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63 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. | | 63 BC | Rome, Palestine, Seleucid Kingdom [wars] | The Roman general Pompey the Great marches on Jerusalem, where followers of the rival claimant Aristobulus II have refused to submit to Hyrcanus II as high priest and are resisting him on the temple hill. After a three-month siege by Pompey they capitulate. Hyrcanus is recognized as high priest and ruler but not as king of Judaea. | | 63 BC | Rome [administration] | While the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero is consul in Rome he exposes Catiline's conspiracy to obtain power to the Senate, who grant him authority to protect the state. Cicero orders the arrest of the conspirators, who are executed. Cicero's fellow consul is the Roman statesman and general Mark Antony's uncle, C Antonius Hybrida; Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger is tribune (magistrate) of the plebeians and supports Cicero in this role. | | 23 September 63 BC | Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Augustus, first emperor of the Roman Empire 27 BC–AD 14, born as Gaius Octavius (Octavian) (–AD 14). |
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