Examples of capital in the following topics:
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- Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
- Dur-Sharrukin, or present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
- After his death, his son and successor Sennacherib abandoned the project and relocated the capital with its administration to the city of Nineveh.
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- The column capitals and main façade of the church are embellished with realistic sculptures carved by Gislebertus, and the artwork is a means of teaching the masses of Christian ethics with dramatic scenes of heaven and hell.
- The interior of the cathedral has a nave and two aisles, divided by massive columns with longitudinal carvings punctuated with decorated Romanesque capitals.
- Many of the historiated capitals that adorn the columns in Saint-Lazare were carved by Gislebertus.
- Specifically, Gislebertus created capitals that used the tendrils of the actual Corinthian capital to create an architectural frame for the narrative of the story to develop.
- These portal capitals are carved with biblical and traditional scenes.
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- The Assyrian king Shalmaneser I made Nimrud, which existed for about a thousand years, the capital in the thirteenth century BCE.
- Nimrud remained the Assyrian capital until 706 BCE when Sargon II moved the capital to Dur-Sharrukin, but it remained a major center and a royal residence until the city was completely destroyed in 612 BCE when Assyria succumbed under the invasion of the Medes.
- Dur-Sharrukin, or present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
- Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
- Describe the key aspects of the Assyrian capitals of Nimrud, Dur-Sharrukin, and Nineveh
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- Babylon controlled little surrounding territory until it became the capital of Hammurabi's empire a century later .
- Subsequently, the city of Babylon continued to be the capital of the region known as Babylonia.
- Babylon thus became the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
- Although excavations are thought to reveal its foundations, many historians disagree about the location, and some believe it may have been confused with gardens in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh.
- The city was the administrative capital of the Persian Empire, the preeminent power of the then-known world, and it played a vital part in the history of that region for over two centuries.
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- Examples include slender and unfluted Doric columns and four-fronted capitals on Ionic columns, the latter of which helped to solve design problems concerning symmetry on temple porticos.
- On second level Ionic columns lined the exterior, and columns with a simple, stylized capital lined the interior.
- The capital consists of a double layer of acanthus leaves and stylized plant tendrils that curl up towards the abacus in the shape of a scroll or volute.
- Corinthian Capital.
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- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia.
- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BCE .
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- The Mbum, a part-Bantu ethnic group from northeast Cameroon, founded the kingdom at the end of the 14th century; its capital was the ancient walled city of Fumban.
- France integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments, skilled workers, and continued forced labor.
- The Bamum developed an extensive artistic culture at their capital of Fumban at the beginning of the 20th century.
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- Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital city from 1325-1521, is one of the most magnificent architectural accomplishments of the Aztec empire.
- Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco, the site of modern-day Mexico City.
- Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the expanding Aztec empire during the 15th century.
- The power of Tenochtitlan was maintained by tributes paid by conquered lands and the capital grew in influence, size, and population.
- In 1521, the Spanish conquered Tenochtitlan, and Cortés directed the systematic destruction of the city and the rebuilding of the capital of New Spain atop its ruins.
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- From 100 CE to 800 CE, Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru with its capital, Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, being located near present-day Trujillo .
- Huaca del Sol, "Temple of the Sun", was the Mochica political capital.
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- Nineveh, an Assyrian city on the Tigris River and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was one of the earliest, greatest cities in antiquity.
- Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
- Thus, it became one of the oldest and greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.