An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
What is humanism?
100
The king of Egypt, who was believed to possess a divine power by virtue of his position. He acted as the intermediary between his people and the gods and was obligated to sustain the gods through rituals and offerings so that they could maintain order in the universe.
What is a pharaoh?
100
The use of differences in size to indicate relative importance.
What is hierarchic scale?
100
A famous female figurine from the Upper Paleolithic period dated from about 24,000 BCE.
What is Woman of Willendorf?
100
This temple, built for Athena Parthenos, required extraordinary mathematical and mechanical skills and would have been impossible without a large contingent of architects, builders, sculptors, and painters.
What is the Parthenon?
200
The life-force, which was believed in Ancient Egypt to leave the body at the point of death.
What is the ka?
200
A land that housed several ancient civilizations that translates to "the land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
A device used in systems of spacial definition. In relief sculpture, the placement of self-contained horizontal bands of reliefs.
What is a register?
200
Placed over the head and shoulders of a king's mummified body, this ancient treasure is made of gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones and was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
What is the Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun?
200
This citadel, as opposed to Minoan complex at Knossos, is much less open and lends historians to believe that it's inhabitants were more militaristic.
What is Mycenae?
300
A specific type of visual description that analyzes the artist's use of aspects such as color, shape, line, mass, and space.
What is formal analysis?
300
After discovering and decoding the Rosetta Stone, archaeologists and historians have had a much greater understanding of this Ancient Civilization.
What is Ancient Egypt.
300
An image created as a devotional offering to a deity.
What is a votive figure?
300
This object, found in the temple complex of Inanna at Uruk, is an example of how Mesopotamian sculptors told stores through the use of registers
What is the Carved Vessel?
300
This portal into an ancient Mycenaean city is still very mysterious to modern day historians and archaeologists alike. What they do agree on is its representation of power.
What is the Lion Gate?
400
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
What is Archeology?
400
One of the Ancient Aegean cultures who lived on the Island of Crete between 2000-1400 BCE.
What is the Minoan civilization.
400
A traditional way of representing forms.
What is a convention?
400
A fresco panel, from the palace complex at Knossos, that shows a popular subject matter for Minoan culture.
What is the Bull Leaping?
400
This "city on top of a hill" is home to the Erechtheion and the Parthenon.
What is the Akropolis, Athens.
500
The study of the methodology of historians. This covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches over time.
What is historiography?
500
A collection of city states and colonies that valued humanism, rationalism, and idealism, especially in art.
What is Ancient Greece?
500
A triangular gable found over major architectural elements such as Classical Greek porticos, windows, or doors.
What is a pediment?
500
A scene from a scroll meant to be buried with the deceased that shows the owner as he travels through the successive stages in his induction into the afterlife.
What is Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris?
500
This ancient Greek architectural order is utilized in the Parthenon.