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Early Italian Renaissance
Japanese Gardens
Middle Ages in Europe
LA History
Ancient Greece & Rome
100
A new age; a "rebirth" of classical learning of literature, art and culture.
What is renaissance
100
A native/original religion of Japan meaning "Way of the Gods"
What is shinto
100
A shelter with nest holes for domesticated pigeons
What is a dovecote
100
An alternative naming of the traditional BC
What is common era
100
"Upper city", any citadel or complex built on a high wall
What is an acropolis
200
A philosophical outlook, a fascination and appreciation of physical beauty, classical arts and the life of Greeks and Romans.
What is humanism
200
Marks the approach and entrance to a shrine
What is a torii gate
200
A threshold with sides and a roof formed by trees or climbing plants trained over a wooden framework
What is an arbor
200
"Age of Man", human kind is responsible for altering the function of ecological systems
What is the anthropocene epoch
200
Open space where people would gather to hear statements from the king or for military duty. Later it served as a marketplace
What is an agora
300
Italian for porch, leading to the entrance of the building. An extended colonnade with a roof structure over a walkway.
What is a portico
300
long term cultivation and shaping of small trees growing in a container
What is bonsai
300
Poles interwoven with slender twigs or branches.
What is a wattle
300
Began around 10,000 BCE at the end of the last ice age.
What is the holocene epoch
300
An author, architect, civil engineer, known during the 1st century BCE for his multivolume treatise entitled De Architectura
Who is Vitruvius
400
A covered exterior gallery or corridor usually on an upper level, accessed only from inside and intended as a place for leisure.
What is a loggia
400
The oldest garden planning text in the world.
What is sakuteiki
400
A secluded garden associated with the Virgin Mary in the monastery garden
What is hortus conclusus
400
Connects heaven and earth and provides a path between the two
What is axis mundi
400
An open courtyard or garden surrounded by a colonnade
What is a peristyle
500
Dewy ground; Japanese term for the garden through which one passes to the teahouse for the ceremony
What is roji
500
A covered walk in a covenant monastery, college or cathedral with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.
What is a cloister
500
"Special" neolithic sites, often located on the tops of hills, viewed over substantial distances
What is a cosmological landscape
500
An art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in 3D
What is a trompe l'oeil