Stone Age - Babylonian Period

Question 1

Period when Homo Sapiens or Cro-Magnon man used chipped stones, and also represents a giant key in human cognition, abstract thinking; they attempt to gain some sort of control over their management by magic or ritual

Answer 1

Paleolithic / Old Stone Age (10,000 - 30,000 BC)

Question 2

Small figurines or decorative objects were carved or modeled with clay,
collectively known as?

Answer 2

Venus

Question 3

Painted with four great bulls; believed to express belief in the power of animals

Answer 3

Great Hall of the Bulls (Lascaux, France)

Question 4

-4 1/2” tall made of limestone; stumpy female figure features penduluos breasts, an obese
middle, belly and buttocks
- Also called sculpture-in-the-round

Answer 4

Venus of Willendorf (Austria)

Question 5

Old stone age’s sub period when they used pigments for bodily ornamentation

Answer 5

Mousterian

Question 6

Old stone age’s sub period when cave paintings was started

Answer 6

Aurignacian

Question 7

Old stone age’s sub period when it was the last of the hunter gatherers; art found are engraving of animals on bone

Answer 7

Magdelanian

Question 8

Old stone age’s sub period when people were nomadic hunters

Answer 8

Glacial Age

Question 9

Period when settled communities and farming started; the invention of bow and arrow, pottery, and food storage, and domestication of small animals.

Answer 9

Mesolithic Age / Middle Stone Age (10,000 - 8,000 BC)

Question 10

Period when agriculture was first developed and people settled in permanent villages; mud bricks were first used

Answer 10

Neolothic / New Stone Age (7,000 - 3,000 BC)

Question 11

Type of architecture in the New Stone Age that is conical, stone roofed building

Answer 11

Trullo

Question 12

Type of architecture in the New Stone Age that looks like a Beehive

Answer 12

Beehive hut

Question 13

A large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either
alone or with other stones

Answer 13

Megalith

Question 14

Single upright standing stone

Answer 14

Menhir

Question 15

Free standing chambers, covered by a capstone as a lid; (used for burial and were
covered

Answer 15

Dolmen

Question 16

an upright slab forming part of a larger structure

Answer 16

Orthostat

Question 17

stones forming circle together

Answer 17

Stone circle

Question 18

linear arrangement of parallel stones

Answer 18

Stone row

Question 19

stones forming ‘T’

Answer 19

Taula

Question 20

two parallel upright stones with horizontal stone (lintel) placed on top

Answer 20

Trilithlon

Question 21

Period when copper and tin were widely used; advanced pottery

Answer 21

Bronze Age

Question 22

“Cradle of Civilizations” because of their contributions including domestication of animals,
trade and coinage, legal government, potter’s wheel, wagon wheel, alphabet, etc.

Answer 22

Mesopotamian Civilization (4300 - 331 BC)

Question 23

Location of Mesopotamian civilization are surrounded by which 2 rivers?

Answer 23

Tigris and Euphrates River

Question 24

• Started ‘Cuneiform’
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Ziggurat architecture

Answer 24

Sumerian Period (6000 - 4000 BC)

Question 25

• First Mesopotamian rulers to call themselves kings

- First to cast hollow life-size bronze sculptures using The Lost Wax Method or Cire-predue

Answer 25

Akkadian Period

Question 26

Stone slab used as a marker; Earliest known monument to the glory of a conqueror. Naramsin alone stands triumphant as the defeated enemy soldiers plead for mercy

Answer 26

Stele of Naram-sin

Question 27

System of writing by use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements

Answer 27

Cuneiform

Question 28

World’s first literature (first written

records/ documents)

Answer 28

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 29

Constructed one of the largest ziggurat in mesopotamia at Ur

Answer 29

Neo-Sumerian Period

Question 30

Period when Hammurabi formulated laws

Answer 30

Babylonian Period (Chaldean Period; 4000 - 700 BC)

Question 31

Babylon’s greatest king

Answer 31

Hammurabi

Question 32

Period when Nebuchadnezzar II has been associated with the architectural wonders of
Babylon

Answer 32

Neo Babylonian Period

Question 33

Law comprising of 300 statues written in Akkadian on 51 columns

Answer 33

The Law Code of Hammurabi

Question 34

Entrance gate to the Palace of Sargon; named after the goddess of love, fertility;
semi-circular arch covered with colored tiles

Answer 34

Ishtar Gate

Question 35

seven-tiered ziggurat rising from a base of 397 sq.ft.

Answer 35

Tower of Babel

Question 36

Palace built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife, Amytis

Answer 36

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Question 37

Artificial mountains made of tiered rectangular layer which rose in number from one to seven

Answer 37

Ziggurat

Question 38

Key Characteristics of Paleolitihic period or Old Stone AGE

Answer 38

1. Concerned itself with food or Fertility
2. Magic or Ritual
3. Abstract thinking

Question 39

Factors of Historical Development

Answer 39

1. Rational, Technological and Constructional
2. Social and Religious
3. Economic, Cultural and Political
4. Zeitgeist or Spirit of the Age

Question 40

• Any human being which is part human and part animal
• Someone with an intense spiritual or psychological identification with a non-human animal.
• They believe they already are their animal, inside.

Answer 40

Therianthrope

Question 41

• Spirit-animals, calling them from the underworld through the cave walls into their presence
• Goal of this is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or another purpose.

Answer 41

Shaman/Shamanism

Question 42

Sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material
To give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane

Answer 42

Relief

Question 43

Also known as Horn of Plenty

Answer 43

Cornucopia