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| Old Stone Age; when crude stones and tools were used |
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| New Stone Age; when human cultures evolved into agrarian systems |
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| An ancient city-state located in the Fertile Crescent which contained the civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia. It lies between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| Wedge-shaped characters used in writing on tablets found in Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations. |
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| The attributing of humanlike characteristics and traits to nonhuman things or powers, such as deity |
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| A basic architectural form in which upright posts, or columns, supports horizontal lintel, or beam |
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| A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid usually built with external staircases and a shrine at the top; sometimes included a tower. |
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| A carved or inscribed vertical stone pillar or slab, often used for commemorative purposes |
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| Figures or forms that are carved so that they project from flat surface of a stone or metal; bas-relief is more shallow |
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| A band of painted designs or sculptured figures placed on walls |
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| In Minoan civilization, a type of script still undecipherable that lasted from about 1800 to 1400 BCE |
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| In Minoan civilization, an early form of Greek writing that flourished on Crete from about 1400 until about 1300 BCE |
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| a state ruled by the few, especially by a small fraction of persons or families |
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| In Greek religion, earth gods and goddesses who lived underground and were usually associated with peasants and their religious beliefs |
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| Narrative poetry, usually told or written in an elevated style, that recounts the life of a hero |
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| A handheld stringed instrument, with or without a sound box, used by ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks |
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| Verses sung and accompanied by the lyre, today, intensely personal poetry |
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| A short subjective poem that expresses intense personal emotion |
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| Post-beam-triangle construction |
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| Greek architecture the includes the post (column), the beam (lintel), and the triangular-shaped area (pediment) |
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| The part of the entablature that rests on the capital or column in classical post-beam- triangle construction |
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| In classical architecture, the triangular-shaped area or gable at the end of the building form by the sloping roof and the cornice |
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| In architecture, the part of the temple above the columns and below the roof |
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| In architecture, the crowning, projecting part of the entablature |
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| In Greek temples, the upper step of the base that forms a platform on which the columns stand |
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| In Greek architecture, the stepped base on which a temple stands |
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| The inner sanctum or walled room of a classical temple where sacred statues were housed |
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| The simplest and oldest of the Greek architectural orders, in which temple columns have undecorated capitals and rest directly on the stylobate |
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| In architecture, the upper or crowning part of a column, on which the entablature rests |
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| In Greek architecture, a three-grooved rectangular panel on the frieze of a Doric temple; trigylph alternated with metopes |
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| A panel, often decorated, between two triglyphs on the entablature of a Doric Greek temple |
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| In architecture, convex curving or enlarging of the central part of a column to correct the optical illusion that the column is too thin |
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| Decorative vertical grooves carved in a column |
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