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106 BC| 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. | | 106 BC | Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, orator, and writer, whose major works include De republica/On the Republic, born in Arpino, Italy (–43 BC). | | 106 BC | Numidia, Rome [Jugurthan War (111 BC)] | Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the Roman commander Gaius Marius' quaestor, persuades King Bocchus of Mauritania to turn against King Jugurtha of Numidia, who is lured to a conference and kidnapped. Sulla has the scene of capture carved on his signet ring and makes no secret of his jealousy of Marius. | | 29 September 106 BC | Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Pompey, Roman general and statesman, born in Rome (–48 BC). |
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