Quiz 4 ARC1720

28 August 2022
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The great plaza in the foreground at the Acropolis at Tikal was intended for ____________.
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ritual spectacle
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The Maya erected ____________ for various purposes, including the commemoration of significant events
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Stelae
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A comprehensive, in-depth history of ___________ architecture has not yet been written because of the widely varying climatic conditions, radically different cultures and ongoing wars, disease and famine.
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African
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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
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all of the above: trees, colors, deities
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According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, in Mesa Verde, the circular structures seen in this image are ________ or enclosed spaces for religious and communal ceremonies.
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kivas
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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
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unfolded in the landscape
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In this partial plan of Siena, Italy the large white space in the center is ____________.
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the Campo or public plaza
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In order to advance to the level of master builder, a building designer was required to
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present a building or a model for evaluation by the masters of his craft guild
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The west façade of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
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is not entirely symmetrical
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According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, invention was encouraged by
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increasing ambition of clients trying to outdo each other
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According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, one of the greatest Gothic advances in the St. Denis Cathedral was the
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the amount of stained glass
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According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, the gothic era differed not only in the sophistication of construction but also in the fact that the Gothic was part of
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an urban setting