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Rows of Megaliths/Menhirs
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Carnac France
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3,000-1,500 BCE
Marked trail of hunting route |
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Stonehenge- "hanging Stone"
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Salisbury Plain, England
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2,750-1,500 BCE
Aubrey Holes, a ring of 56 pits Bluestone brought from Wales, 160 miles away |
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Gobekli Tepe- "Potbelly Hill"
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Near Urfa, Turkey
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10,000 BCE
Oldest known human-made religious structure |
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Great Pyramid of Giza
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Near Cairo
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2,580BCE to 2,560
For Pharaoh Khufu |
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Great Sphinx of Giza
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Near Cairo
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2,558 -2,532 BCE
During reign of Pharaoh Khafra |
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Queen Hatshepsut's Tomb
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Dier el-Bahari
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Designed by her architect Senenmut
Ruled as a man from 1479 to 1458 BCE |
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Karnax Temple Complex
including the Temple of Amun-Re |
Thebes, near Luxor
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Construction began during Middle Kingdom period through Ptolemaic dynasty 30 BCE
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Great Stupa
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at Sanchi
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mid 3rd cent BCE
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Chaitya halls
Ajanta Caves |
Maharashtra, India on Waghora River
Chaitya halls studied more closely |
100 BCE
Second phase 4th-7th cent |
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Karli chaitya hall
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Karli, India
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100-125 CE
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Angkor Wat
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Cambodia
Surrounded by barays (reservoirs created by embankment rather than excavations) |
Built by Khemer Empire
Patron King Suryavarman II 1113-1150 CE |
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Watson Brake
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Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
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3500 BCE
earliest mound complex in N. America |
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Poverty Point
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near Epps, Louisiana
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1650-700 BCE
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Newark Earthworks
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in Newark and Heath Ohio
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100 BCE-400 CE
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Fort Serpent Mound
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Near Peebles Ohio
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1000-1070 CE
Attributed to Fort Ancient peoples |
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Cahokia
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Near Collinsville Illinois
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700-1400 CE
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Chaco Canyon
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Nw New Mexico
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850-1250 CE
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Delphi
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Built on Mt. Parnassus
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586 BCE
Dedicated to Apollo Pythian games held here |
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Acropolis
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Athens
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Periclean Era
Golden Age of Athens 460-430 BCE |
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Pont du Gard
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Nimes France
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30 BCE
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Roman Forum-"Villa ad Gallinas"
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Near Augustus
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Roman Baths
Baths of Caracalla |
211-216 BCE
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Qasr al-Hayr
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Syrian Desert
Islamic agricultural estate |
watered by wadi=seasonal stream
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Alhambra Palace
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Granada
Residence of Muslim sultan and where the Court of Myrtles and the Court of Lions are |
135h-14th century
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Court of the Myrtles
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14 cent
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Court of the Lions
"Lion's Palace" |
Classic Chahar bagh (4 part garden)
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Walkways with water channels divide into 4 quadrants
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Cheomseongdae Observatory
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Gyeongju, S. Korea
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634 CE by a queen who was the 27th ruler, thus 27 layers of stone to structure
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Cheomseongdae Observatory
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Gyeongju, S. Korea
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634 CE by a queen who was the 27th ruler, thus 27 layers of stone to structure
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Cheomseongdae Observatory
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Gyeongju, S. Korea
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634 CE by a queen who was the 27th ruler, thus 27 layers of stone to structure
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Tulumi Park
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Gyenongju, S. Korea
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Tumuli=small hill or mound
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Mahabodhi Temple
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Bodh Gaya India
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5th-6th cent
Where Budha found enlightenment |
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Lats (pillars) of Emperor Ashoka
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270-232 BCE
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o Lats spread his edicts and the dharma across the kingdom
Had suggestions about how to live as well as teachings of the Buddha inscribed on them |
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Borobudur
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Java Indonesia
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760-840 CE
Three levels of Buddhist cosmology: world of desire, world of forms and world of formlessness |
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Pompei Theater of Pompey
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Rome 55 BCE
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Location of FIRST public park in Rome
Half circular theater and then the garden in the back |
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Great wall of China
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22 -Qin Shi dynasty
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Finished under the Ming dynasty 1368-1644
Defense, aesthetic was not important |
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Dhamekh Stupa
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Sarnath India
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site for the Buddha’s first sermon in a deer park
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