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The oldest known paintings date from about

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30,000 B.C.E

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The Paleolithic period is referred to as the

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Old Stone Age

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The purpose of the Venus of Willendorf was probably

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to suggest fertility

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The subject matter of Paleolithic cave paintings was

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animals

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Stonehenge apparently functioned as a

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calendar

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Sumerian votive figures had exaggerated

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eyes

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A stele is a

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stone tablet

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Hammurabi had himself portrayed with

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a god

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The Neo-Babylonians were famous for

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the Ishtar Gate

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The Egyptians usually showed relief and painted figures with

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head and legs in profile, chest facing front

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Hierarchical scale means that

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hte main figgure is the biggest

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Akhenaten's achievements include

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encouraging more realism in art

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The Egyptian system of government was probably influenced by

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Nubia

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Ancient Chinese artists were especially skilled in

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bronze casting

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The Olmec art included

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big heads and baby figures

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Minoan artists did the

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Toreador Fresco

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The chances that a work of art from ancient times will be found or preserved are greatly increased if

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All of the above

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Because they lacked stone, the ancient Sumerians built their cities of

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sun-dried brick

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To compensate for the natural visual distortion in which tall columns appear to bend inward, the Greeks gave them a slight bulge, which is known as

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entasis

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All of the following cultures were Mesopotamian Except

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the Minoan

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The bronze head of an Akkadian ruler is a rare example of _____ in ancient art

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naturalism

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The most notable example of Neolithic architecture in Europe is

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Stonehenge in England

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In Egyptian art, the convention of representing social importance by size, for example, where the pharach is shown much larger than his subjects, is known as

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hierarchical scale

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Under the reign of _____, a new, more naturalistic style of Egyptian art developed

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Amenhotep IV

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The earliest known writing system from which a recorded language developed was the invention of

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the Sumerians

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The sculpture Akhenaten and his family is an example of the _____ technique

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sunken relief

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King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922 by

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Howard Carter

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A true arch was developed by _____ architects long before the Romans came up with the idea

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Neo-Babylonian

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Three majors cultures that preceded the Greeks in and around the Aegean Sea were the _____ cultures

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Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean

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The inner chamber of the Parthenon is called the

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cella

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Romans could watch gladiators fight to the death, along with other sporting events, at the

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Colosseum

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A prime example of art from the Hellenistic era is

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the Laocoon Group

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According to historians, the Roman era began in 510 B.C.E. with

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the founding of the Roman Republic

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Although we know almost nothing about the cuture that created them, the abstract _____ of the Cycladic culture appear extremely sophisticated for five-thousand-year old works

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female nude figures

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What destroyed the Roman colonies of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 C.E.

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the eruption of a volcano

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The mummy of Artemidoros, from Fayum, shows the influence of the _____ culture

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all of the above

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The ancient cultures that we are able to examine most fully are those in which

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the art has been found or preserved

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The largest structure of an ancient Sumerian city was the

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ziggurat

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The oldest surviving set of laws from ancient Mesopotamia was recorded in

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Hammurabi's code

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According to the author, what distinguishes archaeology from grave robbing

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All of these

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Before the discovery of the Chauvet cave paintings, the oldest known painting in Europe were

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the cave paintings of Lascaux

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The Athenian head of state _____ was responsible for the rebuilding of the Acropolis

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Perikles

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The word Classical in the context of Western civilization refers to

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ancient Greek and Roman culture

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Roman sculptors are credited with the artistic invention of

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All these answers are correct

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The Great Sphinx at Giza is believed to be

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an image of the pharaoh Khafre

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The Parthenon was a temple built in the _____ style

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Doric

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From ancient Mesopotamia, the oldest surviving set of laws was recorded in

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Hammurabi's code

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