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84 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. | | 84 BC | Italy [births and deaths] | Gaius (Valerius Maximianus) Catullus, outstanding Roman lyric poet, born in Verona, Cisalpine Gaul (modern Italy) (–c. 54). | | 84 BC | Greece, Rome, Pontus [Roman–Mithridatic Wars (110–65 BC)] | The Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and King Mithridates VI the Great of Pontus agree peace terms at a meeting near Troy. Sulla sails for Brundisium, leaving two legions to police Rome's Asiatic territories. Heavy taxation on those who had taken the enemy side, and looting, force people to borrow heavily, swelling the purses of Roman money lenders. Lucius Cornelius Cinna, ruling as tyrant in Rome, packs the Senate with his followers and declares Sulla an outlaw. A financial crisis ensues, which Cinna tries to allay by the remission of debts, but the unrest is to result in his death at the hands of his own troops. |
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