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| c. 200 BC |
| | | The earth drawings of the Nazca people, known now as the Nazca Lines, are some of the largest works of art ever created | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | | Indian cavalrymen ride with their big toes in loops of leather or fabric - a first step towards the stirrup | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | | Seafarers reach and colonize the Pacific island of Samoa | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | | The oasis city of Palmyra acquires importance on the caravan route between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | | The Mochica develop a civilization, in the north of modern Peru, known for its realistic pottery sculpture | |
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| 196 BC |
| | | The Romans, after defeating Macedon, announce at the Isthmian Games that all Greek states are now free under Roman protection | |
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| 196 BC |
| | | The text of the Rosetta stone is chiselled into a black basalt slab in the three scripts hieroglyphic Egyptian, demotic Egyptian, and Greek | |
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| 188 BC |
| | | Sparta's ancient political system comes to an end, but the ordeal by flogging lingers on as a tourist attraction in the temple of Artemis | |
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| c. 185 BC |
| | | Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals | |
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| 183 BC |
| | | Hannibal, to avoid falling into Roman hands, commits suicide in the Bithynian town of Libyssa | |
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