AP Exam Review Flashcards
(28 cards)
Who devised the worlds earliest known writing system?
Sumerians
Who ruled southeast babylonia (approx. 3000 bce)
Sumerians
Who ruled northwest babylonia? (Approx 2371-2200 bce)
Akkadianw
Who was the grandson of Sargon I and the akkadian ruler to conquer and reunite the region?
Naram-Sin
Who ruled (between 1792-1750 BCE) and led the “golden age” of babylon.
Hammurabi
Who credited creating a law meant to unite the vast territory and diverse people (babylon) of his empire.
Hammurabi
Who ruled all mesopotamia by 824 BCE ( as well as syria, armenia, palestine)?
Assyrians
What did assyrians try to incorcporate into their art?
Superiority
What empire defeated the Assyrians and took over the empire?
Neo-Babylonians
Who ruled the neo-babylonians and their victory over assyrians?
Nebuchadnezzar II
Persians later conquered this art historic group, lead by Cyrus.
Neo-babylonians
What did Egyptians rely on?
The flooding of the Nile river
What did the Nile river do for the Egyptians
Kept their farmland fertile
What art historic period believed in seen and unseen gods that existed in many forms in every aspect of life?
Egyptians
What art historic period believed in the afterlife and that the dead could bring items from the living world to the afterlife?
Egyptians
What art historic period were typical of showing eyes/torso frontal but the rest of the body in profile view.
Egyptian
What art historic period have typical funerary,royal, and religious pieces?
Egyptians
When did the unification of upper and lower Egypt occur?
Old Kingdom
Who ruled the Old Kingdom?
Narmer
Who and when was the first artist recorded in history?
Imhotep from the Old Kingdom (architect of original stepped pyramids)
What are the pyramids used as?
Tombs
What type of architecture served as solar symbols
Pyramids
What did Egyptians (typically old/new kingdom) tend to do to statues of their leaders
Idealize
What was typical of Egyptian sculpture?
Static, no emotion
