Cultures and Values

Lois Fichner-Rathus is a professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History of The College of New Jersey. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include contemporary art, feminist art history and criticism and modern art and architecture as well as the theory and foundations of art and design. Dr. Fichner-Rathus is also the author of the Cengage Learning textbooks, UNDERSTANDING ART and FOUNDATIONS OF ART AND DESIGN. She teaches study-abroad programs in Paris, Rome, Spain and Cuba and resides in New York.

1.2,500,000–3000 BCE.
2.3000–1000 BCE: PART 1.
Mesopotamia: The Fertile Crescent. Egypt: The Nile Ribbon. South Asia: The Indus River Valley. East Asia: The Yellow River Valley.
3.3000–1000 BCE: PART 2.
The Settlements, Cities, and Cultures of the Aegean Sea. The Levant. Mesoamerica: The Gulf of Mexico.
4.1000–500 BCE.
Greece. Italy. Nubia. Mesopotamia. India. China.
5.500–200 BCE.
Persia. Greece. India. China.
6.200 BCE–300 CE.
Rome Ascendant. The Middle East. North and West Africa. South Asia. China. Mesoamerica: Teotihuacán. South America: The Andean Cultures.
7.300–600.
The Transformation of the Roman Empire. Byzantium. India.
8.600–900.
India: Faith and Empire. The Rise of Medieval Culture in Europe. China. Mesoamerica.
9.900–1300.
Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. The Islamic World in the Middle Ages. South Asia and Southeast Asia. The Mongol Empire. China. Japan. North America.
10.1300–1400.
Europe. Islamic Lands in the Middle Ages: The Nasrids and Ottoman Turks. Africa. China.
11.1400–1500.
Crosscurrents: Christian Europe and the Ottoman Turks. The 15th Century in Northern Europe and Italy. The Iberian Peninsula. The Americas.