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| c. 100 BC |
| | | The Essenes, a Jewish sect, withdraw from secular life to form monastic communities in the desert | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | A Venus is carved in marble, and centuries later becomes an ideal of female beauty after being found on the island of Milo | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | Hindu temple sculptors develop a sinuous and full-bodied style for the naked female form | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | The Parthians develop the site of Ctesiphon, on the east bank of the Tigris opposite Seleucia | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | The practice of acupuncture is described in Nei Qing, a Chinese medical text | |
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| 90 BC |
| | | A three-year war, known as the Social War, breaks out between Rome and her Italian allies | |
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| -88 BC |
| | | The Roman general Sulla takes the unprecedented step of marching upon Rome with a Roman army, to restore his own faction to power | |
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| -86 BC |
| | | Sulla, campaigning to the east, besieges Athens and then allows his army to loot the city | |
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| -82 BC |
| | | Sulla takes Rome for the second time, after a battle at the Colline Gate, and then publishes his lethal 'proscriptions' | |
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| -81 BC |
| | | Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes his first appearance in a Roman court | |
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