The Humanities could be defined as the study of what?
B. the cultural as distinguished from the scientific branches of learning. C. the creative process of tradition as it occured in the past and continues in the present.
Which of the following is NOT typically referred to when discussing Pictorial Art (Painting, drawing, etc.)?
B. Relief
"Full-round" is a term used to describe an aspect of what art form?
C. Sculpture
The "Old Stone Age" was also known as?
D. The Paleolithic period
The first great cities of the ancient world arose in what region - also known as the "Cradle of Civilization"?
A. Mesopotamia
The belief in many gods or deities is called?
C. Polytheism
The term megalith is properly applied to what work of the ancient world?
B. Stonehenge
In an ancient mythic story a universal image of a hero, villain, monster, or deity is called what?
C. An archetype
Stonehenge is an example of what type of ancient construction?
B. Post and Lintel
Ancient Egyptian civilization endured for how many years?
C. 3,000
The Egyptian Pyramids were built for what purpose?
B. Elaborate tombs for their leaders to live on in after death.
At the end of the Mycenaean civilization Greece entered a 250 year Dark Age in which what happened?
D. All writing, artistic crafts, and other cultural skills and knowledge were lost.
In which of these would the author or artist have employed the epic form?
A. Homer's Iliad
Homer's poems - The Iliad and The Odyssey - were based on what events?
D. The Trojan wars of the Mycenaean civilization