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356 BC| 480 BC–330 BC | Greece [sculpture] | The Greek classical style of sculpture develops more realism than the preceding Archaic period. Its leading exponents are Phidias (in the 5th century BC), and Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus (in the 4th century 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. | | 356 BC | Greece [administration] | Philip II of Macedon, regent for Amyntas IV, assumes the full title of king and takes Potidaea and other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice. He forges a unified professional army with a national spirit from the disparate groups of warring Macedonian tribesmen. | | 356 BC | Macedon [births and deaths] | Alexander the Great, King of Macedon who conquered Persia and much of the Near East, born in Pella, Macedon (–323 BC). | | 356 BC | Asia Minor [churches and temples] | The temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is burnt down by Herostratus, who wishes to do something that history will remember him by. |
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