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| | The Art Of Architecture |
 | | Permanent building in stone was restricted to the tomb, temple, and the associated statuary (obelisk and avenues of sphinx and lion), but the forms of these monumental stone structures seem to have been influenced by those of primitive Egyptian domestic architecture. |
 | | During the 2d century BC the Romans, in conquering North Africa, Greece, Anatolia, and Spain, absorbed the architectural traditions of those areas (most significantly that of Greece), to which they added the constructional skills of the Etruscans, their immediate neighbors in central Italy. |
 | | The most significant achievements of the Romans were in their technology of building, their use of a much wider range of materials (including concrete, terra-cotta, and fired bricks), and their refinements of the arch and vault and the dome--all of which had been pioneered by the Etruscans. |
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