HOA pt. 1 - Prehistoric Times, Egyptian Arch

Question 1

the earliest known period of human culture, preceding the bronze age and the iron age and characterized by the use of stone implements and weapons.

Answer 1

Stone Age

Question 2

an agricultural region arching from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Iraq to the east, the location of humankind’s earliest cultures

Answer 2

Fertile Crescent

Question 3

the last phase of the Stone Age, characterized by cultivation of grain crops, domestication of animals, settlement of villages, manufacture of pottery and textiles and use of polished stone implements.

Answer 3

Neolithic

Question 4

A temple-tower in sumerian and assyrian architecture, built in diminishing stages of mud brick with buttressed walls faced with burnt brick, culminating in a summit shrine or temple reached by a series of ramps, though to be of sumerian origin.

Answer 4

Ziggurat

Question 5

a prehistoric monument consisting of two or more large upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab. it is usually a tomb

Answer 5

Dolmen

Question 6

an artificial mound of earth or stone esp over an ancient grave.

Answer 6

Tumulus

Question 7

Monumental stone sculptures of a human-headed and winged bulls or lions that guarded the entrances to mesopotamian palaces and temples.

Answer 7

Lamassu

Question 8

a prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith, usually standing alone but sometimes aligned with others

Answer 8

Menhir

Question 9

a single block of stone of considerable size, often in the form of an obelisk or column.

Answer 9

Monolith

Question 10

a stone-built subbterranean tomb of the mycenaean civilization consisting of a circular chamber covered by a corbeled dome and entered by a walled passage through a hillside.

Answer 10

Beehive tomb

Question 11

a long deep passage way into an ancient subterranean tomb

Answer 11

Dromos

Question 12

A megalithic monument erected in early Bronze Age, on Salisbury Plain, England. consisting of four concentric rings of trilithons and menhirs centered around an altar stone. Believed to have been used by a sun cult for astronomical observations.

Answer 12

Stonehenge

Question 13

a circular mound of earth or stone, esp over an ancient grave.

Answer 13

Cromlech

Question 14

two upright megaliths supporting a horizontal stone

Answer 14

Trilithon

Question 15

a temple tower presumed to be the great ziggurat at Babylon, which no longer survives though it was seen and described by the greek historian Herodotus.

Answer 15

Tower of Babel

Question 16

a circular arrangement of vertically oriented wooden posts or stones

Answer 16

Henge

Question 17

an ancient egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with a flat roof and sloping sides, from which a shaft leads to underground burial and offering chambers

Answer 17

Mastaba

Question 18

an ancient egyptian capital shaped like of the crown of a palm tree

Answer 18

Palm Capital

Question 19

an ancient egyptian capital having the shape of a lotus bud

Answer 19

Lotus Capital

Question 20

a tall, four sided shaft of stone that tapers a sit rises to a pyramidal point, originating in ancient egypt as a sacred symbol of the sun god RA and usually standing in pairs astride temple entrances

Answer 20

obelisk

Question 21

a figure of imaginary creature having the body of a lion and the head of a man, ram or hawk commonly places along avenues leading to ancient egyptian temples or tombs

Answer 21

sphinx

Question 22

a column having the egyptian goddess of love and happiness, Hathor, as the head of its capital

Answer 22

Hathor head

Question 23

favorite motifs of design of egyptians

Answer 23

palm, lotus, papyrus

Question 24

2 main classes of temples in egyptian architecture

Answer 24

cult temple and mortuary temple

Question 25

temples for ministration to deified Pharoahs

Answer 25

mortuary temple

Question 26

structure whose CORNERS are made to face the four cardinal points

Answer 26

Ziggurat

Question 27

structures whose SIDS are made to face the four cardinal points

Answer 27

Pyramids

Question 28

the most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut-temples

Answer 28

Great temple, Abu Simbel

Question 29

The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty is

Answer 29

Rameses I

Question 30

The great pyramid of Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by

Answer 30

Cheops

Question 31

the grandest temple of all egyptian temples. it wasnt built upon by one complete plan but owes its size, disposition and magnificence to the work of many kings. It was built from 12th dynasty to the Ptolemaic period.

Answer 31

Great temple of Ammon, Karnak

Question 32

Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the tholos type of tomb is also known as:

Answer 32

Tomb of Agamemnon