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31 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic |
Old Stone Age; has Lower, Middle, Upper phases |
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Neolithic |
New Stone Age |
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Woman from Willendorf |
Found in Austria; Limestone and red ocher; female sculpture, featureless face, large stomach and breasts; most famous Paleolithic sculpture |
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post and lintel |
type of architecture; think doorway |
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architecture |
spatial enclosure with aesthetic intentionality |
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Altamira |
first place cave paintings were discovered |
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Chauvet Cave |
earliest cave paintings are here |
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Neolithic |
Development of organized agriculture, the maintenance of herds of domesticated animals, and the foundation of year-round settlements was the beginning of this era |
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Catalhoyuk |
first Neolithic settlement discovered |
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Megalithic Monuments |
Massive tombs and ceremonial structures built from huge stones in the Neolithic period |
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dolmen |
tomb chamber with post and lintel |
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passage graves |
burial with corridors leading into burial chambers |
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corbel vault |
arched structure that spans an interior space |
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Mesopotamia |
"The land between two rivers," now located in present-day Iran |
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cuneiform |
Mesopotamian writing |
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ziggurat |
stepped pyramid with a temple or shrine on top |
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votive figures |
images dedicated to the gods |
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lamassu |
human-headed winged lion |
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Ishtar Gate |
Colourfully glazed entrance to Babylon that symbolized power |
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Persepolis |
Persian homeland |
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Upper and Lower Egypt |
Refers to the geographic location of Egypt's separation based upon the flow of the Nile |
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Ka |
the spirit |
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mastaba |
flat topped, one storied structure, with slanted walls that had a burial chamber within |
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necropolis |
"city of the dead" |
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Khafre |
pharoh who created the second pyramid of giza |
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Mentuhotep |
Unified Egypt, creating the the Middle period |
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Tutmose III |
First ruler to call himself "pharaoh" |
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pharaoh |
means "great house;" ruler of egypt |
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Hatshepsut |
wife of Tutmose II, whom took over as KING when Tutmose II died. |
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Akhenaten |
Amenhotep III's successor; brought huge change, politically, culturally, and artistically. |
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Amarna style |
More fluid, gender ambiguous style of art |
