History Quiz: Buildings

While 200,000 scrolls is a lot, the Library of Alexandria was said to contain 500,000, though historians believe this number to be a bit unrealistic. The Imperial Library of Constantinople was said to contain 120,000.

The first longhouses (that we known of) were built in Neolithic Europe around 5000-6000 BC. For comparison, the oldest confirmed pyramid is the Pyramid of Djoser, completed in c.2648 BC, though the pyramids of the Peruvian city of Caral are of a similar age. Hindu temples go back to maybe as early as the 7th Century BC, though the oldest surviving ones are much younger.

The Courts of Justice building was later built on the site. The restoration of Sándor Palace occurred gradually, starting in 1989 and ending in the 2000s. The Frauenkirche was rebuilt between 1994 and 2005.

The style blended elements of many different historical styles and made innovative use of modern materials. It is also called the Napoleon III style, since it flourished under his reign.

They are meant to represent the five peaks of the mythical Mount Meru, considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

The triskelion and celtic knot were pretty much limited to Europe before the modern age, but the swastika was used around the world, including in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. It was used on the facades of Hindu temples as well as Viking longhouses, for instance.

The wall as it is today was built mostly during this dynasty.

Sumer was a Mesopotamian civilisation and Elam was Iranian, so they existed close to one another, but Urartu existed in present day western Turkey and Armenia.

It is also known as the Great Pyramid of Cholula and stands at 55 metres tall, with a base that is 450 by 450 metres. Today, it is covered in earth (it looks like a hill) and has a church situated on top of it. El Castillo, the more popular name for the Temple of Kukulcan, measures 30 metres tall and 55.3 metres across. The Temple of the Great Jaguar, also known as Tikal Temple I, stands at 47 metres tall with a relatively small base.

Florence Cathedral was completed first, in 1436. Seville Cathedral was next, in 1528. And while construction began in 1248, Cologne Cathedral was not completed until 1880. Restoration work began in the 1950s and is ongoing.

Dougong are interlocking wooden brackets, placed on columns to provide a solid base for bow-shaped brackets called gong, which then support a beam or another gong. Using multiple dougong allows a building to be elastic, so making it more earthquake-resistant. Dougong were no longer used after the Song Dynasty, though decorative brackets were still used.

It was built and originally owned by the Teutonic Knights, and is the largest castle in the world (though not the largest palace). Windsor castle is the next largest out of the three.

It was the world's tallest building from 1913 to 1930, at 241 metres. 40 Wall Street was tallest from April to 27th May 1930 (283 metres), followed by the Chrysler Building until 1st May 1931 (318.9 metres), then the Empire State Building until 1970 at 443.2 metres.

The site consists of several terraced circular depressions and an irrigation system. The latter feature, combined with the fact that there's a temperature difference of up to 15 °C between the top and bottom, suggests that the purpose of the site was farming, with the temperature difference and differing soil samples on each level allowing different crops to be grown.

They were carved faces, usually human and typically frightening.