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2800 BCE
Egyptians
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Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE
Egyptians
Used flowers for decorations, wreaths and temples. A typical design is a single flower with a single bud or leaf -
600 BCE
Greeks
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Period: 600 BCE to 150 BCE
Greeks
Used flowers for adornments, created the “ horn of plenty “ or cornucopia -
28 BCE
Romans
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Period: 28 BCE to 325
Romans
Made garlands, wreaths, and crowns. Used less graceful designs and used flowers for fragrant -
320
Byzantines
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Period: 320 to 600
Byzantines
Introduced fruit within garlands, placed arrangements in baskets or low containers -
1400
Renaissance
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Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
Created large symmetrical arrangements with bright colors, introduced the Christmas wreaths -
Baroque
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Period: to
Baroque
referred to as Flemish, created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs -
Early American
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Period: to
Early American
Adornment and decorations around the home, used any flower available and placed all arrangements into household containers -
Colonial Williamsburg
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Period: to
Colonial Williamsburg
Placed grasses, flowers and foliage into
fan-shaped arrangements, began to mix different floral bouquets together -
Period: to
June nineteenth
Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. -
American Federal
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Period: to
American Federal
Began to focus on the charm of an
individual flower, strayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets, and used fewer flowers in containers -
Victorian
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Period: to
Victorian
Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures • Placed flowers in very low containers -
Period: to
Civil war
fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America -
Modern
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Period: to
Modern
Combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from the Europeans, Marked the beginning of a container
made specifically to hold flowers and small bouquets
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Holocaust
across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews -
Period: to
Moon landings
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20. -
Period: to
9/11
DescriptionThe September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks
