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1
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What did Roman architects invent?

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  • the arch, barrel vault, groin vault, and post-and-lintel
2
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Baths of Caracalla

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  • A.D. 215

- a capacity crowd of 1,600 bathed in pools of varying water temperatures

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Column of Trajan

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  • A.D. 106-113

- 650 foot long relief, commemorating mass slaughter in more than 150 scenes

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Basilica

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  • an oblong building with semicircular apses on either end and high clerestory windows, used as a meeting place in Roman times and widely imitated in medieval Christian churches
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Barrel Vaul

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  • deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof
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Groin Vault

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  • two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that form a right angle

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