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Mesopotamia

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Roughly the 3500 BCE

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Mesopotamia is the collective name for

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Iraq

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Greek name means

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between the two rivers

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developing city states

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urban center that would control agriculture

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Sumerians

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One of the earliest city-states

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what did the Sumerians invent

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coniform writing

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Coniform tablets

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Cylinder Seal

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used to record someone’s identity in picture form

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why would cylinder seals survive the most

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it’s carved from stone

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Cylinder Seal

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Ziggurat sites are often heavily degraded

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because of how old they are

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agricultural theocracy.

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chief priest to the major goddess of the harvest and patron saint of the city are the same person

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Ziggurat were often used to

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worship gods or goddesses

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why are ziggurats built so high

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the higher the structure the closer it is to the gods

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importance of Inanna

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goddess who controlled the flow of grain and other agricultural products

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Ziggurat temple was oriented with what

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campus points and not the solstice

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ziggurat

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Votive Figures or Perpetual Worshippers

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votive

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offering or offered as part of a promise

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Votive Figures represent the idea that

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they would stand in for the worshipper, so they could represent you at prayer all the time.

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size and detail of votive figures represents

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wealth of patron

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Inanna Vase

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registers

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system of organizing space; specifically horizontal bands used to divide pattern .

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In the Inanna vase each register division represents

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something different

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Each layer from the bottom to the top of the vase represents

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order of natural world to the godly world.

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fact about the poses on the Inanna vase

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feet are sideways while the hips are facing forward

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what did the poses of the inanna vase show

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Didn’t want naturalism, more about clearest way to show human

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Hieratic scale

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where size of figure indicates importance

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stele

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upright stone slab, with carving or inscription

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iconography

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something that is seen before

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Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions

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what Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions showed about complexity

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method of showing depth is more sophisticated and clearly they value it

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Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions message

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The natural world is dangerous but I will protect you

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Bas-relief (or low-relief) carving

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used to decorate walls often by flat rock sculptures that would often have also been painted

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how does Assurnasirpal have motion

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heels lifted

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Law Code Stele of Hammurabi

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who is the king in the Law Code Stele of Hammurabi

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The man standing up

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what does the Law Code Stele of Hammurabi show about the God Shamash

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shown giving the laws to ruler Hammurabi

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Empire

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A city-state that has expanded and taken over other territories

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Queen of the Night

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Queen of the Night represents

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goddess ishtar

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animal/human hybrids in ancient world they represent the

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divine

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queen of the night is a

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high relief structure

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what animal is a symbol of Ishtar

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lions

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The First city of Babylon famous by

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Hammurabi

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Ruler Nebuchadnezzar

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substantially rebuilds the site of Babylon, and many records through history describe it as full of marvels

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