Culture & IdeasThe 1920s

Culture & Ideas in the 1920s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1920s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 1928. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
1928
Latest
1928
Africa
1
Asia
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Nigeria

    Nok terracottas first recognised

    Terracotta heads unearthed near the village of Nok during tin-mining drew scholarly attention, giving the ancient culture its name and revealing the antiquity of Nigerian art.

    Era: The Nok culture and Nigeria's early societies

    Sources: Nok Terracottas (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nigeria (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. Asia

    Türkiye

    The alphabet and language reforms

    Turkey replaced the Arabic script with a new Latin-based Turkish alphabet in 1928, part of reforms that sharply raised literacy and reoriented the nation toward Europe.

    Era: The Republic and Modern Türkiye

    Sources: Kemal Atatürk · Encyclopædia Britannica