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| a half-cylinder (exdra) covered by half-dome above |
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| in Roman times, the use of the parts of a complex as a building as an aid to memorizing a speech for public delivery |
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| First Roman emperor, grandson of Julius Caesar |
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| a roman meeting hall used in public administration, sometimes with an apse containing a a statue of the emperor |
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| the Roman transformation of the Greek agora, containing temples, civic buildings such as law courts, libraries, prisons, and sometimes markets |
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| a man hired to fight other men or animals with a sword and other weapons |
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| Roman emperor, responsible for the construction of the Pantheon |
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| Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps to invade Roman Italy in 281 BC |
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| a straight, entirely horizontal arch in which the arch action is achieved just by the wedge shape of the bricks or stone that comprise it |
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| the circular opening in the center of the dome |
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| the Roman Peace initiated by Augustus, which lasted 200 years |
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| a type of volcanic sand mixed with lime, rubble aggregate, and water to make mortar or Roman concrete |
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| Roman general. Later a member of the First Triumvirate with Marcus Crassus and Julius Caesar |
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| an arch built into the solid portion of a wall to distribute laterally the load placed upon it by the wall above the arch |
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| the art of persuasive speaking |
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| used his army to achieve a coup d'etat and became one of the first dictators of Rome |
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| group of 4 Roman rulers established by the emperor Diocletian after a later period of internal instability and vulnerability to invasion |
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| Roman general and statesman; Roman emperor |
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