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151 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. | | 152 BC–151 BC | Rome, Spain [wars] | The Roman consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus takes over the war against the Celtiberians in Spain. He makes peace with the Celtiberians of the town of Numantia by paying them a large sum of money. When the new consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus arrives the following year, he brutally attacks another tribe who were not involved in the war. This stiffens the resistance of other cities and when Lucullus fails to take them he withdraws, ending the Second Celtiberian War. |
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