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321 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. | | 321 BC | Rome, Italy [Roman–Samnite Wars (326–299 BC)] | During the Second Samnite War, a Roman army is caught by the Samnites at a mountain pass, the Caudine Forks, and forced to capitulate. It suffers the indignity of ‘passing under the yoke’ – the Roman soldiers are stripped of their weapons and forced to pass under a ‘yoke’ of weapons held by their enemies. Rome surrenders the colony of Fregellae. | | 321 BC | Egypt [administration] | Perdiccas, regent of the late Alexander the Great's empire, invades Egypt but is murdered by his own mutinous army, led by the Macedonian general Seleucus. A truce is arranged, leaving Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals and possibly his half-brother, in power in Egypt and Seleucus in Babylon. Antipater, the regent in Macedon, is made regent of the whole empire. |
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