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1. This term identifies an upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings, frequently used as a grave marker. - Correct Answers Stele 2. This term is used to describe the Late Stone Age, when agricultural skills had been developed but stone was still the principal material for tools and weapons. - Correct Answers Neolithic 3. This Sumerian king who ruled Uruk about 2700 B.C.E. is also the subject of an epic story that predates the Iliad and the Odyssey. - Correct Answers Gilgamesh 4. This man conducted the long search in the Valley of the Kings that culminated in the discovery of the intact sarcophagus and immense treasures of Tutankhamen. - Correct Answers Carter 5. This is a system of writing, common to the ancient Near East, using characters made up of wedge shapes. - Correct Answers Cuneiform 6. This unorthodox Egyptian pharaoh elevated Aton to supremacy over all other deities. - Correct AnswersAkhenaton 7. This businessman directed excavations intended to confirm the existence of the ancient city of Troy. - Correct AnswersSchliemann 8. This ancient city of Assyria fell to the Babylonians in 612 BCE. - Correct AnswersNinevah 9. This term is used to describe the Old Stone Age when human beings appeared and manufactured tools were used for the first time. - Correct AnswersPaleolithic 10. The site of the three colossal pyramids built for three pharaohs is known by this name. - Correct AnswersGizeh 11. This is the Egyptian architect who designed the earliest pyramid as a tomb for the Pharaoh Djoser. - Correct AnswersImhotep 12. Gilgamesh ruled this ancient Sumerian city ruled in about 2700 B.C.E. - Correct AnswersUruk 13. This term identifies large elevated platforms with superimposed terraces. - Correct AnswersZiggurat 14. This term identifies an intricate maze where the monstrous Minotaur, half man and half bull, was confined by King Minos. - Correct AnswersLabyrinth 15. This is the site of the ancient Minoan civilization and home of the legendary King Minos, who confined the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. - Correct AnswersKnossos 16. This the site of the great Sphinx that stands near three colossal pyramids. - Correct AnswersGizeh 17. This is the only person to whom the gods have given everlasting life; from him Gilgamesh seeks the secrets of immortality. - Correct AnswersUtnapishtim 18. A code of laws was developed by this Babylonian ruler. - Correct AnswersHammurabi 19. This is the English archeologist whose discoveries confirmed the existence of the ancient Minoan civilization at Knossos on the island of Crete. - Correct AnswersEvans 20. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is known by this name. - Correct AnswersMesopotamia 21. What is the Sumerian system of writing called? - Correct AnswersCuniform 22. The cave of Lascaux is located in which country? - Correct AnswersFrance 23. The epic of Gilgamesh provides insights about which ancient culture? - Correct AnswersSumerian 24. Which pharaohs have a pyramid at Gizeh? - Correct AnswersKhafre, Khufu, Menkaure 25. This is the Greek word for "city," used to designate the independent city-states of ancient Greece. - Correct AnswersPolis 26. This is a type of standing male statue, always shown nude. - Correct AnswersKouroi 27. In architecture, this is a term for the vertical grooves on Greek columns. - Correct AnswersFluting 28. One of the Greek orders of architecture, elaborate and graceful in style, it features columns that have capitals decorated with volutes. - Correct AnswersIonic Order 29. This is the name of Odysseus's ever-faithful wife who refuses to declare her husband dead and remarry one of her suitors. - Correct AnswersPenelope 30. This is a Greek term meaning "character," used to describe the ability of each musical mode to affect human behavior in a specific way. - Correct AnswersEthos 31. This is a type of standing female statue always clad in drapery. - Correct AnswersKore 32. This term identifies a sculptural technique in which figures are carved out of stone slabs, part of which are left to form a background. - Correct AnswersRelief Sculpture 33. This is an elaborate seven-string lyre used for accompanying vocal music. - Correct AnswersKithara 34. He is the blind poet traditionally considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. - Correct AnswersHomer 35. This is a Greek double-reed musical instrument that is similar to the modern oboe. - Correct AnswersAulos 36. He is the hero of the Odyssey, Homer's epic account of the hero's return home from the Trojan War. - Correct AnswersOdysseus 37. This is a Greek term for a type of song that is a solemn invocation to the gods. - Correct AnswersDithyramb 38. In the Greeks' war with Troy, he was the Greeks' greatest warrior, whose argument with Agamemnon is the subject of Homer's Iliad. - Correct AnswersAchilles 39. This term identifies the scroll forming the capital on an Ionic column. - Correct AnswersVolute 40. This is the Greek term for "excessive pride." - Correct AnswersHubris 41. He is the son of Troy's King Priam and the great warrior who kills Patroclus. - Correct AnswersHector 42. This is the head or crowning part of a column. - Correct AnswersCapital 43. One of the Greek orders of architecture, simple and austere in style, it features columns that have undecorated capitals. - Correct AnswersDoric 44. This statue marks the "turning point" between the artistic styles of the late Archaic world and the early Classical world. - Correct AnswersKritios Boy 45. What was the basic political and social unit of ancient Greece? - Correct AnswersCity-State 46. According to Greek mythology, who was the ruler of the gods? - Correct AnswersZeus 47. What was the basis for the philosophical system devised by Pythagoras? - Correct AnswersMathematics 48. Which Greek vase painting style includes the meander or maze pattern? - Correct AnswersGeometric 49. According to Greek mythology, who was the wife of the king of the gods? - Correct AnswersHera 50. Who is considered the "Father of History"? - Correct AnswersHerodotus 51. This is the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War. - Correct AnswersThucydides 52. In this comedy by Aristophanes, the women of Athens refuse to make love with their husbands until peace is negotiated. - Correct AnswersLysistrata 53. This is a circular building in Greek architecture. - Correct AnswersTholos 54. The original Greek version of this term means a "joining together." - Correct AnswersHarmany 55. This sculptor's Aphrodite of Cnidus is considered one of the first attempts in Western art to introduce the elements of sensuality into the portrayal of the female form. - Correct AnswersPraxiteles 56. This is a tiny temple on the Acropolis dedicated to the goddess of victory. - Correct AnswersTemples of Athena Nike 57. This is the Greek dramatist who wrote the Oresteia, the only trilogy surviving from ancient Greek literature. - Correct AnswersAeschylus