Question
Give an account of new technological developments used during 7th to 13th centimes.
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Answer
- Monuments provide an insight into the technologies used for construction.
- Between the seventh and tenth centuries architects started adding more rooms, doors and windows to buildings.
- Roofs, doors and windows were still made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns.
- It was a style of architecture called 'trabeate' or 'corbelled'.
- Between the eighth and thirteenth centuries the trabeate style was used in the construction of temples, mosques, tombs and in buildings attached to large stepped-wells (baolis).
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