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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) MORE ON BACK 1 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 ka 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 2