Unit 3 - Art of the First Middle Eastern and Chinese Civilizations

Question 1

Levels of civilization

Answer 1

Uncivilized
Barbarians
Civilization

Question 2

Answer 2

Susa, Iran
5-4k BCE
Frame has been developed

Question 3

Answer 3

Cuneiform writing
3k BCE

Question 4

Cuneiform

Answer 4

System of writing with wedge shape stick used to make shapes in clay. Initially formed as part of bureaucracy to keep records

Question 5

Answer 5

Urak vase
3k BCE
Narrative of agriculture and religion used as educational tool to enforce a behavior

Question 6

Answer 6

Guennol lioness
3000 BCE
Hebraic religion is against worshipping other gods/idols

Question 7

Answer 7

Akkadia
2350-2180 BCE
not really religious, more about military rulers power

Question 8

Answer 8

Victory stele of Naramsin
Akkadia
2300-2200BCE
Basically is a public proclamation

Question 9

Stele

Answer 9

Sort of memorial pillar

Question 10

Answer 10

Ziggurat
2100 BCE
stepped pyramid that became a symbol of power in the Akkadian empire

Question 11

Answer 11

Stele of Hammurabi
1760 BCE
Babylon
Style of cumiform stating first known legal law (about money lending)

Question 12

Answer 12

Stele of Djet
3000BCE
Hieroglyphic symbol of Djet

Question 13

Hieroglyphics

Answer 13

System of ceremonial writing that was not used by the common people

Question 14

Common Egypt writing

Answer 14

Demotic

Question 15

Answer 15

Pindejem II book of the dead
990-969 BCE
written in both hieroglyphics and demotic

Question 16

Answer 16

Yangshao culture
4800-3500 BCE
Designed to last long

Question 17

Answer 17

Majiayao culture
3100-2700 BCE
Known for complex patterns

Question 18

Answer 18

Majiayao culture
2000BCE
Supposed to resemble boot or feet
Chinese invented many things before Europeans

Question 19

Answer 19

Jade zong
2500 BCE
Emergence of Jade as material

Question 20

Answer 20

Oracle bones
Shang period
1600 BCE
Writing on oracle bones as way to communicate with the dead/fortune tell