Timeline Suggestions


You may follow this suggestion or come up with a plan of your own. The organization of your timeline should be adaptable and expandable as you will be adding to it throughout the semester. As the class will not follow a strict linear approach, this assignment is to help you better understand how developments in different cultures relate to each other chronologically. The timeline must be divided into cultures along one axis and dates along the other axis. You must include the works of art included on your slide list along with a corresponding number of relevant historical dates. The date scale should be flexible; adapt it to fit the information. Do not show only one area on a page as this would not fulfill the assignment’s intention. You may include images to enhance your time line.


For this application, I used the table function in Microsoft word. You can reorient the page by going into “File” and “Page Set-up” and changing the orientation from “Portrait” to “Landscape.”




Europe

Africa

Middle East



The Americas

Asia

India

c.25,000 BCE

“Venus of Willendorf”, Paleolithic, c.28000-25000 BCE; humans living in small groups as hunter/gatherers.











15,000 BCE

Cave paintings in Lascaux, Paleolithic, c.15,000-13,000 BCE; cave paintings suggest elaborate rituals for hunting and/or fertility.











3000 -2500 BCE



Palette of Narmer, Old Kingdom, c.3000-2920 BCE; Upper and Lower Egypt unified under King Narmer around 3000 BCE.

Statues from Abu Temple, Tel Asmar, Sumerian, c.2700 BCE; rise of a dominant priestly class.







2500-1500 BCE

Stonehenge, Neolithic c.2550-1600; rise of agriculture allowing for larger communities.



Stele of Hammurabi, Babylonian, c.1780 BCE; first written law codes.







1500-1000 BCE



Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, New Kingdom, c.1473-1458 BCE; Hyksos expelled from Egypt 1550 BCE.