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History Assigment1
History Assigment1
Christian temples
core elements
steeples, portals and buttresses
crosses and stained glass
3. The Parthenon in Athens first was a temple to the goddess Athena, then being reused as a church,
treasury, ammunition store, army barracks, and museum.
4. Chameleon-like buildings contain cryptic stories from distant history, secret surprises, and advices
about how we might build less wastefully
5. It was a chapel for Christian martyrs killed by gladiators, Those who were killed burned in arena,
sometimes they threw them to lions
6. Spoliated city comes from reused building blocks, doorways and monuments. It is impossible to
pass by without seeing evidence of older civilizations
7. Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice telsl remarkable stories of international conflict. Sack of
Constantinople in 1204, the invading Venetians looted huge chunks of masonry that had formed the
city's Hippodrome, before taking them home to build Saint Mark's.
8. Both Christian and Muslim architecture both have mismatched columns, plundered from other
buildings
9. Many old building are rebuilt to the new ones or reconstructed by using methods as in the past
Nicole Matejková,2.B