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Explain why it is believed that cave paintings were created for prehistoric religious rituals.

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When Heinrich Schliemann excavated Grave Circle A in Mycenae in the late nineteenth century,he discovered treasures,including a __________.

A)  silver mask​ 
B)  ​gold mask 
C)  ​bronze mask 
D)  ​lapis lazuli 
E)  ​silver and gold

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The __________ was a multilevel temple designed by the religion-oriented Sumerians but built by the later Babylonians and Assyrians.

During Akhenaton's reign,the longstanding stylized formality of Egyptian art briefly gave way to __________,as seen in the very famous Bust of Queen Nefertiti.

In the Victory Stele of Naram Sin,the king and his men are represented in a conceptual manner,probably meant to indicate __________.

Describe the Narmer Palette,and discuss how it illustrates the Egyptian preoccupation with strict representational conventions.

Compare and contrast the art and architecture of the Sumerians with that of the Assyrians.

Which of the following is considered one of the Bronze Age civilizations of pre-Hellenic Greece? 

The Stele of Hammurabi depicts the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi gaining inspiration for his codified laws from the god(dess) __________.

Describe the configuration of the Neolithic Stonehenge,and explain what its purpose is believed to have been.

Identify the conventional attributes of an Egyptian pharaoh.

The art and architecture of the Mycenaean civilization reflects a preoccupation with __________ because,unlike Crete,it lacked the natural defense of a surrounding sea.

Contrast the art of the short-lived Amarna period with Egypt's long-standing tradition of convention.

During the Old Kingdom period of Egyptian art,a new manner of representing the human figure developed that would last thousands of years.It was characterized by all of the following except __________.

What were the Fertile Crescent and the Fertile Ribbon?

The Processional Frieze from the royal audience hall in Persepolis,shows_________.

Artist Emil Nolde said,"Art is exalted above religion and race.Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religion of the Assyrians,the Egyptians,or the Greeks ...Only their art,whenever it was beautiful,stands proud and exalted,rising above all time." Using artistic examples to support your argument,what is your interpretation of this quote?

Large-scale tomb sculptures that were intended to house the spirit of the deceased if mummification failed were known as __________.

Mortuary temples that were carved out of the living rock-rock that remained part of the earth-are called__________.

The term labyrinthine well describes the huge,sprawling Palace at Knossos,and the term comes from the myth of the __________.