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Which type of figures appear more frequently than humans in Upper Paleolithic art? |
Animals |
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The Viewpoint from which most animals were drawn in Paleolithic art? |
Profile View |
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What was the lifestyleof humans during the Paleolithic stage? |
Nomadic (or hunter gatherers) |
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The discovery of this cave in the 1990s pushed back the earliest known care paintings by roughly 15,000 years. |
Chauvet Caves |
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The cave discovered by an amateur archaeologist and his daughter in 1879 on his property. |
Altamira |
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Humankind's major food sources during the Neolithic period. |
Agriculture and stock raising |
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A circle of meglithic stones often surrounded by a ditch |
Henge |
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The many human figures found at Catal Hoyuk are painted in the most informative viewpoint. |
Composite View |
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An early example of what type of construction can be found at the passage grave at Newgrange, Ireland. |
Corbeled Vaulting |
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The settlement location of the Great Stone Tower built into 5-foot think wall. |
Jericho |
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The writing system developed by the Sumerians. |
Cuneiform |
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The horizontal bands in t he composition of the Warka Vase. |
Registers |
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The central hall of a temple sitting on top of a ziggurat |
Cella |
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The precious blue stone on the bull-headed lre found in a tomb at the cemetery of Ur. |
Lapis Lazuli |
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Who were the enemies portrayed in the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin? |
The Lullabi |
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The early Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed rectangular structure over a subterranean tomb. |
Mastaba |
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The Early Dynastic work of art credited with establishing the Egyptian canon of art. |
Palette of Narmer |
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The earliest known architect who is credited with building the Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara. |
Imhotep |
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The New Kingdom female pharaoh who built a massive mortuary temple into the limestone cliffs at Deir el-Bahri. |
Hatshepsut |
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The pharaoh who briefly established a monotheistic Egypt |
Akhenaton |
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The architectural feature designed to bring light into a structure? |
Clerrestory |
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The material of the Great Sphinx |
Living rock |
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The winged human-headed bulls that stood at the palace entrance of Sargon II. |
Lamassu |
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The wife of Akhenaton |
Nefertiti |
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The pharaoh originally entombed in t he largest and oldest pyramid at Gizeh. |
Khufu |
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How far did the engineers move the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in 1968? |
700 feet |