• Rome took Dacia [106/272, 'Rumania']. After a dispute with Persia over Armenia Rome took Armenia and Mesopotamia [114/117]. The war was so expensive that Rome abandoned the new lands within three years.
• Jews rebelled [132/135] when Romans began to build a temple to their god, Jupiter, on the site of the Jewish temple that had been destroyed. Rome forced many Jews to leave the country [135, Jewish Diaspora].
• Rome took political control of Macedon and Greece [146].