This is where the earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged from.
What is the valley of the Indus River?
100
This represents the clearest extant record of stylistic development in the Shang dynasty.
What are ritual bronzes?
100
This was the period when the traditional technical methods of Japanese painting were established.
What is the Nara period?
100
These are the best-known examples of Ashanti wood carving.
What are akua'ba?
200
These two of India's most important styles were developed under the Kushans.
What is Gandhara art and art of Mathura?
200
The advent of this belief introduced a distinctly religious nature to Chinese artwork.
What is Buddhism?
200
This is the period marked by the crystallization of the Yamato-e tradition of panting.
What is the Fujiwara period?
200
This is the name of the people whose sculpture is represented by free-standing ancestor figures, softwood masks and decorative high-relief ancestor figures.
Who are the Dogon people?
300
This was the usual medium of contemporary Mathura sculpture.
What is reddish limestone?
300
During this dynasty, sculpture reached its pinnacle and ceased to change in style.
What is the Ming dynasty?
300
During this period there was an increase in demand for paintings and sculptures portraying officials, warriors, priests and poets.
What is the Kamakura period?
300
This is what fang carvers and sculptors are especially noted for.
What are mortuary heads and figures?
400
In the Indian temple plan, this is the name for the large tower that often crowned the shrine.
What is the shikhara?
400
A basic principle of Chinese architecture has always defined walls with this purpose.
What is serving as enclosing screens?
400
This work exemplifies the happy union of literature, calligraphy and painting.
What is the Deer Scroll?
400
These people of southwestern Nigeria are noted for wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects.
Who are the Yoruba people?
500
In southern India, the Pallava dynasty introduced this style of temple.
What is the dravida style?
500
This is the only distinctly Buddhist type of building.
What is the pagoda?
500
This is the name for Japanese works in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
500
This metal was used for ritual urns, kuduo, and gold weights by the Ashanti people.