Vocab
What does Neo mean?
What is new
What are the three segments of Stone Age art?
What are Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic
What are the people of Ancient Mesopotamia called?
What are Sumerians
What city are the three largest pyramids located?
What is Giza
What are bas-relief sculptures similar to?
Low- relief carvings
What does Paleo mean?
What is Old?
What is the purpose of Stonehenge?
What is a sun and moon calendar
What modern day country is Mesopotamia?
What is Iraq- located in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Who is known as the lord of the land or high priest?
Who is the pharaoh
What did ancient Egyptians use to decode their language?
What does Meso mean?
What is middle
Where is Stonehenge located?
Where is Wiltshire, England
What was Mesopotamia's primary form of art?
What is architecture
What was Egypt's most well-known written script?
What's up with the hats in Ancient Egypt? Why are they used?
What is to cover up signs of incest
What is contrapposto?
What is a human-like pose sculptures can be created in to create a realistic sense of movement in sculptures
Where are Lascaux Cave paintings located?
Where is France
What city in Mesopotamia was known as the 'navel of the world'?
What is Babylon, the home of Nebuchadnezzar
What is significant about Cleopatra?
What is being a woman ruler
What were written scripts used for and what did they help us learn about how they communicated?
What is used to record and communicate information about their government
What does stylization mean?
What is the process of using artistic style to simplify or alter the rendering of an artwork
What is Venus of Willendorf figurine made out of; Where is it's origin; What does it symbolize
What is Limestone; Where is Austria; What is Fertility
The Sumerians were known as inventors, what are the things they are known for inventing?
What is architecture, city planning, laws and rulers, writing systems, mathematics, and formal religion
What was said about the tower of Babel?
What is being a stairway to heaven or the place where the gods slept
What does the mummification process allow for?
What is ensuring an eternal after-life