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HUM 1020 Midterm withcomplete verified solutions
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Medium - answer refers to the materials that are used to create a work of
art
Fresco - answer the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster
surface with colors ground up in water or a lime-water mixture
Mosaic - answer a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of
small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials
Paleolithic -'Old Stone Age'- Period (Stone Ages) - answer -simple bands
of hunters
-no crops or livestock
-nomads, no houses
-cave-dwellers
-ice ages common in this time
-cave paintings (Lascaux, France Cave Paintings)
-"hand axes" stones, simple materials
Mesolithic Age (Stone Ages) - answer -ice ages ended, glaciers retreated
& melted
-hunters learn to hunt in forests
-new tools develop (arrows with sharp stone tips)
Neolithic Age (Stone Ages) - answer -development of agriculture
-domestication of animals
,-settlements of semi-permanent dwellings
-invention of pottery
-crops brought food that could be stored and made it so the people had to
stay at a place for longer time, or at least until crops were harvested
Lascaux, France Cave Paintings - answer (paleolithic)
Venus of Willendorf - answer (paleolithic)
Stonehenge - answer (neolithic)
The Sumerians (Ancient Mesopotamia group) - answer -indigenous non-
Semitic people of ancient Babylonia
-cuneiform 'writing'
-Euphrates & Tigris rivers aided in their development
-farmers
-inventors
-traders
Cuneiform - answer -Sumerian writing
Ziggurat - answer -a temple complex
-religious structure, temple
-massive size
Bull-headed Lyre of Queen Ur - answer -Sumerian
Standard of Ur - answer -Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh - answer -Sumerian
, -resembles Garden of Eden story from the Bible
Akkadians (Ancient Mesopotamia group) - answer -later on subdivided as
Assyria and Babylon
-Bronze Head of Nineveh
Bronze Head of Nineveh - answer -Akkadian
-hot metal poured into mold of clay to give detailed structures like hairs in
beard
Hammurabi's Legal Code - answer -ancient Mesopotamia
-code of law
-made by Hammurabi, king of Babylon
- 282 laws with scaled punishments
Ishtar Gate - answer -ancient Mesopotamia
-8th gate to the inner city of Babylon
-commissioned by King Nebuchadnezzar II
-neo-Babylonian empire
Persian Empire (Ancient Mesopotamia) - answer -most successful at the
time
-valued engineering
-not original, took in from different culture's ideas (hired workers)
-religion: Zoroastrianism (enlightenment from within)
-massive stone buildings were governmental & not devoted to religion
-Royal Road
Darius palace at Persepolis - answer -persian
Egypt - answer -Earth's first nation
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