Cave paintings, prehistoric world-view, religion, language. Conflict with nature and first tools. Greek art, world-view, language. The Parthenon, Aristotle and Plato, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Athens. Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Augustus, Virgil, and the Pax Romana.
Feudalism picks up the pieces.
The Christian era. St. Augustine s City of God. The age of Aquinas, the cathedrals, the Crusades, courtly love, Dante. Florence, the Medici, the growth of trade and cities. New art, music, literature, philosophy.