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87 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. | | 87 BC–86 BC | Greece, Rome, Pontus [Roman–Mithridatic Wars (110–65 BC)] | The Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla presses Mithridates' general, Archelaus, back onto Athens and besieges the city. In the spring of 86 BC Athens falls and is sacked, though its great reputation saves it from total destruction. The Athenian tyrant and ally of Mithridates, Aristion, is captured and killed. Sulla publishes his losses as only 15 men. | | 87 BC | Greece, Rome [Roman–Mithridatic Wars (110–65 BC)] | In Rome, Cinna, the consul left behind by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, stirs up trouble and is forced to leave the city. He joins forces with the Roman general and politician Gaius Marius; the two return to Rome, name themselves consuls, and institute a massacre of patricians. After only 18 days of consulship, Marius dies of pleurisy. |
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