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Multicultural Art
Art of the Ancient World
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Art/Design
6th Grade
03/24/2010

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Mesopotamia
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Present-day Iraq
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Hieroglyphics
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An early for of picture writing that was developed by the Egyptians.
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Cuneiform
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A system of writing for keeping records that was developed by the Mesopotamians (and not used by anyone else).
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Pharaoh
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A powerful king in Egypt
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Main subjects of most cave paintings
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Humans, animals and symbols
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Some cave artists made paint by mixing this with powdered pigments
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Animal Fats
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Cave artists used man-made brushes and their fingers to apply paint to cave walls. They also applied paint in another way.
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Blowing it through tubes made of bone
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Artwork in Egyptian pyramids tells stories of servents doing these activites.
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bringing gifts, harvesting crops and fishing
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What were some uses of art in prehistoric times?
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to communicate, record events and to educate
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Two types of artwork that Prehistoric, Mesopotamian and Egyptian artists all created.
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Paintings and carvings
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Only Cave artists have artwork that can be found______
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On every continent
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Cave artists were the only ones (not Mesopotamians or Egyptians) who used this type of unusual type of tool to create art with
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Chewed twigs
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Mesopotamians, not Egyptians or Cave Artists, often depicted their rulers as...
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Animal gods
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Egyptians only, not Cave Artists or Mesopotamians, depicted scenes in their artwork of the lives of which rulers?
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The Pharoahs
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These people were the only ones to create Pyramids
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Egyptians
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Egyptian figure drawings were carefully measured for correct_________
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Proportion
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These people outlined the figures in their paintings
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Egyptian artists
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Hieroglyphics were used by which people we studied in class?
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Egyptians
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Prehistoric (cave artists)art forms
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Paintings and carvings
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Mesopotamian art forms
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Furniture, carvings and paintings
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Egyptian art forms
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Stone structures, carved monuments, tomb paintings, hieroglyphics, artifacts of daily life, wall paintings, relief sculpture and small models
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