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Please answer all 4 questions fully. No word count as long as it covers the questions.

1. Briefly explain the artists relationship around nature in Early Chinese Culture, and how it differs from Roman culture.

2. Conceptually, Gardner's history of art has always distinguished between the lineage of western civilization (Egypt/Mesopotamia/European cultures) and other cultures that have developed seperately from this lineage (Africa, the Asian cultures, the Native Americas, Islamic Cultures). Choose a non-western culture to compare and contrast with the evolution of western culture; choose 3 works, including some architecture, to talk about which elements carry over or are adopted by both western and non-western and what ideas/technologies/expressions are distinctly different. Be Concrete.

3. Choosing two different religions from the non-western cultures that we have studied, list, compare and contrast at least three specific works to explain the similarities and differences between the two belief systems. Be concrete.

4. Why was sacrifice so important to the Maya? Briefly explain its purpose in their culture; name a concept/practice in a different culture that it could b related to.