Humanities-The Humanistic Tradition
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- The belief that the forces of Nature are inhabited by spirits
- Animism
- The sum total of those things (including traions, techniques, material goods, and symbol systems ) that people have invented, developed, and transmitted.
- Culture
- ("wedge-shaped") one of humankind's earliest writing systems, consisting of wedge-shaped marks impressed into clay by means of a reed stylus.
- Cuneiform
- A stone tomb formed by two posts capped by a lintel
- Dolmen
- (Greek, "scared sign") the pictorgraphic script of ancient Egypt
- Hieroglyph
- Any of a family of bipedal primate mammals, including modern humans and their ancestors, the earliest of which is Australopithecus
- Hominid
- A sign that represents an idea or a thing
- Ideogram
- (Also French, Cire-Perdu) a method of metal cassting in which a figure is modeled inwax, then enclosed in a clay mold that is fired; the wax melts, and molten metal is poured into replace it, finally the clay mold is removed and the solid metal form is p
- Lost Wax Method
- A large, roughly shaped stone, often used in ancient architectural construction
- Megalith
- A sign that represents a sound
- Phonogram
- a pictorial symbol used in humankind's earliest systems of writing
- Pictograph
- Having many or various colors
- Polychrome
- The simplest form of architectrual construction, consisting of vertical memebers (posts) and supporting horizontals (lintyels)
- Post-and-Lintel
- The study of history before written records
- prehistory
- an upright stone slab or pillar
- Stele
- A set of rules or standards used to establish proportions
- Canon
- The theory of the origins, evolution, and sturcture of the universe
- Cosmology
- A sequence of rulers from the same family
- Dynasty
- (Italian, "Fresh") a method of painting on walls or ceilings suraced with fresh, moist, lime plaster.
- Fresco
- A hall whose roof is supported by columns
- Hypostyle
- Literally "accompanied by the lyre", hence, verse that is meant to be sung rather than spoken; usually characterized by individual and personal emotion
- Lyric
- Early rectangular Egyptian tomb with sloping sides and a flat roof
- Mastaba
- A unit of measurement used to determine proportion
- Module
- A single or sole ruler
- monarch
- A tall, four sided pillar that tapers to a pyramidal apex
- Obelisk
- A reed-like plant from which the ancient Egyptians made paper
- Papyrus
- The belief in many gods
- Polytheism
- A massive gateway in the form of a pair of truncated pyramids
- pylon
- A four sided structure rising to a peak
- Pyramid
- A sculptural techniques in which figures or forms are carved either to project from the background surface (rased relief) or cut away below the background level (sunk relief); the degree of relieft is designated as high, low, or sunken.
- Relief
- A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared
- Simile
- Rule by god or god's representative
- Theocracy
- A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another.
- Antiphonal
- The chief singer of the liturgy
- Cantor
- Contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their god
- Covenant
- A state achieved miltarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power
- Empire
- A long narrative poem that recounts the deeds of a legendary or historical hero in his quest for meaning or identity
- Epic
- The rituals for public worship
- Liturgy
- A seven branched candelabrum
- Menorah
- The belief in one and only one god
- Monotheism
- A type of music in which a single voice answers another voice or a chorus
- Responsory
- A trumpet made of a ram's horn, used to summon Jews to prayer
- Shofar
- The Jewish house for worship and religous study
- Synagogue
- (Hebrew, "ionstruction, ", "law", or "teaching") the first five bookds of the Hebrew Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
- Torah
- A terraced tower of rubble and brick that served ancient Mesopotamians as a temple-Shrine
- Ziggurat