NEWEST HUMANITIES 101 SADIE-SKYLAR – Flashcards
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Why did early Buddhists believe portraying Buddha in art was impossible
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He had passed to nirvana
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After the Han dynasty fell in 220 CE, why did the Chinese's reject Confucianism for Buddhism?
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They blamed Confucianism for civil and cultural dysfunction
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What did the Tang Chinese believe their capital city's gird plan mirrored?
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Order of the cosmos
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Why did Chinese emperors never face the north?
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To avoid evil spirits, which came from the north
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What development enabled the Chinese to build suspension bridges and pagodas?
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Iron and steel casting
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What earlier structure inspired the pagoda design?
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Indian stupas
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Why did Song painters value landscape above other subjects?
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It embodied the principle behind all things
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What did bamboo in the exiled scholar-painters art symbolize?
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Chinese peoples ability to bend and not to break
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What competing forces dominated Indias history prior to 1200?
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Religious
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On what Chinese written character is Guo Xi's Early Spring modeled?
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Mountain
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What is the goal of every Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist before crossing into paradise?
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To help others reach enlightment
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Why did Tibetan Buddhist monks create the rolled-up cloth painting thangkas?
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Instructional aids
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What does the moat surrounding the Hindu temple Angkor Wat represent?
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The oceans
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Why is a dancing Shiva commonly portrayed within a circle of fire
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To symbolize his creative and destructive powers
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On what qualities were Japanese Heian court women judged?
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Their language skills
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Why did the Heian women write using the new, purely Japanese system, Hiragana?
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The court discouraged shows of education in Chinese by women
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What new literary form did the Japanese court women create?
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Zuihitsu
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What worlds first is Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji considered to be?
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Novel
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What regional samurai clan overthrew the Heians and began the Kamakura Period?
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Minamoto
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What immediate act by the first shogun, Yoritomo, defined his rule?
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Land grants to his followers
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Why did africas Ife people consider their king's head of supreme importance?
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It has home of the spirit
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What do the Yoruba people believe their king links?
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The gods and ancestral heroes
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Why must the Yoruba king cover his face with rows of beads?
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To shield viewers from the power of his gaze
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Why did the Benin build the massive earthwork walls and moats around their capital city?
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As protection from raiding elephants
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Why did West African poets compose praise poems?
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To gain influence over the poems subject
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For what purpose do modern scholars believe the Shona built massive walls in the Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe?
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To separate the royalty from the common people
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What fundamental tool of civilization did the Classic Era Mesoamerican cultures lack?
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The wheel
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Why did the Mesoamerican cultures view Teotihuacan as a a holy site?
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It was their place of origin
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What is the Popol Vuh?
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The Maya book of creation
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Why was blood sacrifice central to Aztec Culture?
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The sun, moon, and earth needed human blood for sustenance
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Why did the court scholar-painters retreat from public life during the Yan Dynasty?
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They were unwilling to serve under the Mongols
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Why was gothic as applied to Frances new architecture orignally a deogatory term?
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Goth's destroyed classic traditions
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Who designed the Abbey of Saint- Dinis's design?
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Abbot Suget
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Why was light vital to Saint Desis's design
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Light is the physical and material manifestation of the Divine Spirit
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Why was Saint Denis not completed during Sugers lifetime?
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They didn't have enough funding to finish
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What from Charles Cathedral survived the devasting fire of 1194?
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Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere- Stained Glass of the virgin, WEST POSOD
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What musical instrument became popular in the cathedrals?
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Organ
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Why did the gothic Cathedrals contain stained glass programs?
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Tells story to people who can't read
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Which of the following innovations was key in gothic architecture?
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Rib Vaulting
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Why is the Jesse tree a common stain glass motif?
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They were thought to represent the genealogy of Christ
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Why did gothic cathedrals include flying buttresses?
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Flying buttress allowed more light, and better structure of the weight on the Cathedral
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In what area of Italy are Siena and Florence located?
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Tuscany
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According to legend who founded Siena?
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Remu's sons, Senius and Aschius
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Why did Siena experience population growth after 1125?
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Its free commune status offered freedom from feudalism
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Why were Siena's guilds able to rise to such levels of power?
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Siena was an important manufacturing city
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Which guild in pre-1355 Siena was most powerful?
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Merchants
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Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena?
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Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin"
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On what trade was Florence's wealth based?
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Textiles
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Why by the end of the fourteenth century did Florence become an important banking city?
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The pope conferred Siena's papal banking privileges on Florences
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What was the Florentine bankers most important invention?
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Europe's first single currency
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Who in Florence was eligible to serve in the government?
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Only guild members
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Who was Florence's patron saint?
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John the Baptist
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Why is the virgin mary's crown in Simone Martini's Maestra significant?
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It establishes her as both a sacred and a secular gueen
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Why in the Arena Chapel fresoces does Giotto deliberately abandon the Byzantine blance and symmetry?
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To make the scenes look more relistic
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Why was the book of kells moved from LOna off the Scottish coast to kellis in Ireland?
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Protect it from the Vikings
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What leads to rolands death
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His pride
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Why did HIldegard of Bingen believe her plain chant brought heaven and earth together
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Soaring arches
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Where was the first university founded
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Bologna, Italy
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On whose method did Peter Abelard base teaching
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Dialectial by Socrates
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Why was Abe and castrated and forced to seek sanctuary in a monastery
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Impregnated student, heloise
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On whose relationship was the popular poem the roman de la rose based on?
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heloise
