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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,1 Great Pyramid at Giza,2 Hanging Gardens of Babylon,3 Statue of Zeus at Olympia,4 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,5 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus,6 Colossus of Rhodes,7 Lighthouse at Alexandria,The Great Pyramid at Giza,1,The Seven Wonders,Selected by the Ancient Greeks,When the ancient Greeks decided to select seven wonders from the many impressive structures that had been constructed throughout history,there was a lot of argument about which structures to select.,Over the years,many different lists were created.Finally,a list was presented that most Greeks agreed included the seven most wondrous wonders,each a unique achievement.,The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 4,500 years old,and is the only ancient wonder still standing.,The Great Pyramid at Giza,Until the early 1800s,the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest building in the world!,The Great Pyramid at Giza,The Great Pyramid at Giza,The Great pyramid was made by hand!It is nearly 800 feet long,450 feet high.It was built with over two million of blocks of stone.,The average weight of each stone is about 2,500 pounds-around the same weight as a car!,The Hanging Gardens of Babylon,2,The Seven Wonders,Selected by the Ancient Greeks,When the ancient Greeks decided to select seven wonders from the many impressive structures that had been constructed throughout history,there was a lot of argument about which structures to select.,Over the years,many different lists were created.Finally,a list was presented that most Greeks agreed included the seven most wondrous wonders,each a unique achievement.,There was little argument that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon would be included as a world wonder.It was on nearly everyones list.,The Hanging Gardens,The thought of a huge and magnificent garden,towering 300 feet above the desert sands,appealed to the Greeks sense of the incredible.,The Hanging Gardens,The Hanging Gardens were supposedly built around 600 BCE,along the banks of the Euphrates River in,Babylon,.,Constructed inside the palace walls,the gardens were built in a series of platforms,or terraces,that created a structure 400 feet long,400 feet wide,and 380 feet high!,The Hanging Gardens,Wandering paths and a series of steps connected the various levels.The gardens were a wonderland of greenery,flowering plants,and waterfalls.,That alone would have greatly impressed the ancient Greeks.But a love story was attached to the gardens that made them even more interesting.,It was rumored that the king King Nebuchadnezzar,ordered the gardens built to honor his queen.,The Hanging Gardens,The queen was homesick for her land in the mountains.The gardens were designed by the king to make his queen feel loved and welcomed in her new land of Babylon.,No one knows if the love story behind the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is true,or if the gardens ever really existed.,The Hanging Gardens,But it was a great story,and the Greeks loved stories,especially stories about war and love.,3,TheStatueof Zeusat Olympia,The Seven Wonders,Selected by the Ancient Greeks,When the ancient Greeks decided to select seven wonders from the many impressive structures that had been constructed throughout history,there was a lot of argument about which structures to select.,Over the years,many different lists were created.Finally,a list was presented that most Greeks agreed included the seven most wondrous wonders,each a unique achievement.,There was absolutely no argument about the Statue of Zeus.It was a world wonder everyone knew that!,The Statue of Zeus at Olympia,Zeus was the king of the ancient Greek gods.Olympia was the city that hosted the Ancient Greek Olympic Games.The statue could have been the size of a peanut,and still the Ancient Greeks would have selected it.But it truly was a magnificent structure.,The Temple of Zeus was completed in 456 BCE.,The Statue of Zeus at Olympia,Like the Parthenon and the Temple of Artemis,Doric columns were used to support the structure.,It was built in Olympia to honor Zeus and the Greek Olympic Games.,The Statue of Zeus at Olympia,Today,little remains of the temple or the once magnificent Statue of Zeus within it.But the spirit of the Olympic Games lives on!,4 The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,The Seven Wonders,Selected by the Ancient Greeks,When the ancient Greeks decided to select seven wonders from the many impressive structures that had been constructed throughout history,there was a lot of argument about which structures to select.,Over the years,many different lists were created.Finally,a list was presented that most Greeks agreed included the seven most wondrous wonders,each a unique achievement.,The Temple of Artemis was first built around 800 BCE in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus,on the coast of what is now modern day Turkey.,The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,The temple was destroyed and r
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