First Semester Exam Flashcards
Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include;
Chauvet, France;
Lascaux, France; and Altamira, Spain.
The Willendorf Venus was discovered in what counrty?
Austria
The term ________ refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as ___________.
megalith; Stonehenge
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 Ur.
Sin
What army is credited with capturing Jerusalem, destroying its temples, and deporting many of the Hebrews?
The 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 ______ style.
Amarna
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, and straw which was used to reinforce the walls of their homes.
The _____ was the creature which was associated with male virility and strength by the inhabitants of _____.
bull; Crete
________, the legendary Minoan queen is credited with giving birth to the Minotaur.
Pasiphae
Penelope was the wife of who?
Odysseus
The term _________ is translated to mean “top of the city”, and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center.
Acropolis
The agora refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as…
public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.
The ______ is the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
The term demes are a part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to ________ or _____.
precincts; wards
The illustrations in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies;
the Trojans, giants, Amazons, and centaurs.
Who 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 Augustus of Primaporta, Cupid is pictured riding a ________.
dolphin
Augustus did not view the writings of Ovid favorably, thus….
permanently banishing him from Rome.
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: on the ground floor the _______ order, the _____ on the second, and the __________ on the third which was favored by the Romans.
Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian
The Pantheon contained an ______, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the “_____________.”
oculus; Eye of Jupiter
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
