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70 Cards in this Set
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The purpose of the army of terra cotta figures found buried in the mausoleum of the first Qin emperors was to ______
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serve the rule in the afterlife
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_______ was the founder of Taoism
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Laozi
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At _____ archaeologist have found rich burial sites, but no city walls or dwellings which has led them to believe that this site may have been a royal burial site for another city.
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Anyang
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The ________dynasty unified China for the first time
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Qin
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Confucius's sayings were collected in the fith century in a volume called
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The Analects
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The yin and yang represent ____.
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harmonious intergration
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______ referes to the Confucian teaching of virtue
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Te
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During the Song dynasty, China saw within its borders the invention of
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paper currency and gunpowder
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confucius considered the arts a _______.
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form of moral education
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The earliest of the Chinese eras for which archaelogoical evidence has been found is that of the _____dynasty
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Shang
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The people of Teotihuacan are best known for their ________.
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pyramids
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A model of the warrior culture of Japan in the Kamakura period as _________.
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Minamoto no Yoritomo (fig 9.7).
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Horyu-ji (fig 9.3) is a(the) __________.
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oldest wooden temple in the world.
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________________ is considered the first important novel in world literature.
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The Tale of Genji.
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Zen and Japanese Culture was written by
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D. T. Suzuki
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One aspect of Zen thought is that by drinking tea in a small hyt, with only a few companions, an individual could experience _________ or "lonely seclusion."
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wabi
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_________ figures were placed around graves, perhaps to help earth stay in place.
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Haniwa
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The Sholomteo (fig 9.8) is a ___________.
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tea house
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The earliest Japanese wooded sculpture and architecture, that of the Asuka period, is closely identified with _______.
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Buddism
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The oldest volume of Japenese history is _______.
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Kojiki
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The statue of Coatlicue (fig 10.7) is from the _______ civilization.
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Aztec
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The works of the _______ culture is among the earliest Mesoamerican art that has been found.
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Olmecs
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The Great Sepent Mound (fig 10.5) in Adams County, Ohio was built by the ______ people.
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Adena
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The central activity of the Aztec state was ________.
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war.
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In Teotihuacaan, Mexico, the ___ liks the underworld to the heavens, the forces of life and death.
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Pyramid of the Sun.
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Tikal is one of the most important sites of classic ____ culture.
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Mayan
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The Mayan culture appears to have lasted from about ______.
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250 B.C. to 1000 C.E.
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The ____ are the Christian catechetical schools of Alexandria, Egypt.
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Didaskalia
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______ are the two calendars used by the Maya.
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Farming and sacred.
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Marie de France best known for her _______>
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lais
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__________ is not an Anglo-Saxon tribe.
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Celts
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The earliest monastic guidelines were provided by _______.
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St. Benedict
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________ contains the texts of the four gospels in Latin.
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Book of kells
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To _____________ was the chief purpose of a pilgrimage.
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worship relics of the saints
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A(n) contains the items for veneration that pilgrims cam to view.
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reliquary
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_____________ is the oldest extant Old English poem.
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Caedmon's Hymn
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__________ is the pilgrimage church that offers a solution to the problem of obtaining direct light in the nave.
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Saint-Madeleine Vezelay (fig 11.13)
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A characteristic form of painting, some of the only ones to survice in good condition from the Early Medieval era are called ______.
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illuminated manuscripts
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That _____ was the basic ideal of a medieval monastery.
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the monastery should be self-sufficient
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The Gothic style first developed around ______.
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1140
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Duccio is to Siena as Giotto is to _____.
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Padua
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The Cathedral of Notre-Dame (figs 12.3 and 12.4) in Paris is an example of the _______.
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Early Gothic
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The _____ was the most celebrated literay work of the Middle Ages.
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Divine Comedy
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The Gothic style began ______.
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the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, located just north of Paris.
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The number ____ assumed special imprtance for the builders at Chartres.
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three
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The Notre-Dame, Chartres (fig 12.5) was dedicated to ____.
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The Virgin Mary
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Dante's Paradiso is based on _____.
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the seven planets of medieval astronomy.
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___________ Cathedral is the first masterpiece of the High Gothic.
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Notre-Dame, Chartres (fig 12.5)
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The composer ____ is most closely associated with the "new Rome" of the High Renaissance.
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Josquin des Pres
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_______ was the first great figure of Italian Renaissance letters.
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Petrarch
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_____ founded the Platonic Academy of Philosophy in Florence.
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Cosimo de Medici
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The famous text The Prince by _______ encapsulates the view that humankind is "basically selfish, deceitful, greed, and gullible" amd thus, he advocates that rulers should use this fact to their advantage
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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In 1401, Leonardo Bruni sponsored a competition to determine who would make the doors of Florence Catherdal's baptistery which______ won.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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_______ does not characterize Renaissance art and culture.
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Frivolous subject matter
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Donatello created all of the following sculptures except _____.
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The Creation of adam and Eve (fig 13.8)
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Many consider _____ to be the greatest architect of the Early Renaissance in Italy
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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The composer ____ significantly shaped Early renaissance music.
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Guillaume Dufay
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______ was the first architect to detail the principles of linear perspective in his treatise De pictura.
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Leon Bassista Alberti.
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Iconoclaasm and examples from text
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Opposition to the use of religious images; the systematic destruction of religious icons.
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Council of trent
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A series of meeting that took place in Trent from 1553-1563. Discussed Protestant Heirses and various aspects of the Catholic faith.
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Reign of Shang Dynasty
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Dates 1600 B.C.E. Was believed to be myth. Earliest writings.
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Bamboo Grove
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Seven Taoist poet-philosophers seeking relief from formalities of Confucianism began to hold meetings in the Bamboo Grove.
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Kami
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2 Shinto gods who created the Japanese Islands.
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Civil War in Kamakura era
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Rulers began to lose power to the samurai. lasted from 1185 to 1333.
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Mound builders food source
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Maize
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Teotihuacan
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"Where one becomes god" reached height of political power 350-650 C.E. Was one of the largest cities of the time.
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Folio
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Pages of the Christian Gospel Books Illuminated on Vellum (fine parachement) from early medieval times.
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What is a monastery
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Residence for Monks.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Wrote Canterbury tales.
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Ruler of Milan
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Gian Galeazzo Visconti, in 1386 consecrated the Milan Catherdral, the most Gothic.
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