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100
A 4 inch female figurine with exaggerated breasts and stomach found in Austria.
What is Venus of Willendorf?
100
The first writing system created by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
Parallel divisions of scenes to create order.
What are registers?
100
The order for a column that sits directly on the stylobate and has a plain capital.
What is Doric?
100
A monster with the head and body of a lion, a serpent for a tail, and a goat's head protruding from the side.
What is the chimera?
200
2 upright stones supporting a horizontal beam.
What is post and lintel?
200
A term used for when the most important figure is the largest/tallest.
What is hierarchy of scale?
200
Four organs kept in canopic jars.
What are the stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines?
200
A large island in the Mediterranean where Minoan art is from.
What is Crete?
200
Two boys raised by the Capitoline Wolf.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
300
The gender of the majority of bodies buried in Stonehenge.
What is male?
300
A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
What is a ziggurat?
300
The name Egyptians gave to the spirit.
What is ka?
300
The five periods of ancient Greek art.
What are Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic?
300
The style of Roman painting that incorporated faux stone, landscape, design, and architecture.
What is Fourth Style?
400
A name meaning fragrant in Arabic.
What is Jericho?
400
The side of the Standard of Ur that aided in the recreation of the Bull-Headed Lyre.
What is the peace side?
400
The Period in Egyptian art where conventions changed due to the ideas of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
What is the Amarna Period?
400
A sculpted representation of a young man.
What is a kouros?
400
A french term meaning "to fool the eye."
What is trompe l'oeil?
500
The modern name for the country where Çatal Hüyük was located.
What is Turkey?
500
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is theocracy?
500
The three pharaohs who have a great pyramid named after them in Gizeh.
Who are Menkaure, Khufu, and Khafre?
500
The Greek god of wine.
Who is Dionysos?
500
Septimius Severus' youngest son who was murdered and erased from historical record by his brother.
Who is Geta?