Guidelines/Objective for Study
Topic 1 - Prehistory, the "Fertile Crescent", and Egypt
Recognize and identify important Paleolithic and Neolithic works in visual art and architecture.
Understand the significance of the Neolithic revolution.
Describe the necessary elements which make up civilization and their significance.
Recognize and identify important works in visual art, literature, and architecture in Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian cultures.
Describe religious beliefs in Mesopotamian cultures and their manifestations in the arts and architecture.
Recognize and identify important works from ancient Egyptian art, architecture, and literature.
Describe the relationship between Egyptian religious beliefs and the arts.
Explain the reason for the Egyptian style of figurative depiction in two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.
Explain the significance of the brief reign of Akhenaten and the Amarna style.
Explain the relationship between the Nile River and the stable culture of ancient Egypt.
Topic 2 — The Aegean, Greece, and Rome
Identify important works of Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean art.
Understand the relationship between the ancient Aegean culture and the Greek culture that emerged after 1000 b.c.
Understand the basic significance and meaning of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Identify important works of early Greek pottery, sculpture, and architecture along with the vocabulary and meanings associated with the works.
Identify the basic elements of early Greek philosophy and literature.
Identify important works of Classical and Hellenistic art, architecture, drama, and literature.
Differentiate between Classical and Hellenistic works of art.
Describe the relationship between Classical and Hellenistic culture.
Understand the transformation of Greek culture by Alexander the Great and his empire.
Understand the contributions of Hellenistic scholarship to modern Western culture.
Identify important works of art from Etruria, Republican Rome, and the Roman Empire.
Describe Roman politics, including the effects upon Roman culture and the major participants in historical events.
Identify major municipal buildings and structures as well as their social function, structural systems, and materials.
Describe the relationship between the Etrsucan culture and art, Archaic Greek art and culture, and the art of early Rome.
Understand the relationship between Rome and Roman culture and the culture and art of the Greeks.
Topic 3 —- Judaism and Christianity, Byzantium, and Islam
Describe the basic tenets of Judaism and it relationship to the religious beliefs of Mesopotamia.
Describe the development of the Gospels, and their historical and theological differences.
Identify the major teachings and text of the Christian Church as presented in the textbook.
Identify examples of early Christian art and architecture as well as their sources and liturgical functions.
Explain the relationship between Judaism and Early Christianity.
Identify important Byzantine works in visual art and architecture.
Identify the major differences between Roman Christianity and Byzantine Christianity.
Identify important Islamic works in visual art and architecture.
Understand the significance of the Silk Road and trade in the Islamic and Byzantine worlds.
Identify the basic tenets and history of Islam.
Understand the relationship between the teachings of Islam and the arts of the Islamic world.
Topic 4 — Civilizations of India, Far East Asia, and the Americas
Understand the Indian caste system, including the roles of the different castes.
Identify important Indian works in visual art, architecture, music, literature, and theater, including themes and subject matter.
Understand the history, deities, major teachers, and concepts of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Compare the teaching and influence of Hinduism and Islam upon Indian life.
Describe the relationship between the various religions of India and the arts they produced and influenced.
Identify the major themes, plots, and characters in Indian literature. Identify important early Chinese works in visual arts, architecture, and philosophy, including themes and subject matter.
Identify the major ideas and thinkers in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Understand the effects of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism upon the arts, literature, and architecture of early China.
Identify important early Japanese works in visual art, literature, and architecture, including themes and subject matter.
Understand the impact of Chinese culture and art upon Japanese culture and art.
Identify the locations of indigenous American cultures.
Identify chief characteristics of Mesoamerican, Peruvian, and North American religious beliefs and cultures.
Identify major works of art, literature, and architecture from Mesoamerican, Peruvian, and North American cultures.
Understand the effect of indigenous belief systems upon architecture and works of art.
Topic 5 — the European Middle Ages
Identify important works of art, architecture, literature, and music from the early medieval period.
Identify important elements of the Germanic culture and their effects upon the shaping of European culture.
Understand the relationship between Christian belief and the art of the early Middle Ages.
Describe the impact of Charlemagne and the Carolingian Era upon European art and culture.
Understand the impact of the Crusades in transforming European culture through contact with the East.
Describe the chivalric ideal and its influence upon literature and culture.
Identify works of art, architecture, literature, and music from the Late Medieval period.
Understand the development of Gothic architecture in France and elsewhere, including important structural elements.
Describe the intellectual developments of the Late Medieval period, including the establishment of universities.
Describe the intermingling of Classical thought and Christian theology in the Late Medieval period. |
