A recurring approach(s) to representation throughout the Ancient Near East include(s):

use of composite view, and the balance of naturalism and abstraction

During the Neolithic period, after the Paleolithic period and the Ice-Age ended:

architecture began, and representations of humans in art increased

The Assyrian relief of king Ashurbanipal hunting lions, which included the dying lioness, showed:

the kings' power and strength, and that the artists had great powers of observation

In Sumerian art, the hierarchy of social classes was expressed in:

the design of the ziggurat, and the size of votive figures

The "Venus" of Willendorf probably represented

the idea of fertility and its importance

The following culture(s) had a hierarchical society in which different classes had different rights and privileges:

Egyptian and Sumerian

Prehistoric cave painters used:

mineral and plant pigments, brushes, spray painting, and come-and-go-outlines

The part(s) of the body that had special symbolic significance in ancient art:

hair and eyes

Egyptian art was strongly influenced by the following cultural circumstances and factors:

the Nile River, belief in the "ka", and the absolute authority of the pharaoh

The earliest building construction techniques included:

post-and-lintel

The Egyptian canon for representing the human figure included:

figural proportions, composite view, and hierarchy of importance

Pictorial devices used by ancient artists to indicate the most important figure in an image include:

larger size, and higher placement on the pictorial surface

In Egyptian sculpture, harder stone could be used to show:

status/importance of the subject, eternal life, and the strength and power of the person represented

Subjects frequently represented in Ancient Mesopotamian art include:

kings or other rulers

The composite view was used by ancient artists:

to describe the body and indicate the figure has symbolic meaning