Centuries
Fine Arts
Architects, Sculptors, Painters, Musicians		Philosophy and Education
Philosophers, Educators, Psychologists, Moralists, Logicians		Science and Industry
Inventors, Discoverers, Engineers, Naturalists, Physicists, Mathematicians, Chemists, Physicians, Biologists
4000 B. C. to 1000 B. C. Early architecture, sculpture and painting made notable advances under Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Hindus; but no great individual names were connected with it until the time of the Greeks. Philosophy had its rise among the Egyptians and Hindus, followed by the Greeks. Astronomy was the first science cultivated in the world. It was known to the Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese.
1000 B. C. to 700 B. C. ... ... ...
7th Cent. B. C.
700 B. C. to 600 B. C.		 ... ... ...
6th Cent. B. C.
600 B. C. to 500 B. C.		 ... Thales, Greek philosopher. Pythagoras, Greek philosopher. ...
5th Cent. B. C.
500 B. C. to 400 B. C.		 Zeuxis, Greek painter. PHIDIAS, Greek sculptor. Ictinus, Greek architect. Polycletus, Greek sculptor and architect. SOCRATES, Greek philosopher. Hippocrates, Greek physician.
4th Cent. B. C.
400 B. C. to 300 B. C.		 Apelles, Greek painter. Praxiteles. PLATO, Greek philosopher. ARISTOTLE, Greek philosopher. EUCLID, Greek geometer.
3rd Cent. B. C.
300 B. C. to 200 B. C.		 ... Epicurus, Greek philosopher. Zeno, Greek Stoic philosopher. Archimedes, Greek mechanician.
2nd Cent. B. C.
200 B. C. to 100 B. C.		 ... ... ...
1st Cent. B. C.
100 B. C. to 1 A. D.		 ... ... STRABO, Greek geographer.
1st Cent. A. D.
1 A. D. to 100 A. D.		 ... Epictetus, Roman Stoic philosopher (60-120?). Pliny (Plinius), the elder, Roman naturalist (A. D. 23-79).
2nd Cent. A. D.
100 A. D. to 200 A. D.		 ... Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, philosopher (121-180). Claudius Ptolemy, Græco-Egyptian astronomer, geographer (2d C. A. D.). Claudius Galen, Roman physician and medical author (130-200?).
3rd Cent. A. D.
200 A. D. to 300 A. D.		 ... ... ...
4th Cent. A. D.
300 A. D. to 400 A. D.		 ... ... ...
5th Cent. A. D.
400 A. D. to 500 A. D.		 ... ... ...
6th Cent. A. D.
500 A. D. to 600 A. D.		 ... ... ...
7th Cent. A. D.
600 A. D. to 700 A. D.		 ... ... ...
8th Cent. A. D.
700 A. D. to 800 A. D.		 ... ... ...
9th Cent. A. D.
800 A. D. to 900 A. D.		 ... ... ...
10th Cent. A. D.
900 A. D. to 1000 A. D.		 ... Avicenna, Mohammedan physician and philosopher (980-1037). ...
11th Cent. A. D.
1000 A. D. to 1100 A. D.		 ... ... ...
12th Cent. A. D.
1100 A. D. to 1200 A. D.		 ... Pierre Abelard, French scholastic and logician (1079-1142). Averroës, Arabian philosopher and physician (1149?-1198). ...
13th Cent. A. D.
1200 A. D. to 1300 A. D.		 Giovanni Cimabue, father of modern painting, Florentine painter (1240?-1302?). Nicola Pisano, Italian sculptor (1200?-1278). Albertus Magnus, Bavarian philosopher and schoolman (1193?-1280). John Duns Scotus, Scotch scholastic theologian (1265?-1308). SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Italian scholastic philosopher (1225-1274). Roger Bacon, English monk and scientist (1214-1294).