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Honors Humanities Study Sheet for Unit Test #1 (Fall 2016)
REMINDER: You are responsible for reading and reviewing the contents of the relevant chapters in your
Creative Impulse book. Also, we recommend making flash cards to study key facts and ideas.
Prehistory
Mesopotamia
Places
Lascaux, France
Chauvet, France
Altamira, Spain
caves
Willendorf, Austria (location of Venus of Willendorf)
Gobekli Tepe (from "The Day Pictures Were Born" film)
Places
Mediterranean Sea
Tigris & Euphrates
Also note these locations: Red Sea, Caspian Sea, Black Sea
Mesopotamian fertile crescent
Israel
Jerusalem
Sumer
Ur
NOTE: You should be able to locate all these Prehistoric
and Mesopotamian (see right) places on a map. Your
Creative Impulse book has excellent reference maps.
Art/Architecture
Venus of Willendorf
fertility (Venus) figures in general
cave paintings (specific examples from Lascaux, Altamira,
and Chauvet)
Literature/Film/Readings
“Domestication of Motherhood”
Professor Agassiz reading
cave paintings (specific examples)
"The Day Pictures Were Born" film
Lord of the Flies
Creative Impulse chapter on Prehistory
People/Characters
David Lewis Williams (from "The Day Pictures Were Born"
film)
Nigel Spivey (from "The Day Pictures Were Born" film)
Adriene Rich
Piggy, Simon, Ralph, Jack, and Roger (LOTF)
Terms
patriarchal (Rich)
matriarchal (Rich)
duality (us/them), “otherness,” projection, and scapegoats
(Rich and Lord of the Flies)
ceremonial object
vision quest
shaman
San (bush men)
scavengers
hunters & gatherers
hunting
farming
conch shell (Lord of the Flies)
the beast (Lord of the Flies)
specs (Lord of the Flies)
fire (Lord of the Flies)
hunting (Lord of the Flies)
Art/Architecture
ziggurat
votive figures
Stele of Hammurabi
Literature/Readings
Epic of Gilgamesh
“Story of Enkidu”
Evolution of God by Richard Wright, summary
 5 types of polytheistic deities: elemental spirits,
puppeteers, organic spirits, ancestral spirits, and
the high gods)
 monolatry
 monotheism
Code of Hammurabi
Genesis
Hebrew Scriptures
Creative Impulse chapters on Mesopotamia & Ancient Egypt
People/Characters
Adam & Eve
Anu, Enkidu, Shamhat, and Aruru
Gilgamesh
Abraham
Creative Impulse chapter on Ancient Egypt
Ms. Barr (Judaism lecture)
Terms
pictograph
cuneiform and cunus
epic form/romantic model
kosher
Torah (What is the difference between this and the Tanakh?)
Tanakh (What is the difference between this and the Torah?)
a messiah (from a Jewish perspective)
prophets
covenant
anti-Semitism
sacrifice
orthodox, conservative, reform
monotheism (Judaism) and
polytheism (other Mesopotamian religions)
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Egypt
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Chefren
Sesostris
mastaba
step pyramid (includes Djoser's)
New Kingdom
Queen Hatshepsut (first known
female pharaoh; wore attire of
Hyksos (invaders; brought horses; male pharaoh)
less stable time in Egypt) – NOT
ON TEST THIS YEAR
Dayr el-Bahri
Great Pyramids of Giza (includes
Cheops's pyramid, the largest)
irrigation
tomb paintings
dams
Amenhotep (old name) /
Akhenaten (new name – why?)
Aten (sun god)
Palette of Narmer
monotheism vs. polytheism
“Story of Ra”
Nu
Ra
Isis
NOTE: You should be able to
locate the Nile River and Upper
and Lower Egypt on a map.
Sekhmet
Nile River
Book of the Dead
hieroglyphics (pictographic)
polytheism
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embalming
Writing Terminology (see Biblical Art Essay handouts and rubrics):
Qualities of good Concrete details (CDs)
Qualities of good Commentary (CMs)
Qualities of a good Topic Sentence (TS)
Qualities of a good Thesis
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