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32 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic Era |
"OLD STONE" Era 20,000 B.C. Western Europe Ice Age, hunter/gatherer |
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3 Caves + location + dates |
-Altamira (Northern Spain, 20,000BC) -Chauvet (S. France) - Lascaux (S. France) |
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Paleolithic Cave Art + Sculpture |
Most common subject: Animals + venus figures
in the grotto
Theories- Worship, Magic, Didactic |
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Mesopotamia |
"land between two rivers" tigris and euphrates
7,000 BC
Iraq, Syria, Turkey |
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Required for "civilization"? |
-Agriculture -Domestication of animals -Cities (laws) -Writing |
5, mesopotamia |
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Cuneiform (+example) |
-"wedged-shaped" writing -ex. "code of hammurabi" laws |
mesopotamia |
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Unification of lower + upper Egypt (date + ideas) |
Ca. 3,000 BC Ideas: -Immortality + Relgion |
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O.S.H.I.R. |
Osiris, Seth, Horus, Isis, Ra |
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Step Pyramid |
For? King Zoser By? Imhotep Where? Saqqara When? 2750 BC |
tallest: 200 yrs Old kingdom |
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Great Pyramid |
For? King Cheops Where? Giza Ca. 2,500 BC |
Old Kingdom |
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Dier El Bahari |
Rock cut (post and lintel) Mortuary temple New Kingdom Hatshepsut |
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King Anhk-en-aten |
Amarna period Realism Monotheism Compassionate |
New kingdom-ish |
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King Tut and Howard Carter |
November 4th 1922 Valley of the Kings |
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Abu-Simbel |
Temple to glorify king Ramses II Rockcut |
king during moses |
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Rosetta Stone |
Found by Napolean in 1799, decipher hieroglyphs |
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Hieroglyphics |
"sacred writing" |
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Greek Ideals |
Ideals: -Beauty + Humanism |
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Greek Dates/ Timeline |
-Archaic (600-500) -PW (ends 479) persian wars -Golden Age (classical) (400s) -PW (peloponessian, sparta v athens) (431-404) -Hellenistic Period (300-200-100) |
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Greek Sculpture/ Art |
-Archaic (Kouros + Kore) -Golden (Contrapposto) -Hellenistic (naked chicks + emotional/ drama) |
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Greek Sculptures?!?! |
•"The Spear Bearer" Polykeitos (450 BC) •"Discus Thrower" Myron (450 BC) •"Dying Gaul" (220 BC) •"Laocoon" (150 BC) •"Nike/ Winged Victory" (150 BC) •"Venus de Milo" (150 BC) |
Greek |
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Parthenon |
Ictinus and Phidias Patron: Pericles When? 432 BC Acropolis |
Greek |
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Apollo vs Dionysus |
Apollo: logic, knowledge, truth Dionysus: emotional, revenge, wild |
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Roman Ideals |
Unite the world |
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Roman Periods (dates + government) |
•Etruscan (600 BC) (monarchy) •Revolution 509 BC •The Republic (republic) (400-300-200-100) •Imperial Rome (empire/ monarchy) (27 BC-14 AD) |
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Roman Art |
Copies + realism |
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Greek Capitals |
•Doric (simplest, most common) •Ionic (like a scroll) •Corinthian (hellenistic, wild) |
**** connecting post and lintel |
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Roman Architecture |
• Arch • Dome • Concrete
• Coliseum (80AD) • Pantheon (122AD) |
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Roman Philosophy |
Stoicism |
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Julius Caesar |
dictator, murdered 44 bc by senate |
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Emperor during jesus christ birth? / first emperor |
Augustus (octavian) |
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Battle of Actium |
Rome (Octavian) vs. Egypt (Marc Antony and Cleopatra)
Later Pax Romana after victory |
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Pax Romana |
thanks augustus aka octavian 200 yrs roman peace |
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