Paleolithic
30,000-8,000 BCE
Neolithic (Near East)
8,000-2,000 BCE
Neolithic (Europe)
4,000-2,000 BCE
Mesopotamia
8,000-2,000 BCE
Sumerian
3,200-1,000 BCE
Akkadian
3,300-2,200 BCE
Assyrian
910-605 BCE
Persian
540-330 BCE
Egyptian
3,500-30 BCE
Armana Period
Late 18th Dynasty
1350-1330 BC
Etruscan
900-85 BCE
Aegean
3,000-1,000 BCE
Cycladic
2,500-2,300 BCE
Minoan
3,000-1,100 BCE
Mycenaean
1,400-1,200 BCE
Ancient Greece
900-100 BCE
Roman
300BCE-300 CE
Antiquity
30-500
Byzantium
500-1450
Islamic
600-1600
Middle Ages
500-1000
Romanesque
1000-12000
Gothic
1200-1500
Flemish
1400-1500
High Renaissance
1500-1600
Mannerism
1520-1580
Reformation
1500-1600
Baroque
1600-1750
Enlightenment/Neo-classical/Realism/Romanticism
1750-1850
Modern
1900-1960
Post-modern
1960-now