ART COMMISSION HUM100

ART COMMISSION HUM100

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Early Civilizations Matrix

Using your readings and outside sources, complete the following matrix. Be sure to address the following in your matrix:

Provide names, titles, dates, brief descriptions of important events, and other details, as necessary.
Note the details of key political, socioeconomic, technological, artistic, musical, architectural, philosophical, and literary developments for each civilization listed in the table, which were evidenced in the humanities.

Properly cite the sources you use in completing this matrix.

Civilization
Politics
Society and Economics
Technology
Art
Music
Architecture
Philosophy
Literature
Buddhism








Early Middle Ages
Charlemagne (r. 768–814) was crude and brutal, but extremely intelligent

Charlemagne left his empire to his son, Louis Charlemagne left his empire to his son, Louis the Pious (r. 814–840)
In 843, shortly after Louis’ death, his three sons divided the empire according to the terms of the Treaty of Verdun
Pious (r. 814–840)
Merovingian dynasty
(kingdom growth)
Carolingian dynasty
(kingdom culmination and decline)


Charlemagne




Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave Trade
A village and its surrounding land were called a manor.
Residents of manors exchanged their labor for a lord’s protection.
Workers who were bound to a particular manor were called serfs.

The Heavy Plough

Tidal Mills
The Blast Furnace
The mechanical clock

The spinning wheel
The long bow

Arch of Constantine

Ascension of Christ

Byzantine iconoclasm

Coptic art


Benedictine monks at Cluny introduced choral music into the liturgy sometime in the first half of the tenth century. Odo of Cluny (879–942), the monastery’s second abbot, was an important musical theorist

Vezelay
Carolingian (Palatine Chapel)
Ottonian St Michael's at Hildesheim

Germanic adoption of
Roman architecture




Scotus and Ockham

Aquinas...

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