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323 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. | | 330 BC–323 BC | Greece [philosophy] | Greek philosopher Aristotle composes his History of Animals, Rhetoric, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Logic, Poetics, Politics, and a large number of other works. In politics he shows no sympathy with either his one-time pupil Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, or the democracy of Athens. | | 323 BC–322 BC | Egypt [administration] | Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals and possibly his half-brother, has Alexander's body brought to Memphis in Egypt and buried there in a gold sarcophagus. He marries Alexander's mistress, Thaïs, and claims the position of satrap of Egypt, thereby founding the Ptolemaic dynasty. | | 323 BC | Babylon [campaigns of Alexander the Great (334–323 BC)] | Alexander the Great reaches Babylon, which he intends to develop as the capital of his empire, and plans the conquest of Arabia. On reaching Babylon, he is met by deputations from most of the western Mediterranean peoples, fearful that the great king now intends to conquer Europe. | | 13 June 323 BC | Macedon [births and deaths] | Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, who conquered Persia and much of the Near East, develops a fever and dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon (now in Iraq) (c. 33). |
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