Indian Art and Architecture
Chinese Art and Architecture
Japanese Art and Architecture
North American Art
Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
100
In the valley of this river, the earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged
What is the Indus River
100
The only man-made structure visible from space
What is the Great Wall of China
100
This word means "pictures of the fleeting floating world"
What is Ukiyo-e
100
The most important animal to the Great Plains Indians
What is the buffalo
100
The apex of Mayan civilization. It is described as that period when the Maya inscribed the "Long Count Calendar: on their monuments.
What is the Maya Classic period
200
The animating breath of life
What is "prana"
200
This religion came to China from India and introduced art of a different character.
What is Buddhism
200
The earliest art of Japan, consisting of monochrome pottery with cord-impressed designs.
What is Jomon
200
These people carved sculptures of Arctic animal life
What is the Eskimos
200
The art of this culture placed importance on human sacrifice.
What is The Azteec
300
This style of art was influenced by Hellenistic art and was highly influential in central and eastern Asia.
What is Gandhara
300
During this dynasty landscape painting reached its greatest expression.
What is the Sung dynasty
300
This artist, who painted "The Great Wave at Kanagawa," was a major Ukiyo-e painter.
What is Hokusai
300
These cultures are particularly renowned for their elaborate grave offerings
What are the Eastern Woodlands cultures
300
This city is an urban center, whose monumental pyramids, temples, and royal processional roads are an extraordinary architectural achievement
What is Teotihuacan
400
A style of architecture that consists primarily of pyramid shaped temples and elaborate ornamentation.
What is Dravidian architecture
400
The typical Chinese roof became fully developed by this dynasty
What is the Han dynasty
400
This temple is small and simple. Greatest importance was attached to the landscape setting.
What is the Shinto temple
400
On this coast, the indigenous American groups developed elaborate woodcarving techniques to create many things, including totem poles.
What is Northwest
400
This culture used agricultural terraces
What is the Inca
500
A style of architecture that consists primarily of pyramid shaped temples and elaborate ornamentation.
What is Dravidian architecture
500
The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas, which show first, simple hieratic forms of Buddha and of the bodhisattvas and later, crowded scenes of paradise are located near this city
What is Dunhuang
500
Japanese color-print designers won worldwide recognition and influenced Western masters such as this one, who is famous for his depictions of dancers.
Who is Degas
500
After the Spanish conquest, this evolved among the Southwest Pueblo groups, who perfected it to the level of fine art, largely as jewelry.
What is silverworking
500
Giant sketches drawn in the desert of western Peru by ancient peoples
What is Nazca Lines