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326 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. | | 326 BC | Rome [Roman–Samnite Wars (326–299 BC)] | Roman intervention in the dispute over Neapolis (Naples) causes the Samnites to declare war on Rome – the Second Samnite War. | | 326 BC | India [campaigns of Alexander the Great (334–323 BC)] | Alexander the Great reaches his farthest point in the east, the River Hyphasis in India where his Macedonian troops refuse to go any further. He retraces his steps to the River Hydaspes, and, by water and land, retreats down the river and then down the River Indus to the sea. He is seriously wounded at the siege of the capital of a local Indian tribe, the Malli. |
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