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Quiz 1 - Chapters 1 and 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/05/2013

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Mesopotamia
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means the "land between the rivers"; modern day Iraq
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Ziggurats
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large stepped structures with a temple or shrine on top; they were used as a sacred site
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City States
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a city and its surrounding villages that have their own set of laws and share the same beliefs
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Shaman
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the leader of the tribe; a religious figure
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Bronze Age
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the period that followed the introduction of metalworking
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Stone Age
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a time when stone tools and weapons were used; separated into two periods paleolithic and neolithic
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Lamassus
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combination of the bearded head of a man, the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, and the horned headdress of a god
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Memory image
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the general elements that reside in our memory of a human head
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Hieratic scale
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where relative size indicated relative importance
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cuneiform
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wedge shaped writing that was carved into clay tablets using a stylus
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