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98| 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. | | 98 | Roman Empire [administration] | Trajan arrives in Rome to take up his emperorship, entering the city humbly on foot. | | 98 | Roman Empire, Germany [historical study] | The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus publishes two of his finest works. Germania describes the Germanic tribes on the Roman frontier on the River Rhine, and records that the social customs revere women and encourage them to participate in politics and warfare. De vita et moribus Julii Agricolae/The Life and Death of Agricola (usually known simply as Agricola) is a biography of the statesman Julius Agricola, his father-in-law. |
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