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1
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Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include:

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Chauvet, France
Lascaux, France
Altamira, Spain

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2
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The ________________ was discovered in the country of Austria.

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Willendorf Venus

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3
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The term ___________ refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as Stonehenge.

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megalith

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4
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The term __________ refers to the category of megalithic structures that includes Stonehenge.

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cromlech

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5
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____, the god of the moon was the considered the resident god at ____.

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Sin
Ur

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6
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The ____________________ is credited with capturing Jerusalem, destroying its temples, and deporting
many of the Hebrews.

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Babylonian army

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7
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_________, the ancient Egyptian leader, ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt.

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Narmer

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8
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The new style of art that was developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten was known as the ______________.

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Amarna style

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9
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A _________ and __________ is found on the jade disc known as Pi.

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dragon
phoenix

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10
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Common among the people of Thera were:

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-elaborately decorated homes
-clay pipes which connected the toilets and bathes to sewers
-straw which was used to reinforce the walls of their homes.

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11
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The bull was the creature which was associated with __________________ by the inhabitants of Crete.

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male virility and strength

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12
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___________, the legendary Minoan queen is credited with giving birth to the Minotaur.

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Pasiphae

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13
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Penelope was the wife of _____________.

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Odysseus

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14
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The term Acropolis is translated to mean ____________.

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“top of the city”

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15
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refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center

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The Acropolis

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16
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The ________ is the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.

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entasis

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16
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The _______ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

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agora

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16
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The term _______ are a part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards.

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demes

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17
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The illustrations in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies:

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giants, centaurs, amazons, and trojans.

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18
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The illustrations in the _________ on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies.

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metopes

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19
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_________________ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate.

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Marcus Junius Brutus

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20
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__________ refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.

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Imagines

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21
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In the sculpture of ___________________, Cupid is pictured riding a dolphin.

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Augustus of Primaporta

22
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Augustus did not view the writings of _______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.

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Ovid

23
Q

The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _____________.

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Georgics

24
Q

Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order:

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ground floor: Tusacan
second floor: Ionic
thirds floor: Corinthian

25
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architectural order favoured by the Romans

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Corinthian

26
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The Pantheon contained an oculus, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the _____________.

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“Eye of Jupiter”

27
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a circular opening at the top

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oculus

28
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The term __________ refer to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.

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patricians

29
Q

The term __________ refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.

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plebeians

30
Q

____________ was based on the idea of the wergild, or “life-price” of an individual.

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Anglo-Saxon law

31
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Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _________, or “life-price” of an individual.

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wergeld

32
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The epic poem, ____________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.

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Beowulf

33
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___________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.

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Augustine

34
Q

______________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Bishop Eadfrith

35
Q

______________ was made from the ivory of an elephants tusk.

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Roland’s horn

36
Q

The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the _____________.

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refectory

37
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The ______________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.

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barrel vault

38
Q

The ____________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.

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voussoir

39
Q

__________ was considered the center of the cult of the Virgin throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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Chartres

40
Q

The tunic Mary wore at Jesus’ birth was considered the most cherished relic at the _________________.

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Chartres Cathedral

41
Q

The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to tell the stories of the _______.

A

Bible

42
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The window called ______________ depicts the Virgin Mary as descended from Jesse, the father of King David, Thus fulfilling a prophecy in the book of Isaiah.

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“Tree of Jesse”

43
Q

One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows _____________________.

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the genealogy of Christ

44
Q

In a gothic church, _______________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.

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the flying buttress

45
Q

The figure of _____________ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a contrapposto position.

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Saint Theodore

46
Q

The trivium consisted of:

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 Grammar
 Rhetoric
 Dialectic

47
Q

________ was the first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of law.

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Bologna

48
Q

_______ was mandatory, and students studied _______ in all courses of their first four years of study.

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Latin

49
Q

__________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.

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Robert de Sorbon

50
Q

______________, a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.

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Peter Abelard

51
Q

Trotula is widely recognized as the author of __________________________.

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On the Diseases of Women

52
Q

Thomas Aquinas wrote the _________________ and was one of the prominent spokesmen for Scholasticism.

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Summa Theologiae

53
Q

The Gothic church at ______________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.

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Sainte-Chapelle

54
Q

_______________ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.

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Ambrogio Lorenzetti

55
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Which term refers to the “life-price” of an individual in Anglo-Saxon culture?

A

wergeld

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