Art history

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(sculpture, narrative reliefs, portraiture, architecture, interiors, painting, mosaics, ...)

• Abstract expressionism
• Abstract painting
• Achaemenid dynasty
• Aegean
• African-American
• Architectural sculpture
• Art nouveau
• Assyria
• Babylonia
• Baroque
• Bauhaus
• Byzantine
• Carolingian art
• Celtic-Germanic
• Celtic-Germanic style
• Classicism vs gothic and other combinations
• Constructivism
• Cubism
• Cycladic
• De Stijl
• Decorative use of animal motifs
• Documentary photography (realism)
• Early Byzantine
• Early christian
• Early Renaissance
• Egyptian
• Environments assemblage
• Etruscan
• Fantasy
• Fashion and glamourphotography
• Fauvism
• Futurism
• Gothic
• Greek

• Greek monumental sculpture
• Industrial architecture
• Installations
• Irish-Saxon
• Islam in the east
• Jericho
• Landscape photography
• Lombard style (northern Italy)
• Mannerism
• Mesopotamia
• Minoan art
• Mycenaean
• Neoclassicism and romanticism
• Netherlandish painting (realism)
• Ottonian art
• Painting literary inspiration
• Persian
• Photo-secession
• Photographic collage
• Photography
• Photorealism
• Pop art
• Post-impressionism
• Rayograph
• Realism and impressionism
• Roman
• Romanesque
• Romanticism (neo-baroque influence)
• Sassanian art/Sassanian dynasty
• Sculpture
• Sumerian
• Symbolism
• The baroque in Flanders, Holland and Spain

Baroque
• The Renaissance in the north
• The rococo
• The school of Paris (photography)
• Twentieth-century architecture
• and more ...

Literature

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(see also parts of philosophy)

• Arabic literature
• Arthurian romances
• Baroque
• Carolingian renaissance
• Chinese letters
• Chinese letters/ chinese literature
• Classical romance of chivalry
• Classicism
• Early Medieval letters
• Egypt and Mesopotamia.
• Enlightenment England
• Epic poetry: the courtly romance of chivalry
• Expressionist poetry
• Futurism
• Greek literary and historiographical bloom
• Invention of writing.
• Late Middle Ages
• Later classicism
• Lyrical poetry
• Mannerism
• Minnesang
• Mystics
• Neo-classicism
• Old high German literature
• Post-structuralism
• Pre-romanticism
• Realism
• Renaissance
• Roman literary and historiographical bloom
• Romanticism
• Russian formalism
• Scandinavian literature
• Secular epic poetry
• Structuralism
• Symbolism/modernism
• The poetry of wandering scholars
• Troubadour poetry
• Trouveres
• Earliest inscriptions, mainly economical and administrative purposes
• And more ...

Religions

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(natural religions, animism, polytheism, monotheism)

Indian, Chinese and other religious traditions (also philosophy)

• Brahmanism (largely merged into hinduism)
• Devotional second major movement within the greater vehicle
• Early neo-confucianists
• Early vedic
• Greater vehicle (Mahayana buddhism)
• Hinduism

• Idealist school
• Late vedic period
• Lesser vehicle (Hinayana-buddhism)
• Ming dynasty
• Neo-confucianism
• Reactions against vedism : jainism and buddhism
• Song dynasty
• Tantrism comes into being in India (magical form of buddhism)
• T�ang dynasty
• Yuan dynasty
• Zen buddhism
• And more ...

Judaism

• Diaspora
• Hasidism
• Haskalah
• Kabbalah
• Patriarchs
• And more ...

Christianity

• Augsburg interview
• Calvinism
• Catholic reformation/ catholic revival
• Catholic theology
• Christian mysticism
• Colonial period
• Councils
• Crusades
• Clarissine order
• Dominicans
• Early christianity
• Franciscans
• Gospels (anonymous writings)
• Inquisition
• Jansenism
• Latin American independence
• Nominalism
• Order of carthusians
• Precursors of the Reformation
• Protestant theology
• Premonstratensian order
• Reformation
• Scholasticism
• Socinianism
• Theology
• Thomism
• Universities, founding of
• And more ...

Islam

• Arab sciences (infra sciences)
• Arabic arts (supra art history)
• Arabic literature (supra literature)
• Biography
• Early islam
• Geography
• Grammar
• Historiography
• Islam: falsafah and mysticism (see philosophy)
• Recitation
• And more ...

Manicheism

Zoroastrianism

Philosophy

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• Academic scepticism
• Aristotelianism
• British absolute idealism
• Cynicism
• Cyrenaic school
• Empiricism
• Enlightenment France
• Enlightenment Germany
• Epicureanism
• Existentialism
• Epistemology
• Ethiopian philosophical literature
• Frankfurt school
• German idealism
• Gnosticism
• Great Western Schism
• Greek philosophy
• History of science
• Humanism
• Islam: falsafah and mysticism
• Latin American philosophy
• Logical empiricism (logical positivism or neo-positivism)
• Machiavellism
• Megarian school
• Middle platonism
• Modern ethics
• Moral philosophy
• Moral sciences
• Neo-kantianism
• Neo-scholastic tradition
• Neo-thomism
• Neoplatonism
• Neo-stoicism
• Occasionalism
• Operationalism
• Peripatetic school
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy of science
• Platonism
• Plato's academy
• Political philosophy
• Positivistic period (in Latin America)
• Pragmatic idealism
• Pragmatism and neo-pragmatism
• Pyrrhonism (pyrrhonian scepticism)
• Sophism
• Skepticism
• Stoicism
• Syrian school
• School of Alexandria
• Sensationalism
• Thomism
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Vienna Circle
• Vitalism
• Warsaw school of logic
• And more ...

Sciences

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Early intellectual movements (see also philosphy)

• Atomism
• Eleatic school
• Ionic school
• Philosophy of nature
• Platonism
• Transitional phase of cosmogony to cosmology
• And more ... (see infra)

Mathematics (exact science, on chart also related to physics and astronomy)

In the course of the centuries, mathematics has been influenced by trade and industry, navigation, cartography, physics and astronomy, engineering in war and peacetime, philosophy and religion, and has in its turn influenced other areas. Mutual influencing of hydrodynamics and theory of functions, electrodynamics and differential equation, land surveying (geodesy) and geometry, of cartesianism or scholasticism on infinitesimal calculus.

• Abstract spaces
• Algebraic logic
• Analytical geometry
• Arab math
• Arithmetic-algebra
• Arithmetician
• Bourbaki-group
• Calculating machine
• Catastrophe theory
• Computer science
• Cybernetics
• Differential and integral calculus
• Eniac
• Euclidean geometry
• Foundations of mathematics
• Function theory
• Functional analysis
• Group theory
• Hilbert spaces
• Indian math
• Infinitesimal calculus
• Information theory
• Intuitionism/topology
• Irrational numbers
• Lobachevskian geometry
• Logarithms
• Mathematical logic
• Maya, the: introduce the number "zero" in their (positional) counting system
• Modern computer
• Modern theory of functions
• Modern theory of numbers
• Ptolemaic system
• Pythagoreanism and neopythagoreanism
• Real functions
• Stagnation and decline of mathematics
• Synthetic geometry
• And more ...

Cosmology/astronomy (natural science; see also early philosophy)

• Classification of stars according to spectral type
• Copernican system : heliocentrism
• Cosmic rays
• Discoverings: telescope, moons, planets etc.
• Early schools
• Geocentrism
• Hr-diagram
• Inflation theory/ inflation models
• Magnetic fields in sunspots
• Modern astronomy and cosmology
• Modern big-bang theory
• Origin universe and life
• Planetary dynamics
• Quantum cosmology
• Radial speed of stars
• Relation distance-red shift
• Spectroscopic double stars
• Spectroscopy : spectrum analysis
• Star nucleosynthesis
• Starlight aberration
• Structure milky way
• And more ...

Physics (natural science)

• Bell's inequalities
• Constant speed of light
• Deduction brownian motion from atomic motion
• Dynamics
• Electrodynamics
• Electromagnetic waves
• Electromagnetism
• Experimental steam engine
• Hydrostatics
• Induction motor
• Invention lightning rod
• Kinematics
• Laser beam
• Locomotive
• Mechanics
• Mercury thermometer
• Nuclear physics
• Optics
• Particle theory
• Photoelectric effect
• Practical phone
• Quantum chromodynamics
• Quantum electrodynamics
• Quantum mechanics
• Quarks
• Radiology
• Rejection of ether existence
• Roentgenology
• Scintigraphy
• Starlight aberration
• Statics
• Thermometer celsius
• Wave theory
• X-rays
• And more ...

Chemistry (natural science)

• Agricultural chemistry
• Alchemy (early chemistry)
• Atomic models
• Biochemistry
• Colloid chemistry
• Modern chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Periodic classification of the elements
• Physical chemistry
• Potassium radioactivity
• Radiocarbon dating
• Synthetic chemistry

Chemistry related to physics:

• Gay-lussac's law
• Study of cathode rays
• Study of crystalline structures with x-ray diffraction analysis.
• The Avogadro constant
• Ultraviolet light (electrochem.)
• And more ...

Biological research areas (natural science)

• Anatomy
• Biochemistry
• Botanism
• Ethology
• Evolutionary biology
• Evolutionary psychology
• Inventions in
• Modern genetics
• Modern physiology
• Modern synthesis
• Natural history
• Neo-darwinism
• Neurology
• Neurophysiology
• And more ...

Geology (uniformitarianism, catastrophism, continental drift, stratigraphy ...)

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Paleontology

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Paleoanthropology

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Archeology

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Human sciences

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Economy

• Austrian school
• Bullionism (economy; mercantilism, esp. in England and Spain)
• Cameralism (german mercantilism; economy)
• Classical economics
• Colbertism (economy; French mercantilism; from c1665-1683)
• Ecological view
• English school
• French-Swiss school
• Historical schools (collectivist approach)
• Late historical school
• Marginalist schools (neoclassical)
• Maritime protectionism (economy)
• Marxist school and neo-marxism
• Mercantilism (economic absolutism; economy)
• Modern Austrian school
• Modern neoclassical movements
• Monetarism and neoliberalism
• Neo-institutionalism
• Neoclassical school
• New-institutionalism
• Neo-keynesianism and post-keynesianism
• New Cambridge school
• Old historical school
• Old institutionalism
• Physiocracy (economy)
• Rational expectations' school
• Young historical school
• And more ...

Psychology

• Behaviourism (psychology)
• British sensualism (a.k.a. sensationalism; psychology and philosophy)
• Cognitive approach in psychology movements
• Developmental psychology
• Empirism (associationism; philosophy and human sciences)
• Evolutionary psychology
• Functionalism
• Gestalt psychology
• Psychoanalysis (pre-scientific movement)
• Psychology of personality
• Social psychology
• And more ...

Sociology

• Ethnomethodology
• Feminist theories
• Interactionism
• Marxism
• Mass media
• Microsociology
• Multicultural social theories
• New-institutionalism
• Phenomenological sociology
• Social action theory
• Social darwinism (ideology)
• Theories on modernity
• Urban sociology
• And more ...

Modern anthropology

• Comparative ethnology
• Cultural anthropology
• Cultural ecology
• Functionalism
• Linguistic anthropology
• Marxist anthropology
• Relativism
• Sociobiologial anthropology
• Structural anthropology
• Symbolic anthropology
• Urban sociology
• Relativism
• And more ...