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Pre Columbian; oldest of meso-American cultures |
olmecs |
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mound burials; bury dead and artifacts; that was their culture |
adena |
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people of war |
aztecs |
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known for their pyramids; temple of Quetzalcoatl, god of priestly wisdom |
teotihuacan |
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represents the solar calendar |
temple of quetzalcoatl |
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Mayan temple pyramids with roof combs (cone tops) |
tikal |
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What was special about the mayan calendar? |
They had two. One 365 day one for farming and a sacred calendar based on human gestation. |
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north American group; northwest coast where they would have their big ceremonies celebrating the authority of the chief |
potlatch |
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SW region of NA; oldest native americans from the SW; mesa verde, colorado |
anasazi |
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when the Europeans hunted these animals to extinction it became known as what |
the buffalo decline |
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Aztecs believed these people were their ancestors |
toltecs |
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Ice age; Mesoamerican and north American came from what in asia |
land bridge |
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good at stone cutting/carving; INCAS high up in the andes |
macchu picchu |
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the great tree of the mayan universe derived from the middleworld; afterlife |
wacah chan |
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gave guidelines for Benedictine monasteries for monks to live by |
st. benedict |
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illuminated manuscripts from Ireland; one example is st john |
book of kells |
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the goal of these Christians was to see a relic; they would go there and believe they would get something from that such as a miracle |
pilgrimage |
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houses where the relics were contained |
reliqueries |
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oldest old English poem |
caedmons hymn |
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the only recollection we have of medieval times in order to paint a picture; done by monks |
illuminated manuscripts |
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self sufficient places where the monks lived |
monasteries |
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sculptures over doorways; half circle shape; mission of the apostles |
tympanum at vezelay |
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anglo saxon Germanic epic |
beowulf |
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architectural style was round arches, thick walls, not very many windows |
romanesque |
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architectural style with flying buttresses, thin walls, pointed arches |
gothic |
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hierarchy of how society was with king on top, lords in the middle and surfs on bottom. Depicted in the epic poem of song of roland |
feudal society |
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sculpture of an Islamic griffin was placed here |
cathedral in pisa |
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set limits on royal authority; the king at the time who signed it was john |
the magna carta |
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embroidery about the norman conquest of England where William conquered |
Bayeux tapestry |
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she was a nun composed many musical things; the symphony of the harmony of celestial revelations |
Hildegard of bingen |
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started feudalism; Frankish king |
charlemagne |
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writing today of chivalry (look up) |
chretien de troyes |
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done by monks brought from rome; plain |
Gregorian chant |
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early gothic in paris |
cathedral of notre dame |
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first gothic piece of architecture |
royal abbey of saint denis |
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had a statue of mary |
notre dame chartres? |
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who wrote the Canterbury tales? |
Geoffrey chaucer. |
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who was the hundred years war between |
france and england |
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who won the hundred years war |
England even though they were outnumbered and it was on French soil |
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what did the hundred years war depelete? |
French aristocracy |
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what is the most celebrated work of the middle ages |
the divine comedy |
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who wrote the divine comedy? |
DANTE alighieri |
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Christian poem; divided into three parts to represent where the soul can be sent after death |
the divine comedy |
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used Aristotles focus on the natural world; more about religion than oneself |
st Thomas aquinas |
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what was the most important of st Thomas Aquinas writings? |
summa theologica |
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tell the story of the hunt, capture, and murder of a unicorn; may have been made as a wedding gift |
unicorn tapestries |
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what does the unicorn represent |
lover wearing the chain of love |
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this is a devotional image of mary as a statue |
notre dame de paris |
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the earliest gothic sculptures |
notre dame de chartres |
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the entrances are filled with statues and sculptures |
notre dame de chartres |
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paris, under king Louis ix was the center for what |
rayonnant style |
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has an important relic of mary |
notre dame chartres |
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what style is the limbourg brothers les tres riches heures |
international style |
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bright contrasting colors, decorative flowing lines, elongated figures, surface patterns, a crowded quality, and opulent elegance |
international style |
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contains a series of illuminations for each calendar month |
les tres riches heures, limbourg brothes |
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one of the most famous museums today; Romanesque, gothic, and renaissance |
louvre |