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7 WondersIn
5 minutes
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...