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The Thinker
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Auguste Rodin
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Cicero
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1st Century BC
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Prehistory
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Before 1000 BC
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Lascaux, France
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1940
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Altamira, Spain
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1879
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Chauvet, France
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1994
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Writing developed simultaneousy in Egypt and Sumer around
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3200 BC
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Until the ___ century no one knew that the Sumerians existed
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19th Century
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1st Dynasty of Egypt
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3200 BC
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Akrotiri erupted
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1628 BC
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Minoan Civilization
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2600 and 1100 BC
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Mycenaeans dissapeared
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1100 BC
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Lion's Gate
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1250 BC
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Indo-Europeans
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3000 BC
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Venus of Willendorf found in
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Austria
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single stone set on its end
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menhir
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large vertical stones with a slab across the top
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dolmen
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circular arrangement of stones
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cromlech
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Who found the Lion's Gate and the mask of Agamenmnon
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Will Durant said that civilization is
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a social order promoting cultural creation
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Four elements define a civilization
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- Complex economic provision

 

- Complex Political Organization

 

- Complex Moral Tradition

 

- Complex Pursuit of Knowledge and Arts

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Two by-products of agriculture
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-Stability

 

- Science

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Historical Horizon
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The invention of writing which occurred simultaneously in Egypt and Sumer in 3200 BC
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Three waves representing the organizing principle of human society
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Agricultural Revolution

 

Industrial Revolution

 

Information Revolution

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Technology
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Any manipulation of raw material to produce some benefit of technology
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Writing is the most significant advancement
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Yep.
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Mesopotamia
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Land between two rivers
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One controlling concept behind Egyptian art
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the quest for permanence, for tge unchanging eternal principle which was seen in both the desert and the Nile
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What is the sense of perspective in Egyptian painting?
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- Use of multiple perspective

 

- Objects are prtrayed according to their most characteristic angle

 

- The artist is depicting what the mind knows not what the eye sees

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Egyptian view of the sculptor
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One who keeps alive
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MA'AT
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- Teenage girl goddess who was oftern represented as a pair of twins

 

- She represented truth and order; something that the Egyptians held with high regard

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Art in ancient Egypt served to
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preserve the world and to preserve the identity of the deceased for the afterlife
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What happened to the Minoans?
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Akrotiri erupted

 

Evidence

 

- The myth of Atlantis

 

- Marine Archeology

 

- Volcanic ash found in Greenland

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Minoan capital
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Knossos

 

- Etensively excavated - revealed labyrinth

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Minoan Civilization inhabitted where?
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The island of Crete
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Mycenaean Civilization inhabitted where?
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Aegean islands and the European mainland
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Three qualities central to Greek life
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- Individuality

 

- Adaptability

 

- The pursuit of Legacy

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Greeks valued 3 concepts which apply today in western thought
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- The concept of Individuality

 

- Love of Freedom

 

- The pursuit of rationality and order

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Greek believed in a pantheon of gods which were viewed in a fatalistic way
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missed that one
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