Visual Arts
The Prehistoric Era
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Archaic Greece & the Aegean Sea
100

This category of vocabulary terms includes Line, Shape, Form, Color, Space, and Texture.

What are the Elements of Design?

100

This time period is called by its name because it comes before the time of written records.

What is Prehistory?

100

This is the type of religion in which many deities are worshipped.

What is polytheism?

100

This artwork was most likely a model used to reference while making other real sculptures.

What is the Bust of Nefertiti?

100

This style of vase painting is characterized by filling up as much space as possible with patterns, designs such as meanders, and silhouettes.

What is Geometric style?

200

This element of design is often used synonymously with "Repetition".

What is Pattern?

200
This term describes the time period before the Neolithic Revolution.

What is Paleolithic?

200

This technology allowed water to be redirected from the rivers to more desolate areas, which led to population growth and organized government.

What is irrigation?

200

This artwork tells the story of how a man makes it into the afterlife?

What is the Last Judgment of Hunefer?

200

This civilization was all about the luxurious lifestyle, developing systems for plumbing, heating, and cooling.

Who are the Minoans?

300

This term describes the balance of a painting that does not have identical features on either side of its axis.

What is Asymmetrical?

300

This Prehistoric monument, found in modern-day England, consists of many post-and-lintel structures and may have served the purpose of measuring seasons or time.

What is Stonehenge?

300

This Mesopotamian artwork tells the story of war on one side and the story of peace on the other.

What is the Standard of Ur?

300

This material was developed by the Ancient Egyptians for writing.

What is papyrus?

300

This civilization was all about military and expanding their empire.

Who are the Mycenaeans?

400

This term describes the dimensionality of a sculpture that stands up on two feet.

What is full round?

400

This event, which actually took place gradually over thousands of years, is when people groups began to settle down in permanent civilizations.

What is the Neolithic Revolution?

400

This artwork was meant to pray to the gods on behalf of the person who commissioned it.

What is the Standing Male Worshipper?

400

This structure, developed by the Ancient Egyptians, would lay the foundation for architecture of many future civilizations.

What is the corbel arch?

400

This is the basic Greek city-state consisting of self-governed people.

What is a polis?

500

This type of structure was used to build monuments such as Stonehenge and Greek temples.

What is Post-and-Lintel?

500

This term describes how people groups would travel around to follow their food sources.

What is nomadic?

500

This is believed to be the earliest writing system, developed in Ancient Mesopotamia.

What is cuneiform?

500

This goddess has a feather against whom the hearts of people are weighted when they are being judged at death.

Who is Ma'at?

500

This post-and-lintel style of architecture was used for temples in the Archaic Greece.

What is the Doric style?

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