Form of the City

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Question 1
Rome, Old St. Peter’s, reconstruction, c. 320-330.
Question 2
Dura Europos (Syria), aerial view of city, destroyed in 256.
Question 3
Dura Europos, Synagogue, 244/5; wall decoration.
Question 4
Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, aerial view, 532-537.‘Architects’: Anthemios of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus.
Question 5
Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, 692.Patron: Abd al-Malik.
Question 6
Damascus, Great Mosque, c. 715, aerial view.
Question 7
Cordoba, Great Mosque, 784-6, 833-852, 961-76, and 987.
Question 8
Kairouan (Qayrawan), Great Mosque of Uqba ibn Nafi,(initially built 670). Massive reconstruction: 836, 862, and 875.
Question 9
Madinat al-Zahra, partial plan. Patron: Abd al-Rahman III.
Question 10
Granada, Alhambra; city laid out in 1238.Patron: Mohammed I (1238-73).
Question 11
Teotihuacán (Mexico), view of the Pyramid of the Sun, c. 200 C.E.
Question 12
Teotihuacán, Pyramid of the Moon.
Question 13
Chichén-Itzá, Castillo, before 1000; distant view.
Question 14
Chichén-Itzá, Caracol (the observatory), ca. 900.
Question 15
Chichén-Itzá, Ball Court, c.1100; distant view.