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Prehistory
40000 BCEUpper PaleolithicNeolithicNorte Chico CivilizationIndus Valley CivilizationBronze AgeIron Age0 CE
Middle Ages
300 CEByzantine ArtMedieval ArtTang DynastyMedieval Persian ArtIslamic Dynastic ArtViking AgeKhmer ArtClassical OceaniaSong DynastyGothic ArtInca EmpireYuan DynastyThe Aztecs1500
Age of Discovery
1300Italian RenaissanceMing DynastyKingdom of KongoNorthern RenaissanceSpanish RenaissanceMughal ArtMannerismBaroqueEdo PeriodQing DynastyAcademic ArtThe EnlightenmentWestern Esoteric ArtRococoNeoclassicism1850
Industrial Revolution
1800Oceanic ArtRomanticismOrientalismHudson River SchoolEarly PhotographyBarbizon SchoolPre RaphaelitesRealismImpressionismMeiji ArtEarly ModernismPost-Impressionism1900
Modernism
1870SymbolismArt NouveauVienna SecessionSocial RealismFauvismExpressionismFuturismCubismSuprematismDadaDe StijlHarlem RenaissanceConstructivismArt DecoSurrealismHanoi SchoolPost ModernismAbstract ExpressionismMinimalismShona SculptureZaire School of Popular Painting1960
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Classical India

230 BCE — 550 CE

The largest economy in the world for 1500 years

The Mahābhārata

It takes 1.8 million words to describe the meaning of life

400 BCE

Jetavanaramaya

300 BCE

The Laws of Manu

Want to become a Brahman? Memorize 1000 laws.

200 BCE

The Ramayana

Rama's journey to rescue his wife from the demon king (she's in another castle)

100 BCE

Mahabodhi Temple

250 BCE-50 BCE

Miracle of Sravasti

200 CE

Standing Four-Armed Vishnu

400 CE

Standing Buddha Offering Protection

500 CE

Seated Buddha

700 CE

Late Gupta Period Buddha

700 CE
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