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234 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. | | 234 BC | Roman Empire, Italy [births and deaths] | Marcus Porcius Cato (‘the Elder’ or ‘the Censor’), Roman statesman and orator, the first major Latin prose writer, whose De agri cultura/On Agriculture survives, born in Tusculum, Latium (–149 BC). |
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