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the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings

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Architecture

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Constructed around 2500 BCE, situated on the west bank of the Nile facing the setting sun, resting place for ancient kings

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Pyramids

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location where the three most famous and recognizable of the Egyptian pyramids lie

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Giza Plateau

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Pyramids found at Saqqara, Dashur, Meidum and several other sites lie on the western shore of this river

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Nile River

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ancient Egyptians called this pyramid at Giza Akhet-Khufu

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Great Pyramid

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the king for whom the Great Pyramid was built

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Khufu/Cheops

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the Egyptian god of the sun

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Ra

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soul of a dead king ascended into the heavens and traveled alongside the god in this as he made his daily journey across the sky

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Sun-Boat

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capital of Greece, home of the Parthenon

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Athens

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this structure marks an important turning point in the history of Western architecture not only for inaugurating a new type of building design, but also because it suggests that the ancient Greeks had begun to embrace a novel way of looking at the world

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Parthenon

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this was symbolized in the Parthenon, embraced a new view of life that looks to earth before heaven.

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Ionian Revolution

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mode of construction resulting in a building that looks perfectly balanced but is not. represented by the Parthenon

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Optical Symmetry

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name for a block of stone or wood spanning the top of upright columns

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Post-and-Lintel System

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design mode in Early Greek construction and design, resembled Egyptian archetypes

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Heavy Doric Style

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Greek goddess that the parthenon was built to honor

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Athena

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the rocky upcropping in the middle of the city

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Acropolis

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the greatest Athenian statesman of the fifth century, the Parthenon was the product of this man’s daring and genius

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Pericles

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the confederation of “free” Greek states which Athens had formed after the Persian Wars.

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Delian League

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ninety-two separate friezes detailing the triumph of man over beast, a metaphor for both the human conquest of irrationality and the Greeks’ victory over the Persians

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Metopes

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an architectural evocation of the Greek philosopher Protagoras’ axiom

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“Man is the Measure of All Things”

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the Parthenon instead bids the mortals standing before it to reflect on their own being, to ___________ as Apollo, the Greek god of reason, commands

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“Know Yourself”

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constructed by Marcus Agrippa, presents a mystery full of glories hidden behind its façade

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Pantheon

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the general who engineered the military successes which brought Augustus Caesar to power in the last decades of the first century BCE, constructed the Pantheon

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Marcus Agrippa

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the shape of the cap of the Pantheon, uncommon to the architecture of that age

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Dome

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the dome is an extension of this shape

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Arch

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Cosmopolitan and learned, just and merciful, he spent the majority of his reign touring his empire, collecting art and helping to consolidate Rome’s cultural legacy. emperor who ruled (117-138 CE)

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Hadrian

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series of defenses Hadrian ordered built across northern England

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Hadrian’s Wall

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“eye” in Latin, acted as a spotlight and a calendar in the Pantheon

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Oculus

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“holy wisdom” in Greek, both the last great Roman structure and the first great Medieval church

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Hagia Sophia

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location of the Hagia Sophia

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Constantinople (Istanbul)

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Byzantine emperor who reigned (527-565 CE) during the time of the Hagia Sophia’s construction

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Justinian

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Cathedral

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