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100| 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. | | 92–102 | China, Central Asia [wars] | The Chinese general Ban Chao extends his conquests in Central Asia across the Pamir Mountains to the Caspian Sea. | | c. 100 | Roman Empire [technology] | Parchment scrolls begin to be replaced by notebooks (collections of pages, written on both sides and sewn together down the middle), in the Roman Empire. | | 100 | India [technology] | Indian metallurgists invent cast steel. The proportion of carbon within the steel is tightly controlled at less than 1.7% of the total. | | c. 100–c. 200 | Central America [town planning] | Great building projects are carried out in the pre-Toltec city of Teotihuacán in the Mexican Basin. A great central avenue is laid out, now known as the Street of the Dead. The Temple of the Sun is also completed, dominating the Street of the Dead; at 65 m/216 ft, it is the highest pyramid in Mexico. Another slightly smaller pyramid, to the Moon, is also constructed. Twenty further temples line the avenue. | | c. 100 | China [agriculture] | Chinese agriculturalists use powdered chrysanthemum flowers as an insecticide – the flowers contain the natural insecticide pyrethrum. | | c. 100 | Roman Empire [education] | Girls are educated in Rome from age seven to fourteen, studying grammar, Greek and Latin, music, astronomy, history, mythology, philosophy, and dancing. | | c. 100 | Greece-Roman [everyday life] | Women in Greece are allowed to participate in public athletic contests such as foot and chariot races. | | c. 100 | Roman Empire [everyday life] | Boys in Rome are preferred over girls, who are often left in the open to die or abandoned. Some orphaned girls are raised by brothel owners to be prostitutes. |
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