30000-10000 BCE Paleolithic 10000-2000 BCE Neolithic 5000-2950 BCE Predynastic (Egypt) 4000-200 BCEAncient Chinese 3000-2000 BCE

Sumerian (Mesopotamia) 3000-2000 BCE Neolithic Pottery (Japan) 3000-300 BCEJomon Culture (Japan) 2950-2575 BCE Early Dynastic Period (Egypt) 2575-2150 BCE Old Kingdom (Egypt) 2500 BCE Cycladic (Cycladic Islands, Greece) 2300-2150 BCE Akkadian (Mesopotamia) 2150-2000 BCE Neo-Sumerian (Mesopotamia) 2000-1750 BCE Babylonian (Mesopotamia) 1800 BCE Xin Dynasty 1975-1640 BCE Middle Kingdom (Egypt) 1600-1200 BCE Hittite (Mesopotamia) 1539-1075 BCE New Kingdom (Egypt) 1500 BCE Shang Dynasty 1500 BCE Minoan (Crete, Greece) 1353-1336 BCE Amarna Period 1200-612 BCE Assyrian 1200 BCE Mycenaean (Greece mainland) 750 BCE Geometric Period (Greece) 715-20 BCE Late, Macedonian, and Ptolemaic Period (Egypt) 700-200 BCE Etruscan Civilization 650 BCE Orientalizing Period (Greece) 612-539 BCE Neo-Babylonian 550 BCE Archaic & Iconic Period (Greece) 509-27 BCE Republican & Realism Period (Rome) 539-330 BCE Persian 500 BCE Zhou Pottery 480 BCE Severe/Early Classical & Iconic Period (Greece) 450 BCE Classical/High Classical & Idealized Period (Greece) 350 BCE Late/4th Century Classical & Naturalist Period (Greece) 300 BCE-552 CE Kofun Period (Japan) 250 BCE Hellenistic & Expressionist Period (Greece) 27 BCE-200 CE Imperial & Idealism Period (Rome) 193-337 CE Late Empire (Rome) 300-800 CE Early Christian 500-1425 CE Byzantine Art 600-1600 CE Ancient Islamic Art 600 CE Anglo-Saxon Repousse and Cloisonne (England) 700 CE Hiberno-Saxon Scriptoriums (Ireland, England) 800 CE Carolingian Period (Germany) 900 CE Viking & Norman Wood Carvings (Scandinavia) 1000 CE Ottonian Period (Germany) 1000-1150 CE Romanesque Architecture & Pilgrimage (Spain, France, Italy, & England) 1144-1400 CE Gothic Arch., Sculpture, & Notre Dames (Germany, France, England, & Italy) 1400-1500 CE Florentine Early Renaissance, the Medicis, & Tempera (Italy)

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Northern Renaissance & the Reformation (Flanders) High Renaissance & Naturalism (Italy) The Reformation Begins Late/Venetian Renaissance (Italy) Mannerism & Distortion (Italy) Southern Baroque & the Counter-Reformation (Italy & Spain) Northern Aristocratic Baroque (England, France, Austria) Northern Bourgeois Baroque (Amsterdam & the Netherlands) The First Enlightenment Neoclassicism (France, England, & America) Rococo Romanticism Hudson River School Realism & the Rejection of Romanticism Impressionism (France) Post-Impressionism Art Nouveau (Spain) Prarie School & Frank Lloyd Wright (the United States) Die Brucke (Germany) Fauvism, Matisse, & Bold Color (France) Analytical & Synthetic Cubism, Picasso, & Braques Futurism (Italy) Der Blaue Reiter (Germany) Suprematism (Russia) Constructivism De Stijl & Formalism (The Netherlands) Dada & Artistic Anarchy (Zurich) Bauhaus (Germany) Surrealism, Freud, and the Unconscious Mind Art Deco & Skyscrapers (the United States) Abstract Expressionism & Action Painting Neo-Dada, Jasper Johns, & Robert Rauschenberg (the United States) Pop Art and the Andy Warhol Movement (England & the United States) Op-Art and Geometric Illusions Minimalism & Judd Femenism & Judy Chicago Performance Art Post-Modern Architecture