I just compiled some more vocabulary this week.
The theme is Imhotep
-he was an egyptian polyman. He was an expert in a number of different subjects ( architect, medicine, preist, and he was a 'government official'
-First recognized architect
-Served under the pharaoh, Djoser
-Designed the first great pyramid
-He was one of few mortals to be depicted as a part of the pharaoh's status. There was a legend of famine for seven years, and he as thought to have a part in the flood of the Nile
- He was the first person to make medicine into an official disapline
- first known to use columns in archetecutre
First person to use stone dressed buidlings
-used lintels (horizontal structural member, such as a beam or a stone, that spans an opening such as windows or doors or between two columns)
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