The Appian Way
The 'queen of roads' carries Roman legions south
In 312 BC, during the Samnite Wars, the censor Appius Claudius Caecus built a military road from Rome to Capua. It was later extended to Brundisium on the Adriatic; the stone-paved road is still in use and became the model for the whole Roman road network.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 333 BC The Battle of Issus — 21 years earlier
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — 19 years earlier
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — 11 years earlier
- 312 BC Seleucus retakes Babylon: the Seleucid era — same year
- 301 BC The Battle of Ipsus — 11 years later
Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 19 years earlier
- 305 BC Ptolemy I proclaims himself king — 7 years later
- c. 300 BC Euclid's Elements — 12 years later
Asia
- c. 322 BC Founding of the Maurya Empire — 10 years earlier
Americas
- c. 300 BC Maya script — 12 years later
- c. 300 BC–150 El Mirador, capital of the Preclassic Maya — 12 years later
Alive at the time
- Mencius (aged 60)
- Epicurus (aged 29)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 28)
- Euclid (aged 13)
- Zhuangzi (aged 57)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 55)
- Pyrrho (aged 48)
- Pytheas (aged 38)
- Qu Yuan (aged 28)
- Zeno of Citium (aged 22)