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66 Cards in this Set
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What important invention separates the prehistoric period from historic times?
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writing
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Name and briefly describe three methods for deducing the likely age of an object.
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radio carbon dating- used only once living tissues (Carbon 14 half-life)
stratigraphy- layers, distance and known rates of depostion dendrochronolgy- tree ring dating, english record goes back 5,000 years |
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T/F. Woman of Willendorf is named for the family of the artist that created it.
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False
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According to the currently accepted view, humanity is about ____ million years old.
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2
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The two major divisions of prehistoric man are the Paleolithic period and the Neolithic period. Give the approximant dates for the two periods:
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a. Paleolithic from 100,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE
b. Neolithic from 10,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE |
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It is commonly believed that the last Ice Age ended around ________ years ago.
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10,000
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Paleolithic objects tend to be ________ while Neolithic objects tend toward the ________.
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naturalistic; geometric
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T/F. Is has been established that Woman of Willendorf is a Paleolithic image of the Creator.
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False
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Paleolithic cave paintings in southern Europe are approximately __________ years old.
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25,000
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The two inventions that separate the Neolithic from the Paleolithic periods are:
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agriculture and herding
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Name and locate the four river valleys where civilization is thought to have begun:
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1. Nile River Valley in Egypt
2. Tigris Euphrates in Iraq 3. Indus River Valley in Pakistan 4. Yellow River Valley in China |
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The term Mesopotamia means literally "_________".
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between the rivers
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is major work of _________ literature
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Sumarian
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The ancient city of Ur is thought to have been the birthplace of ________.
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Abraham
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The Sumerian Cade of Ur-Nammu is an earlier version of the more famous written legal system known as the code of ___________.
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Hammurabi
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The term ________ means an upright stone set as a memorial or marker.
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stele
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The main form of Mesopotamian temple architecture was the __________.
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ziggurat
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Give the approximate dates for the three major periods of Egyptian history:
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a. Old Kingdom 2,900- 2,300 BCE
b. Middle Kingdom 2,200-1,600 BCE c. New Kingdom 1,400-1,000 BCE |
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Egyptian pyramids are essentially elaborate ______.
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graves
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One overriding concern of Egyptian artists was building for _________.
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eternity
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When the size of human figures in an artwork is determined by social rank, this is known as __________ scaling.
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hieratic
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In hieroglyphics, proper names are circled, and this is known as _______________.
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cartouche'
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The New Kingdom Pharaoh Akhnaten instituted an unusual period of Egyptian culture known as the ________ revolution.
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amarna
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The Hippopotamus is revered by the Egyptians as Mut, god of Chaos. State one reason why this might be so.
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the hippos are eating the rice.
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The main reason why we know so much about Egyptian history is because of the discovery of the ____________
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Rosetta Stone
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The Rosetta Stone was discovered by ___________'s troops when they occupied Egypt in the early 19th century.
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Napoleon
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North American tribes are commonly separated into four main groups:
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1. Eastern Woodlands
2. Plains 3. Pacific Northwest 4. Southwest |
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The earliest know civilization in Central America was know as the ______
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Olmec
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T/F. The Maya culture developed a calendar that was accurate to one day in 6,000 years
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True
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Put the Mesoamerican civilizations in chronological order and link them with their emblematic city:
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Olmec-Teotihuacan
Maya-Chichen Itza Aztec-Tenochtitlan Inca-Machu Picchu |
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One of the main reasons Cortez was able to subdue Montezuma at Mexico City with a small band of men was that ___________ had decimated the native population.
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small pox
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T/F. Greek art began with Egyptian idea and standards.
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True
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Give the approximate dates for the three main periods of Greek history.
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Archaic 700-450 BCE
Classical 450-400 BCE Hellenistic 400-100 BCE |
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Although Greek sculptors are most will-known today, Grook painters were most celebrated during the Greek period. State one reason why this might be so.
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because their works have been destroyed over time.
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Briefly describe the two Epic poems of Homer
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Illiad: The Battle of Troy
Odyssey: Journey back home from Troy. |
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The condition in which the knees, hips, and shoulders of a sculpture or figure are poised at different angles is known as __________.
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contrapposto
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Greek classical art emphasizes what two character traits?
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reason and virtue
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A system which governs the ideal proportions of an artwork is known as a _______.
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canon
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The Parthenon is named after Athena ___________, meaning ____.
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Parthenas; virgin
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If all the columns of the Parthenon were extended upward, they would meet a point about a _________ above the structure.
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mile
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Name three things Western Culture has taken almost directly from Roman Civilization.
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1. calendar
2. festival 3. law |
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In Rome, the temple dedicated to all the gods was called the __________.
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Pantheon
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The main form of Roman Temple Architecture was the _________.
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Basilica
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One reason Constantine converted to Christianity was because he had a dream in which God promised he would be victorious in battle if he fought under the symbol now called the _______.
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Chi-Rho
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Christian architecture in the Eastern Roman Empire followed the ________ while Christian architecture in the Western Roman Empire followed the ________.
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dome; basilica
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"Pantocrator" is defined as ___________.
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ruler of all
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The most famous Byzantine Emperor was ______ and his greatest achievement was the erection of the _________ ________. In the city of ____________. It is now a _________ in the ciry of ____________.
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Justinian; Hagia; Sophia; Constantinople; mosque; Istanbul
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The Roman Empire fell around ________. While most of Europe fell into cultural chaos, __________ became the major European center of leaning.
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476 CE; Ireland
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St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin. This translation was called the __________ because Latin was the language of hte common people. The original texts of the bible were written mainly in ___________ and __________
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Vulgate; Hebrew; Greek
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Carolus Magnus, better known as ____________, displaced the ______________- as the leader of the Franks.
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Charlemange; Marovingians
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One term to describe the period from 400 CE to 1400 CE is the "Age of _______."
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Faith
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The upward reach of the Gothic cathedral was intended to symbolize the triumph of spirit over the ________ _________
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material world
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The two main innovations that allowed Gothic cathedral walls to soar were the:
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a. pointed arch
b. flying buttress |
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The term "Renaissance" means "rebirth". What exactly has been reborn?
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classical culture
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One distinguishing factor between the naked and the nude is thought to be ________.
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dignity
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______________ was convinced by the Christian mystic Savanorola to destroy his "pagan" works.
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Botticelli
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The three major artists of the high Renaissance:
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a. DaVinci-painter
b. Michelangelo-sculpture c. Bramente-architect |
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The smoky effect of blurred edges in DaVinci's paintings is called ___________.
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chiaroscuro
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By placing Christ at the vanishing point in the center of hte last supper, DaVinci associates Him with ____________.
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infinity/God.
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Raphael is believed to have integrated the technique and feeling of two major Renaissance artists:
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Davinci and Michelangelo
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One major project of the Renaissance was to reconcile __________ with the ideals of Greece and Rome
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Christianity
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Oil painting was discovered in the early 1400s by the __________ Brothers
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VanEyck.
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T/F. The Maya temples were used for human sacrifice.
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True
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Naturalistic Roman portraits can be interpreted as a growing respect for the __________.
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individual
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Romans did not invent it, but they used it extensively in the architecture.
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concrete
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one way to recognize Northern Renaissance works is by the impressive level of ___________.
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detail
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