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29 Cards in this Set
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Etruscan Society emerged in what is present day ___ around 650 BCE.
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Tuscany
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Name three great civilizations that demonstably influenced Etruscan society.
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1-Egyptian
2-Greek 3-Persian |
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The facial expression intended to animate otherwise "static" ancient sculture is known as the ___ ___.
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archaic smile
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True or False: Most classical Greek sculpture is nude, while most Etruscan sculpture is clothed.
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True
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True or False: It is commonly held that in Etruscan society, women and men stood on relatively equal footing.
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True
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Roman Civilization is commonly divided into two main periods. Name the periods and their approxomate dates.
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1-Republic: 500-25BCE
2-Empire: 25-400CE |
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True or False: Early Rome was governed by a series of kings and an advisory body called the Senate.
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True
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Early Roman sculpture is very indiv idualistic. This trend is believed to come from the fact that many early portraits were taken from ___ ___.
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death masks
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The difference between Roman temples and Greek ones is that Roman temples used ___ columns to surround the inner room, while Greek temples used freestanding columns all the way around
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engaged
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Teh Pont du Gard was part of a system of structures that brought ___ to the city from as far away as 30 miles.
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water
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The term "Apotheosis" is the process of turning someone into a ___ or a ___.
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god, saint
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What is the difference between History and Propaganda?
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History-an account of what happened
Propoganda-a contemporary argument about what happened |
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Compare and contrast the Imperial Procession of the Ara Pacis with the procession of the frieze on the Perthenon.
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Compare- bas relief, procession /ritual,temple
Ara Pacis(144)-individual, irregular,Roman Parthenon(p111)-ideal types, regular,Greek |
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The Roman Colosseum is essentially a __.
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stadium
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True or False: Romans used concrete extensively in their largest buildings.
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true
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The Arch of Titus celebrates the sack of __ in 70 CE.
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Jerusalem
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Interestingly, the invention of "serifs" on Roman letters added to the readability of Roman letterforms, but the Romans had not yet standardized __ __ __.
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spaces between words
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True or False: Roman women were excluded from the profession of writing.
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False
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Pompeii is a rich treasury of Ancient Roman culture. In early Pompeiian murals, hte practice of reproducing marble finish in paint is seen. Today we call this the practice of __ finishing.
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faux (pronounced foe)
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Bacchus was the Roman god of vegetables, fertility and __.
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wine
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The small pieces of colored stone or marble used in Roman murals are called __.
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tesserae
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The Roman empire under Trajan reached from the Middle east to __.
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Britain
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The statue of Marcus Aurelius survived the middle ages primariy because it was thought originally to be a statue of __.
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Constantine
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Marcus Aurelius was one of the five "Good Emperors" of Rome, but is also regarded today as a significant philospher of __.
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stoicism
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Hadrian's wall, 73 miles long, cuts the island of __ in half.
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Britain
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By 300 CE, the Roman Empire had become unstable and was divided by Diocletian into four zones ruled by a group known as the __.
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tetrarchs
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In 305, Constantine (son of a tetrarch) emerged as a Roman ruler. In his battle for domination, he had a dream that he would be victorious under the sign of the Chi-Rho, a capital letter P with an X on the ascender. This sign is the first two Roman letters of the word __.
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Christos
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In CE 313, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, a declaration that granted __ __ throughout the Roman Empire.
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religious freedom
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Constantine ruled the Eastern Roman Empire and renamed the city of Byzantium. The renamed city, Constantinople became his capital city. It still exists in modern-day Turkey, and is now named __.
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Istanbul
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