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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Norte Chico Civilization Indus Valley Civilization Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

4000 BCEAncient Egypt Mesopotamia Aegean Civilizations Ancient China Lapita Expansion Kingdom of Kush The Celts Ancient Greece The Etruscans Ancient Rome The Iberians Teotihuacan Culture Classical India500 CE

300 CEByzantine Art Medieval Art Tang Dynasty Medieval Persian Art Islamic Dynastic Art Viking Age Classical Oceania Khmer Art Song Dynasty Gothic Art Inca Empire Yuan Dynasty The Aztecs1500

Age of Discovery

1300Italian Renaissance Ming Dynasty Kingdom of Kongo Northern Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Mughal Art Mannerism Baroque Edo Period Qing Dynasty Academic Art The Enlightenment Western Esoteric Art Rococo Neoclassicism1850

Industrial Revolution

1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Orientalism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

Contemporary Art

1960Pop Art Post Modernism Shona Sculpture Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Zaire School of Popular Painting2020

Classical India

The largest economy in the world for 1500 years

It takes 1.8 million words to describe the meaning of life

The Mahābhārata

Jetavanaramaya

Want to become a Brahman? Memorize 1000 laws.

The Laws of Manu

Author Unknown, 200 BCE

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

The Ramayana

Valmiki, 100 BCE

Mahabodhi Temple

Miracle of Sravasti

Standing Four-Armed Vishnu

Standing Buddha Offering Protection

Late Gupta Period Buddha

Seated Buddha

Next Movement

Byzantine Art

The proliferation of Christian art

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