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106| c. 400 BC–AD c. 250 | Central America [everyday life] | The Late Formative (or pre-Classic) period of Mayan culture takes place in Mexico. By 400 BC, large structures have been built at several sites in the tropical lowland jungle. In the highlands, people begin to put up large clay platforms, some the basis for temples and others for elite houses, flanking open plazas. | | c. 200 BC–AD c. 200 | South America [religion] | During this period the Nazca Lines are drawn in the desert along the south coast of Peru. These are enormous stylized outlines of animals, including a monkey, whale, spider, and hummingbird, and sets of parallel lines, some as long as 20 km/12 mi. They are believed to be a development of Chavín de Huantar art; they may have had religious significance, or they may have been connected with astronomy. | | c. 100–c. 200 | Central America [town planning] | Great building projects are carried out in the pre-Toltec city of Teotihuacán in the Mexican Basin. A great central avenue is laid out, now known as the Street of the Dead. The Temple of the Sun is also completed, dominating the Street of the Dead; at 65 m/216 ft, it is the highest pyramid in Mexico. Another slightly smaller pyramid, to the Moon, is also constructed. Twenty further temples line the avenue. | | 104–106 | Dacia, Roman Empire [Dacian Wars (87–106)] | King Decebalus of Dacia revolts again, overwhelming the Roman garrisons left north of the River Danube and raiding the Roman province of Moesia across the Danube. | | 106 | Roman Empire, Dacia [Dacian Wars (87–106)] | Dacia (roughly equivalent to modern Romania) becomes a Roman province. Thousands of Dacians are transported to the southern side of the River Danube, while Dacia is colonized and developed by the Romans after the Roman emperor Trajan has carried off much booty. Trajan recognizes the strategic value of Dacia in any further clash with the German tribes. | | 106 | Roman Empire, Arabia [colonization] | On the death of King Dabel of Arabia Petraea, the last buffer state between Syria and Parthia, comprising the Sinai Peninsula and the Negev Desert and commanding the trade routes to the East, the area is added to the Roman Empire in a campaign led by A Cornelius Palma, the Roman governor of Syria. |
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