HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1 20.
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA, PYRAMID OF
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1. It was constructed the burial place of KING DJOSER
where was built in 2630 B.C.
2. POST AND LINTEL – the method of construction of
Pre- Historic Architecture.
3. THE CITY OF 100 GATES - It is considered as the
famous City of Thebes.
4. PEDIMENT - Also called a Fronton when used to
crown a subordinate feature, as a window
5. During the Christian era, the Christian Luxor temple’s
hypostyle hall was converted into a CHRISTIAN
CHURCH.
6. HYPNOSTYLE – having an intercolumnation spaces
of 1 ½ D.
7. KING MENES – the pharaoh who built the first
capital of Egypt
8. RED CROWN -the kingdom in Lower Egypt
9. PYRAMID OF KHUFU/ TOMB OF KHUFU –
similarly called to The Greta Pyramid of Giza.
10. TEMPLES -
11. PEDIMENT – In classical architecture, the triangular
gable end of the roof above the horizontal cornice, often
filled with sculpture.
12. PHARAOH KHUFU – the pharaoh who began to
build The Great Pyramid of Giza.
13. MEGALITH - Isolated single upright stone also
known as “menhir”.
14. ROCK CAVE – earliest for human settlement.
15. ENTABLATURE – any flat horizontal member or
molding with little projection, as the bands into which
the architraves of ionic and Corinthian entablatures are
divided.
16. BLACK LAND -a fertile land (near the Nile river
where ancient Egypt grew their crops).
17. STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER – the pyramid which
is considered the world’s oldest still-standing stone.
18. HYPOSTYLE HALL – the grandest achievement of
Egyptian axial planning.
19. MASTABAS – rectangular flat-topped funerary
mound, with battered side, covering a burial chamber
below ground.
KHUFU AND PYRAMID OF CHEOPS – the largest
existing pyramid in Egypt.
21. HIEROGLYPHICS – the form of writing in ancient
Egypt.
22. PYRAMID OF KAFRE, KHUFU, AND
MENKAURE – the 3 Giza pyramid names.
23. the upper member of the cornice of an entablature
24. PASSAGE GRAVE/ TUMULUS -the corridor
leading into the underground chamber.
25. IONIC ORDER - decorative variant of ionic order
26. CREPIDOMA – the base courses (3 stepped
platform) of a classical (esp. Greek) temple.
27. OBELISK OF RAMSES II LUXOR – was erected
during the reign of one of the greatest pharaohs of
Ancient Egypt (1303 BC – 1213 BC).
28. The pyramid’s smooth, angled sides symbolized the
RAYS OF THE SUN.
29. GLYPH – a groove or channel, usually vertical,
intended as an ornament.
30. 2528 B.C – the year of the great Pyramid of Giza tht
was built by King Khufu.
31. KING MENES – the pharaoh who indicates the
unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
32. ENTABLATURE – the elaborated beam member
carried by the columns, horizontally divided into
architrave (below), freeze, and cornice (above).
33. IMHOTEP – he is considered to have been the
architect of the step pyramid build at the necropolis of
Saqqara in the city of the Memphis.
34. GREEK ORDERS – shaft, capital, and horizontal
entablature (architrave, frieze, cornice)
35. PHARAOH KAFRE – the builder of the great
pyramid of Kafre.
36. CROMLECH – a circular arrangement of megaliths
enclosing a dolmen or burial mound.
37. PTOLEMY III – he founded the Great Seradeum at
Alexandria.
38. WHITE CROWN – the kingdom in Upper Egypt is
known
39. ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON – he was one of
the successor kings of Alexander the Great’s empire.
40. PALEOLITHIC, MESOLOTHIC, AND
NEOLITHIC PERIOD – identify the three periods of
stone age “sequentially”.

41. ROYAL LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA – the most

ancient library was found in Egypt. It was one of the
largest and most significant libraries of the ancient
world.

42. AMENHOTEP III – Luxor temple in the valley of

the Kings was built by

43. TUTANKHAMUN, HOREMBEB AND RAMESES

II – The Luxor Temple was completed by

44. HIEROCOSPHINX – Egyptian having a head of

hawk

45. FLUTE – a groove or channel, especially one of

many such parallel grooves, usually semi-circular or
semi elliptical in section; used decoratively, as long the
shaft of column.

46. THE SPHINX – a mythical creature with the body of

a lion and the head of a human, with some variations.

47. RED LAND – it is a type of land in Ancient Egypt

which includes desert protecting Egypt on two sides.

48. 95% - how many percent of Egypt’s population lives

in the Nile Valley

49. CORNICE – the third or uppermost division of an

entablature, resting on the freeze.

50. COLUMNAR AND TRABEATED – the method of

construction of Egyptian architecture.