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