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Venus of Willendorf found in |
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single stone set on its end |
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large vertical stones with a slab across the top |
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circular arrangement of stones |
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Who found the Lion's Gate and the mask of Agamenmnon |
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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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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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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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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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- 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
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- The myth of Atlantis
- Marine Archeology
- Volcanic ash found in Greenland |
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Knossos
- Etensively excavated - revealed labyrinth |
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Minoan Civilization inhabitted where? |
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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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