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Roman

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
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Acroterion (acroterium)   show
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show a passage way between rows of seats  
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show an arena with raked seating arranged around a circular or oval floor  
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show vaults making a ring shape  
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Apollodorus of Damascus   show
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show the termination of the nave of a basilica or the choir in a basilican church  
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show a pipe for conducting water under gravity flow. Their term is often applied to the arched structure built to support the pipe across valleys  
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show a level area with seating around for spectators  
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show a semicircular vault over a rectangular space  
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Basilica   show
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Basilica   show
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Basilica   show
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Brick stamps   show
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Caldarium   show
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Cavea   show
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Cella   show
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show the wooden scaffold or form required to support a masonry vault or arch while under construction  
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Chamber tomb   show
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show windows placed high in a wall, generally above lower roof elements  
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Coffer   show
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Columns   show
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show a plastic building material consisting of sand, water, cement, and aggregate, which hardens to a stone-like consistency  
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Constantine   show
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show the vault formed by two intersecting barrel vaults.  
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Curia   show
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Diocletian   show
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Dome   show
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show column integrated with the wall  
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show a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria.  
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show a semicircular niche, often used as a seat of honor or place for a statue  
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Forum (plural=fora)   show
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show part of the centralised area around which the ancient Roman civilization developed.  
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show the cold-water baths in a Roman themae  
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show a semicircular room or recess  
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Hypocaust   show
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Hypogeum   show
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Imperial Fora   show
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show the central voussoir of an arch  
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show an ancient region in west central Italy, inhabited by Latini people  
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show the western arm of a basilican church  
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show a cemetery usually a large one belonging to a city  
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show Roman walls built of irregularly shaped stones facing a concrete core  
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Opus quadratum   show
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show a small platform on which a person can stand to be seen by an audience  
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show a volcanic ash containing silicon and aluminum, which will harden as a cement when ground fine and mixed with lime and water  
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Pronaous   show
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show a building with free standing columns in the front (colonnaded portico), but the columns along the sides are engaged in the peripheral walls of the building.  
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show a very light and porous volcanic rock formed when a gas-rich froth of a gassy lava solidifies rapidly  
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show vaults that extend from a center point?  
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show an arch which encloses an arch or a window or other opening. It helps relieve some of the weight on the arch of the opening.  
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Spandrel   show
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Stadium of Domitian   show
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show fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural decoration  
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Taberna (shop)   show
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show In Roman architecture, a gateway structure, with one or three arched openings, built to celebrate the return of a conquering army  
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show An order based on Etruscan architecture, employing unfluted columns and simplified capital  
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Velarium   show
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show Roman architect and military engineer  
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show A wedge-shapped masonry unit set to form an arch  
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Volcanic tuff   show
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