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12th Grade
05/06/2009

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Naram-Sin was of which civilzation
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Akkadian
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Lamassu and Ishtar Gate are associated which which civilzation?
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Assyrian
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An apadama, used in Persia is for what?
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Audience Hall
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Which Palette signifies the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
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Narmer
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Khafre's son Menkaura has a statue that differs from his how?
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Menkaura has his wife in it
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The seated scribe, with hints of naturalism, is from which culture
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Old Kingdom Egyptian
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Middle Kingdom pharos different how from Old Kingdom, in portrayl?
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Middle Kingdom have a sense of "brooding anxiety" while Old Kingdom ones just look powerful
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The New Kingdom ranges from which dates
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1500s-1000
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What lined Hatshepsut's temple?
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More than 200 statues
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Who was Akhenaton's God?
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Aton
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Which type of relief was used in the Amarna style?
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Sunken Relief
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The New Kingdom built which type of temples?
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Pylon
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Cycladic statuettes portray what?
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nude women or musicians
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The minoan civilization flourished around which period?
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2000-1400 BCE
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Were the Minoans or Mycenaeans known for frescos?
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Minoans
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The lion's gate at Mycenae used which type of arches?
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Corbel
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A relieving triangle is a type of what meant to distribute weight?
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Arch
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The treasury of Atreus is a bee-hived tomb called...
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a tholos
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Repousse is a form of metalwork that does what?
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Strikes from behind
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Approximately when did Mycenean civilization crash
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1200 BCE
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Kraters were created in which Greek period?
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Geometric
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A peplos would be found on a/an...
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archaic Greek statue
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A cella is the outer part of an archaic greek temple, true or false?
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They're on the inside
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A peristyle is a continuous flow of what?
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columns
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A Greek slip is what
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liquefied clay for a vase
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Which type of vase came first in Greece, black figure or red figure?
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Black figure
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The classical period started and ended how?
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Greek victory in Persian War, Alexander the Great (500-300)
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Kritios boy was revolutionary because...
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He was the first "contrapposto" sculpture
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Doryphorus was made by
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Polykleitus
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"Chiastic pose" combines
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action and inaction
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What famous temple was built under Pericles?
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The Parthenon
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The Parhenon expressed proportions in...
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mathematical formulas
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Panathenaic Procession was for what?
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Held at Parthenon, clothe Athena in peplos
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Which temple was the only one to be built in the Ionic order
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Temple of Athena Nike, by Kallikrates
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Which temple has the Porch of Maidens
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The Erectheion
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Which war began the Late Classical Period
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Peloponnesian
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350ish, Aphrodite of Knidos, by whom?
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Praxiteles
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Who made "The Scraper" (high classical greece)
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Lysippos
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Who is the famous King of Macedonia?
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Phillip
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When did Alexander the Great conquer Persia
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323
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The Altar of Zeus is found during which period?
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Hellenistic
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The Altar of Zeus has which battle on its frieze
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giants vs Olympic Gods
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Laocoon was carved when?
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circa 50-100 BCE
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The Chimera was famous during which pre-Roman culture?
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Etruscan (duh)
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About what period did the Etruscans live?
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1000 BCE-100 AD
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Etruscan sculptures used which medium?
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Terracotta
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Which culture has the sculpture of the female and male reclining?
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Etruscans
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What should you do?
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Fuck this test.
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voissoirs are a type of stone that are which shape?
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wedge
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Gravitas, or weightiness, is associated which which culture?
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Roman
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Gravitas, or weightiness, is associated which which culture?
Definition
Roman
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Compulviums and impulviums were to allow light and water into what?
Definition
A roman atrium
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What is atmospheric perspective and who shows it first?
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Romans, blur things as you go back.
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The Pax Romana occurred after this ruler beat Mark Anthony and Cleopatry
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Augustus
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The Ara Pacis altar was constructed as propaganda under which ruler?
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Augustus
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The Arch of Titus celebrated the defeat of which city by Rome?
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Jerusalem
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Trajan, whose remains were placed near this column, defeated whom?
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Dacians
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The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is unique because...
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he gestures that his defeated will receive clemency
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The Pont du Gard was a Roman what?
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aqueduct
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The Pantheon's dome is supported by which architectural feature?
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coffers
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Which emporer created a tetrarchy?
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Diocletian
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What was the Edict of Milan
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Edict okaying Christianity by Constantine
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