Art History Unit 3 Exam

What term do historians use to describe these Toltec male statue-columns?

Atlantids

What material was used to construct Casa Grande, giving it remarkable durability?

Caliche, a calcium-rich mud with cactus rib framework

What is the name for the sculptures of reclining figures often found at sacrificial sites that date to pre-Colombian Mesoamerica?

Chacmool

What is the name for the sculptures often found at sacrificial sites that date to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica?

Chacmool

Which deity is pictured in the circular disk found at Tenochtitlan?

Coyolxauhqui

What best defines the enormous Olmec sculptures left behind in places such as La Venta, San Lorenzo?

Heads of rulers with expressive features

What is the interpretation of the murder of Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli?

Huitzilopochitli's triumph as the sun over the moon

Which deities were honored with the design of the two temples atop the Templo Mayor at Tenochitlan?

Hutzilopochitli and Tlaloc

This predator is native to the Americas appears as a symbol of prestige and royalty in many early Mesoamerican cultures

Jaguar

In Southwestern art, what is the Hopi name for spirits personifying ancestors and natural elements such as mountains and rivers?

Katsina

What is the most thoroughly documented cultures of the Preclassic cultures of Mesoamerica?

Olmec

What structure is the largest at Teotihucan?

Pyramid of the Sun

What describes the importance of the Temple I at Tikal (Temple of the Jaguar?)

The tomb of a ruler is located beneath it

Many of the Spaniards who first saw Tenochtitlan likened it to which European city?

Venice

What did the Mayas call the underworld?

Xibalba