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The earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged from this valley.
What is the Valley of the Indus River?
100
The ritual bronzes originated from this dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty?
100
It was accepted as a means of teaching Zen doctrine.
What is ink painting?
100
The term that 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?
100
Also known as akua'ba," they are the best-known examples of Ashanti wood carving.
What are fertility dolls?
200
The Indus civilization produced many statuettes made from these two types of rock.
What is Steatite and Limestone?
200
They contain Buddhist wall paintings and scrolls dating mainly from the late fifth to eighth centuries.
What are The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas?
200
She wrote the famous illustrated scroll of the "Tale of Genji" in the early 11th century.
Who is Lady Murasaki?
200
One of the greatest urban centers in Mexico, which contain monumental pyramids, temples, and royal processional roads.
What is Teotihuacan?
200
The term "African Art", refers to these two vast basins.
What are the Niger and Congo basins?
300
One of the main Stupas dipicts this figure's life.
Who is Buddha?
300
China believed it to be the highest art form.
What is Calligraphy?
300
In the Edo period, this new art form,which depicted scenes from everday life arose?
What are wood-block prints?
300
Giant sketches drawn in the desert of western Peru by ancient peoples.
What are the Nazca Lines?
300
In Dogon sculptures, this is usually employed to stress features of spiritual significance.
What is distortion?
400
The "Shiva as King of Dance" black sculpture derives from this period.
What is the Gupta period?
400
The century in which work was begun on the Great Wall.
What is the third century BCE?
400
Originally a nobleman's villa it was converted into a temple around 1050.
What is Byodo-in at Uji?
400
The mainstay of life for the indigenous Americans of the Great Plains.
What is the Buffalo?
400
The Fang are especially noted for these artworks?
What are mortuary heads and figures
500
These temples in central India represent one of the high points of the Nagara buildings.
What is the Khajuraho temples?
500
This Buddhist type of building was derived from the Indian Stupa.
What is the Pagoda?
500
In this period, complex building schemes, known as shinden-zukuri, were devised for the court nobles.
What is the Heian period?
500
The importance of human sacrifice in the cult of this war god, permeated life and art of the Aztecs.
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
500
These people inhabit southwestern Nigeria and are the largest and one of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in West Africa.
What are the Yoruba people?
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