Midterm 1 Review

Question 1

What does “Neolithic mean”

Answer 1

development of agriculture and the transition from a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled, agricultural one

Question 2

Small-scale female sculptures from the Upper Paleolithic period were once called what
figures?

Answer 2

venus figurines or venus statues –> exaggerated and stylized representation of the female form (empahsized breasts, butt)

Question 3

At the Pech-Merle Cave, humans left more than images of horses and fish, they left
what?

Answer 3

human hands, other animals, anthropomorphic figures

Question 4

Which Neolithic site is an example of a passage grave?

Answer 4

newgrange

Question 5

What is the transitional prehistoric period sometimes called?

Answer 5

mesolithic

Question 6

Stonehenge is connected to a nearby site built of wood called what?

Answer 6

woodhenge

Question 7

Why did scholars dismiss the sympathetic magic interpretation of cave paintings?

Answer 7

it is not the only, nor the primary, interpretation used to explain the purpose and meaning of Paleolithic cave paintings

Question 8

Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of Russia and Ukraine built houses using what?

Answer 8

mammoth bones, animal skins, fire pits

Question 9

Archaeologists link the emergence of image making to the arrival of which group

Answer 9

homo sapiens

Question 10

What did Prehistoric people often coat their floors with

Answer 10

earth and clay

Question 11

The Woman from Brassempouy captures the essence of a head. What type of image is
this called

Answer 11

portrait

Question 12

How were the beams of Stonehenge secured?

Answer 12

mortise and tenon joints

Question 13

Bronze is an alloy of copper and what?

Answer 13

tin

Question 14

Where did the potter’s wheel develop in approximately 4000 BCE?

Answer 14

Mesopotamia

Question 15

What was the first system of writing called?

Answer 15

cuneiform

Question 16

Ziggurats functioned symbolically as what?

Answer 16

temples

Question 17

Mesopotamian sculptors told stories clearly and economically by organizing visual
narratives in horizontal bands. What are these bands called

Answer 17

registers or friezes

Question 18

What original element of the Head of a Woman (Fig. 2-3) symbolizes the purity of the
figure?

Answer 18

depiction of the womans head and face as smooth, featureless, and elongated

Question 19

Stepped structures known as ziggurats may have developed from the practice of what

Answer 19

constructing raised platforms

Question 20

What did the low relief scenes on the walls at Kalhu portray?

Answer 20

various aspects of Assyrian royal life,, relgious reituals and other significant events

Question 21

What was at the top of the Anu ziggurat White Temple?

Answer 21

temple dedicated to the Sumerian god Anu

Question 22

The Stele of Hammurabi is significant as both a work of ancient Mesopotamian art and as
what?

Answer 22

and as one of the earliest legal codes in human history

Question 23

The ceremonial entrance to the city of Babylon was called what?

Answer 23

Ishtar Gate

Question 24

Who excavated Ur during the 1920s.

Answer 24

british arhaeologist –> leonard woolley

Question 25

The main figure depicted on the Disk of Enheduanna was the daughter of the which
Akkadian king?

Answer 25

King Sargon

Question 26

The building, which Darius built at Persepolis, was large enough to hold several thousand
people. What was it called?

Answer 26

Apadana

Question 27

Which ruler conquered the Persian Empire in 334 BCE

Answer 27

Alexander the Great –> king of Macedon

Question 28

In the Stele of Naram-Sin, what artistic device is used to signal Naram-Sin’s importance
and reinforce his divine right to rule?

Answer 28

hiearchical scale

Question 29

The first large-scale “archeological” expedition in history came with the landing of
which French general in 1798?

Answer 29

Napolean Bonaparte

Question 30

What is the Egyptian life spirit or life force is called

Answer 30

ka

Question 31

King Tutankhamun’s mummified body was enclosed in three nested coffins; the
innermost was made of what

Answer 31

solid gold

Question 32

How were rulers typically portrayed in the Old Kingdom?

Answer 32

highly idealized and formalized manner in art and sculpture

Question 33

Who was the first ruler to call himself pharaoh

Answer 33

Pharoah Sneferu

Question 34

What adorns the capitals of the columns that support the roof of the Great Hall at
Karnak?

Answer 34

popyrus and loutus flower motifs

Question 35

What was one of the tests that Egyptians had to undergo to enter successfully into
the afterlife?

Answer 35

weighing of the heart or judgment of oriris

Question 36

What is a necropolis?

Answer 36

large burial ground or cemetary associated with ancient civilizations where the decreased are interred –> city of the dead

Question 37

Who is the first architect known in history by name

Answer 37

Imhotep

Question 38

The Great Sphinx is thought to be a portrait of whom?

Answer 38

the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre

Question 39

Which female pharaoh was one of the few women to have ruled Egypt.

Answer 39

Hatshepsut

Question 40

King Tutankhamun’s tomb was found where

Answer 40

found in the Valley of the Kings –> west bank of the Nile

Question 41

An Egyptian convention used for representing the human figure was to show eyes
and torsos how?

Answer 41

composite perspective

Question 42

Who was the archeologist who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun in
1922?

Answer 42

Howard Carter

Question 43

After the unification, What was Egyptian history is divided into?

Answer 43

predyanstic period, early dynastic period, old kingdom, middle kingdom, new kingdom, ptolemaoc period