This is the term used to describe the time prior to written records of human development.
What is "prehistoric"?
100
This set of laws and penalties are inscribed in 3,500 lines of cuneiform characters on a Babylonian Stele.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
This is the system or set of rules to depict subjects consistently and in an ideal form of beauty.
What is the canon of proportions?
100
This method of metalsmithing involved hammering a thin sheet of metal from the back, in order to create a raised design.
What is repoussé?
100
This is a tablet discovered by Napoleon in 1799 containing the inscriptions of hieroglyphs, Greek, and demotic Egyptian that provided the translation of Egyptian art and hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
This is the majority of subject matter of prehistoric art.
What are animals (bison, deer, horses, bulls, etc.)?
200
This ziggurat, the most distinctive architectural invention of the Ancient Near East, with four sides and various levels of terraces, is made of this material.
What is mud-brick?
200
This is the life force, spirit, or soul of the body that could live on in a mummified body.
What is the ka?
200
A method of painting where the artist had to paint very quickly in order to apply the paint to a wet plastered wall.
What is buon fresco?
200
This is a type of art-making method in which the artist CARVES FROM an original mass of a block of stone or piece of wood, etc.
What is the subtractive method?
300
This is the representation of profile and frontal views of a subject, such as two horns but the side of the body.
What is twisted perspective?
300
These are wide-eyed statuettes from the Square Temple of Ashunna that are surrogates in perpetual prayer to their persons' gods.
What is Sumerian Votive Offerings/Tell-Asmar Statues?
300
The Great Pyramids are named after these three pharaohs.
What are Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure?
300
This is the term used to describe the S-shaped lines that decorate the Minoan frescoes and pottery, as well as the distinctive Amarna style of the Egyptian art period.
What is curvilinear?
300
This is the belief in worshipping more than one god.
What is polytheism?
400
This is the basic architectural system of construction, as used at Stonehenge.
What is post and lintel?
400
A number of these were initially developed in the Ancient Near East with their own gods, rulers as representatives of these gods, specialized labor, and a common defense against enemies and nature.
What is the city-state?
400
While hierarchy of scale is used to portray his supreme triumph over his enemy, these two distinct set of images refer to King Narmer's unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is the intertwining feline necks and the red and white crowns of Lower and Upper Egypt (respectively)?
400
This is one of three methods of spanning a passageway, in which cyclopean masonry is used to form "inverted stairs" (as described in class).
What is a corbeled vault or arch?
400
This is the belief and practice that humans can make spiritual connections with their natural environment, including animals.
What is shamanism?
500
This is approximately when humans first created intentional art.
What/When is 30,000 BCE (28,000-25,000 BCE)? (Human with Feline Head at Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany)
500
This is an inner city gate of Babylon constructed of lapis lazuli glazed bricks with rows of lions and cattle in relief.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
500
These are the massive male statue columns where Ramses II appears as Osiris at his temple at Abu Simbel.
What are atlantids?
500
The citadel is the dominant architectural form of this culture.
What is Mycenaean?
500
An example of this architectural feature that allows sunlight to fill a temple interior is located in the hypostyle hall at Karnak.