History of Architecture Reviewer
History of Architecture Reviewer
History of Architecture Reviewer
A MEMBER OF A PEOPLE HAVING NO PERMANENT HOME BUT MOVING FROM PLACE TO PLACE USUALLY IN SEARCH NOMAD
OF FOOD TO GRAZE LIVESTOCK
ERECTED AGAINST ONE WALL OF A CAVE AND POST SUPPORTS, DRAPED WITH SKIN CURTAIN AND ROOF OVER THE LEAN-TO
POSTS, PINNED TO THE GROUND BY CIRCLE STONES
SHALLOW DEPRESSIONS IN THE GROUND SURROUNDED BY MAMMOTH BONES. IT IS MORE COMMON IN EASTERN PIT-HOUSES
EUROPE
HOLES MEASURING UP TO 6-8 FEET DEEP, LIKE A CELLAR USED FOR STORING DRIED FOOD DURING THE CACHE-PITS
SUMMER
FOUNDATION WALL OF MAMMOTH JAWS AND LONG BONES CAPPED WITH sKULLS. ROOFED WITH TREE BRANCHES, MEZHIRICH
OVERLAID BY TUSKS
PORTABLE CONICAL TENT MADE UP OF ANIMAL SKINS UPON WOODEN POLES USED BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS TEEPEE/TIPI
SEMI-PERMANENT DOMED DWELLING USED BY AMERICAN INDIAN MADE BY FASTENING BARKS, RUSH MATS, OR WIGWAM
ANIMAL SKIN
CLOCHAN IS A DRY-STONE HUT WITH A CORBELLED ROOF IN BEEHIVE SHAPE, ASSOCIATED WITH THE IRISH BEEHIVE HUT
COASTLINE
A PRIMITIVE INDIAN STRUCTURE OF JOINED LOGS AND EARTH, COVERED IN MUD AND SOD HOGAN
COVERED WITH SPLIT REED MATS; BUILT ON A REED PLATFORM TO PREVENT SETTLEMENT (SWAMPS). FLOATING MUDHIF
BASKET HOUSES OF IRAQ
BATAK TRIBE HOUSE; INTENDED FOR SEVERAL FAMILIES, BUILT OF TIMBER AND PALM LEAVES. THE FENCED SPACED SUMATRAN HOUSE
UNDERNEATH IS FOR LIVESTOCK
EARLIEST KNOWN STRUCTURES OR TEMPORARY SHELTER. OVAL IN SHAPE AND BUILT CLOSE TO SEASHORES USING HUT
STAKES WITH STONES AS SUPPORT
ESKIMO HOUSE THAT IS BUILT USING BLOCKS OF HARD SNOW OR ICE IN THE SHAPE OF DOME IGLOO
TYPE OF HUT COMPOSED OF MUD WALLS AND ROOF OF PALM LEAVES NIGERIAN HUT
SMALL STONE TOOL MADE OF FLINT OR CHERT USED TO BUILD STRUCTURES DURING MESOLITHIC PERIOD MICROLITH
MONOLITH: HUGE STONE STANDING VERTICALLY ON THE GROUND, STANDING ALONE OR ARRANGED IN ROWS MENHIR
STONE TABLE; MADE UP OF TWO UPRIGHT STONES SUPPORTING A HORIZONTAL GIANT STONE. USUALLY DOLMEN
REGARDED AS A TOMB
AN ARTIFICIAL MOUND OF EARTH OR STONE, ESPECIALLY OVER AN ANCIENT GRAVE. ALSO CALLED BARROW, BURIAL TUMULUS
MOUNDS OR KURGANS
MEGALITHIC TOMB WHICH THE MAIN GALLERY IS ENTERED THROUGH AN ANTECHAMBER OR HALLWAY GALLERY GRAVE
CONSIST OF ONE OR MORE BURIAL CHAMBERS COVERED IN EARTH OR WITH STONE THAT HAS A NARROW PASSAGE PASSAGE GRAVE
MADE UP OF LARGE STONES
THREE STANDING STONES, TWO ON THE SIDES AND ONE AT THE BACK COVE
PREHISTORIC CIRCULAR OR OVAL EARTHEN ENCLOSURE. ENCLOSED BY A DITCH AND AN EARTHWORK BANK, WITH HENGE
ONE OR MORE ENTRANCES LEADING TO THE CENTRE
CIRCULAR ALIGNMENT OF STANDING STONES ASSOCIATED WITH BURIALS OR CREMATION. IT IS ALSO STONE CIRCLE
USED AS CELESTIAL OBSERVATORY FOR AGRICULTURAL EVENTS
MEGALITHIC MONUMENT MADE UP OF FOUR CONCENTRIC RINGS OF TRILITHON AND MENHIRS CENTERED AROUND STONEHENGE
AN ALTAR STONE. USED BY A SUN CULT OR FOR ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION
NETWORK OF CAVE IN FRANCE CONTAINING WALL PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS OF PALEOLITHIC HUMANS LASCAUX CAVE
SERIES OF MESOLITHIC VILLAGES LOCATED ON HIGH SANDY TERRACE OF DANUBE RIVER, HAS AT LEAST 6 VILLAGE LEPENSKI VIR
ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE IN CYPRUS; HOUSES ARE MADE FROM LIMESTONE HAD CIRCULAR IN PLAN. IT IS BUILT KHIROKITIA
ACCORDING TO A PRECONCEIVED PLAN
LARGEST AND MOST WELL- PRESERVED NEOLITHIC VILLAGE CONSISTS OF RECTANGULAR FLAT-ROOFED CATAL HUYUK
HOUSES THAT IS PACKED TOGETHER AND NO STREETS
OR PASSAGEWAYS
NEOLITHIC HENGE AND CIRCLE ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH-EAST OF STROMNESS. THE RING ORIGINALLY COMPRESSED RING OF BRODGAR
UP TO 60 STONES. IT IS ALSO PART
OF “HEART OF NEOLITHIC ORKNEY”
NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT LOCATED ON THE WEST COAST OF MAINLAND ORKNEY. CONSISTS OF 10 CLUSTERED SKARA BRAE
HOUSES, MADE OF FLAGSTONES IN AN EARTHEN DAM
MESOPOTAMIA IS A FERTILE PLAINS LOCATED BETWEEN WHICH RIVERS? TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES
ALSO KNOWN AS THE “CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION”, MEANING ‘BETWEEN RIVERS’. AN ANCIENT REGION IN WESTERN MESOPOTAMIA
ASIA BETWEEN TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES
FIRST CODE OF LAWS IN HUMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY THE 6TH BABYLONIAN KING CODE OF HAMMURABI
ONE OF THE EARLIEST SYSTEMS OF WRITINGS INVENTED BY THE SUMERIANS THAT MEANS “WEDGE SHAPED”. CUNEIFORM SCRIPT
DEVELOPED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, THE LARGEST BEING THE BUILDING OF THE NEW CAPITAL OF DARIUS i
PERSEPOLIS
KNOWN FOR HIS MASSIVE INVASION OF GREECE AND HIS DEFEAT MARKED THE DECLINE OF THE BABYLONIAN XERXES i
EMPIRE
ALSO CALLED ‘HOLY MOUNTAINS’, IS A TEMPLE TOWER IN SUMERIAN AND ASSYRIAN ARCHITECTURE, BUILT IN ZIGGURAT
DIMINISHING STAGES OF MUD BRICK WITH BUTTRESSED WALLS
CENTRAL HALL IN MESOPOTAMIAN TEMPLES WHICH SERVES AS A MEETING PLACE FOR THE PRIESTS AND GODS CELLA
AN ARTIFICIAL MOUNTAIN COVERED WITH TREES AND PLANTS, BUILT BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR ii FOR HIS WIFE HANGING GARDENS OF
BABYLON
MASSIVE BABYLONIAN ARCHITECTURE DEDICATED TO SUPREME GOD; HEAVILY BASTIONED, BUILT IN CLAY WITH TEMPLE OF MARDUK
HUGE TOWERS AND CRENELATED TERRACES
AN ANCIENT UNFINISHED ZIGGURAT AT SHINAR IN WHICH THE BUILDING OF A TOWER INTENDED TO REACH HEAVEN TOWER OF BABEL
WAS BEGUN AND THE CONFUSION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE TOOK PLACE
THE PROPYLAEA, FORMING THE MONUMENTAL ENTRANCE TO THE PALACE PLATFORM, PERSEPOLIS, WAS BUILT BY XERXES
IN THE ABSENCE OF WINDOWS, VENTILATION IN ASSYRIAN PALACES WERE ALLOWED IN THE INTERIORS THROUGH TERRACOTTA PIPES
THE ORIENTATION OF THE ZIGGURAT HAD ITS ____ ORIENTED TOWARD THE CARDINAL POINTS FOUR CORNERS
CHARACTERIZED BY MONUMENTAL TEMPLES OF SU-BRISK FACED WITH BURNT OF GLAZED BRICK, OFTEN BUILT SUMMMERIAN ARCHITECTURE
UPON THE RUINS OF THEIR PREDECESSORS; ESTABLISHED AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM
ALSO KNOWN AS PASARGADAE, BUILT ON A FLAT AREA BY THE FIRST GREAT PERSIAN KING AS HIS GARDEN PALACE PALACE OF CYRUS THE GREAT
AND TOMB (CYRUS II)
A MESOPOTAMIAN DEITY, CHIEF GOD OF THE CITY OF BABYLON REPRESENTED BY A BASS RELIEF OF A DRAGON ON MARDUK
THE ISHTAR GATE
GOD OF STORMS AND WEATHER REPRESENTED BY A BAS RELIEF OF AN AUROCH (BULL) ON THE ISHTAR GATE ADAD
GODDESS OF LOVE AND WAR; PATRON GODDESS OF THE CITY OF URUK, REPRESENTED BY A BAS RELIEF OF A LION ISHTAR
ON THE ISHTAR GATE
EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPED SINCE 3000 BC AND CHARACTERIZED BY _____________ CONSTRUCTION. POST AND LINTEL
THE TWO PRINCIPAL BUILDING MATERIALS USED IN ANCIENT EGYPT UNBAKED MUD BRICK AND
STONE
THE FIRST OF THREE KINGDOM-PERIODS IN EGYPT; FOLLOWED BY “MIDDLE” AND “NEW” OLD KINGDOM
THE MOST IMPORTANT GODDESS; REPRESENTED THE LOYAL WIFE AND MOTHER ISIS
TOMBS OR GRAVES FOR PHARAOHS; CONTAINED EVERYTHING NEEDED FOR THE AFTERLIFE PYRAMID
THE KING WHO UNITED UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT IN 3100 BC NAMER
IT IS DEEMED TO BE THE OLDEST STONE STRUCTURE OF ITS SIZE IN THE WORLD STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER
EGYPTIAN ASPECT OF THE SUN GOD REPRESENTED BY SOLAR DISC; PEACE LOVING GOD ATEN
AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUDBRICK TOMB WITH A RECTANGULAR BASE AND SLOPING AND FLAT ROOF MASTABA
HE BUILT HUNDREDS OF STATUES OF HIMSELF INCLUDING THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON AMENHOTEP III
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE TEMPLE WAS THE ____________, WHICH TYPICALLY CONTAINED A CULT IMAGE, A SANCTUARY
STATUE OF ITS GOD
THE MAIN TONES USED IN TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION WERE ________< WHICH ARE COMMON IN EGYPT LIMESTONE AND SANDSTONE
WHAT TYPE OF COLUMNS WERE USED IN THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL? PAPYRUS COLUMNS
THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL IS LOCATED WITHIN __________ TEMPLE COMPLEX, IN THE PRECINCT OF AMON-RE KARNAK
THE FUNERARY TEMPLE OF __________ AT MADINAT HABU CONTAINS THE BEST-PRESERVED OF THEBAN MORTUARY RAMSES II
CHAPELS AND SHRINES, AS WELL AS THE MAIN TEMPLE COMPONENTS
IT IS THE LARGEST OF THE PYRAMIDS LOCATED AT THE DAHSHUR NECROPOLIS IN CAIRO, EGYPT RED PYRAMID
THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL WAS BEGUN BY SETI I, AND COMPLETED BY ___________ RAMESSES II
ALSO KNOWN AS DJESER-DJESERU (“HOLY OF HOLIES”), IS A MORTUARY TEMPLE OF ANCIENT EGYPT LOCATED IN MORTUARY TEMPLE OF
UPPER EGYPT HATSHEPSUT
IT IS A LARGE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEMPLE COMPLEX LOCATED ON THE EAST BANK OF THE NILE RIVER IN THE CITY LUXOR TEMPLE
TODAY KNOWN AS LUXOR (ANCIENT;THEBES) AND WAS CONSTRUCTED APPROXIMATELY 1400 BCE. INN THE EGYPTIAN
LANGUAGE, IT WAS KNOWN AS IPET RESYT, “THE SOUTHERN SANCTUARY”
THE 6-TIER, 4-SIDED STRUCTURE IS THE EARLIEST COLOSSAL STONE BUILDING IN EGYPT. IT WAS BUILT BY IMHOTEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER
IN 27TH CENTURY BC DURING THE THIRD DYNASTY OF THE BURIAL OF PHARAOH DJOSER.
IT WAS DEDICATED TO THE GODS AMUN, RA-HORAKHTY, AND PTAH AS WELL AS TO THE DEIFIED RAMESSES HIMSELF. ABU SIMBEL
IT IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE GRANDEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE TEMPLES COMMISSIONED DURING THE (GREAT TEMPLE)
REIGN OF RAMESSES II, AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN EGYPT.
WHAT ARE THE TWO CULTURES OF THE AEGEAN CIVILIZATION? MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN
BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATION OF CRETE UNDER THE LEGENDARY KING MINOS OF KNOSSOS MINOAN
THE TREASURY OF ATREUS IN MYCENAE IS ALSO KNOWN AS ______________ THE TOMB OF AGAMEMNON
____________DESCRIBES THE PERIOD OF CLASSICAL GREECE BETWEEN THE FIRST DEMOCRACY IN ATHENS AND THE HELLENIC AGE
DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, THIS IS THE PERIOD THAT MANY KNOWN AS THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANCIENT
GREECE.
IT IS THE SLIGHT CONVEX CURVE IN THE SHAFT OF A COLUMN, INTRODUCED TO CORRECT THE VISUAL ILLUSION OF ENTASIS
CONCAVITY PRODUCED BY A STRAIGHT SHAFT
GREEK ARCHITECTURE WAS ESSENTIALLY ___________ COLUMNAR AND TRABEATED
FORMING THE IMPOSING ENTRANCE TO THE ACROPOLIS AND ERECTED BY THE ARCHITECT MNESICLES IS THE PROPYLAEA
________
IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME, A STOREROOM OF ANY KIND, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR STRONG WINE APOTHECA
PROTYLE IS THE CLEAR SPACE BETWEEN COLUMNS, YES OR NO? NO, IT’S INTERCOLUMNIATION
THIS TYPE OF GREEK ORDER IS MASCULINE AND DIGNIFIED, HAS NO BASE, HAS A HEIGHT 4-6 ½ X THE BASE, HAS 20 DORIC ORDER
FLUTES AND ARISES
THIS TYPE OF GREEK ORDER IS FEMININE, LIGHT, DELICATE, ELEGANT. IT HAS 24 FLUTES SEPARATED BY FILETS, HAS IONIC ORDER
AN ATTIC BASE AND HEIGHT IS 9X OF THE BASE.
___________WAS A BUILDING IN ANCIENT GREECE WHICH HOUSED THE COUNCIL OF CITIZENS OF A DEMOCRATIC BOULEUTERION
CITY STATE
THE IONIC ORDER WAS DEVELOPED IN THE MID 6TH CENTURY BCE BY __________ ON THE ISLANDS NEAR IONIC GREEKS
PRESENT-DAY TURKEY
ACCORDING TO THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN VITRUVIUS, THE COLUMN WAS CREATED BY THE SCULPTOR CALLIMACHUS
________________
IT IS AN ANCIENT CITADEL LOCATED ON A ROCKY OUTCROP ABOVE THE CITY OF ATHENS AND CONTAINS THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
REMAINS OF SEVERAL ANCIENT BUILDINGS OF GREAT ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
IT IS THE NAME GIVEN TO MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE CITADEL OF MYCENAE AFTER OF THE SCULPTURE THAT SITS LION GATE
ABOVE IT
IT IS A FORMAL COLOSSAL TEMPLE AT THE CENTER OF THE GREEK CAPITAL ATHENS. IT WAS DEDICATED TO OLYMPIEION
“OLYMPIAN” ZEUS, A NAME ORIGINATING FROM HIS POSITION AS HEAD OF THE OLYMPIAN GODS
A PUBLIC TOWN HALL FOR THE CITIZENS OF ANCIENT GREECE, CONTAINING STATE BANQUET HALLS AND PRYTANEION
HOSPITALITY SUITES
THE OLDEST, SIMPLEST, AND MOST MASSIVE OF THE GREEK ORDERS DORIC
A CARVED STATUESQUE COLUMN OF A DRAPED FEMALE FIGURE CARRYING A BASKET, OR WITH A BASKET ON HER CANEPHORA
HEAD
A MASSIVE CARVED STATUESQUE STOOPING MALE FIGURE, OFTEN SERVING AS A COLUMNAR SUPPORT FOR A ATLAS
PEDIMENT
A SQUARE TAPERED COLUMN CAPPED WITH A CARVED HEAD, BUT OR TORSO OF A FIGURE, USUALLY HERMES HERM
AN ANCIENT GREEK ELONGATED SPORTS VENUE WITH ROUNDED ENDS, SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY BANKED STADION
SPECTATOR STANDS; VENUE FOR FOOT RACING
A PLACE USED FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICE OF WRESTLING AND ATHLETICS PALAESTRA
IT IS THE CIVIC CENTER; MARKET PLACE; THE GREEK POLITICAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC LIFE AGORA
IT IS THE SACRED ENCLOSURE OR THEY CALLED IT ALSO THE CITADEL OR ACROPOLIS OR THE UPPER CITY TEMENOS
CEILING WERE OMITTED AND TRABEATED WITH TIMBER PANELED COFFERS CALLED _________ LACUNARIA
IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A PLAIN, UNADORNED COLUMN CAPITAL AND A COLUMN THAT RESTS DIRECTLY ON THE DORIC ORDER
STYLOBATE OF THE TEMPLE WITHOUT A BASE. THE DORIC ENTABLATURE INCLUDES A FRIEZE COMPOSED OF
TRIGLYPHS (VERTICAL PLAQUES WITH THREE DIVISIONS) AND METOPES (SQUARE SPACES FOR EITHER PAINTED OR
SCULPTED DECORATION
IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE USE OF VOLUTES. THE IONIC COLUMNS NORMALLY STAND ON A BASE WHICH IONIC ORDER
SEPARATES THE SHAFT OF THE COLUMN FROM THE STYLOBATE OR PLATFORM WHILE THE CAP IS USUALLY
ENRICHED WITH EGG-AND-DART.
IT IS NAMED FOR THE GREEK CITY-STATE OF CORINTH, TO WHICH IT WAS CONNECTED IN THE PERIOD. HOWEVER, CORINTHIAN ORDER
ACCORDING TO THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN VITRUVIOUS, THE COLUMN WAS CREATED BY THE SCULPTOR
CALLIMACHUS, PROBABLY AN ATHENIAN, WHO DREW ACANTHUS LEAVES GROWING AROUND A VOTIVE BASKET
A BEEHIVE, OR THOLOS, TOMB BUILT ABOUT 1350 TO 1250 BC AT MYCENAE, GREECE. TREASURY OF ATREUS/TOMB
OF AGAMEMNON
IT IS AN ANCIENT GREEK TEMPLE OF IONIC STYLE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS. tHE TEMPLE ERECHTHEION
IS PROBABLY MOST FAMOUS FOR ITS DISTINCTIVE PORCH SUPPORTED BY SIX FEMALE FIGURES KNOWN AS
CARYATIDS.
LOCATED IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF SICILY, SEGESTA AND WAS BUILT IN THE LATE 5TH CENTURY BC AND HAS DORIC TEMPLE OF SEGESTA
6X14 DORIC COLUMNS.
IT IS A FORMER TEMPLE ON ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS, GREECE, THAT WAS DEDICATED TO THE GODDESS ATHENA PARTHENON
DURING THE FIFTH CENTURY BC. ITS DECORATIVE SCULPTURES ARE CONSIDERED SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS OF
GREEK ART.
WHICH MODERN CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL DID THE ROMAN ARCHITECTURAL REVOLUTION BRING FORTH? CONCRETE
IT IS SAID THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE SECRET MATERIAL BEHIND ROME’S LASTING MONUMENTS. IT IS SPREAD OF STRATLINGITE CRYSTALS
MICROSCOPIC CRACKS IN PARTS OF THE MORTAR. THE CRYSTALS FORMED BECAUSE OF A REACTION THAT TOOK
PLACE OVER TIME BETWEEN THE LIME AND VOLCANIC MATTER IN THE MORTAR
THE CROWNING GLORY OF THE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE IS THE ______________ PANTHEON ROME
THE FAVORITE OF THE ROMANS AMONG THE FIVE ORDERS IS THE _____________ CORINTHIAN
WHAT IS THE LONGEST ARCH BRIDGE THAT THE ROMANS BUILT? PUENTE ROMANO
A SIMPLER VERSION OF THE DORIC ORDER THAT HAS A PLAIN SHAFT AND A SIMPLIFIED BASE, CAPITAL, AND TUSCAN
ENTABLATURE
THE LUXURIOUS COUNTRY HOUSE OF THE ROMANS WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY TERRACES AND GARDEN IS THE VILLA
______________
TO CELEBRATE VICTORIOUS NAVAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE GENERALS THE USUAL MONUMENT BUILT IS THE ROSTRAL COLUMN
_______________
THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH WAS BUILT TO COMMEMORATE THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM WAS ________________ ARCH OF TITUS
THE ROMAN PALACE BUILDING BEGAN BY AUGUSTUS AND ADDED TO BY LATER EMPERORS WAS THE PALACES OF THE EMPERORS,
_________________ ROME
A BUILDING IN CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE FOR PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND RUNNING WATER, ORNAMENTED WITH STATUES NYMPHAEUM
AND FORMING A COOL AND AGREEABLE RETREAT IS CALLED ______________.
THE OLDEST AND MOST IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF A ROMAN ORUM IS THE FORUM ROMANUM
A ROMAN FOUNTAIN DESIGNED WITH A LARGE BASIN WATER IS CALLED _______________ LOCUS
THE MULTI-STOREY TENEMENT HOUSING FOR THE WORKERS IS THE ________________ INSULA
THE ARCHED WATERWAYS ERECTED TO SUPPLY MOST PARTS OF ROME WITH WATER IS THE ____________ AQUEDUCT
THE SMALL PRIVATE BATH, VERY USUAL IN ROMAN PALACES AND HOUSES WERE CALLED ________________ BALNEUM
IT IS A ROMAN TRIUMPHAL COLUMN IN ROME, ITALY, THAT COMMEMORATES ONE OF ROMAN EMPERORS VICTORY IN TRAJAN’S COLUMN
THE DACIAN WARS
A ROOM OR ALCOVE BETWEEN THE ATRIUM AND THE PERISTYLE OF A ROMAN HOUSE FOR STORING THE FAMILY TABLINUM
RECORDS ON TABLETS
IT IS A SMALL ROOM IN THE ROMAN HOUSE INTENDED AS A BEDROOM, GENERALLY FLANKED BY OTHER SIMILAR CUBICULA
ONES AND LOCATED AROUND THE ATRIUM
THE DINING ROOM IN THE DOMUS WITH DIFFERENT ASPECTS FOR SUMMER AND WINTER IS CALLED ____________ TRICLINIA
THE RECESS FOR CONVERSATION SURROUNDED BY THE PERISTYLE IN THE DOMUS IS CALLED __________________ ALAE
THE WALL FACING DEVELOPED BY ROMANS WHICH IS MADE OF RECTANGULAR BLOCKS OF STONE, WITH OR OPUS QUADRATUM
WITHOUT MORTAR JOINTS BUT FREQUENTLY SECURED WITH DOWELS OR CRAMPS
A TYPE OF ROMAN WALL FACING WHICH IS MADE OF SMALL STONE LAID IN A LOOSE PATTERN ROUGHLY RESEMBLING OPUS INCERTUM
POLYGONAL WORK
THE __________ WAS THE LARGEST TEMPLE IN ANCIENT ROME TEMPLE OF VENUS AND ROMA
IT IS AN ANCIENT ROMAN TEMPLE IN NIMES, SOUTHERN FRANCE; IT IS ONE OF THE BEST PRESERVED ROMAN MAISON CARREE
TEMPLES TO SURVIVE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE FORMER ROMAN EMPIRE
THE BUILDING WAS COMMISSIONED IN THE 110S AD BY A CONSUL, GAIUS JULIUS AQUILA, AS A FUNERARY LIBRARY OF CELSUS
MONUMENT FOR HIS FATHER, FORMER PROCONSUL OF ASIA TIBERIUS JULIUS VELSUS POLEMAEANUS
IT IS THE LARGEST ANCIENT AMPHITHEATER EVER BUILT, AND IS STILL THE LARGEST STANDING AMPHITHEATER IN COLOSSEUM
THE WORLD TODAY, DESPITE ITS AGE
BUILT AROUND 70 CE, SHORTLY AFTER THE COLOSSEUM OF ROME, IT IS ONE OF THE BEST-PRESERVED ROMAN ARENA OF NIMES
AMPHITHEATRES IN THE WORLD
IT WAS A RESIDENTIAL VILLA BUILT FOR THE RETIREMENT OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN DIOCLETIAN’S PALACE
THE ARCH COMMEMORATES ONE OF THE EMPEROR’S VICTORY IN THE CIVIL WAR, WHICH LEFT HIM THE SOLE RULER ARCH OF CONSTANTINE
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
AT THE NORTHEASTERN END OF THE ROMA FORUM IS A WHITE MARBLE TRIUMPHAL ARCH DEDICATED IN 203 AD TO ARCH OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
COMMEMORATE THE PARTHIAN VICTORIES OF ONE OF THE EMPERORS AND HIS TWO SONS
IT IS A 6,000-SEAT, 2ND-CENTURY ROMAN THEATRE. A FAMOUS LANDMARK IN THE JORDANIAN CAPITAL, IT DATES AMMAN’S ROMAN THEATER
BACK TO THE ROMAN PERIOD WHEN THE CITY WAS KNOWN AS PHILADELPHIA
IT IS A LARGE ROAN CITY GATE IN TRIER, GERMANY. IT IS TODAY THE LARGEST ROMAN CITY GATE NORTH OF THE PORTA NIGRA
ALPS
IT IS THE OLDEST EXTANT LIGHTHOUSE KNOWN. IT HAS AN ANCIENT ROMAN ORIGIN ON A PENINSULA ABOUT 2.4 KM TOWER OF HERCULES
FROM THE CENTER OF CORUNA, GALICIA. UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY, IT WAS KNOWN AS THE FARUM BRIGANTIUM
IT IS A ROMAN AMPHITHEATER LOCATED IN PULA, CROATIA. IT IS THE ONLY REMAINING ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE TO PULA ARENA
HAVE FOUR SIDE TOWERS ENTIRELY PRESERVED.
THE BEST AVAILABLE EXAMPLES OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE FROM THE 3RD AND 4TH CENTURIES CAN BE FOUND SYRIA
IN ______________
BASILICA WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME AN EARLY CHRISTIAN PLACE OF WORSHIP ORIGINALLY DENOTED KINGLY OR LORDLY THINGS
___________________
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IS ALSO KNOWN AS _____________________ PALEOCHRISTIAN ART
IN WHAT CENTURY DID THE CHRISTIAN POPULATION BEGIN TO BUILD LARGER AND GRANDER PUBLIC MEETING THE 4TH
PLACES?
THE INVENTION OF THE CHRISTIAN BUILDING SPECIFICALLY HAPPENED UNDER THIS MONARCH EMPEROR CONSTANTINE I
CHRISTIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE THAT HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY AFTER 525 IS REFERRED TO AS ____________ BYZANTINE
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS NOT BORROWED BY EARLY CHRISTIAN ART FROM PAGAN ICONOGRAPHY? IKHTHUS
PENDENTIVE IS A CURVED TRIANGLE OF VAULTING FORMED BY THE INTERSECTION OF A DOME WITH ITS TRUE
SUPPORTING ARCHES
IT IS AN ANCIENT ROMAN BUILDING TYPE ON WHICH EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH DESIGNS WERE BASED BASILICA
THE ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER OF THE BASILICAN CHURCHES IS RENDERED ________ IMPRESSIVE AND DIGNIFIED
___________ WAS USED INTERNALLY, AND SOMETIMES EXTERNALLY ON THE WEST FACADES FOR DECORATIVE MOSAIC
PURPOSES
THE CHURCH IS THE OLDEST AND HIGHEST RANKING OF THE FOUR MAJOR PAPAL BASILICAS AS WELL AS ONE OF ARCHBASILICA OF SAINT JOHN
THE SEVEN PILGRIM CHURCHES OF ROME, HOLDING THE UNIQUE TITLE OF “ARCHBASILICA” LATERAN
IT IS THE OLDEST CHURCH IN THE BULGARIAN CAPITAL SOFIA, DATING TO THE 4TH CENTURY. IT IS NOW ONE OF THE SAINT SOPHIA CHURCH, SOFIA
MOST VALUABLE PIECES OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE.
THE FIRST EXAMPLES OF EARLY BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE, FOUND IN RAVENNA AND CONSTANTINOPLE, DATE JUSTINIAN I
FROM THE REIGN OF WHICH BYZANTINE EMPEROR?
THE LONG BODY OF THE CHURCH HAGIA IRENE IN ISTANBUL (FORMER CONSTANTINOPLE) IS COVERED BY TWO TRUE
DOMES
THE MOST COMMON UNIFYING ELEMENT IN BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE IS THE USE OF ______________ MOSAICS
WHICH BASILICA IN RAVENNA, BEGUN IN 527 BY BISHOP ECCLESIO, IS AN EXAMPLE OF BYZANTINE ART? THE BASILICA OF SAN VITALE
THE DOME OF HAGIA SOPHIA IN ISTANBUL (FORMER CONSTANTINOPLE) IS SUPPORTED BY HOW MANY MASSIVE 4
PIERS?
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER, ALSO CALLED THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE, LOCATED IN WHICH CITY?
THE CHURCH OF HAGIA IRENE, A BYZANTINE CHURCH, WAS CONVERTED INTO A MOSQUE BY SULTAN MEHMED THE FALSE
CONQUEROR
ELMALI KILISE, A ROCK SANCTUARY BUILT IN BYZANTINE STYLE, DATES BACK TO THE KOMNENIAN PERIOD AND IS CAPPADOCIA
LOCATED IN WHICH DISTRICT?
ST. MARK’S BASILICA, A PROMINENT EXAMPLE OF BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE, IS LOCATED IN WHICH ITALIAN CITY? VENICE
HAGIA SOPHIA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOSQUE IN CONSTANTINOPLE WITH ___________ MULTI-COLORED COLUMNS 107
A THICKENED ABACUS OR SUPPLEMENTARY CAPITAL SET ABOVE A COLUMN CAPITAL TO RECEIVE THE THRUST OF AN DOSSERET BLOCK
ARCH. ALSO CALLED IMPOST BLOCK.
A TYPE OF DOME: DOME AND PENDENTIVES ARE OF THE SAME SPHERE SIMPLE
THE BYZANTINE ___________ WERE TWO PERIODS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE WHEN THE USE OF ICONOCLASM
RELIGIOUS IMAGES OR ICONS WAS OPPOSED BY RELIGIOUS AND IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE ORTHODOX
CHURCH AND THE TEMPORAL IMPERIAL HIERARCHY
FROM ____________, CONSTANTINE RENAMED IT TO CONSTANTINOPLE, NOW AS “ISTANBUL” AND ALSO CALLED “NEW BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
ROME”. IT WAS THE ARCHITECTURE OF EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE WHICH WAS DEVELOPED FROM EARLY CHRISTIAN
AND LATE ROMAN ANTECEDENT IN THE 4TH CENTURY.
THUS _____________ WAS USED AND COMBINED WITH DOMES TO COUNTERACT THE NEW EMPIRE FLAT ROOF
HEIR ORNAMENTS WERE RELIGIOUS IN CHARACTER., THE SYMBOL OF ETERNAL LIFE IS _____________ PEACOCK
RESPONSIBLE FOR BUILDING THE ST. SOPHIA “DIVINE WISDOM” WHICH NOW TURNED TO A MOSLEM MOSQUE JUSTINIAN
BUILT SEVERAL MILITARY GATES AND TOWERS (DEFENSE AGAINST THE GOTHS AND HUNS) BUT CANNOT AVOID THE THEODOSIUS II
MOSLEM OF THE ISLAMIC PEOPLE
CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THE FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE WAYS OF LIFE AND
CORRUPTION
WHAT MAKES HAGIA SOPHIA WELL-KNOWN FOR ITS “SUSPENDED BY GOLDEN CHAIN FROM HEAVEN” DESCRIPTION? THE DOME WAS RINGED WITH
WINDOWS THAT LETS IN LIGHT
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD MOST LIKELY BE FOUND IN BYZANTINE ART? MOSAICS OF CHRISTIAN
RELIGIOUS FIGURES
HOW MANY TYPES OF CROSS FOR PLAN IN BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE; AND WHAT ARE THEY? TWO; GREEK CROSS AND LATIN
CROSS
BYZANTINE EMPERORS USED ART AND ARCHITECTURE TO SIGNAL THEIR _________ AND ___________ STRENGTH; IMPORTANCE
IT IS A LATE ANTIQUE CHURCH IN RAVENNA, ITALY. THE 6TH CENTURY CHURCH IS AN IMPORTANT SURVIVING BASILICA OF SAN VITALE
EXAMPLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHITECTURE. IT IS ONE OF EIGHT STRUCTURES IN RAVENNA
INSCRIBED ON THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST
THE CHURCH WAS DEDICATED TO THE PEACE OF GOD, AND IS ONE OF THE SHRINES WHICH EMPERORS DEVOTED TO HAGIA IRENE
GOD’S ATTRIBUTES, TOGETHER WITH HAGIA SOPHIA (WISDOM) AND HAGIA DYNAMIS
IT STANDS IN ISTANBUL, IN THE DISTRICT OF FATIH, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LALELI, 1KM WEST IF THE RUINS OF BODRUM MOSQUE
THE GREAT PALACE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
IT IS A MEDIEVAL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH BUILDING, IN 2022 USED AS A MOSQUE, IN THE EDIRNEKAPI BODRUM MOSQUE
NEIGHBORHOOD OF ISTANBUL, TURKEY
AN ANCIENT GREEK PORTICO, A LONG COLONNADED SHELTER USED IN PUBLIC PLACES STOA
AN UPRIGHT ORNAMENT AT THE EAVES OF A TILE ROOF, CONCEALING THE FOOT OF A ROW OF CONVEX TILES THAT ANTEFIX
COVER THE JOINTS OF THE FLAT TILES
STRICTLY, A PEDESTAL AT THE CORNERS OR PEAK OF A ROOF TO SUPPORT AN ORNAMENT, MORE USUALLY, THE ACROTERION
ORNAMENT ITSELF
PARTS OF AN ENTABLATURE, IN ORDER OF TOP TO BOTTOM. I. CORNICE II. FRIEZE III.ARCHITRAVE I, II, III
THAT PART OF A GREEK HOUSE OR BYZANTINE CHURCH RESERVED FOR WOMEN GYMNACEUM
FOR EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SUNSHINE, THERE WAS NO NEED FOR WINDOWS, THE HIEROGLYPHICS
MASSIVE UNBROKEN WALLS PROVIDED THE SURFACE FOR ________________.
IS AN ORNAMENTAL MOLDING OR BAND FOLLOWING THE CURVE OF THE UNDERSIDE OF AN ARCH, IT IS COMPOSED ARCHIVOLT
OF BANDS OF ORNAMENTAL MOLDINGS (OR OTHER ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS) SURROUNDING AN ARCHED
OPENING,
MARBLE MOSAIC PATTERN USED ON CEILINGS OF VAULTS AND DOMES. OPUS TESSELLATUM
MONUMENTAL GATEWAY TO AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE CONSISTING WITH SLANTING WALLS FLANKING THE ENTRANCE PYLON
PORTAL
DRY SWEATING ROOM WITH APODYTEILA OR DRESSING ROOM AND UNCTUARIA OR FOR OILS THERMAE
THE SPACE FOR THE CLERGY AND CHOIR IS SEPARATED BY A LOW SCREEN WALL FROM THE BODY OF THE CHURCH CANCELLI
CALLED _________
EARTHEN BURIAL MOUNDS CONTAINING UPRIGHT AND LINTEL STONES FORMING CHAMBERS FOR CONSECUTIVE TUMULI
BURIALS FOR SEVERAL TO A HUNDRED PERSONS
TEMPLES IN GREECE THAT HAVE A DOUBLE LINE OF COLUMNS SURROUNDING THE NAOS DIPTERAL
THE MOLDING THAT IS OFTEN FOUND IN THE DORIC ORDER. BIRD’S BEAK
TOMBS BUILT FOR THE EGYPTIAN NOBILITY RATHER THAN THE ROYALTY ROCK HEWN TOMBS
WITH THE USE OF CONCRETE MADE POSSIBLE BY POZZOLAN, A NATIVE NATURAL CEMENT, THE ROMANS ACHIEVED ARCH AND VAULT
HUGE INTERIORS WITH THE _______________
WHICH OF THE ORDER WAS ADDED BY THE ROMANS TO THE ORDERS USED BY THE GREEKS COMPOSITE
FROM THE 5TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT, THE CHARACTER OF BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE IS THE PRACTICE OF DOMICAL ROOF
USING. CONSTRUCTION
THE SPACE BETWEEN THE COLONNADE AND THE NAOS WALL IN GREEK TEMPLE PTEROMA