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  1. 3. a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis Greece dedicated to the goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their patroness.
  2. 5. The prayer niche is the focal point in the interior of a mosque and located in the qibla wall that faces Mecca.
  3. 7. the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler regarded as the successor of Muhammad.
  4. 9. a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall (often a cathedral).
  5. 11. in Roman cities in antiquity multipurpose centrally located open area that was surrounded by public buildings and colonnades and that served as a public gathering place.
  6. 12. City in Saudi Arabia and is reputedly the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and considered the holy city of Islam.
  7. 13. (Italian: “almond”) in religious art almond-shaped aureole of light surrounding the entire figure of a holy person.
  8. 14. the central part of a church building intended to accommodate most of the congregation
  9. 15. "the long hand" (or claw) is a memory device that was create, manipulated and protected by the Bambudye a once powerful secret society of the Luba.
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  1. 1. pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia from 2200 until 500 bce.
  2. 2. a stone coffin typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt Rome and Greece.
  3. 3. The patricians were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome.
  4. 4. Babylonian legal text composed c. 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest and best-organised and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East.
  5. 6. fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh after Sobekneferu.
  6. 8. a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.
  7. 10. an underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans.
  8. 14. an antechamber or porch or distinct area at the western entrance of some early Christian churches separated off by a railing and used by catechumens and penitents etc.