BE 211: A Global History of the Built Environment II
University of Washington | College of Built Environments
Spring 2023
Study Guide: Key Works and Terminology (Exam I)
Below is a listing of key sites, works, terms and people that you should know well for the
upcoming exam. For sites and works, you should be able to identify the structure, its major
parts, materials, and their significance. You should also be able to recognize and name the
civilization that built the structure, as well as the location (city & modern country) and general
dates (+/– 100 years) for each. Furthermore, you should be able to define the terms below and
relate them to studied works, and—if included—you should be able to explain who the listed
historical figures are and why they are important (in relation to the works we have studied).
Course and Content Introduction
Terms, places, people:
1. Global History
2. Dymaxion (Fuller) map vs. Mercator projection
3. nation-state
4. historiography
5. entanglements
1000 CE
Sites, works:
1. Uxmal Palace Complex, Mexico, ca. 800–1000 CE
2. Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran, C8–C16 CE
3. Rani-ni-Vav, Step well at Patan, India, C11 CE
4. Sage Mother Hall, Jinci Temple, Tayjuan, China, 1038–87
5. Iron Pagoda, Kaifeng, China, 1049
6. Durham Cathedral, England, 1093–1133
7. Cathedral of Pisa, Italy, 1063–1180
Terms, places, people:
1. mosque (qibla wall, mihrab, minaret, ablution area, iwan)
2. Hindu temple (garbha-griha, linga, parikrama, mandapa, shikhara)
3. stupa
4. pagoda
5. cross-in-square plan church (vs. longitudinal/basilica type)
6. stone vaulting and buttressing
7. Romanesque
8. Christian pilgrimage
1200 CE
Sites, works:
1. Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat), Siem Reap, Cambodia, 802–1220
2. Shwezigon Pagoda, Myanmar, late C11
3. Sanju-sangen-do, Kyoto, Japan, 1164
4. Quwwat-ul-Islam, Delhi, India, ca. 1192–1315
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5. Tomb of Sultan Qalawun, Cairo, Egypt, 1284–85
6. Bieta Giorgis Church, Lalibela, Ethiopia, C13
7. Chartres Cathedral, France, 1194–1220
8. Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1297–1310
9. Palace complex of Alhambra, Granada, Spain, C13/14
10. Chichén Itzá, Mexico, C7–13
Terms, places, people:
1. baray
2. Shintoism
3. torii
4. Genghis Khan
5. yurt
6. Gothic style (pointed arches, groin vaults, flying buttresses)
7. Clerestory, rose window, “lux nova” (new light)
8. bay, compound pier
9. cenoté, caracol, chacmool
1400 CE
Sites, works:
1. Machu Picchu, Peru, C15–C16
2. Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, ca. 1459
3. Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence Cathedral dome, Florence, Italy, 1420–36
4. Leon Battista Alberti, Rucellai Palace, Florence, Italy, 1446–50
5. Donato Bramante, Tempietto of San Pietro, Rome, Italy, 1499–1502
6. Complex of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, Egypt, 1356–63
7. Bibi Khanum Friday Mosque, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1339–1404
8. Forbidden City, Beijing, China, begun 1420
9. Ginkakuji, Kyoto, Japan, 1482–90
Terms, places, people:
1. wetu
2. Intihuatana
3. European Renaissance
4. martyrium
5. madrassa
6. Timur and Timurid Empire
7. Deccan Sultanates
8. Emperor Zhu Di and Ming Dynasty
9. shogun
10. Zen Buddhism
1600 CE
Sites, works:
1. Great Tenshu, Himeji Castle, Himeji, Japan, 1346–1610
2. Katsura Imperial Villa, near Kyoto, Japan, begun 1615
3. Imperial Ming Tombs, near Beijing, China, 1409–1644
4. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet (China), 1649–94
5. Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri, India, 1569–74
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6. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1632–53
7. Mimar Sinan, Suleymaniye Complex, Istanbul, Turkey, 1550–57
8. Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy, begun 1566
9. Bramante, Michelangelo, and Maderno, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy, 1506–1612
Terms, places, people:
1. Eurasian Power Bloc
2. shokintei
3. tumulus
4. mausoleum
5. Friday Mosque
6. Mimar Sinan
7. Baroque style (and relation to Counterreformation)
8. colonialism
9. coastal fortresses (planning principles and glacis)
1700 CE
Sites, works:
1. Hacienda Tabi, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, est. 1733
2. Château de Versailles, Versailles, France, 1661–1778
3. André Le Nôtre, Versailles gardens, Versailles, France, begun 1661
4. Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire, England, begun ca. 1712
5. Henry Hoare II, Stourhead gardens, Wiltshire, England, 1740s
6. Meenakshi Sunderesvara Temple, Madurai, India, 1623–59
7. Nurosmaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 1749–55
8. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, 1675–1709
9. Great House of Shirley Plantation, near Hopewell, Virginia, US, 1738
Terms, places, people:
1. colonialism
2. hôtel
3. Louis XIV
4. parterres
5. Enlightenment
6. sharawadgi
7. stroll garden, follies
8. gopuram
9. “Georgian” Style and Neo-Palladianism
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