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Early culture -- 3500 BCE. Beginnings of Chinas Civilization; Early Indus Settlements; Predynastic Egypt; Mesopotamia; European Megalithic Tombs -- 2500 BCE. Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization; Early Empires of Mesopotamia; Egypt: The Old Kingdom; Megalithic Temples of Malta; Stonehenge; First Civilizations of the Americas -- 1500 BCE. Egypt: The New Kingdom; Hittite Empire; Minoan Civilization; Mycenaean Civilization; Civilization of the High Andes; Poverty Point; Shang Dynasty China -- 800 BCE. The Olmecs; Chavin de Hu ntar; Zhou Dynasty China; Varanasi: The Aryan Conquest; Etruscan Civilization; Greece: The Geometric Period; Temple of Solomon; Kingdom of Kush; Neo-Assyrian Empire -- 400 BCE. Achaemenid Dynasty; Classical Greece; Early Hellenic Age; Advent of Bhuddism; China: The Warring States Period; Late Olmec Centers; 0. Republican Rome; Augustan Rome; Post-Augustan Rome; Imperial Rome; Mahayana Buddhism; Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis; Qin Dynasty China; Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlan; Nakbe; El Mirador -- 185 200 CE. Roman Empire; Zoroastrian Fire Temples; Buddhism of the Satvahanas; The Kushan; Han China; Han Tombs; Moche and Nazca Civilizations; Nazca Lines; Teotihuacan; Temple of the Feathered Serpent; Ohios Hopewell Mounds -- 400 CE. Hindu Renaissance; Kushans of Bamiyan; Establishment of Chinese Buddhism; Emergence of Christianity; Post-Constantinian Age; Zapotecs of Oaxaca; Kofun Period: Japan -- 600 CE. Maya of the Yucatan; Tiwanaku; Age of Justinian; Armenian Architecture; Ries of the Temple Kingdoms; The Sui and Tang Dynasties; Nara Period: Japan -- 800 CE. Changan, the Tang Capitol; Korean Buddhism; South Asian Hindu-Buddhism; Indonesia at a Crossroads; Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia; Construction in Southeast Asia; Rise of Islam; Carolingian Empire; Byzantine Empire; Pueblo Bonito; Maya City-States -- 1000 CE. Rise of Rajput Kingdoms; Song Dynasty China; Pure-Land Buddhism; Seljuk Turks; The Fatimids; Almoravid Dynasty; Byzantine Revival; Ottonian Germany; The Normans; Pilgrimage Churches; Italian City-States; Medieval Scandanavia; Kievan Russia; Mayan Uxmal; Native Americans of Cahokia -- 1200 CE. Khmer Vrah Vishnulok; Kingdom of Pagan; Kamakura Japan; Southern Song Dynasty; Delhi Sultanate; The Hoysalas; African Kingdoms; Europe: The High Middle Ages; Republic of Novgorod; Nasrid Sultanate; Toltec Empire -- 1400 CE.The Mexica: Tenochtitlan; Nomadic Invaders; Ming Dynasty China; Joseon Dynasty; Muromachi Japan; Timurid Dynasty; The Deccan Sultanates; Ottoman Empire; Mamluk Sultanate; Republic of Venice; Italian Renaissance; French Chateaux; 1600 CE. Tokugawa Shogunate; Nijo-jo; Nikko Toshogu; Voyages of Zheng He; Mughals; Humayuns Tomb; Fatehpur Sikri; Diwan-i-Khas; Vijayangar; Bijapur; Ibrahim Rauza; Sheikh Safi Tomb-Mosque; Shabanids of Bukhara; Spanish Conquest of America; Atrio; Escorial; Italian High Renaissance; Place Royale; Elizabethan England; The Kremlins New Churches; Baroque Italy; The Dogons of Mali; Architecture of the Eurasian Power Bloc; 1700 CE. Colonialism; The French Culture of Empire; England: House of Stuart; Spread of the Baroque; Georgian Architecture; Qing Dynasty China; Edo and The Kyoto; Odoi; Choson Dynasty; Nayaks of Madurai; The Mallas of Nepal; End of the Mughals -- 1800 CE. Qianlong Emperor; Neo-Classicism; Japan: The Edo Period; Romantic Nationalism; Shakers; Greek Revival; Synagogues; Viollet le Duc; Wat Pra Kaeow -- 1900 CE. London Metropolitan Board of Works; Worlds Fairs; National Museums; Colonial Bombay; Ecole des Beaux-Arts; Arts and Crafts Movement; The Indo-Saracenic; Dutch Kampung; Shingle Style; The City Beautiful Movement; Rise of Professionalism; Skyscrapers; Art Nouveau; International Beaux Arts; Colonial Africa; The Deutsche Werkbund; Expressionism; De Stijl; Russian Constructivism; Bauhaus. 1950. Modernism; Postmodernism; The Postmodern Museum; The Postmodern Postcolonial World; Globalization.