Decades: 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC

Years: 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC - 202 BC - 201 BC 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC 197 BC

• October 19 - Scipio Africanus Major defeats Hannibal in the Battle of Zama. On Hannibal's advice, Carthage sues for peace, ending the Second Punic War. Carthage is reduced to a client state.
• Begin of the Han Dynasty in China.
• Construction of the new capital city Changan started.
• The Han emperor Liu Bang gave the area of today's Fujian Province to Wuzhu as his kingdom. Wuzhu started construction of his own capital Ye (meaning "the beautiful", which became Fuzhou during Tan Dynasty).