Pre-history - Ancient Greece

Question 1

BC

Answer 1

Before Christ

Question 2

BCE

Answer 2

Before Christ Era

Question 3

AD (The year of our Lord)

Answer 3

Anno Domini

Question 4

CE

Answer 4

Common Era

Question 5

c/ca.

Answer 5

Circa

Question 6

c.

Answer 6

Century

Question 7

1400

Answer 7

15th Century

Question 8

(2.5 Million - 8000 BCE) - Early humans - age of food gathering - cave paintings, sculpture

Answer 8

Paleolithic Period - Old stone age

Question 9

(10,000 - 6,000 BCE) - Ice begins to melt and the climate becomes warmer - Begin to control fire

Answer 9

Mesolithic Period

Question 10

(8,000 - 3,000 BCE) - Homosapiens - thinking/planning - agriculture and stock raising became a food source - start to live together, beginning new skills (spinning, weaving, and building)

Answer 10

Neolithic Period - New Stone Age

Question 11

3 Periods of Stone Age

Answer 11

Paleolithic Period
Mesolithic Period
Neolithic Period

Question 12

• No written language
• Most painting were animals (bison, mammoth, hourse)
• Paintings were in strict profile - the only view to see the head, body, tail and all four legs. This gives us the most information about the animals shape.
• Painters and sculptors depicted human infrequently and men almost never

Answer 12

30,000 BCE Paleolithic - Old stone age

Question 13

When archaeologist discovered statuettes of women, they dubbed _____ for the Greco-Roman goddess of beauty and love.

Answer 13

Venuses

Question 14

One of the earliest relief sculptures known

Answer 14

Woman of Laussel

Question 15

• Painted with charcoal, iron ore, and plants-paint was bound in the animal fat
• 650 paintings: most common cows, bulls, horses, and deer
• Animals deep inside the cave
• Bodies in profile, frontal or diagonal view of horns, eyes and hooves
• Handprints could be the artist’s signature
• Many overlapping figures

Answer 15

Lascaux Caves

Question 16

Theories about the reasons for the paintings

Answer 16

• Traditional view that they were used to ensure a successful hunt
• Ancestral animal worship
• Shamanism

Question 17

A religion based on the idea that the forces of nature can be contacted intermediaries, called ____, who go into a trancelike state to reach another state of consciousness

Answer 17

Shamanism, Shamans

Question 18

combination of frontal and side view

Answer 18

twisted perspective

Question 19

• Perhaps took a thousand years to build
• Post-and-linten building, lintels grooved in place by the mortise-and-tenon system of construction
• Large megaliths in center are over 20 ft tall, the largest weigh over 50 tons and imported from over 200 miles
• The large megaliths form a horseshoe surrounding a central falt stone and Ring of megaliths surround central horseshoe
• Generally thought to be oriented toward sunrise on the longest day of the year; may also predict eclipses

Answer 19

Stonehenge, wiltshire, england

Question 20

Stylistic characteristics

Answer 20

Paleolithic - mostly animals - - cave paintings

• sculptures - relief, subtractive, in the round,
• animals - strict profile,
• humans - twisted or composite perspective (combined front and side view)
• megaliths, trilithons, cromlechs/henge, post and lintel