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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Births: Jesus Christ between about 4 B.C. and 1 B.C.
  Possible creation of Kama Sutra (4 BC)
• Entertainment: Ovid writes "The Metamorphoses" (6 BC) and presents "Ars Amatoria" (2 BC)
• Science: Approximate extinction of the cave lion
• Deaths: Roman statesman Gaius Maecenas (8 BC), Roman poet Horace (8 BC), Virgil (8 BC), Herod the Great (4 BC)

Africa

• South: Nomadic pastoralism common

Americas

• General: Samuel the Lamanite preaches in Zarahemla (6 BC)
  Nephi the son of Helaman leaves Nephites and his son, Nephi the Disciple, becomes chief judge (1 BC)
• Caribbean: Agriculturalists present
• North America: Rampant farming

Europe

• Roman Empire: Roman army under Drusus and Tiberius penetrates Germania as far as the Elbe

Middle East

• Judaea: Annexation by Rome (6 BC)
  Death of Herod the Great - kingdom divided among sons