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This highly advanced form of Prehistoric art depicts mainly animals in motion and almost no human figures.
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What are CAVE PAINTINGS?
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This figure, the most famous of its type, has very large breasts, hips, and belly but no face or feet.
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What is the VENUS OF WILLENDORF ?
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The two countries in which the greatest numbers of Paleolithic cave paintings have been found.
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What are FRANCE and SPAIN?
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This famous Neolithic Period structure probably served astronomical and religious purposes.
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What is STONEHENGE?
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This Paleolithic site located in modernday Turkey had living quarters for many people, but had no streets.
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What is CATAL HUYUK?
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The comic strip-like horizontal panels in which narrative art is displayed.
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What are REGISTERS?
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Represented by a falcon, this god, the son of Ra, represents the pharaoh in this life.
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Who is HORUS?
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This Old Kingdom pharaoh built the largest of the Great Pyramids at Gizeh and looks very regal seated in high mortuary statue.
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Who is KHAFRE?
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The event depicted on the Palette of Narmer.
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What is the UNIFICATION OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT?
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The earliest architect in history whose name we know, this guy designed the Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser.
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Who is IMHOTEP?
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The Egyptian god of the dead, and his wife, who brought him back from the dead.
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Who are OSIRIS AND ISIS?
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A room in which the roof is held up by rows of columns, as in New Kingdom temples.
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What is a HYPOSTYLE HALL?
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This female pharaoh led her troops in battle and built a magnificent funerary temple.
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Who is HATSHEPSUT?
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The name of the reign of Akhenaton, who introduced monotheism and radically reformed the style of art.
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What is the AMARNA PERIOD?
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Brick and earthen structures, with steep staircases, that had temples on the top.
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What is a ZIGGURAT?
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This Neo-Sumerian leader appears in dozens of statues with his hands clasped in a gesture of humility.
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This little two-sided "box" shows a battle scene on one side and a feast on the other.
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The oldest form of writing, developed by the Sumerians.
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What is CUNEIFORM?
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Big-eyed figures made to worship and serve the gods at all times.
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What are VOTIVE FIGURES?
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Big-eyed figures made to worship and serve the gods at all times. .
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What are VOTIVE FIGURES?
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The cultural group best known for their bas-reliefs of lion hunts.
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Who are the ASSYRIANS?
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This Babylonian king is depicted on a stela receiving the code of laws from a god.
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Who is HAMMURABI?
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This cultural group, who conquered the Sumerians, is depicted in the Victory Stele of Naram Sin.
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Who are the AKKADIANS?
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This type of sculpture, a combination of human head, bull body, and eagle wings, stood in pairs at the gates of Assyrian palaces.
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What is a LAMASSU?
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The location of ruler Darius's imperial palace.
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What is PERSEPOLIS?
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