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.”
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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. |
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15,000 BCE |
Cave paintings in Lascaux, Paleolithic, c.15,000-13,000 BCE;
cave paintings suggest elaborate rituals for hunting and/or
fertility. |
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3000 -2500 BCE |
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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. |
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2500-1500 BCE |
Stonehenge, Neolithic c.2550-1600; rise of agriculture allowing
for larger communities. |
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Stele of Hammurabi, Babylonian, c.1780 BCE; first written law
codes. |
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1500-1000 BCE |
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Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, New Kingdom, c.1473-1458 BCE;
Hyksos expelled from Egypt 1550 BCE. |
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