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What is the name of this architectural feature? 

Why did Constantine’s architects add a transept to the area of the apse in Old Saint Peter’s in Rome? 

What term matches the following definition? “Also called the tunnel vault , the barrel vault is an extension of a simple arch, creating a semicylindrical ceiling over parallel walls.” 

How does the Empress Theodora demonstrate her piety in the Theodora mosaic? 

What term matches the following definition? “A semicircular niche set into the qibla wall of a mosque.” 

What is a triclinium?

What term matches the following definition? “The art, territory, history, and culture of the Eastern Christian Empire and its capital of Constantinople.” 

What term matches the following definition? “A group of buildings in which monks live together, set apart from the secular community of a town.” 

Arteries and veins are both composed of three layers (tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica externa). Which tunica layer is thicker in arteries than in veins, and why?

Branches of the subclavian arteries carry blood on the way to the brain, neck and shoulder muscles, and mammary glands.