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This building demonstrates many Greek concepts in it’s design.  The ratios used were ones favored throughout Greek design to communicate harmony.  The ‘irregularities’ may be refinements meant to correct optical illusions.

In Greek art, a krater was used to mix wine with water.

What is the best way to store energy? 

The topmost stone of the arch is called the keystone.

  Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic _________is an account of a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas Becket in Kent, England.

A Doric frieze is divided into triglyphs and __________.

A one-story, bench structure, the __________was an early tomb. Watch spelling. _______ mastaba

The Renaissance was a period of denying the ideas, art and philosophy of the Greek and Roman period.

Leonardo’s drawing of a man inside a circle and a square was derived from the ideas of Roman architect and writer __________.

With the ability to crease paper (in the Hellenistic times), it was possible to create bound books, known as a ___________