{"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": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-456, -187], "span_label": ["457 BCE", "188 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "hannibal", "label": "Hannibal", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mediterranean", "label": "Mediterranean", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cato-the-elder", "label": "Cato the Elder", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucid", "label": "Seleucid", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antiochus-iii-the-great", "label": "Antiochus III the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "taurus-mountains", "label": "Taurus Mountains", "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": -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"}}]}