Humanities test 2 – Flashcards
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Southern France/ spain
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Locations of the caves in which ancient paintings have been discovered
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Austria
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Willendorf Venus discovered
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Navel
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Feature on Willendorf was not carved, but a natural intention in the stone
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Iranian
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Nation that is mentioned as a source for painted pottery featuring highly stylized animals
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Megaliths
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Big stones
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Hebrews
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Only monotheistic group, among all residents of Mesopotamia
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Peace/War
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Subjects illustrated in the two main panels of the rectangular box known as the "standard of ur"
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Social Perspective, hierarchy of scale
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Most important figures are represented as larger than others
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Sargon the great
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Leader that guided the Akkadians to conquer virtually all other cities in Mesopotamia
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Akkadian Sculpture
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First existing monumental work made through the lost wax casting technique
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Eye for an eye
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Law code of Hammurabi
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Theocracy
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State ruled by a god or by the gods representative
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Osiris
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Rules the underworld and was god of the dead
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Horus
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The child of Osiris and
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Narmer
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Egyptian leader ruled 3,000 B.C.E and is credited with unifying both upper and lower Egypt
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Ka
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Comparable to an enduring "soul" or life force"
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Paleolithic
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(Old stone) use of flint, stone, and bone tools
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Mesolithic
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(Middle stone) invention of agriculture
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Neolithic
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(New stone) development of large agriculture communities
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Cuneiform
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Oldest form of writing
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Mesopotamian gods characteristic
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immortal, powerful, selfish
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Ziggurats ceremony
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Used to keep gods happy by Sumerians
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Ziggurats
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Ancient towering, stepped structures made of mud brick
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Assyrian art purpose
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Scare away evil spirits
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Ahura Mazda
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God of prophetic revalation
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Nile river
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Egyptians able to produce two crops per year because of this
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Legend of Osiris
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Cut up into pieces
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Two morals of Osiris legend
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Life after death
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Ra or Re
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Names of Egyptian sun of God
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Kyklos
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Greek term translated as "circle"
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King Minos
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Legendary ruler of cretes ancient Capitol Knossos
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Ariadne
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Provides Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill Minataur
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Homer
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The author of the Iliad and the Odyessy
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Prime
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Best remembered as "king of Troy" during the Iliad
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Hector
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Trojan prince
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Penelope
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Wife of Odysseus
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Misonean walls
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Ancient structure is a citadel city feature that depended on "cyclopean masonry"
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Achilles
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The greatest warrior among the Greeks battling against the Trojans during Iliad
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Acropolis
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Translates at "top of the city"
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Ionic
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Order that features scrolled capitals
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Entasis
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Columns swell about one third of the way up and contract again near top
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Kleisthenes
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Instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE
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Demes
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Refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or ward in modern city
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Herodotus
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Autner of History of Persian Wars
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Polyclitus
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He cast the bronze stature know as Doryphoros (spear bearer)
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Parthenon
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Considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis
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Aristophanes
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Specialized in writing comedies and is the playwright for "Lysistrata"
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5000 elephants
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Ganges army had
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Catharsis
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The audience goes through this
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Classical period philosophers
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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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Tiber River
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River that associated with the city of Rome
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Patricians
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Land owning aristocrats who served as priest, magistrates, lawyers and judges
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Plebians
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Poorer class who were craftspeople, merchants, and labored
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Brutus
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Stapes ceaser
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Vergil
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Author of the "Aeneid"
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Arena
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Refers to the sand that covered the floor of the colosseum
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Pantheon
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Structure that has a oculus
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Oligarchy
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Ruled by a few
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Julia's ceaser became dictator
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By appointing himself
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Pax Romana
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A roman piece
