7 WondersIn

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What are they?

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● Θεάματα (theamata) - “Sights” or “Things to be Seen”● Lists from poems and anthologies● Popular after Alexander the Great

○ Macedonian Empire 2M sq. mi., 3.5% of Earth● Later called θαύματα (thaumata) - “Wonders”

It’s a Travel Guide

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In other words...

Who decided?

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● Surviving texts from 2nd century BC● Diodorus Siculus, historian● Antipater of Sidon, epigrapher● Philo of Byzantium, mathematician

Which are they?

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● Great Pyramid of Giza● Hanging Gardens of Babylon● Temple of Artemis● Statue of Zeus● Mausoleum at Halicarnassus● Colossus of Rhodes● Lighthouse of Alexandria

Where are they?

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Where are (were) they?

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● Iraq - 1● Egypt - 2● Turkey - 2● Greece - 2

The Wonders

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Great Pyramid

Great PyramidGiza, Egypt

Built ~2560 BC5M+ Tonnes

Granite & Limestone481 ft Tall

Tallest building for 3,800 years

Still StandingEndlessly Looted

Giza

Hanging Gardens

Hanging GardensBabylon

Unknown LocationHillah or Nineveh, Iraq

Built ~600 BCResembled mountain

22 ft thick walls75 ft tall tiers

12,000 ft around

Hillah

Nineveh(Mosul)

Tigris River

Euphrates River

Temple of Artemis

Temple of ArtemisSelçuk, Turkey

~550 BC377 ft x 151 ft

40 ft tall columnsMarble

Burnt 356 BC, RebuiltSacked, Banned,

Closed ~5th c ADUnknown Destruction

Ephesus

Turkey

Statue of Zeus

Statue of ZeusOlympia, Greece

Built 435 BCIvory and Gold

43’ tallClosed 4th C ADPossibly Looted

Destroyed by Fire5th Century AD

Olympia

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

MausoleumBodrum, TurkeyKing Mausolus

Built 350 BC148 ft tall

108 ft x 128 ft base4-horse Chariot

Statue topperEarthquakes

12th~15th c ADMined for stone

Halicarnassus

Turkey

Colossus at Rhodos

Colossus at RhodosBuilt 280 BC

Beside, Not astride108 ft Bronze statue49 ft Marble plinthHelios, Patron godEarthquake 226 BC653 AD sold, scrap

Umayyad Caliphate900 camels

Rhodes

Turkey

Crete

The Great Lighthouse

The Great LighthouseAlexandria, Egypt

Built ~300 BC~350 ft Limestone

3-tieredFurnace cupola

Active for 13 CenturiesEarthquake Damage

956, 1303, 1323 ADRuins to Fort, 1480 AD

Alexandria

8th Wonder?Or: “But what about…”

Alhambra, Spain

Amber Room, St. Petersberg

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Banaue Rice Terraces,

Phillippines

Borobudor, Indonesia

Circus Maximus, Italy

Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Colosseum, Italy

Cristo Redentor, Brazil

Eads Bridge, St. Louis

Eiffel Tower, France

El Escorial, Spain

Forth Bridge, Scotland

Great Wall of China

Great Library, Alexandria

Hagia Sophia, Turkey

Lalibela Churches, Ethiopia

Machu Picchu, Peru

Moai Statues, Easter Isle

Neuschwanstein, Germany

Notre Dame, France

Obelisk of Axum, Ethiopia

Parthenon, Greece

Royal Palace, Amsterdam

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

Sistine Chapel, Italy

Statue of Liberty

Stonehenge, England

Taj Mahal, India

Terracotta Army, China

Victoria Bridge, Montreal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Wonder_of_the_World, Sid Meir’s Civilization

None of these are wonders...