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WorksheetsHISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
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Neolithic dwelling & settlement in present day Turkey, occupied between 6300 BC to 5400 BC, supported a population of up to 6000 people,the largest and most cosmopolitan city of its time
Carnac
Catal huyuk
Egypt
Stonehenge
Characteristic Egyptian cornice moulding,which was the result of the pressure of the roofs against the top of the wall reeds
Bead and real
"gorge" or kheker cresting
Scarab
Egg and dart
This refers to which religious structure that is defined as an earthen mound containing upright and lintel stones
Menhir
Dolmen
Tumuli
Cromlech
This is composed of great upright stones
Monolith
Megalith
Tumuli
Barrow
Type of megalith that is composed of two or more upright stones supporting a horizontal stone
Menhir
Stone henge
Cromlech
Dolmen
A prehistoric burial mound
Hortus
Fillet
Tumulus
Diduron
In the Egyptian temples, a pillared ballin which roofs Reston columns
Dagoba
Sanctuary
Hypostyle hall
Chamber
The favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians include the lotus, papyrus and
Scarab
Nipa
Palm
Cavetto
The beginner of the Great hypostyle hall at Karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty
Rameses I
Rameses II
Rameses III
Rameses IV
The grandest temple of all Egyptian temples, it was not built by upon one complete plan but owes it's size, disposition and magnificence to the work of many kings. Built from the 12th dynasty to the Ptolemaic period
Temple of queen Hatshepsut
The great temple of abu-simbel
Great temple of Ammon karnak
Temple of ramsesseum thebes
Egyptian architecture was designed principally for
Internal effect
Light and color
Shade and shadow
External adoration
Egyptian system of construction
Actuated
Trussed
Buttressed
Columnar and trabeated
The smallest among the great pyramids of Gizeh
Cheops
Mykerinos
Zoser
Chepren
The small Egyptian shrine dedicated to the rites of the goddess Isis
Mammisi temples
Yatzia
Tempietto
Templeto
A colonnade or portico either concealed or partly enclosed
Crypto-porticus
Diathyros
Peristyle
Battered column
The first architect recorded in history
Rameses II
Imhotep
Cheops
King nebuchadnezzar
Mesopotamian architecture is a conglomeration of
Assyrian & persian
Babylonian & Assyrian
Egyptian & Babylonian
Greek & Roman
The system of construction used by the Assyrians
Arch & Vault
Columnar & trabeated
Truss & vault
Domical
The palace proper in Assyrian Palaces
Seraglio
Khan
Function hall
Thalamus
The chief architectural ornament of the Assyrians
Stucco plaster
Graffiti
Chiseled alabaster
Brickwork
The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent in
Greek
Egyptian
Roman
Persian
The hall of hundred columns was built by
Nebuchadnezzar
Xerxes
Darius
Marduck
Architect of Erechtheion
Libon
Mnesicles
Cossutius
Theron
Master sculptor of the parthenon
Ptolemy III
Bernini
Callimachus
Phidias
The Senate house of the greeks
Prytaneion
Diathyros
Thersihon
Bouleuterion
