Timelines of Art History

The World (BC/BCE)


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Prehistoric Europe Iron Age Europe

Egypt 2700 2200 2050 1800 1550 1080 323
Early Dynastic Old Kingdom 1 Int Middle Kingdom 2d Int New Kingdom Late Dynastic Ptolemaic

Ancient Near East 2300 2000 1200 625 330
Sumeria Babylon Hittite Assyrian Persian Greco-Roman

Greece 1900 1100 750 500 323
Bronze Age Dark Age Archaic Classic Hellenistic

Rome 850 509 100
Etruscan Republic Late R.

India 1500 300
Indus Valley Civilization Vedic Age Classic

China 2200 1700 1050 770 221
Neolithic Xia Shang W. Zhou E. Zhou Chin-Han

Korea 800 300
Prehistoric Bronze Iron

Japan 300
Jomon Yayoi

Mesoamerica 1800
Preclassic / Formative

South America 1000 200
Early Horizon E. Int.

North America 1000
North, East


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