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Exam 1 Flashcards

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Culture

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Common values that govern the civilization

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Civilization

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Organized gathering of people that share a common interest, have a leader & a way to produce goods

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Sophisticated culture

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Values quality of art, science & life

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Aesthetics

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Analyzes art

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Formal analysis

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Focuses on form, style, content of a work

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Contextual analysis

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Focuses on time & place art was made

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Integrated holistic approach

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Combining formal & contextual analysis

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What are the 3 kinds of artistic representation?

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Realistic, abstract, non objective

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Full round sculpture

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No background

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Relief sculpture

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Attached to some background

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Paleolithic era characteristics

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Nomadic hunters & gatherers, cooked with fire, made some tools & weapons

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Mesolithic era characteristics

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Reasoning develops as food becomes more abundant

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Neolithic era characteristics

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Rise of agriculture, pottery, writing, architecture

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Chauvet cave, France

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First atmospheric prospective cave drawings

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Lascaux cave, France

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Approx 600 paintings, first painting with human wielding a spear

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Altamira cave, Spain

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Fist prehistoric cave discovered

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Artistic agency

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Power confined within works of art to affect those viewing it

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What is the best resurgent example of monumental architecture?

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Stonehenge in England

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Creation myth

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Attempt to explain how the world came to be

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Animism

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Forces of nature are inhabited by human spirits

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Anthropomorphism

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Natural & supernatural beings possess human attributes

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Zuni creation myth

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Ancestors emerged from the river as salamander like creatures, transformed into children

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Where is it believed that civilization began?

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Mesopotamia

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What are the original city-states?

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Ur, Sumeria
Akkad, Akkadia
Babylon, Babylonia
Assur, Assyria

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What/where is the ziggurat?

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Ur; large pyramid temple

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Marduk

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Chief god of Akkad & Babylon

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Ishtar

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Goddess of love & war

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Shamash

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Sun god

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Cuneiform writing

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Wedge writing

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King Sargon

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(Akkad) conquered all city states in Mesopotamia

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King Hammurabi

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(Babylon) created laws on Stele of Hammurabi that were followed for more than 1000 years

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Most militant city state

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Assyria

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Hebrews

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Nomadic, monotheistic; believed in “promised land” for obeying god

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Egyptian religion

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Polytheistic

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Egyptian government

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Theocracy (king or queen)

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Egyptian beliefs

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Harmony with nature, rebirth, eternal life through nature

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Egyptian creation myth

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Sun god Re born out of river silt

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Who united upper & lower Egypt?

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King Narmer

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Hieroglyphs & Rosetta Stone

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Holy engravings: Rosetta Stone allowed linguists to translate hieroglyphs

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Dynastic rule

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Members of the same family ruled for generations

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Ka

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Soul

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Ba

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Personality

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Oldest monumental architecture

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Stepped pyramid of King Pjoser

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First architect

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Imhotep

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Largest pyramid at Giza

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King Khufu

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Pyramid guarded by the great sphinx

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King Khafre

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Who REunites upper & loser Egypt?

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King Mentuhotep

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Who introduced the horse-drawn chariot & then came to power?

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Hyksos

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