Humanities 1 Exam – Flashcards
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How has Chauvet Cave changed thinking about prehistoric art?
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Art did not evolve in a linear progression from primitive to realistic.
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What is significant about Lascaux's bird headed man, vision, and rhino painting?
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It was one of the few cave paintings that depicted human form.
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What features distinguished homo sapiens from earlier hominids?
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Lighter skeletal structure with larger brain.
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Why do Paleolithic female figurines vastly outnumber males?
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Females played a more central role in the culture.
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Why was agriculture such an enormous development?
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Encouraged written writing records where language was kept.
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Where is the oldest known Neolithic settlement?
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Jericho, 15 miles East of Jerusalem.
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According to the most recent discoveries, why was Stonehenge constructed?
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Burial grounds.
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What is the most basic architectural technique for spanning space?
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Post and lintel
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What can myths tell us about their producing cultures?
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Their views and beliefs
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What is a shaman?
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A person with mythical powers
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With what astronomical event might the Great Serpent Mound be associated?
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Haleys Comet
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What new technology followed agriculture in defining Mesopotamia?
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Metallurgy
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Why did the arts develop in Mesopotamia?
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Celebration of the Priest king.
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What were the ziggurats most likely designed to resemble?
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Mountains
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How did the Mesopotamia view human society?
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Part of a larger society.
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What effect does perspectival drawing create?
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3d space on a 2d surface
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What was the Mesopotamian rulers role in religion?
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Between people and Gods
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What did the lost wax casting enable the Mesopotamian sculptors to create?
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Larger and lighter bronze pieces
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Why did Mesopotamian scribes move from pictograms to the more linear cuneiform writing?
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It was simpler to read.
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What distinguishes the Law Code of Hummurabi from its predecessors?
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More complete set of laws
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What does Hummurabis codes tell about the position of Mesopotamian women?
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They were slaves
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Why does Hammurabis law code represent an important change for Mesopotamia justice?
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Made laws more uniform
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What distinguishes an epic from other literacy forms?
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It has a narrator
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What classic struggle do Gilgamesh and Enkidu represent?
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Nature vs civilization
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Why is the epic of Gilgamesh a first known literacy works ?
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Death
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Which of the following differentiates the Hebrews from other Near Eastern cultures?
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Monotheism
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What did the Hebrews believe their status as chosen people meant?
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They were favored by WHYH
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Why do the ten commandments provide equal treatment for all classes of Hebrews?
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The Hebrews were once Slaves
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What is the Persian zoroasters greatest contribution to religious thought?
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Emphasis and free will
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As noted in the chapters continuity and change section, what most distinguishes Mesopotamia from Egypt?
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Egyptians were more stable
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What was left behind but the Niles flooding?
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Fertile soil
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What kind of government was found in ancient egypt ?
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Theocracy
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What god did the Egyptians believe the king personified?
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Horus
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Why did the egyptians believe that a good deity like Orisis required a bad deity like Seth?
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Opposites were necessary for balance.
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With what has most surviving egyptian art and architecture been associated?
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Burial and after life
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Why did the egyptians of to such lengths to preserve the dead?
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Only intact bodies could enter the underworlds.
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Why was deciphering the rosetta stone so significant ?
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Provided the key to reading hieroglyphics
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Why did the Egyptian sculptures idealize rulers in their sculptures?
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Mirrored Gods
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How can we tell that an egyptian stature portrays a lesser person?
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no gold
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What radical change in egyptian religion did Amenhtep decree?
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Worship of one god
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Why would Akhenatens change in the religion create change in the visual arts?
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Gods were no longer seen as perfect
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Why was Howard Carters discovery of Tuankhamuns tomb so wonderful
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It was not looted
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What creature part croc, lion and hippo would devour the unworthy deceased at the final judgment
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Amet
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Why are archaeologists so certain that egypt had no contact with other civilization?
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Artifacts were discovered
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Why was the Minoan civilization on Crete able to flourish?
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Trade routes
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What is the bull associated with in Minoan art?
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Strength
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How do Minoan frescoes differ from egyptian frescoes?
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Minoan frescoes appear on walls of homes and palaces, not tombs.
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How do we know the Myceneans were warlike people?
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Hunting scenes on paintings
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Why were Heinrich Schliemanns discoveries at Hussalik so astonishing?
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It proved Troy existed.
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What are the three orders of classical Greek architecture?
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Doric, Ionic and corinthian
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What subject was depicted on many early ceramic pots?
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Gods and godesses
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Why is the celebrated poet Saffo so extraordinary for this period in Greece
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Saffo was a female
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Why in 508 BCE did the Athens turn to a democratic government?
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In reaction to the Tyranny of Hippias
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As discussed in the chapters community and change which of the following cultures seems to have the greatest influence on archaic greek sculpture ?
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Egyptians
