Worksheet #3      Chapter 2, Ancient Near East

Ø     Mesopotamia--give general description of economic and agricultural changes

Ø     Sumerian--brief description of culture

 
vocabulary:

·        Cuneiform

·        White temple at Urak

•  Inanna (female head, Urak

·        Bull-headed Lyre

·        Soundbox design

Ø     Akkadian (time period-description)

·        Stele of Naram-Sin

Ø     Neo-Sumerian (time period-description)

·        Ziggurat at Ur

Ø     Babylonian (time period-description)

• Stele of Hammurabi

Ø     Hittite (time period-description)

·        Lion Gate

Ø     Elamite (time period-description)

·        Queen Napirasu

Ø     Assyrian  (time period and describe)

·        Royal Citadel of Sargon II

·        Conceptual vs. optical views of Lamassu

·        Relief sculptures (describe)

·        Ashurbanipal at Nineveh

·        Animal adversaries

Ø     Neo-Babylonian  (time period and describe)

·        Glazed bricks

Ø     Persian  (time period and describe)

·        Palace at Percepolis

·        Achaemenid style (influences)

Ø     Metal Repousse of the Sassanian culture

Themes:     Horizontal design

          Hunting relief/designs

          Victory relief/designs

          Ziggurat/temples

          Relief sculpture