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Living With Art Chapter 14

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The ancient cultures that we are able to examine most fully are those in which
the art has been found or preserved
The largest structure of an ancient Sumerian city was the
ziggurat
The oldest surviving set of laws from ancient Mesopotamia was recorded in
Hammurabi's Code
According to the author, what distinguishes archaeology from grave robbing
1. the passage of time
2 the motives of the perpetrators
3. the language we use to describe ancient finds
Before the discovery of the Chauvet cave painting, the oldest known paintings in Europe were
the cave paintings of Lascaux
The Athernian head of state __ was responsible for the rebuilding of the Acropolis
Perikles
The word Classical in the context of Western civilization refers to
ancient Greek and Roman culture
Roman sculptors are credited with the artistic invention of
1. equestrian portraiture
2. bronze casting
3. death masks
The Great Sphinx Giza is believed to be
an image of the pharaoh Khafre
The Parthenon was a temple built in the __ styple
Doric
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