Finals Study Questions Flashcards
Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include:
Chauvet, France
Lascaux, France
Altamira, Spain
The ________________ was discovered in the country of Austria.
Willendorf Venus
The term ___________ refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as Stonehenge.
megalith
The term __________ refers to the category of megalithic structures that includes Stonehenge.
cromlech
____, the god of the moon was the considered the resident god at ____.
Sin
Ur
The ____________________ is credited with capturing Jerusalem, destroying its temples, and deporting
many of the Hebrews.
Babylonian army
_________, the ancient Egyptian leader, ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt.
Narmer
The new style of art that was developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten was known as the ______________.
Amarna style
A _________ and __________ is found on the jade disc known as Pi.
dragon
phoenix
Common among the people of Thera were:
-elaborately decorated homes
-clay pipes which connected the toilets and bathes to sewers
-straw which was used to reinforce the walls of their homes.
The bull was the creature which was associated with __________________ by the inhabitants of Crete.
male virility and strength
___________, the legendary Minoan queen is credited with giving birth to the Minotaur.
Pasiphae
Penelope was the wife of _____________.
Odysseus
The term Acropolis is translated to mean ____________.
“top of the city”
refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center
The Acropolis
The ________ is the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
The _______ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.
agora
The term _______ are a part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards.
demes
The illustrations in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies:
giants, centaurs, amazons, and trojans.
The illustrations in the _________ on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies.
metopes
_________________ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate.
Marcus Junius Brutus
__________ refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.
Imagines
In the sculpture of ___________________, Cupid is pictured riding a dolphin.
Augustus of Primaporta
Augustus did not view the writings of _______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.
Ovid
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _____________.
Georgics
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order:
ground floor: Tusacan
second floor: Ionic
thirds floor: Corinthian
architectural order favoured by the Romans
Corinthian
The Pantheon contained an oculus, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the _____________.
“Eye of Jupiter”
a circular opening at the top
oculus
The term __________ refer to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.
patricians
The term __________ refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.
plebeians
____________ was based on the idea of the wergild, or “life-price” of an individual.
Anglo-Saxon law
Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _________, or “life-price” of an individual.
wergeld
The epic poem, ____________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.
Beowulf
___________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.
Augustine
______________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Bishop Eadfrith
______________ was made from the ivory of an elephants tusk.
Roland’s horn
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the _____________.
refectory
The ______________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.
barrel vault
The ____________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.
voussoir
__________ was considered the center of the cult of the Virgin throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Chartres
The tunic Mary wore at Jesus’ birth was considered the most cherished relic at the _________________.
Chartres Cathedral
The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to tell the stories of the _______.
Bible
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.
“Tree of Jesse”
One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows _____________________.
the genealogy of Christ
In a gothic church, _______________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.
the flying buttress
The figure of _____________ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a contrapposto position.
Saint Theodore
The trivium consisted of:
Grammar
Rhetoric
Dialectic
________ was the first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of law.
Bologna
_______ was mandatory, and students studied _______ in all courses of their first four years of study.
Latin
__________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.
Robert de Sorbon
______________, a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.
Peter Abelard
Trotula is widely recognized as the author of __________________________.
On the Diseases of Women
Thomas Aquinas wrote the _________________ and was one of the prominent spokesmen for Scholasticism.
Summa Theologiae
The Gothic church at ______________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.
Sainte-Chapelle
_______________ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Which term refers to the “life-price” of an individual in Anglo-Saxon culture?
wergeld
