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58 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. | | c. 200 BC–AD c. 200 | South America [religion] | During this period the Nazca Lines are drawn in the desert along the south coast of Peru. These are enormous stylized outlines of animals, including a monkey, whale, spider, and hummingbird, and sets of parallel lines, some as long as 20 km/12 mi. They are believed to be a development of Chavín de Huantar art; they may have had religious significance, or they may have been connected with astronomy. | | c. 85 BC–AD c. 52 | East Asia [art] | The earliest known Chinese lacquer (found at Lak Lang in North Korea in modern times) is produced. | | 64 BC–AD c. 52 | Syria, Palestine, Seleucid Kingdom, Rome [treaties] | The Roman general Pompey the Great arrives at Antioch in Syria and dictates terms: King Antiochus XIII of Syria is deposed and the Seleucid dynasty ends. Syria becomes part of the Roman provinces. Hyrcanus II and his brother Aristobulus II, rival claimants for the Hasmonaean throne of Judaea, bring their claims before Pompey. Pompey supports the claim of Hyrcanus, but makes Palestine into a Roman province, appointing Hyrcanus as high priest of the Jews but the Idumean Antipater as governor of Roman Judaea. | | 58 BC | Rome, Gaul [colonization] | The tribe of the Helvetii from Switzerland begins to migrate west into Gaul (France) under their leader, Orgetorix, but is checked by the Roman statesman and general Julius Caesar, in alliance with the Gallic tribe of the Aedui, at the Battle of Bibracte (near Autun, France). This victory brings several requests for friendship and help from the tribes of central Gaul against Ariovistus, the leader of the Suevi, a Germanic people who have crossed the River Rhine and settled in northern Gaul, threatening the Gallic tribes in the area. | | 58 BC | Rome, Gaul [Gallic War (50 BC)] | The Roman statesman and general Julius Caesar begins his campaign to subdue Ariovistus, leader of the Germanic Suevi in northern Gaul, advancing through the Belfort Gap. Ariovistus, with a Teutonic army said to be 120,000 strong and stationed between the Vosges mountain range and the River Rhine, is defeated in a battle near modern Colmar. The Germans move back to the Rhine, and Ariovistus dies soon afterwards. | | 58 BC | Roman Empire [poetry] | Latin poet Lucretius publishes De rerum natura/On the Nature of Things, a Latin epic based on the doctrines of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. |
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