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AP Exam Review Flashcards

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Who devised the worlds earliest known writing system?

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Sumerians

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Who ruled southeast babylonia (approx. 3000 bce)

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Sumerians

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Who ruled northwest babylonia? (Approx 2371-2200 bce)

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Akkadianw

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Who was the grandson of Sargon I and the akkadian ruler to conquer and reunite the region?

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Naram-Sin

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Who ruled (between 1792-1750 BCE) and led the “golden age” of babylon.

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Hammurabi

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Who credited creating a law meant to unite the vast territory and diverse people (babylon) of his empire.

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Hammurabi

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Who ruled all mesopotamia by 824 BCE ( as well as syria, armenia, palestine)?

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Assyrians

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What did assyrians try to incorcporate into their art?

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Superiority

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What empire defeated the Assyrians and took over the empire?

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Neo-Babylonians

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Who ruled the neo-babylonians and their victory over assyrians?

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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Persians later conquered this art historic group, lead by Cyrus.

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Neo-babylonians

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What did Egyptians rely on?

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The flooding of the Nile river

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What did the Nile river do for the Egyptians

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Kept their farmland fertile

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What art historic period believed in seen and unseen gods that existed in many forms in every aspect of life?

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Egyptians

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What art historic period believed in the afterlife and that the dead could bring items from the living world to the afterlife?

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Egyptians

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What art historic period were typical of showing eyes/torso frontal but the rest of the body in profile view.

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What art historic period have typical funerary,royal, and religious pieces?

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When did the unification of upper and lower Egypt occur?

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Old Kingdom

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Who ruled the Old Kingdom?

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Who and when was the first artist recorded in history?

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Imhotep from the Old Kingdom (architect of original stepped pyramids)

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What are the pyramids used as?

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What type of architecture served as solar symbols

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What did Egyptians (typically old/new kingdom) tend to do to statues of their leaders

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What was typical of Egyptian sculpture?

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Static, no emotion

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What female leader took the throne of Egypt during the New Kingdom?

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Hatshepsut

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What leader moved the capital of Egypt from Thebes to Armarna?

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Pharoh Akhenaton

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Who created the first monotheistuc religion!

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Pharaoh Akhenaton

27
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What is Ka

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