Humanities Test 2 Review Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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Humanities Test 2 Review Questions with
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Fossilized skulls of two adults and one child in eastern ______ date to 160,000 years, the oldest
known remains of modern humans, or homo sapiens. - Answer ️️ -Ethiopia
________ is the act of cutting or incising stone, bone, wood ...
Humanities Test 2 Review Questio ns with 100% Correct Answers Fossilized skulls of two adults and one child in eastern ______ date to 160,000 years, the oldest known remains of modern humans, or homo sapiens. - Answer ✔️✔️-Ethiopia ________ is the act of cutting or incising stone, bone, wood or another material into a desired form. - Answer ✔️✔️-Carving A sculpture in the round, also known as a __________ sculpture, is a fully three -dimensional sculpture; it occupies 360 degrees of space - Answer ✔️✔️-freestanding Why is this object significant? - Answer ✔️✔️-It is considered the oldest art yet to be fo und This sculpture dates to - Answer ✔️✔️-25,000 BC- 20,000 BC This sculpture dates to the "Old" "Stone" era. What is the name of that era? - Answer ✔️✔️-
Paleolithic The following is true about this sculpture - Answer ✔️✔️-She is small enough to fit in ones hand This type of sculpture, which is a flat surface that is carved to leave a raised or a sunken image in the stone. - Answer ✔️✔️-Relief The science of separating metals from their ores is _______ - Answer ✔️✔️-Metallurgy Which of the following, t he home of ancient Babylon, refers to "the land between two rivers" and is covered by the modern -day nation of Iraq? - Answer ✔️✔️-Mesopotamia Who/what is shown at the top of this monument? - Answer ✔️✔️-Hammurabi receiving the laws from the Sun God The ancient Egyptians carved soft stones with________ chisels and stone tools. - Answer ✔️✔️-
Copper Where was this sculpture found? - Answer ✔️✔️-In the ruins of an ancient artist's workshop What was the name of this ancient queen? - Answer ✔️✔️-Nefertiti Why was the discovery of King Tutuankhamun's tomb so significant? - Answer ✔️✔️-It is the only ancient Egyptian, royal tomb discovered that was essentially untouched since ancient times. What is the date of this object? - Answer ✔️✔️-1323 BC Why is King T utuankhamun's innermost coffin made of solid gold? - Answer ✔️✔️-The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods' skin was made of gold. These magnificent sculptures were created for the Emperor of _____ - Answer ✔️✔️-China Included with over 6000 warriors are also sculptures of weapons, chariots, and ______ - Answer ✔️✔️-Horses What does Hellas (as in Hellenic and Hellenistic) mean? - Answer ✔️✔️-Greece Archaic Kouros figures clearly demonstrate - Answer ✔️✔️-An ancient Egyptian influence As Knoisos demo nstrates, during the Archaic Period in ancient Greece, the Kouroi figures were usually a votive offering for a __________ - Answer ✔️✔️-Grave marker Central to Greek (and Western) culture is humanism. For the humanists, humankind is special in creation be cause of our unique ability to: - Answer ✔️✔️-Reason He is in this natural human stance -- with slightly bent knee, weight on one leg, and shifts in the body's alignment for balance. - Answer ✔️✔️-Contrapposto The ancient Greek sculptor of this work was f amous for formulating a canon, or a system of proportions that achieved clarity, symmetry, and harmony. - Answer ✔️✔️-Polykleitos
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