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Quiz 1
landscapes, caves and circles, pyramids and ziggurats
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
09/12/2008

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Pictograph
Definition
picture representing a word or idea
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Hieratic
Definition
cursive writing system developed before hieroglyphics in Egypt, ink with reed pens on papyrus
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Ziggurat
Definition
terraced temple tower of ancient Mesopotamians, built of mud bricks, pressed or baked
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Animism
Definition
belief that spirits inhabit natural objects or phenomena
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Benben stone
Definition
stone often on the top of obelisks that symbolizes the first mound of earth upon which sun fell
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cosmogony
Definition
story about the origin and development of the universe
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rex extensa
Definition
physical world as opposed to mental world (res cogitans)
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hierophany
Definition
physical manifestation of the holy or sacred
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axis
Definition
line around which we orient things
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axis mundi
Definition
orienting the world, connection between heaven and earth
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zenith
Definition
highest point in sun's movement, top of axis mundi
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nadir
Definition
lowest point in sun's movement, bottom of axis mundi
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henge
Definition
an circular earthworks with a ditch running inside of a mound
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archetype
Definition
an original protoype; Jung: universal pattern of thought
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mesopotamia
Definition
fertile crescent btwn tigris and euphrates, 3500-3000 bc
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pyramids
Definition
rough limestone block initially sheathed in whiter limestone
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landscape
Definition
more than existing natural world, shaped or interpreted by humans, character of people
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megaliths
Definition
large standing ancient stones, also, menhirs
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