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INTERIOR OF HAGIA SOPHIA
-biggest dome in the world
-first building with a square base and circular dome
-pendentive: rounded triangle converts circle to square base
-4 barrel vaults in a square
-3 uses: Church, Mosque, and Museum

ROMAN AQUEDUCT BRIDGE in France
-powered by gravity
-most are underground to keep safe from disease and attack

CHIMERA OF AREZZO
-Etruscan
-best of hollow cast bronze sculptures
-Chimera is mutation of a lion, snake, and goat

ROMAN ROAD
-58,000 miles across Europe and Northern Africa
-works projects for slaves and conquered people
-critical in expansion, maintenance, and fall of the empire

JULIUS CESEAR
-first to put his face on money

FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE (COLOSSEUM)
-naumachia: sea battles
-velarium: retractable roof
Day at the Colosseum
-morning: animal hunts
-noon: public executions
-evening: gladiator games

COMMODUS AS HERCULES
-Imperial sculpture
-fights fixed matches in the Colosseum
-his reign marks the begining of the decline of the Roman Empire

MURMILLO
-type of gladiator
-fish man
-derived the word gladiator from his short sword (the gladius)

HYPOGEUM
-labyrinth underneath the fighting floor
-added special effects with trap doors
-no more naumachia

THEODOSIAN WALLS
-protected Constantinople from the Huns
-triple line of defense: moat, wall, and larger wall with castles
-hollow walls are filled with gravel and sand

JUSTINIAN
-Byzantine Emperor
-mosaic: artwork made of small tiles

EGYPTIAN OBLESQUE
-from Hippodrome