{"slug": "talent-measurement", "label": "Talent (measurement)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_%28measurement%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190139", "qid": "Q190139", "description": "ancient unit of mass", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [-456, -187], "span_label": ["457 BCE", "188 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Talent (weight)"], "related": [{"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "antiochus-iii-the-great", "label": "Antiochus III the Great", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hannibal", "label": "Hannibal", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cato-the-elder", "label": "Cato the Elder", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lucius-aemilius-paullus-macedonicus", "label": "Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucid-empire", "label": "Seleucid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -456, "year_label": "457 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Boeotia, Phocis and Opuntian Locris become members of the Delian League. Athens now has enrolled in the Delian League all the Boeotian cities except Thebes. Aegina is forced to become a member of the League. It is assessed, with Thasos, for a yearly contribution to the League of 30 talents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371321391#Greece", "title": "457 BC", "revid": 1371321391, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "5,000 talents are transferred to the treasury of the Delian League in Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Greece", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -448, "year_label": "449 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Pericles proposes the \"Papyrus Decree\" allowing the use of 5,000 talents to finance the massive rebuilding program of Athenian temples. This leads to a meeting (\"Congress\") of all Greek states in order to consider the question of rebuilding the temples destroyed by the Persians. The Congress fails because of Sparta's opposition.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309703382#Greece", "title": "449 BC", "revid": 1309703382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -377, "year_label": "378 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I's third war with Carthage proves disastrous. He suffers a crushing defeat at Cronium and is forced to pay an indemnity of 1,000 talents and cede the territory west of the Halycus River to the Carthaginians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279678779#Sicily", "title": "378 BC", "revid": 1279678779, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -359, "year_label": "360 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With the help of King Agesilaus II of Sparta, Nectanebo II deposes Teos and becomes king of Egypt. Teos flees to Susa and makes peace with the Persians. Nectanebo II pays the Spartans 230 talents for their help.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1141894957#Egypt", "title": "360 BC", "revid": 1141894957, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "For the first time, Alexander encounters war elephants after the battle in Darius' camp. In the capital, Susa, Alexander gains access to huge treasures amounting to 50,000 gold talents (equivalent of today circa 77 billion USD).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Macedonia", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -301, "year_label": "302 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonian general, Philetaerus, moves his allegiance from Antigonus to Antigonus' rival, Lysimachus. In return, Lysimachus makes Philetaerus guardian of the fortress of Pergamum with its treasure of some 9,000 talents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372589595#Asia_Minor", "title": "302 BC", "revid": 1372589595, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -277, "year_label": "278 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "After their defeats in Greece, the Gauls move into Asia Minor. The Seleucid king Antiochus wins a major battle over the Gauls leading to his being given the title of Soter (Greek for \"saviour\"). The Gauls settle down to become the \"Galatians\" and are paid 2,000 talents annually by the Seleucid kings to keep the peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129454#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "278 BC", "revid": 1350129454, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -240, "year_label": "241 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Carthaginians under Hamilcar Barca are forced to accept severe peace terms and agree to evacuate Sicily. As part of the treaty with Rome, Carthage agrees to abandon all its claims on Sicily, to refrain from sailing her warships in Italian waters and to pay an indemnity of 3,200 talents. However, the Carthaginian army is allowed to return home with its arms. Rome is now the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean basin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1304843215#Roman_Republic", "title": "241 BC", "revid": 1304843215, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -204, "year_label": "205 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Returning via the Persian provinces of Arachosia, Drangiana, and Carmania, Antiochus III arrives in Persis. He then leads a short expedition down the Persian Gulf and receives tribute of 500 talents of silver from the citizens of Gerrha, a mercantile state on the west coast of the Persian Gulf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853505#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "205 BC", "revid": 1361853505, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -200, "year_label": "201 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "On Hannibal's advice, Carthage sues for peace with the Romans, ending the Second Punic War. Carthage is reduced to a client state of Rome. In the peace treaty between Carthage and Rome, Carthage surrenders all her Mediterranean possessions to Rome, including her Iberian territories. The Carthaginians agree to pay Rome 200 talents per year for 50 years, allow Masinissa to rule Numidia as an independent kingdom, make no war without Rome's permission, and destroy all but 10 of the Carthaginian warships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243551551#Carthage", "title": "201 BC", "revid": 1243551551, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -196, "year_label": "197 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly gives a Roman army under proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus a decisive victory over Philip V of Macedon. In the Treaty of Tempe, the terms of the peace proposed by the Roman general and adopted by the Roman Senate specify that Philip V can retain his throne and control of Macedonia, but he has to abandon all the Greek cities he has conquered. Philip also has to provide to the Romans 1,000 talents as indemnity, surrender most of his fleet and provide hostages, including his younger son, Demetrius, who is to be held in Rome. The Aetolians propose that Philip V be ejected from his throne but Flamininus opposes this.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698626#Greece", "title": "197 BC", "revid": 1352698626, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -194, "year_label": "195 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A Spanish revolt against Roman consolidation of the ex-Carthaginian colonies is effectively put down by Marcus Porcius Cato (\"the Censor\"). He avoids one defeat by paying the Celtiberians 200 talents (around 120,000 denarii), a much-criticised tactic. On Cato's return to Rome, Aemilius Paulus succeeds him as Roman governor in Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115647#Roman_Republic", "title": "195 BC", "revid": 1300115647, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -187, "year_label": "188 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Through the peace treaty of Apamea (in Phrygia), the Romans force the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, to surrender all his Greek and Anatolian possessions as far east as the Taurus Mountains, to pay 15,000 talents over a period of 12 years and to surrender to Rome the former Carthaginian general Hannibal, his elephants and his fleet, and furnish hostages, including the king's eldest son, Demetrius. Rome is now the master of the eastern Mediterranean while Antiochus III's empire is reduced to Syria, Mesopotamia, and western Iran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560521#Roman_Republic", "title": "188 BC", "revid": 1369560521, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}