruled from [[157 BC]] (d. [[141 BC]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=GOLDIN |first1=PAUL R. |title=Han Law and the Regulation of Interpersonal Relations: "The Confucianization of the Law" Revisited |journal=Asia Major |date=2012 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1–31 |jstor=43486137 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43486137 |issn=0004-4482}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=List of Rulers of China |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chem/hd_chem.htm |website=www.metmuseum.org |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[Emperor Hui of Han|Hui of Han]], the second emperor of the Chinese [[Han dynasty]], who ruled from [[195 BC]] (b. [[210 BC]])

== References ==
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