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1. A polytheist culture means what exactly?
   a culture that believes in many gods
   
   
   
2. We have seen two different plant forms on Ancient Egyptian sculptures Name the plants they represent?
   Lotus > "Upper Egypt" in the South located upstream of the Nile River
   Papyrus > "Lower Egypt" in the North (downstream of the Nile)
   
   
   
3. West African palaces were planed and created with this design in mind:
    i. Asymmetrically ii. concentric circles iii. grid
   
   
   
4. “Hierarchical Scale suggests that relative size indicates relative importance within the culture.” Is this statement TRUE or FALSE
   
   
   
5. Prehistoric cave painting has been found throughout Europe. What do these works date to?

      _______25,000 BCE  (250,000 BCE homo sapiens)
   

6. A marble carving can be described as: (Circle the correct answer.) i. subtractive carving
   
   ii. hollow lost wax carving iii. additive carving
   
   
7. In the space at the right draw a post and lintel diagram. Label what the posts are and what the lintel is.
   
   
   
   
   
8. “Ancient Egyptians lived to die.” TRUE or FALSE
   
   
   
9. What are the three periods of Prehistoric paintings? 
   Give the proper name to each and
   what it translates to. 
   Place in the correct order from earliest to latest.
   Paleolithic > Old Stone Age
   Mesolithic > Middle Stone Age
   Neolithic> New Stone Age

10. Why where Ancient Egyptians interested in living a very good and honest life?
They wanted to keep the cosmic energy in balance to keep harmony in the afterlife

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11. What is another name for a necropolis? City of the Dead

12. Where on the color wheel are complementary pairs located? In the opposite position across from each other
    
    
    
13. The color wheel is divided into six parts. Name the Primaries: R B Y
    Name the secondaries: G O V
    
    
    
14. Explain what a relief is in sculpture is: a sculpture seen from one side only 180 degrees
    
    
15. A pyramid is the earliest architectural form found in Egypt.

TRUE or

FALSE (a mastaba is)

16. Two lands emerged Ancient Egypt. The first is called ”Upper Egypt" in the South located upstream of the Nile River and "Lower Egypt" in the north (downstream).
TRUE or FALSE

17. What two materials have we seen in class that are used to make a lost-wax cast? WAX and BRONZE
    
    
    
18. The art produced in Africa, both very old and made in the 18th and 19th c., influenced this famous 20th-century artist we have seen in class, who? Pablo Picasso
    
    
    
19. The word polychrome means what? MANY COLORS
    
    
    
20. Explain specifically what a composite pose is: AN UNNATURAL POSE of the human body > head is in profile, eyes are frontal, upper torso also frontal, lower torso in profile
    
    
21. Why is the “Pavement Period” called this in our Ancient African chapter? BECAUSE BENIN/IFE/YORUBA people DESIGNED THE ROAD WAYS WITH COLORFUL MOSAICS

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22. What is an anchor line? FOUND IN ANC. EGYPT, IT IS WHAT HUMANS, MAMMALS, OTHER LIVING CREATURES STAND ON

23. What is an anchor line symbolic for? IT REPRESENTS THE GROUND THAT IS SACRED AND IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE ANC. EGYPTIAN GODS

24. Yoruba Land is found where in Africa? East Africa South Africa West Africa North Africa Circle the correct answer

25. In West Africa, explain the cultural significance of the ending of the Late Period in 1897:
    END OF SLAVERY, WHEN THE BRITISH RANSACKED THE BENIN PALACE SENDING THE KING INTO EXHILE FOR 14 YEARS
    
    
    
26. Benin established a relationship with what country that carried active trade to Europe and the Americas, starting first with ivory, timber, but eventually, and sadly, human slaves lasting into the 16th century. What European country: PORTUGAL / SPAIN
    
    
    
27. Gold ostrich eggs are found on top of a mosque in Africa. What two symbolic concepts do they serve? FERTILITY & PURITY
    
    
    
28. The word Zimbabwe is derived from dzimba dza kabwe = which translates to in English:
    HOUSES OF STONE
    
    
    
29. The Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali is made from what material? ADOBE / CLAY
    
    
    
30. The people of Benin and Ife created very large heavy heads. They were made from what material? METAL > USING LOST WAX CASTING TECHNIQUES
    
    
    
31. Who did these “Big" heads represent? THE KING AND PREVIOUS ROYAL ANCESTORS

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32. “Ancient Egyptian sculpture and pictorial images that depicted people lower on the socio- political strata are visually found more naturalistic.”
TRUE or FALSE

33. Name all the Ancient Egyptian architectural forms we have been introduced to in our class
in the correct order:
 i. Mastaba
ii. Stepped mastaba or stepped pyramid
 iii. Pyramid

BONUS: Each question worth 2 bonus points

A. What is a toron? THE WOODEN SCALFOLDING FOUND PROTRUDING FROM THE MOSQUE IN D'JENNE 

B. In the beginning of Ancient Egyptian chapter, we saw a great funerary mask. What 4 materials is it made from? i. GOLD  ii. LAPIS LAZULI  iii. CORAL iv. TURQUOISE v. GLASS EYES it is the 18th-dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen

C. Name a symbol found in Ancient Egypt we have studied and what it represents:
THE HAWK = HORUS,  LOTUS , PAPAYRUS, SUN = RA, fake beards, pharaoh crown, etc. 

D. As Ancient Egyptian sculpture moved through the periods, human bodies seemed to get

thinner and flatter. Is this statement TRUE or  FALSE

E. Name the three Ancient Egyptian kingdoms in their correct order: 
i. The Old Kingdom c. 2575 - 2150 BCE
         The Great Pyramids at Giza (the three)
          Erected 2575 - 2450 BCE
Fourth Dynasty kings: 
King Khufu (reigned c. 2551-2528 BCE - oldest and largest: covers 13 acres at its base, polished limestone
King Khafre (r. c. 2520-2494 BCE) - middle scale (son)

King Menkaure (r. c. 2490 - 2472 BCE) - smallest (grandson)
ii.  The Middle Kingdom c. 1975 - 1640 BCE
iii. The New Kingdom c. 1539 - 1075 BCE The Great Temple Complexes

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