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Art HistoryReview of the Ancient World                                                                Who or what am I?

1.    My culture perfected the arch.

 

2.    I painted images of animals on cave walls to help guarantee a successful hunt.

 

3.    I painted beautiful ceramic pots first with geometric designs and later with pictures of: sporting events, gods and heroes, battle scenes, and people doing everyday things

 

4.    I sculpted the first free-standing life sized nudes of ancient times

 

5.    I am one of the earliest known figures of a human being and I was thought to bring good luck to women who wanted to have a baby.

 

6.    I am a huge circle of stones that was used as a calendar.

 

7.    I am a technique of drawing in which animals or people are drawn in both profile and frontal views.

 

8.    We discovered two of the most famous prehistoric caves in Europe at Lascaux and Altamira.

 

9.    My art was made to last for eternity and remained unchanged for 3,000 years.

 

10.  My sculptures were narrative reliefs carved on columns that told stories of military battles.

 

11.  I made wax death masks, which I used to honor my ancestors.

 

12.  I am an ancient spirit of a great ruler and I will keep the ruler alive forever.

 

13.  My sculptures were made from very hard stone and portrayed rulers in stiff, frontal view poses.

 

14.  I and my fellow carvers like to sculpt military leaders.

 

15.  The name of my trade means “he who keeps alive”

 

16.  I built roads, sewers, and bridges

 

17.  I was an ancient ruler who died when I was 19.

 

18.  The subject matter of my art is mostly the human figure.

 

19.  I am a name for a time that means old stone age.

 

20.  I am the fanciest kind of Greek column.

 

21.  I am a Roman temple with a spherical interior and huge dome where people worship many different gods.

 

22.  I am a natural disaster that occurred in 79 AD and buried a Roman town so that in modern times people could see how the ancients lived.

 

23.  I am a Greek art invention that changed sculpture forever.

 

24.  My culture founded the greatest empire the world had every known.

 

25.  My culture thought man was the measure of all things.

 

26.  My culture designed buildings that used circles and curved lines.

 

27.  My culture invented Democracy.

 

 

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