Nonwestern Art (Art 112/Instructor Patty Haag) 

Image courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Arts

If you don't know much about the topic or the culture you are exploring, do some preliminary research on Google to clarify the topic and to get more background about the culture.

Here's a topic from your compare/contrast topic list to illustrate:

• Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem/Phoenix Hall, Byodoin, Uji 
• After preliminary Internet research you should know several key things about Phoenix Hall:
  
  
  1.  culture or group of origin
  2.  another name for the hall
  3.  Phoenix Hall is part of a larger building
  4.  geographic location of Phoenix Hall