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275 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. | | 275 BC | Sicily, Egypt [poetry] | Syracusan poet Theocritus, creator of the bucolic (pastoral) genre, writes in praise of the tyrant of Syracuse, Hieron II and, later, in praise of the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy II. | | 275 BC | Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Asia, Macedon [wars] | From about this time the Near East and Aegean are relatively peaceful with the stabilizing of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms that were formed from Alexander's Persian Empire – Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Asia, and Antigonid Macedon. These kingdoms maintain a balance of power through diplomacy and limited war until about 220 BC, with the accession of ambitious rulers to the thrones of Macedon and Asia and the rise of Rome. |
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