Indian Art
Chinese Art
Japanese Art
Art of the Americans
African Art
100
The location where the earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged from.
What is the valley of the Indus River?
100
A round ceremonial disk found in ancient Chinese tombs.
What is a Bi?
100
Japanese ceramic figures that were placed on top of burial mounds.
What is Haniwa?
100
A circular room wholly or partly underground used for religious rites.
What is a Kiva?
100
Noted for wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects.
Who are the Yoruba people?
200
A dome-shaped Buddhist shrine.
What is a stupa?
200
The location of The Forbidden City.
What is downtown Beijing?
200
Marked by the crystallization of the Yamato-e tradition of painting.
What is the Fujiwara period?
200
Made their capital at Tula and achieved power and dominated much of north and central Mexico until they were vanquished in 1156 or 1168.
What is the Toltec?
200
The former symbol of Ashanti royalty.
What is the gold encrusted stool.
300
Located in Khajuraho, North India. This temple contains a series of shapes that build to become a large tower with corbelled roofs.
What is the Vishvanatha Temple?
300
During this dynasty, historical subjects and scenes of courtly life were popular.
What is the T'ang dynasty?
300
During this period, clay figures and statues were made in the dry-lacquer process attained great popularity.
What is the Nara period?
300
Carved sculptures of Arctic animal life and hunting motifs, using stone, ivory, and bone, and mode elaborate ceremonial masks.
Who are Eskimos?
300
The collective term for the peoples of the Congo-Kinshasa region of Africa.
Who are the Baluba?
400
A symbol of Buddha's royalty commonly seen in Indian art.
What is the lion?
400
During this dynasty, a high level of technical competence was maintained until the nineteenth century.
What is the Ch'ing dynasty?
400
A woodblock print; the first time landscape is a major theme in Japanese prints.
What is The Great Wave?
400
Unsurpassed as engineers in the Americas and conquered the Chimu in the latter part of the fifteenth century.
Who is the Inca?
400
Noted for mortuary heads and figures, possibly representing primeval ancestors.
Who are the Fang people?
500
It was constructed from sandstone, shows Buddha sitting in a yoga position with hands on a wheel in a preaching mudra.
What is Buddha Preaching the First Sermon?
500
Usually regarded as the highest art form in the Chinese culture.
What is calligraphy?
500
The school of art that shows the values of middle-class society.
What is Ukiyo-e.
500
It is believed that they devised the Long Count Calendar and invented writing.
Who is the Olmec?
500
A West African people settled in the great bend of the River Niger.
Who are the Dogon?
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