The earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged from this place
What is the Indus River Valley?
100
The ritual bronzes were created during this dynasty
What is the Shang dynasty?
100
It produced simply modeled clay figures of animals, people, houses, and boats known as haniwa, which were placed around tomb mounds.
What is the Kofun period?
100
This term refers to works of art and structures created in Central and South America before the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Pre-Columbian art?
100
This was the largest pyramid in South America
What is the Mochica Pyramid of the Sun?
200
Shah Jahan built this in memory of his wife after she passed away
What is the Taj Mahal?
200
Near Dunhuang more than a hundred caves contain Buddhist wall paintings and scrolls dating mainly from the late fifth to eighth centuries.
What is called the Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
200
Japanese art was influenced by these two cultures
What is the Chinese and the Buddhist?
200
This civilization was noted for the excellence of their stone carving ranging from small, finely detailed jade objects to colossal objects.
What is the Olmec civilization?
200
The Jain temples at Mt. Abu, is constructed entirely out of this
What is white marble?
300
The Indus civilization produced their artwork with these two materials
What is steatite and limestone.
300
This place was built to protect from wars and invasion.
What is the Great Wall of China?
300
This place was originally a nobleman's villa and was converted into a temple around 1050.
What is the Byodo-in at Uji?
300
These are giant sketches drawn in the desert of western Peru by ancient peoples.
What are the Nazca lines?
300
The only distinctly Buddhist type of building which is the Buddhist shrine type
What is the pagoda?
400
These type of paintings are characterized by lyrical landscapes, sinuous grace in the depiction of the human form, and an interest in perspective.
What is the Rajput paintings?
400
A high level of technical competence was maintained, particularly in the applied arts under this dynasty?
What is the Ch'ing dynasty?
400
In the Heian period, complex building schemes, were known as this
What is shinden-zukuri?
400
These people carved sculptures of Arctic animal life
What are the Eskimos?
400
A new type of art in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
500
Rajput miniature paintings depict these Hindu subjects
What is the ragamala series, the legendary epics and romances, and particularly Krishna's deeds.
500
A revival of learning and of older artistic traditions was encouraged and connoisseurship was developed under this dynasty
What is the Ming dynasty?
500
In the Edo period two particularly beautiful palaces were erected in and near Kyoto, both constructed on an asymmetrical and flexible plan.
What are the Katsura and Nijo palaces?
500
On the heavily forested Northwest Coast, these indigenous American groups developed elaborate woodcarving techniques used to fabricate tools, houses, etc.
What are the Tlingit, Tsimshian and Haida?
500
These two fortresses were typical examples of the Incas skill
What are the Sacsahuamán and Ollantaytambo fortresses?