Unit 1

Question 1

Bas Relief

Answer 1

Sculpture that protrudes slightly from background (low relief)

Question 2

Jamb figures

Answer 2

Sculptures carved into door jambs

Question 3

Baudelaire’s Plea

Answer 3

Asked artists to show the common man’s daily life

Question 4

Subservient

Answer 4

Word used to describe sculptures on Romanesque and gothic buildings. Sculptures are less important/part of the architecture

Question 5

Paleolithic

Answer 5

Old Stone Age

humans making images (cave art) animals in profile

Question 6

Mesolithic

Answer 6

Middle Stone Age

Humans domesticated animals, settled, farmed, and built leantos

Question 7

Neolithic

Answer 7

New Stone Age

More domestication, agriculture, villages, job specialization

Question 8

Radio Carbon/carbon 14 dating

Answer 8

Method for determining the age of an object containing organic materials using the properties of radiocarbon

Question 9

Ocher

Answer 9

Soft stone used for painting

Question 10

Materials used to paint

Answer 10

Plant juice, ocher, burned sticks, burned bones, animal blood, tinted soil or clay

Question 11

Jericho

Answer 11

Neolithic Palestinian city in Israel on the west river bank

Question 12

Corbeled

Answer 12

Geometrically stacked stones to close a space

Question 13

Megalith

Answer 13

Large stone standing upright on its side

Question 14

SANBANP

Answer 14

Sumerian
Akkadian
Neo-sumerian
Babylonian
Assyrian 
Neo-Babylonian
Persian

Question 15

Theocratic socialism

Answer 15

Everyone is equal and under the gods

Question 16

Standardization

Answer 16

Representing power or importance by size