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General Terms Flashcards

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A tree or shrub of the Mimosaceous genus, native to warm geographical regions; a favorite vegetative form in much artwork in the Middle East; Gum Arabic

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Acacia

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A place shaded by trees or shrubs; an open structure, usually consisting of a horizontal framework or a littice work supported by columns on which vines or other plants are trained

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Arbor

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A real or imaginary straight line on which an object rotates or is perceived to balance; a centerline along which the parts of an object are symmetrically balanced

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Axis

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The place of several elements along a single centerline or at cross axes to main axis

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Axial Planning

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Italian word for Bas-relief meaning low relief

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Basso Rilievo

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Sculpture or carving of shallow depth, usually on a flat or curvd surface of stone; figures project minimally from the monolithic background stone

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Bas-relief

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Two-sided or arranged on opposite sides of an axis; symmetrical

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Bilateral

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In the open air; out of doors; Italian for “in the fresh air”

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Al Fresco

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A low plain along a streambed or channel that is subject to flooding; soil is composed of sediments deposited by the stream

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Floodplain

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Large upright stones capped with a covering slab; erected in prehistoric times as a monument or tomb

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Dolmen

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A deposit of rock, gravel, and sand particles that have been transported and laid down by a flowing body of water

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Alluvial Deposit

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A green, sometimes moist and cool, fertile place in a desert area

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Oasis

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Having to do with right angles, rectangular, linear, or axial

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Orthogonal

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A garden structure consisting of a trellis supported by posts or columns and upon which vines or other plants are trained

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Pergola

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A doorway, gate, or entrance, especially a large and imposing one; pylon

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Portal

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The Latin word that means “the paintings that adorned the walls of porticos”

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Topia

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Evergreen plants carved into geometrical or sculptural forms

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Topiary

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The physical features, both natural and human-made, on the earth’s surface; relief, drainage, surface materials, vegetation, special physical phenomena, and human-made (cultural) features

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Topography

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A pyramidal staged tower, of which the angles were oriented to the cardinal points

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Ziggurat

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A coniferous tree with evergeen needle-like leaves, cones, and a chracterisitc fragrance; regarded as sacred in much of the ancient Near East (Scientific Name and Common Name)

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Cedrus libani (Cedar of Lebanon)

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The hardier coniferous tree with evergeen need-like leaves, cones, and characteristic fragrance; more widely found in America

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Cedrus libani sterrocoma

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A place of delight; a terrestrial paradise; said to be in the eastern part of the world and surrounded by a high wall or mountains

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Eden

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From the Paleolithic Era; a large horizontal slab-like stone that spans several upright stones as a prehistoric monument or tomb

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Cromlech

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An ancient structural system comprised of vertical supports, spanned by horizontal beams

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Post and Lintel

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Any place of great beauty and perfection; a place or condition of great happiness; heaven

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Paradise

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A geometric figure having four side and four angles

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Quadrilateral

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A composition that consists of two axes intersecting at right angles and resulting in all four subdivisions or quadrants being equal; biaxial

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Quadrilateral Symmetry

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The region where the stages of the ziggurats were developed into continuous inclined ramp circulating the four sides

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Assyrian Region

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The devise for raising water; used for the irrigation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; also used by the ancient Egyptians for pumping water from the Nile into their vast system of irrigation canals; invented by the Mesopotamian civilizations

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Spiral Pump

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Persian word for garden, especially one that is quadripartite or subdivided into four quadrants by water channels crossing at its center; where the capital city of Iraq gotten its name, hence “Garden City”

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Bagh

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An important element in ancient Mesopotamian temple complexes; the number of its stages rose from one to seven in the course of time; often, each stage was faced in a stone of a different color, with the top most shrine being the most brilliant in tone

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Ziggurat

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A large square cloth worn by women in India; Hindu word for “shawl”; used to describe the carved marble water chutes in the Moghul gardens of India and Pakistan where water is made to flow from a pool over a rippled incline to appear to sparkle as it descends to a lower pool

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Chadar (Chador, Chuddar, or Chuder)

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Persian word for underground water canals that were constructed through the desert to bring water from a remote source to irrigate cultivated lands

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Qanat

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The Persian word meaning “fence” or “enclosure;” in Arabic, it means “walled around”

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Pairidaeza (Paradise)

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A garden created to symbolize the qualities of heaven

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Paradise Garden

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A fortress or fortified place such as a town with a commanding height for military advantages

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Citadel

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A porch-like structure consisting of a roof supported by columns and attached to a building

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Porticos

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The public open space for social, civic, and market purposes; normally surrounded by public buildings

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Forum

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The belief that all natural objects, animate or inamite, as well as the universe, possess a soul

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Animism

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Attributing human firm or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals or to a god

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Anthropomorphic

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The three components of an entablature

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Architrave
Frieze
Cornice

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A vertical, weight-carrying architectural support; circular in cross section, and consisting of a base, a shaft, and a capital; can be erected as freestanding monuments

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Column or Pillar

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The horizontal top part of an order of classical architecture supported by columns

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Entablature

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A raised place or small hill, usually human-made, designed to give a view of the estate

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Mount

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The city that is the seat of government of a country, state, or province; any form of wealth (money or property) capable or being employed in the production of more wealth

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Capital

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Vertical channeling or grooves; semicircular in cross section; used principally on columns and pilasters

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Flute or Fluting

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A series or row of columns spanned by lintels

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Colonnade

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Freestanding masonry support for an arch, usually square in section; same function as a column or pillar

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Pier

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The topmost feature of a column, post, or pilaster; in classical architecture, it followed various architectural orders

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Capital

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A flat, rectangular column attached to a wall as decoration rather than structure; usually of the same design order as its structural counterparts; an attached column

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Pilaster

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A spiral scroll-like form characteristic of the Greek Ionic Capital

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Volute

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In architecture, the part of a column between the capital and base

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Shaft

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In architectural ornamentation, a flat square molding separating other moldings; a narrow band between two flutings in a column

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Fillet

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An architectural member of wood or stone that projects beyond a wall to support a weight such as a roof or balcony; generally, formed of scrolls or volutes

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Brackets

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Another term for brackets when supporting the upper portion of a cornice

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Consoles

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In Classical or Renaissance architecture, the topmost projecting portion of the entablature;also refers to any crowning projection of a building

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Cornice

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The foot or bottom support of a column, pillar, statue, etc.

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Pedestal

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A Greek term meaning “chief beam;” the beam or lowest division of the entablature which extends from column to column; term also applied to the molded frame around a door or window

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Architrave

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The portion of the entablature between the architrave and cornice in Classical architecture

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Frieze

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In classical architecture, the triangular space at the end of a building formed by the ends of the sloping roof and the cornice; also an ornamental feature having this shape

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Pediment or Gable

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Engineered distribution of water onto land to promote the growth of vegetation where insufficient natural rainfall limits plant growth

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Irrigation

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The belief in many gods

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Polytheism

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Th interval or area between or within things which has kength, breadth, and height

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Space

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The art of space utilization

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Landscape Architecture

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A space with definite character; consciously intended or appears to be purposeful and not accidental

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Positive Space

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Bounded by definite edges such as walls, dense vegetation, or landforms; feels unambiguous and has an unmistakable clarity or integrity

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Positive Space

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Without a definite, consciously intended purpose; accidental; not bounded by definite edges such as walls, dense vegetation, or landforms; feels ambiguous and lacks clarity or integrity

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Negative Space

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Of the time prior to the fall of the Western Roman Empire

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Ancient

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The original model or design from which all other things of thr dsmr kind are made

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Archetype

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Gigantic; vast and rough; massive; an architectural style of stone stone construction using large irregular blocks without mortar

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Cyclopean

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Any substance used as a binder for other substances

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Cement

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A viscous mixture cement or lime with sand and water; used to bond units such as concrete blocks, bricks, or stoned together; also used as a plaster or stucco

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Mortar

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In architecture, the flat slab atop the capital of a column, supporting the entablature or other super-structure

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Abacus

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A line of arches resting on piers or columns

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Arcade

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A structural device, semicircular or pointed in shape, formed of separated truncated wedge-shaped blocks to span an opening

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Arch

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Relating to shepherds or herdsmen; typical rural life; having thr charm or simplicity of rural pastureland

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Bucolic or pastoral

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Pastoral poem

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Bucolic

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A place full of intricate passageways; a network of interconnecting passages; formed of clipped evergeen hedges

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Labyrinth

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Patterns or composition formed by embedding small pieces of stone or glass (tesserae) in mortar or wet plaster on surface such as walls and floors

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Mosaic

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A molding formed by a convex and concave curve; also an S-curved form

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Ogee

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A view whose dominant characteristic is its breadth; series of pictures of a landscape displayed on a continuous surface

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Panorama

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A masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle

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Vault

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A type of vault; semicylindrical in criss section; a deep arch or an uninterrupted series if arches one behind the other

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Barrel Vault

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A symbolic line that extends from the sky to the underworld with the earth at its center; trees, mountains, pyramids, and earth mounds might all be considered as such

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Axis mundi

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The day the sun crosses the equator, marking days and night of equal length

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Equinox

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Dates of vernal (spring) equinox and the autumnal equinoz

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March 20 and September 23

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The furthest point the sun reaches in the sky

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Solstice

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Dates of the summer solstice (the longest day of the year) and the winter solstice (shortest day of the year)

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June 21 and December 21

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A vaulted, semicircular recess in a building

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Apse

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Images inscriped on the earth

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Geoglyphs

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A sunken or subterranean ceremonial room used in a Puebloan cultures

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Kiva

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A megalith, an individual standing stone

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Menhir

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