Humanities Chapters 10, 11, & 12

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Pre Columbian; oldest of meso-American cultures

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olmecs

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mound burials; bury dead and artifacts; that was their culture

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adena

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people of war

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aztecs

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known for their pyramids; temple of Quetzalcoatl, god of priestly wisdom

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teotihuacan

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represents the solar calendar

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temple of quetzalcoatl

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Mayan temple pyramids with roof combs (cone tops)

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tikal

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What was special about the mayan calendar?

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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

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potlatch

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SW region of NA; oldest native americans from the SW; mesa verde, colorado

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anasazi

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when the Europeans hunted these animals to extinction it became known as what

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the buffalo decline

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Aztecs believed these people were their ancestors

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toltecs

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Ice age; Mesoamerican and north American came from what in asia

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land bridge

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good at stone cutting/carving; INCAS high up in the andes

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macchu picchu

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the great tree of the mayan universe derived from the middleworld; afterlife

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wacah chan

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gave guidelines for Benedictine monasteries for monks to live by

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st. benedict

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illuminated manuscripts from Ireland; one example is st john

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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

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pilgrimage

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houses where the relics were contained

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reliqueries

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oldest old English poem

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caedmons hymn

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the only recollection we have of medieval times in order to paint a picture; done by monks

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illuminated manuscripts

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self sufficient places where the monks lived

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monasteries

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sculptures over doorways; half circle shape; mission of the apostles

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tympanum at vezelay

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anglo saxon Germanic epic

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beowulf

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architectural style was round arches, thick walls, not very many windows

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romanesque

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architectural style with flying buttresses, thin walls, pointed arches

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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

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feudal society

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sculpture of an Islamic griffin was placed here

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cathedral in pisa

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set limits on royal authority; the king at the time who signed it was john

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the magna carta

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embroidery about the norman conquest of England where William conquered

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Bayeux tapestry

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she was a nun composed many musical things; the symphony of the harmony of celestial revelations

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Hildegard of bingen

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started feudalism; Frankish king

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charlemagne

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writing today of chivalry (look up)

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chretien de troyes

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done by monks brought from rome; plain

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Gregorian chant

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early gothic in paris

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cathedral of notre dame

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first gothic piece of architecture

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royal abbey of saint denis

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had a statue of mary

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notre dame chartres?

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who wrote the Canterbury tales?

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Geoffrey chaucer.

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who was the hundred years war between

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france and england

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who won the hundred years war

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England even though they were outnumbered and it was on French soil

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what did the hundred years war depelete?

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French aristocracy

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what is the most celebrated work of the middle ages

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the divine comedy

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who wrote the divine comedy?

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DANTE alighieri

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Christian poem; divided into three parts to represent where the soul can be sent after death

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the divine comedy

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used Aristotles focus on the natural world; more about religion than oneself

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st Thomas aquinas

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what was the most important of st Thomas Aquinas writings?

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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

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unicorn tapestries

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what does the unicorn represent

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lover wearing the chain of love

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this is a devotional image of mary as a statue

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notre dame de paris

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the earliest gothic sculptures

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notre dame de chartres

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the entrances are filled with statues and sculptures

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notre dame de chartres

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paris, under king Louis ix was the center for what

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rayonnant style

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has an important relic of mary

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notre dame chartres

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what style is the limbourg brothers les tres riches heures

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international style

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bright contrasting colors, decorative flowing lines, elongated figures, surface patterns, a crowded quality, and opulent elegance

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international style

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contains a series of illuminations for each calendar month

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les tres riches heures, limbourg brothes

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one of the most famous museums today; Romanesque, gothic, and renaissance

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louvre