Bronze Age in northern Europe
Bell beakers (ca. 2000 BC) The Yamnaya invade Europe About 3000 BC, a new wave of Central Asian people migrated west into northern Europe; these were the Indo-Europeans. We also [...]
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Bronze Age art of northern Europe
Valmonica, Italy (ca. 2000 BC?) Were artists still doing rock art? Yes! Bronze Age artists kept on carving rock art all across Europe, using it to show the new horses [...]
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Bronze Age buildings of northern Europe
Bronze Age architecture: Reconstruction of lake house (Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance, Germany, ca. 3000 BC) Bigger and better houses in the Bronze Age As the people of Europe [...]
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Old World Cotton History – India, Africa, Asia, Europe
India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
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Math and Numbers in Ancient China
Chinese numbers: number rods Chinese numbers People in China were using written numbers by about 1500 BC, in the Shang Dynasty. This is about two thousand years later than people began [...]
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Heng O – Moon goddess – China
Heng O: A sacrifice to the moon Who was Heng O? Heng O was the Chinese goddess of the moon. In Taoist thought about yin and yang, Heng O is the [...]
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Shang Dynasty China – The first dynasty of ancient China
Shang Dynasty China: Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription (Musee Guimet, Paris) China enters the Bronze Age Around 2000 BC, people in China learned how [...]
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Shang Dynasty Chinese Art – Bronze Age China
Shang bronze pitcher, about 1300 BC(Musee Guimet, Paris) When did the Bronze Age start in China? By about 2000 BC, people in China learned from the people of West Asia how [...]
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Scythian clothing – Central Asian clothing history
Plaid wool fabric from about 1000 BC, from western China It's cold in Central Asia Central Asia is pretty far north, so it's pretty cold there. More about Central Asian [...]
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What is fresco painting? History of Art
Fresco painting from Thera, Greece (about 1600 BC) Why are they called frescos? Fresco is the Italian word for "fresh", and that's because painters do fresco painting on fresh, wet plaster [...]
