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78 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. | | 78 BC | Roman Empire, Italy [births and deaths] | Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Felix), Roman consul who fought King Mithridates VI of Pontus in Rome's first civil war, and then became Roman dictator 82–79 BC, dies in Puteoli, near Naples (60). | | 78 BC | Rome [wars] | The Roman consul Lepidus quarrels with his co-consul to the point of bloodshed. He assembles an army, advances on Rome, is beaten, and flees the country. The task of rounding up the rebels is entrusted to the Roman soldier Pompey the Great, although some escape to join the rebel Roman general Quintus Sertorius in Spain. |
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