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A tomb shaped like a polyhedron with a base and apex, this was perhaps the most famous style of Old Kingdom tombs.
What is a pyramid?
100
This was the god of the sea in Greek and Roman terms.
Who is Poseidon or Neptune?
100
These are the three orders of columns.
What is doric, ionic, and corinthian?
100
This is the Viking god of war but also poetry. He is the god of rulers. He lost an eye in his quest for wisdom.
Who is Odin?
100
This is the bird associated with Horus.
What is the falcon?
200
The name of this tomb is an Arabic word meaning "bench shaped"
What is a mastaba tomb?
200
This was the goddess of wisdom and war in Greek and Roman terms.
Who is Athena or Minerva?
200
This is the triangle shape at the top of many Roman and non Roman buildings and many of the windows at the Middle School.
What is a Pediment?
200
This is the type of sea-faring vessel favored by the Vikings, propelled by wind and oar.
What is a longship or longboat?
200
This is the great tree of the world in Norse mythology.
What is Yggdrasil?
300
A tall pointed angular column. The Egyptian form is mimicked in the Washington Monument.
What is an obelisk?
300
This was the monster who sprung from the head of Medusa, after Perseus chopped it off.
What is Pegasus?
300
These are the three parts of the entablature.
What are the cornice, frieze, and architrave?
300
This was Aphrodite/Venus's parallel in Norse myth.
Who is Freyja.
300
This is the text full of spells and incantations that help guide the dead to the underworld in ancient Egypt.
What is the Book of the Dead?
400
This was the Egyptian god of wisdom, writing, and magical formulae.
Who is Thoth?
400
The monster with a snake tail, a goat head, and a lion head. It is a term in biology for a single organism with cells from different zygotes (many cats and dogs are actually these). In Greek myth, this monster battled and lost to the hero Bellerophon and the Pegasus.
What is a chimera?
400
This is the name for a covered porch.
What is a portico?
400
These animals drew the chariot of the Thunder god Thor.
What is a goat/goats?
400
This is the view from which most characters in ancient Greek and Egyptian art are depicted.
What is profile view?
500
This plant has been used for the construction of strong, durable paper throughout the ancient mediterranean but especially in Egypt.
What is the papyrus plant?
500
This is the primordial god of the sky, also means "sky" in Greek.
Who is Ouranos/ Uranus?
500
This common feature in a dome evolved into the cupola.
What is an oculus?
500
Derived from Dutch, this term generally means "from the north" or North in Norwegian languages.
What is Norse?
500
While the Vikings packed their boat tombs with mainly weapons for the deceased, ancient Egyptians included a wider variety of items in their tombs including clothes, mummified pets, food, furniture, and these statues that sprung to life as helpers in the afterlife, which was pictured as a perpetual farming bliss. This is the name for the statue helpers.
What are ushabti?