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There are early Neolithic cultures in Southeast Anatolia, Syria and Iraq by 8000 BC, and food-producing societies first appear in southeast Europe by 7000 BC, and Central Europe by c. 5500 BC (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the Starčevo-Koros (Cris), Linearbandkeramic, and Vinča). [22] [23] [24] [25]
This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion. 6000 BC–present. 8000 years – the last 1000 years (fine grid) is expanded ...
The Neolithic long house was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the Old Europeans in Europe beginning at least as early as the period 6000 to 5000 BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They first appeared in central Europe in connection with the early Neolithic cultures such as the Linear Pottery culture or Cucuteni culture .
Europe: 3700 BCE House Oldest preserved stone house in north west Europe. [16] [17] [18] Naveta d'Es Tudons: Spain: Europe: 1200–750 BCE Ossuary: The most famous megalithic chamber tomb in Menorca. [111] The King's Grave: Sweden: Europe: 1000 BCE Tomb Near Kivik is the remains of an unusually grand Nordic Bronze Age double burial. [133 ...
1898 – Victor Horta designs his own house, later the Horta Museum. 1897 – Hendrik Berlage designs his Amsterdam Stock Exchange. 1896 – Eugène Vallin completes his own house and studio in Nancy , which is the first of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the École de Nancy.
Western Europe (Great Britain) British Mesolithic: 11,000–6000 BP: Star Carr, Howick house, Gough's Cave, Cramond, Aveline's Hole: Western Europe (Ireland) Irish Mesolithic: 11,000–5,500 BP: Mount Sandel: Western Europe (Belgium and France) Tardenoisian culture: 10,000–5,000 BP: Central and Eastern Europe (Belarus, Lithuania and Poland ...
Western Europe was forced to discover new trading routes, as happened with Columbus' travel to the Americas in 1492, and Vasco da Gama's circumnavigation of India and Africa in 1498. The numerous wars did not prevent European states from exploring and conquering wide portions of the world, from Africa to Asia and the newly discovered Americas.
The same can be said in turn of Islamic architecture, where Roman forms long continued, especially in private buildings such as houses and the bathhouse, and civil engineering such as fortifications and bridges. In Europe the Italian Renaissance saw a conscious revival of correct classical styles, initially purely based on Roman examples. [15]