Images from History: An image archive to support the teaching and study of world history

Introduction to an image archive to support the study of world history

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Archaic Mode of Production

Archaic Africa: 1. Palaeolithic era in Africa; 2. Archaic southern Africa; 3. Archaic northern Africa; 3. Archaic West Africa; 4. Archaic Nile Valley to 3050 B.C.
Archaic West Asia: 1. Archaic Mesopotamia; 2. Archaic Anatolia
Archaic Europe: 1. Battle-Axe and Beaker Complexes (2nd millenium B.C.

Ancient Mode of Production

Ancient East Asia

1. The SanDai in northern China

2. The Kingdom of Chu in central China

3. Ancient Empire of China (Qin and Former Han)

Ancient Central Asia

1. Western Oxus-Indus Heartland (3rd-2nd millenium B.C.)

2. Iranean and Achæmenid Bactria (10th to 3th c. B.C.)

3. The Sakas on the Kazakh steppe (2nd-1st millenium B.C.)

4. Sarmatia

5. The Kushan Empire

Ancient South Asia

1. Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization (Ca. 3000-1500 B.C.)

2. The Mauryan Empire

3. Post-Mauryan South Asia

Ancient West Asia

1a. Early Dynastic Sumer (2900-2370 B.C.)

1b. Classical Akkad (2370-2004 B.C.)

1c. Old Babylonian period (c. 2004 - 1595 B.C.)

1d. Assyria (14th c. to 612 B.C.)

1e. Neo-Babylonian Empire

2a. Early to Middle Bronze Age Anatolia (3000-17-- B.C.)

2b. Hittite Old Kingdom and Hittite Empire

2c. Neo-HIttite and post-Hittite States of Anatolia

3a. Elburz Mountains (Tepe Hissar)

3b. Kurdistan (Hasanlu, Jaftavan Tepe, Takht-i Suleiman, Ziwiyeh

3c. Luristan (Goden Tepe, Diyala Valley, etc.)

3d. Khuzistan (archaic Susa, Elam)

3e. Fars (Persopolis)

4. Median and Achæmenid Empire of Iran

5. Parthian Empire

6. Sassanid Empire (3rd to 7th c. A.D.)

Iron-Age Europe

1. Late Bronze- and Early Iron-Age Europe (from c. 1300 B.C.)

2. Scythia (10th to 4th c. B.C.)

3. La Tène and Romano-Celtic

4. Germanic Europe

5. Huns of the European Steppe

Ancient Mediterranean Culture

1.Pre-imperial regional cultures of the Mediterranean

Helladic Greece (ca. 2500 - 1200 B.C.)
Classical Greece (8-4th c. B.C.)
Ptolemaic Egypt
Pre-Roman Iberia

2. The Early Roman Empire (1st to mid 3rd century A.D.)

3. The Late Roman Empire (mid 3rd to 7th century A.D.)

The Hieratic Style
The Ecclesiastical Synthesis
The Theodosian Style
Minor arts
1. Metalwork
2. Miscellaneous
Late Roman provincial art in the Western Mediterranean
Late Roman provincial art in the Eastern Mediterranean

Ancient Africa

1. Kingdoms of Kerma and Punt (26-12th c. B.C.)

2. Formative and Classic Kemet (31st -16th c. B.C.)

3. Post-Classic Kemet: 2nd Int. Period and Empire (18-11th c. B.C.)

4. Hellenistic and Coptic Egypt (3rd c. B.C. - 7th c. A.D.)

5. Kingdom of Napata (circa 9th - 4th c. B.C.)

6. Ancient Sudan: Kingdom of Meroë (4th c. B.C. - 325 A.D.)

7. Ancient Horn of Africa: Axum (4th - 7th c. A.D.)

Ancient Western Hemisphere

1. Ancient Civilization of the American Southwest

2. Ancient Mississippian Civilization (900-1750 A.D.)

3. Inka Empire (15-16th c. A.D.)

Feudal Mode of Production

Feudal West Asia (7-19th. c. A.D.): 1. Syria
Byzantine Empire (7 - 15th c. A.D.): 1. Early Byzantine Empire (7 - 11th c. A.D.)
Early Medieval Europe (7-11th century): 1. Carolingian Era (8th to 11th century A.D.)
High Medieval Europe (11th - 13th century A.D.): 1. Al-Andalus (8-15th century).
Feudal Africa: 1. Feudal Northeast Africa.