What are some of the similarties and differences in anceint art across different cultures

Art across ancient culures has many similarities and many differences. One example of this is ancient Greece and Rome. When Rome began, it adopted many greek arts, like depicting Greek Gods on vases, and sometimes even effigy containers, often using the colors black and red, because those were the main option of color in those times. An example of differences between artworks throught ancient times are the viking longships. Some people do not consider these to be a work of art, but they had carvings of scary or friendly creatures that they would screw in on the front of their ships to mean something. These sculptures much differed from Mesopotamian Paintings in many ways, obviously because these cultures were thoulsands of years apart, and one is 3D