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| Chichen Itza is the Mayan name which means |  | It is one of the few Mayan sites which the original Mayan name is known and used. It is the best known of all the Mayan cities covering over a six square mile area. It was excavated and restored for over 20 years starting in 1923. The site was founded around 432 AD. The city was abandoned around 1200 AD. (Fergson & Royce, 1977) & (Aguiar, 1978) | | Read More.... | | | Entertainment at the Colosseum |  | The Colosseum was built by Emperors Vespasiana and Titus and was completed in A.D. 80 It was a large stadium which held over fifty thousand people. It's measurements were 188 meters long, 156 meters wide, and 40 meters high, and it had 76 entrances (Connolly 2001, pg 37). | | Read More.... | | | Way of Life for the Chinese |  | Way of Life for the Chinese
The Chinese Way of Life is quite unique and very different from that of Western cultures in both Traditional and Modern China. Come and take a look!
Traditional Way of Life
Like all societies of the past, Traditional China had a very distinct class system. There was a very wealthy upper class as well as a poor, peasant class, and each lived their own separate ways. | | Read More.... | | | Great Pyramid of Khufu Commentary |  | "Pyramid of Cheops" or "Khufu's Pyramid", near Cairo, the farthest north and east of the famous trio, often the pyramid in back in the classic picture. Ancient Egyptian, Fourth Dynasty. "The pyramids at Giza—descendants of primitive 'stepped' prototypes built in superimposed layers—are gigantic prisms unique in world architecture, mathematics at an ultimate scale. It is quite possible that Cheop's Great Pyramid consumed more dressed stone blocks than any structure ever built, an estimated 2,300,000 of them, averaging 2.5 tons each. It is generally thought that the blocks were moved on log rollers and sledges and then ramped into place." | | Read More.... | | | The Babylonian kingdom |  | Fruits and flowers... Waterfalls... Gardens hanging from the palace terraces... Exotic animals... This is the picture of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in most people's minds. It may be surprising to know that they might have never existed except in the minds of Greek poets and historians! | | Read More.... | |
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