The Great Wall of China is a series

of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth,

wood, and other materials, generally built along an
east-to-west line across the historical northern
borders of China in part to protect the Chinese
Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions
by various nomadic groups or military incursions
by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls
were being built as early as the 7th century
BC;
[3]
these, later joined together and made bigger
and stronger, are now collectively referred to as
the Great Wall.
[4]
Especially famous is the wall built
between 220206 BC by the first Emperor of
China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains.
Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been
rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of
the existing wall are from the Ming Dynasty.
The Great Wall of China
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: , "Holy
Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta
Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Hagia
1935Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church),
later an imperial mosque, and now a museum
in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its
construction in 537 until 1453, it served as
an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of
the Patriarchate of Constantinople,
[1]
except
between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to
a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin
Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May
1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and
opened as a museum on 1 February 1935
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is
a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England,
about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8
miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most
famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the
remains of a ring of standing stones set
withinearthworks. It is in the middle of the most
dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze
Age monuments in England, including several
hundred burial mounds

Machu Picchu (in hispanicized spelling, Spanish
pronunciation: [matu piktu]) or Machu
Pikchu (Quechua machu old, old
person, pikchu peak; mountain or prominence with
a broad base which ends in sharp peaks,
[1]
"old
peak", pronunciation [mtu pixtu]) is a 15th-
century Inca site located 2,430 metres
(7,970 ft) above sea level.
[2][3]
It is located in
the Cusco Region,Urubamba
Province, Machupicchu District in Peru.
[4]
It is
situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred
Valley which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest
of Cusco and through which the Urubamba
River flows. Most archaeologists believe that
Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca
emperor Pachacuti (14381472). Often mistakenly
referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is
perhaps the most familiar icon of Inca civilizatio





The Taj
Mahal (/td mhl/ often /t/;,
[2]
from Persia
n and Arabic,
[3][4]
"crown of
palaces", pronounced [tad m]; also "the
Taj"
[5]
) is a white marble mausoleum located
in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built
by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his
third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely
recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and
one of the universally admired masterpieces of the
world's heritage".
[6]

Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest
example of Mughal architecture, a style that
combines elements from Islamic,Persian, Ottoman
Turkish and Indian architectural styles


Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the
northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic (c.
AD 600900) through theTerminal Classic (c.AD
800900) and into the early portion of the Early
Postclassic period (c. AD 9001200). The site
exhibits a multitude of architectural styles,
reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico and of
the Puuc and Chenes styles of the northern Maya
lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles
was once thought to have been representative of
direct migration or even conquest from central
Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations
view the presence of these non-Maya styles more
as the result of cultural diffusion.