Chapter 1: Prehistoric Civilizations
1.1 Preface to the Birth of the Visual Arts
1.2 Painting in Paleolithic Culture at Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
1.3 Elements of Art as Demonstrated at the Lascaux Cave Dordogne, France
1.4 SCULPTURE IN PALEOLITHIC CULTURE
Chapter 2 Ancient West Asia
2.1 The First Civilizations: Mesopotamia
2.2 Judaism, An Introduction
2.2 Creation Story
2.3 The Great Flood
2.4 Noah's Flood
2.5 Flood Story
2.6 Comparative Flood Stories
2.7 Hinduism and Buddhism, an Introduction
2.8 The Stupa
2.9 Images of Enlightenment: Aniconic vs. Iconic Depictions of the Buddha in India
Chapter 3
3.1 Egypt - Introduction and Predynastic Years
3.2 Egypt-Old Kingdom
3.3 Egypt-Middle Kingdom
3.4 Egypt-New Kingdom
3.5 Comparison of Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Aton and the Hebrew Psalm 104
3.6 Egyptian Culture Beliefs and Values
Chapter 4
4.1 Who Were the Ancient Greeks?
4.2 Cycladic Culture
4.3 The Minoans
4.4 The Mycenaean Culture
4.5 The Trojan War (or The Iliad)
4.7 The Early Archaic Period
4.8 Later Development of the Archaic Kouros 600 to 480 BCE
4.9 From the Archaic to the Classical Period
4.10 The Buildings on the Acropolis
4.11 CLASSICAL GREEK SCULPTURE
4.12 MUSIC IN THE GREEK CLASSICL AGE
4.13 GREEK CLASSICAL THEATRE
4.14 FROM POWER TO COLLAPSE, OR
4.15 GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 5
5.1 Introduction to the Hellenistic Tradition
5.2 Pergamon
5.3 Other Sculpture in the Hellenistic Tradition
5.4 THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Chapter 6
6.1 Etruscan Influences on Roman Culture
6.2 ROMAN CIVILIZATION INTRODUCTION AND TOPOGRAPHY
6.3 ROMAN CIVILIZATION – THE REPUBLIC
6.4 The Emperors - 26 BCE to 476 CE
6.5 Roman Architecture and Philosophy
6.6 Mount Vesuvius – August 79 CE
6.7 Religion During Pax Romana
6.8 Roman Cultural Beliefs and Values
Chapter 7
7.1 The Origins of Christianity
7.2 Sermon on the Mount
7.3 ANTICIPATING BYZANTINE CULTURE
7.4 Brotherly Love in Turbulent Times
7.5 The Ambition of Constantine
7.6 CONSTANTINE’S GREAT DECISIONS
7.7 Christ as the Good Shepherd
7.8 Relics of Faith
Chapter 8
8.1 Orthodoxy vs. Heresy
8.2 Development of Symbolic Art
8.3 Witness for Idealism
8.4 Justinian, Master of Three Powers
8.5 Spotlight on the World of the Spirit: Sant' Apollinare in Classe
8.6 The Junction of East and West: Hagia Sophia
Chapter 9
9.3 Islamic Culture and Influence
9.2 The Religion of Islam
9.1 Introduction - Muhammad
Chapter 10
10.1 Monasticism - Decline of Roman Influence
10.2 Charlemagne - The Carolingian Renaissance
10.3 Feudalism
10.4 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
10.5 MEDIEVAL MUSIC
Chapter 11
11.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE GOTHIC AGE
11.2 THE CATHEDRAL OF CHARTRES
Chapter 12
12.1 Basic Elements of Art
12.2 Cultural Context Values
12.3 Basic Elements of Music
12.4 How to Format and Cite an Essay
12.5 How to Write an Essay
12.6 Cultural Values Worksheet
12.7 Comparison and Contrast Essay worksheet
12.8 Venn Diagram for Comparison Contrast
12.10 Architecture Analysis
12.11 Painting Analysis Form
12.12 Mosaic Analysis
12.13 Sculpture Analysis Form
12.14 Event Evaluation Form
12.15 Music Analysis Form
12.9 Art Analysis Essay - Classical Greek Sculpture Worksheet
PPSC HUM 1021: Early Civilizations by Kate Pagel and Kristine Betts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.