General Culture

Between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers

"[land] between rivers"
the cradle of civilization

The earliest language written in Mesopotamia was Sumerian

Mesopotamian mathematics and science was based on a sexagesimal (base 60) numeral system

first cities along with irrigation canals

the Code of Hammurabi (created ca. 1780 BC)

Prehistoric Greece

Greek art

Ancient Period

Byzantine Period

Modern Period

Sympsium

Contemporary Period

Ancient Greece

Archaic Greece

Classical Greece

12 Olympians

Homer

Hellenistic Greece

Roman Greece

Byzantine Empire

Ottoman rule

Modern Greek state

Is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music

Early Medieval (500–1400)
Renaissance (1400–1600)
Baroque (1600–1760)
Common practice
Baroque (1600–1760)
Classical (1750–1830)
Romantic (1815–1910)
Modern and contemporary
20th century (1900–2000)
Contemporary (1975–present)
21st century (2000–present)

Prehistory
Neolithic
Metal Age
Ancient art
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Western Europe
The Americas
Near East
Central/Southern/Eastern Asian
African
Oceanic
Eastern art
Renaissance Western art
Medieval Western art

Architecture, dance, sculpture, music, painting, poetry, literature, film, photography and comics.

Baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616, was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He wrote Hamlet.

The practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface.

Durability – it should stand up robustly and remain in good condition.
Utility – it should be useful and function well for the people using it
Beauty – it should delight people and raise their spirits.

is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre.

Neoclassicism

Classicism

Romanticism

an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe and strengthened in reaction to the Industrial Revolution

Modernism

Postmodernism

Realism

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Art Nouveau

Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre