Quiz 4 ARC1720

The Maya developed two calendars, a solar calendar and a religious calendar. These two calendars

The layouts of the Dogon villages in Mali are based upon

Ancestral Pueblo architecture of tribes in the Southwest established

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, the ________ is considered by most scholars to be an astronomical observatory aligned to key point in the Maya calendar.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, Mesoamericans were never compelled to invention were structural spans were concerned. All major civic and religious rituals

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, this sculpture, called the Sun Stone depicts the

The structural system that helped to define Gothic architecture can be referred to as

In order to advance to the level of master builder, a building designer was required to

In medieval city planning, the church was typically located

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, Villard de Honnecourt's fame rests entirely on his

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, structural vaults had been known for a millennia emerging from Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Romanesque architecture. However, gothic structures reduced the weight of the vaults through the use of

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, most wooden truss systems

Teotihuacan and Oaxaca were both prominent cities during Pre-Columbian Mexico. Sharing many similarities, one aspect of their architecture was very different - the Olmecs built their religious center atop a leveled mountain while the religious center in Teotihuacan was

The Maya were unique in the Americas because they developed a system of

The Fali compound was formed in the shape of a circle for the purpose of ____________.

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, most Mesoamerican cultures had a four- directional symbolic-spatial cosmology with the cardinal directions-each associated with

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, the site that most clearly demonstrates the intimate relationship between architecture and landscape is

One of the hallmarks of the Gothic Style is

The title of "architect" did not come about until late in the medieval period, thus a building designer in the Middle Ages was usually called

According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, one of the greatest Gothic advances in the St. Denis Cathedral was the