- — South America:
- — Africa:
Settlement and iron-working at Lopé-Okanda
The Lopé-Okanda landscape along the Ogooué preserves dense habitation sites, iron-working remains and about 1,800 rock engravings, recording the successive passage of peoples through the river corridor.
Era: Forest peoples and the Bantu migrations
Sources: Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda — World Heritage Datasheet · UNEP-WCMC
- — Asia:
Baalbek becomes Roman Heliopolis
Refounded as a Roman colony, Baalbek is endowed over more than two centuries with colossal temples to Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus, becoming one of the most famous sanctuaries of the Roman world.
Era: Roman Heliopolis and the Rise of Christianity
Sources: Baalbek · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Baalbek (Baalbeck) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
Completion of the Colosseum
The Flavian Amphitheatre, the Colosseum, was inaugurated in Rome, a monument to the engineering and civic spectacle of the imperial city.
Era: The Roman Republic and Empire
Sources: Ancient Rome · World History Encyclopedia
Culture & IdeasThe 1st century
Culture & Ideas in the 1st century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1st century — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1 to 80. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1
- Latest
- 80
- Africa
- 1
- Asia
- 1
- Europe
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.