Golden Hall – Chinese Architecture
Golden Hall (Wudang Mountain, 1416 AD) Who built the Golden Hall? Ming Dynasty emperors built the Golden Hall palace on the slopes of Wudang Mountain in 1416 AD. The Golden [...]
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Draw a top plan – Architecture project
Top plan of a kid's room (thanks to SmartDraw) There aren't any standing buildings left from the Shang Dynasty, so we know about Shang Dynasty architecture mainly from top plans. These [...]
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Forbidden City Story Project – Medieval China
A man writing (Ming Dynasty China) Read Quatr.us Study Guide's article about the Ming Dynasty Forbidden City very carefully. Then write a story that takes place in the Forbidden City. In your [...]
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Zhou Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
A fancy roof tile from the Zhou Dynasty What were people building? By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, about 1100 BC, there seem to have been a lot of [...]
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Qin Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
Great Wall of China The emperors of the very short Qin Dynasty, about 200 BC, united China under their rule. To show how powerful they were, the Qin emperors ordered [...]
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Chang’an – T’ang Dynasty Chinese Architecture
The walls of Chang'an under the T'ang Dynasty (ca. 700 AD) People have been living in the city of Chang'an in China since the Stone Age. But Chang'an reached its [...]
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Three Kingdoms Architecture – China
Three Kingdoms architecture: Mogao Caves (366 AD and later) First Buddhist temples in China Beginning in 366 AD, people in China built the earliest Buddhist temples in China. These first Buddhist temples [...]
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What is a yurt? Central Asian architecture
Yurts- the houses of Central Asia What do nomads live in? The nomadic people of Central Asia generally lived in yurts, portable houses made of a foldable wood frame with [...]
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Later Central Asian Architecture
Inside the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (1700s AD) After 1500, architects in Central Asia divided into those who looked west, to Western Europe, for inspiration, those who looked south, to [...]
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What is a mosaic? History of Art
A mosaic floor made up of tiny blocks You make the simplest kind of mosaic by taking a lot of black and white pebbles and arranging them on a bed [...]
