As of 2010, there were an estimated 1.6 billion<span> Muslims around the world, making Islam the world's second-largest religious tradition after Christianity.</span>
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Gothic cathedrals were synonymous with: spiritual and material elements unite, pointed arches, slender columns, cluster or compound columns, groin vaults, ribbed vaults, dimensions mathematically related, common shapes; square and equilateral triangle, large windows with tracery, stained glass, flying buttresses, pinnacles
Explanation:
The consequence was that gradually structures became leaner and more daring, visually looked lighter, reinforcing the sense of an inner spacial whole
high: long curved pieces of stone (more delicate and frilly than before), everything became more ornate, flying buttresses steeper and compound, abandoned simplicity for its elaboration
