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Details Title UMBC Art History 1 Test 1 Description UMBC Art History 1 Test 1 Total Cards 26 Subject Art History Created 03/01/2010

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Term corbeling	Definition Stacking inward of walls and roof (igloo style)
Term Mesopotamia	Definition Area between the Tigris and Euphrates
Term Sumer	Definition City State in lower Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Term Akkad	Definition Conqured Mesopotamia
Term Babylon	Definition Conquered after Akkad
Term Assyria	Definition After Babylon
Term Persia	Definition Last to Conquer
Term Ziggurat	Definition Sumerian Stepped Temples
Term Stele	Definition Upright Stone Slab
Term Capitol	Definition Block at the top of column
Term Predynastic	Definition Egypt -5000-2950BCE
Term Early Dynastic	Definition Egypt- 2950- 2575 BCE
Term Old Kingdom	Definition Egypt- 2575-2150BCE
Term New  Kingdom	Definition Egypt-1539-1075 BCE
Term King Djoser	Definition Buried in first tomb
Term Imhotep	Definition First Known Architect
Term Hatshepsut	Definition Treated like a male Pharaoh and built spectacular temple
Term Akhenaton	Definition Believed in one god
Term Cannon of porportions	Definition Mathematical human ratios
Term mastaba	Definition Flat Egyptian tomb
Term faience	Definition Glazed ceramic
Term hypostyle hall	Definition Large room with many columns
Term Pylon	Definition Massive Gateway
Term clerestory	Definition Raised roof with holes
Term colonnade	Definition Row of columns supporting a lintel
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