AP art americas

Art from South America studied in this chapter is known as

Andean

The Aztecs established a powerful empire around________ years after Teotihuacan, along with its Temple of the Feathered Serpent, had been abandoned.

800

Embroidery can only be used to create basic outlines on textiles. It would not be used, for example, to make intricate details or animal figures.

False

The arts of the Paracas and the Chavín bear no relation to each other in terms of either style or content.

False

Wo-Haw was a member of the ________ people.

Kiowa

Chavín art commonly features animals with spiritual connections.

True

The Moche earspool from Sipán was found in

a royal tomb

The Raimondi Stela is

a stone monument

Cliff dwellings, like those built by the Anasazi in Mesa Verde, were constructed using which materials available in the area?

adobe, timber, and stone

The Mandan robe painted with a depiction of a battle with the Sioux in 1797 (3.98) functioned only as a piece of clothing to keep the owner warm.

false

The enormous relief carving of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauqui, found beneath the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, shows a mythical event and has nothing to do with the sacrificial ritual that occurred at the temple

false

The only people ever sacrificed by the Aztecs were prisoners captured during war.

false

The writing system developed by the Maya is known as ________.

hieroglyphs

The collection of individual patterns on the Inca ruler's tunic ________.

indicates the conquest of all possible ethnicities

The enormous relief carving of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauqui found beneath the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, shows her ________.

with her arms and legs severed from her body*

The medium of the Eagle Transformation Mask is

wood, feathers, and rope

Some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas are

Clovis points

In 1940 Matthew and Marion Stirling found ________ at the site of ________.

Olmec colossal heads . . . La Venta

The Pyramid of the Sun is found at ________.

Teotihuacan

The Kwakiutl late-nineteenth-century Eagle Transformation Mask (3.100) was opened and closed during performances to ________.

all of the previous answers

The Mesoamerican ballgame was played for the purpose of ________.

all of the previous answers

We know about cultures from the ancient Americas through

all of the previous answers

This creature seems to have possessed special significance in Machu Picchu, and is depicted throughout the site.

condor

Contour rivalry refers to

designs in which lines describe more than one thing at the same time

The ________ in Wo-haw's self-portrait show the presence of European settlers on the Plains Indians of North America.

domesticated bull and cultivated fields

Details of the ballgame shown on the Maya cylindrical vessel include ________.

equipment and protective gear

A mural at the Maya city of Bonampak depicts its ruler Chaan Muan punishing his captives by deciding to imprison them for life.

false

Olmec heads were easily found at La Venta because they were still on prominent display, exactly as the Olmec had left them.

false

Gold was important to the Moche culture because

it was associated with the sun's energy and power

Which of these materials was not used to make the Andean llama figurine?

lapis lazuli

The Inca made figurines of ________ because they wanted to celebrate the role these creatures played in textile manufacture.

llamas

The depiction of a battle with the Sioux in 1797 painted on a Mandan robe was created using

mineral pigments

In the Andes, textiles were considered ________ gold and silver.

more valuable than

Ceremonies including ________ took place at the top of Aztec pyramids.

sacrifices where victims' hearts were extracted

________ were symbolically important to textile manufacture and served as an inspiration for an Inca creation myth.

spiders

The Pyramid of the Sun is a ________.

stepped pyramid

The colossal sculpture of the Aztec mother goddess Coatlicue is made of ________.

stone

The designs on the colossal sculpture of the Aztec mother goddess Coatlicue are ________.

symmetrical

Machu Picchu was built for

the Inca ruler Pachacuti

Paracas textiles have been preserved because

the climate in Peru is very dry

Mesoamerican art was made in ________.

the region of modern-day Mexico and Central America

Many examples of indigenous art from the southwest U.S. come from the four-corners area, the place where

the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet

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________were portable dwellings made by Plains Indians.

tipis

Anasazi cliff dwellings were built to take advantage of sun and shade in order to provide temperature control in different seasons.

true

Aztec civilization came after the Olmec, Teotihuacano, and Maya societies.

true