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What did the Nile River provide - ✔✔Water
Fertilization
Transportation
Building Materials
Aesthetic Inspiration
Pharaohs - ✔✔absolute monarchs believed to be divine
ka - ✔✔person's soul
Egyptian design - ✔✔monumental, axial, and much of it focuses on
preparing for the afterlife
Egyptian motifs - ✔✔stylized lotus, scarab beetle, and the ankh
Pyramid and stepped pyramid - ✔✔Burial archetypes
hypostyle hall - ✔✔Main hall / Gathering space-closely aligned columns
inside a space
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Cannon of Proportions - ✔✔Strict "pattern" to proportions of the human
body, and in communicating social rank
zoomorphic - ✔✔having or representing animal forms or gods of animal
form
Why do the roof lines
curve upward on Early Chinese architecture? - ✔✔deflect rain on to the
street away from the structure
Describe the use of color in Early Chinese interiors -
✔✔symbolic/intentional
What influenced the yoke crest rail and hoof foot - ✔✔a bull yoke
What were the three basic elements in Early Chinese landscape
architecture? - ✔✔Rock
Hill or mountain (yang, stimulating male force)
Still water (yin, tranquilizing female force)
Chinese Motifs - ✔✔meander, fretwork, and dragons
Feng Shui - ✔✔Chinese philosophy
art of design and placement based on goals for that space
Balance of energies, Chi, to assure health and good fortune