Major Cultural Periods

Question 1

Early Aegean Civilizations

And who, and war against whom

Answer 1

c. 2500-1100BC

Minoans / Mycenaeans / the War against Troy

Question 2

The Dark Ages (Greek)

Answer 2

c. 1100-800 BC

Question 3

Archaic Greece

Answer 3

c. 800-500

Question 4

Classical Greece

Answer 4

c. 500-338 BC

Question 5

The Hellenistic Era

Answer 5

c. 338-40 BC

Question 6

Early Rome

Answer 6

c. 753 BC - 509 BC

Question 7

The Roman Republic

Answer 7

509 - c. 30 BC

Question 8

The Roman Empire

Answer 8

c. 30 BC - c. 400 AD

Question 9

The Classical Period

Answer 9

Archaic Greece thru the Roman Empire

Question 10

Romanesque

Answer 10

500-1100AD
“roman-like”
Rounded arches, heavy walls

Question 11

Late Romanesque

Answer 11

1100-1200

Multiple ounces towers, octagonal dome over transept (reminiscent of San Vitali)

Question 12

Gothic

Answer 12

1200-1400

Pointed arches, flying buttresses, spires, rose windows

Question 13

Renaissance

Answer 13

1400-1500
Return to Classical models
Artists include: Donatello, Botticelli

Question 14

The High Renaissance

Answer 14

1490-1520
Artists include: Leonardo da Vinci, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Raphael
Composers include: Dufay

Question 15

Late Renaissance - Early Baroque

Answer 15

1500-1600
Artists include: Titian, Bruegel, Holbein, Palladio (architect)
Composers include: Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Palestrina
Writers include: Christopher Marlow, William Shakespeare