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1. The cities and city-states that developed along the rivers of southern Mesopotamia between about 3500 and 2340 BCE are known
collectively as Sumer.
2. A ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nanna is located in present-day Iraq.
3. Construction of Persepolis, a new capital in the Persian homeland, was commenced by Darius.
4. The guardian figures at the Citadel of Sargon II are known as lamassus.
5. A code of laws is engraved into the Stele of Hammurabi.
6. Votive Statue of Gudea is made of diorite.
7. Sumerians wrote cuneiform symbols into clay tablets using a tool called a stylus.
8. The Hittites established their capital at Hattusha in present-day Turkey.
9. The Akkadians pioneered the use of hollow-cast copper.
10. The Amorite leader Hammurabi reunited Mesopotamia as Babylon.
11. Although infamous for having suppressed the Jews, the Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II was also a great patron of
architecture.
12. All of these throne room, ziggurat, Nabu temple were part of the Citadel and Palace Complex of Sargon II.
13. The city of Uruk marked the first independent Sumerian city-state.
14. The discovery of the Great Lyre with Bulls Head in a Royal Tomb of Ur was significant because it was decorated with inlaid
scenes that may document a very long oral tradition of story-telling.
15. Crenellations, or notched walls, were typically used in military architecture.
1. Persepolis, once capital of the Persian homeland, is located in the present-day country of Iran.
2. The Sumerian Nanna Ziggurat is dedicated to Sin, the moon god.
3. The Hall of 100 Columns was built by Xerxes.
4. Alabaster is a fine, white stone.
5. The Ishtar Gate was associated with an architectural feature of Babylon known as the Processional Way.
6. The Hittites may have been the first people to work in iron.
7. Mesopotamia means land between the rivers.
8. Under King Assurbanipal, Nineveh was the capital of Assyria.
9. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the worlds first literary epic, has its origins in Sumer.
10. Cuneiform means wedge shaped.
11. Evidence that supports the presence of Assurnasirpal's capital at Kalhu (in Iraq) includes evidence of a five-mile mudbrick wall.
12. Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden and Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute are examples of relief sculptures.
13. In the style of the Assyrians, the imperial complex at Persepolis was set on a raised platform.
14. The people of Akkad spoke a Semitic language, which is related to Arabic and Hebrew.
15. Ishtar Gate has crenellated towers.
Chapter 3 Art of Ancient Egypt
1. Akhenaten set up a new capital at Tell el-Amarna.
2. Hieroglyphic art on the Palette of Narmer is an example of the use of hieratic scale.
3. Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt were united around 3000 BCE.
4. In the Rosetta Stone, hieroglyphs are juxtaposed with Greek writing.
5. Hatshepsut was a woman who was represented in art as a male king.
6. Relief sculpture usually relies on the play of light and shadow alone for its effect.
7. In ancient Egypt, glassmaking could only be practiced by artists working for the king.
8. The Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt were built by Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu.
9. The necropolis was an important part of ancient Egyptian funerary architecture.
10. Karomama was a divine consort and virgin priestess of Amon.
11. The Egyptian symbol of the looped cross, or ankh, represented everlasting life.
12. The earliest glass objects made in Egypt were produced using a technique called core-formed glassmaking.
13. The rock-cut tombs of Beni Hasan were built during the Middle Kingdom.
14. The colossal statues of Ramses II were moved to higher ground in the 1960s to avoid flooding from the construction of the Aswan
High Dam.
15. Among ancient Egyptian pictorial symbols, a white crown symbolizes Upper Egypt.
1. Imhotep served as designer of Djosers tomb complex.
2. Akhenaten was associated with a religion honoring a single sun deity.
3. The ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, often depicted in Books of the Dead, was Osiris.
4. Saqqara is located in Lower Egypt.
5. An ancient Egyptian inscription says: Become a scribe so that your limbs remain smooth and your hands soft and you can wear
white and walk like a man of standing whom [even] courtiers will greet.
6. The Great Temple of Amun was located in Karnak.
7. Necropolis means city of the dead.
8. The eye of Horus was an Egyptian symbol known as the wedjat.
9. The key artifact in deciphering the Egyptian language was the Rosetta Stone.
10. Egyptians typically built their residences with mud bricks.
11. The Late Period in Egypt saw the country and its art in the hands of foreign groups including Nubians, Persians, Macedonians,
Greeks and Romans.
12. The boy-king Tutankhamuns untouched tomb was discovered in 1922.
13. The Great Sphinx combines the body of a crouching lion with a face that was intended to represent Khafre.
14. The Tomb of Ramose is from the New Kingdom.
15. Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's tomb.