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325 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. | | c. 325 BC | Europe [statistics and demography] | The population of the British Isles is around half a million. | | 325 BC | Persian Empire [campaigns of Alexander the Great (334–323 BC)] | Alexander the Great reaches the Indian Ocean. With his army of perhaps 30,000, he makes a difficult retreat westwards along the coast and through the desert of Gedrosia (modern Makran, Pakistan). His army reaches the Persian capital of Persepolis in December, while his navy, under the Macedonian general Nearchus, reaches Susa, Persia, in the same month. |
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