Quiz 2

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Mesopotamia

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The land between the Tigrus and Euphrates rivers. Created cuneiforms, literature & city states

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Summerians

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Ruled by a priest, society was ruled by the Gods

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Summerian architecture

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Built mud brick fortified cities w/ the most important building at the center of the city- a temple

Built ziggerauts (ex. White temple and The Temple of Ur)

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Summerian art

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Cylindrical figures developed, made of clay, w/ large eyes, unibrow, smiling faces and hands held in prayer (ex. Tell asmar figures)

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Akkadians

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Ruled by war like kings

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Akkadian architecture

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Built mud brick fortified cities where center of the city became a Palace

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Akkadian art

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War images (ex. Victory Stele of Naram Sin) and animals have human characteristics

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Babylonians

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Ruled by priest kings (ex. Hammerabi who wrote the 1st code of law) and were more humanistic

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Babylonian architecture

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Ziggerauts (ex. Tower of babel) and temples were at the center of the fortified mud brick city

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Assyrians

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War like people ruled by kings

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Assyrian architecture

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Center of city was a Palace covered in slabs of stone.

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Assyrian art

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Images of figures were active, energetic, muscular and strong (ex. Citadel of Sargon ll)

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Neo Babylonians

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Developed glazed tile to decorate their mud brick fortified walls (ex. Ishtar Gates)

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Persians

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Ruled by kings ( ex. Darius and Xerxes)

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Persian architecture

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Center of fortified city of mud brick, stone slabs and tiled walls was a Palace (ex. Palace of Persopolis)

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Persian art

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High craftsmanship in all things, everything was decorated no matter how small

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Aegeans

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Schliemann found many sites in this area. Searers and traders

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Cycladic islands

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Prehistoric life size female fertility figures found. They were mad of marble and were simplified

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Minoans

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Lived on the island of crete, ruled by a king

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Minoan architecture

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Palace of knossos built of stone, on multi-levels, open, airy w/ arcades of Minoan columns, nature oriented painted walls and an arena for sport (ex. Toreador Fresco)

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Minoan art

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High craftsmanship in art pottery, depicts marine life & nature

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Mycenaeans

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Culture on the mainland of greece, ruled by kings (ex. Agamemnon) built a fortified city of cyclopean stone construction

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Mycenaean architecture

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Lions gate depicts a corbel arch, as does the treasury of atreus (a beehive tomb).

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Greeks

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Reached for perfection but did not want to achieve it.

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Geometric period

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Pottery developed w/ the potters wheel (amphora, krater, kylix). Designs on the pottery were of geometric shapes and the Grecian key.

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Archaic period

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Pottery develops w/ black figure and red figure pottery designs.

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Archaic period architecture

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Doric order w/ white marble stone

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Archaic period art

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Painted marble figures of kore and kouros were simplified, smiling & developed to more realism and contrapasto

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Classical period architecture

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Acropolis in athens completed (parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike, propylaea, erechtheum) Ionic order.

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Classical period art

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Sculptures are more realistic w/ no emotion at all (ex. Myron's Discus Thrower, Polykleitos' Spear Bearer, Phidias' work on the Parthenon, Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Kindos)

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Hellenistic period

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Non religious architecture was developed

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Hellenistic architecture

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Corinthean order

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Hellenistic art

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Sculptures are emotional, active, and worried (ex. Nike of Samothrace, Temple of Zeus at Pergamon, Alexander, Laocoon)

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White temple

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Is a ziggurat built for the sky god Anu in the city of Uruk

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Cella

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The chamber at the center of an ancient temple

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Gudea

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Was a priest that ruled the state of lagash in Mesopotamia

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Tholos

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A temple w/ a circular plan

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Minotaur

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The mythical beast, half man & half bull that in habited the labyrinth of the minoan palace Knossos

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Lamassu

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Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull

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Propylaea

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Is a gateway that serves as the entrance to Acropolis in Athens

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What group is credited w/ developing the earliest known script

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Summerians

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The use of glazed brickwork is most characteristic of his group of people

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Neo Babylonians

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The predominent theme found in the art in the palace of Ashurbanipal is

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War & hunting

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What anatolian people constructed the gateway to the citadel of boghavkoy

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Hittites

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A number of large elegant marble fertility figures from the bronze age have been found in

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The cycladic islands

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Tiryns was

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A fortified citadel

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The lions gate is a gateway to

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Mycenae

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Minoan columns are distinguished by

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A tapering shape and bulbous capitals

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The earliest example of the use of contrapasto was in the sculpture of the

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Dying gaul

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What subject was portrayed on the frieze around the parthenon

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Panathenaic festival procession

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A greek two handled storage jar is known as a

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Amphora

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The architects responsible for the construction of the parthenon were

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Iktinos & Kallikrates

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This sculptor was known for his drapery on figures

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Phidias

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The ______ is the lowest division of the entablature of a temple

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Architrave

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The artist _____ developed the classic canon of human proportions

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Polykleitos

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The order developed in the Hellenistic period is called ____ and an example of this style is ____

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Corinthean & Corinthean capital