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  • Question 1
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    Placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns, this style of architecture is called as?
    Solution
    Between the seventh and tenth centuries architects started adding more rooms, doors and windows to buildings. Roofs, doors and windows were still made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns, a style of architecture called "trabeate" or "corbelled".
  • Question 2
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    According to inscription in the Quwwat al-Islam, Whom the god chose as king?
    Solution
    An inscription in the Quwwat al-Islam mosque explained that god chose Alauddin as a king because he had the qualities of Moses and Solomon, the great lawgivers of the past.
  • Question 3
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    The weight of the superstructure above the doors and windows was sometimes carried by arches. This architectural form was called ________________.
    Solution
    Two technological and stylistic developments are noticeable from the twelfth century. The weight of the superstructure above the doors and windows was sometimes carried by arches. This architectural form was called "arcuate".
  • Question 4
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    When the trabeate style was used in construction of temples?
    Solution
    Between the eighth and thirteenth centuries the trabeate style was used in the construction of temples, mosques, tombs and in buildings attached to large stepped-wells.
  • Question 5
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    Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
    List-IList-II
    A.Ratha1.Hall in front of the sanctorium
    B.Mandapa2.Sanctum Sanctorium
    C.Gopuram3.Monolithic Pallava temples
    D.Garba-griha4.Monumental gateway
    Solution
    A.The five monolithic temples hewn from granite and known as the Pandava Rathas are ascribed to his reign. They are: the Draupadi Ratha, the Bhima Ratha, the Dharmaraja Ratha, the Nakula and Sahadeva Ratha, and the Arjuna Ratha, named after members of the Pandava family in the Hindu epic Mahabharata
    B.Mandapa is the hall in front of the sanctorium
    C. gopuram or gopura is a monumental entrance tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a Hindu temple.
    D. The prayer hall was generally built in front of the temple's sanctum sanctorum (garbhagriha)
  • Question 6
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    The tomb architecture, was first visible in ____________ tomb.
    Solution
    A tomb architecture, first visible in Humayun's tomb. The tomb was placed in the centre of a huge formal chahar bagh and built in the tradition known as "eight paradises" or hasht bihisht- a central hall surrounded by eight rooms. The building was constructed with red sandstone, edged with white marbles.
  • Question 7
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    Where did the King held his court?
    Solution
    Besides the temple there are places with mandapas or pavilions. Kings held court in these mandapas, issuing orders to their subordinates. There were also barracks for army.
  • Question 8
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    Identify the world famous examples of Islamic architecture of India from the following list.
    Solution
    The world famous examples of Islamic architecture of India are Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar, Gol Gumbaz.
    • Taj Mahal was built during the reign of Mughal emperor Shahjahan.
    • The Qutub Minar was built in the thirteenth century. It is associated with the much revered saint of Delhi, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki.
    •  Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah the seventh Sultan of the Adil Shahi Dynasty of Bijapur.
  • Question 9
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    The temples known as the Seven Pagodas had been built by the
    Solution
    • The seven pagodas or seven temples of Mahabalipuram, around 50 kilometres from Chennai were built by Pallava kings Narasimhavarman I, Paramesvarman and Narasimhavarman II, who ruled during the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • Question 10
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    Why did the Sinhalese ruler Sena general II order his general to invade Madurai?
    Solution

    Temples were destroyed by invading rulers as they were a large store of treasure and riches. Thus, temples were viewed as targets that were to be attacked in the course of battles.

    In the early ninth century, when the Pandyan king Shrimara Shrivallabha invaded Sri Lanka and defeated the king, he removed all the valuables like The statue of the Buddha made entirely of gold in the Jewel Palace and the golden images in the various monasteries.

    The blow to the pride of the Sinhalese (Srilankan) ruler had to be avenged and the next Sinhalese ruler, Sena II ordered his general to invade Madurai the Pandyan capital.

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