17| 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. | | 64 BC–AD c. 52 | Syria, Palestine, Seleucid Kingdom, Rome [treaties] | The Roman general Pompey the Great arrives at Antioch in Syria and dictates terms: King Antiochus XIII of Syria is deposed and the Seleucid dynasty ends. Syria becomes part of the Roman provinces. Hyrcanus II and his brother Aristobulus II, rival claimants for the Hasmonaean throne of Judaea, bring their claims before Pompey. Pompey supports the claim of Hyrcanus, but makes Palestine into a Roman province, appointing Hyrcanus as high priest of the Jews but the Idumean Antipater as governor of Roman Judaea. | | 17 | Syria-Roman, Armenia [administration] | Germanicus, adopted son and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, is given special powers over all the governors of the eastern Roman provinces and installs Artaxias as sovereign of Armenia. Tiberius appoints Gnaeus Piso governor of Syria as a counterbalance to Germanicus. | | 17 | Rome, Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Ovid, Roman poet known for his poem ‘Ars amatoria’/‘Art of Love’, dies in Tomis, Moesia (60). | | 17 | Roman Empire, Germany [political events] | The Roman emperor Tiberius recalls his nephew and heir Germanicus from the wars in Germany. There is no serious trouble from Germany for the next 50 years. |
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