Past history has a huge impact on the future. From ancient art history to current years, it can be said with certainty that art has changed dramatically, this shows that people today have values, styles and priorities in life different. The past teaches people about the future and helps avoid mistakes. From the Paleolithic period, where people focused on hunting and gathering, where daily life was dynamic, that is, they moved from one place to another in search of better resources ( Upper Paleolithic, 28), until the Mesopotamian period when things were safer and people liked to stay in one place. The Paleolithic period did not consist of writing, which is the main reason why people can only guess and interpret the culture based on their own assumptions about the society of the time. After examining art belonging to the Upper Paleolithic period, Handprint at Pech-Merle, Dordogne, France, it is safe to say that the artists had a sense of ownership over their art. Several handprints were found in the room, which was common in Paleolithic art (Pech-Merle, 29). From another piece of art presented in the book and during classes, it is clear that the social hierarchy was not very well defined at the time. It seems that people were all doing the same thing collectively as a community, looking for resources to make food, tools, and artwork. Cave paintings are an important source proving that art was part of daily life, it was a hunting ritual. According to the manual “Henri Breuil believed that such handprints could have been made during an initiation ceremony” (Pech-Merle, 30). Perhaps the handprints on the painting indicated the spiritual connection between the hunter and the animal. Middle of paper......the temple had four points - North, South, West and East which indicated the relationship to heaven. Only the rich and powerful people were allowed to enter the temple. This is an example of the power structure at its best. The ruler established rules and others had to obey them no matter what. According to the ruler, the poor were allowed to leave the temple and never enter it (Mesopotamia, February 5, 2014). The oldest surviving ziggurat was from the Uruk period. The White Temple on its ziggurat was made of stone, brick and asphalt. It owes its name to the white walls which surround the temple (Ziggurats, 55). The temple was a sacred religious place, more important than the ruler's building because it was located in the center of the city. He points out that the people of Mesopotamia were extremely religious and obedient..