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 The Statue of Zeus   The text “The Statue of Zeus”, published on the website www.new7wonders.com , is about why it was the most inspiring among the other 7 wonders of the ancient world to Philo of Byzantium.  The statue was built in the imposing temple of the city (The Parthenon), with the finality of paying tribute to Zeus, the most powerful Olympian God. According to a geographer of the period B.C., quoted in the text, the statue looked like it was standing up.  The most important features of the monument were: its 12 meters high, the materials it was made of (gold and ivory), The statue of the goddess of victory and the scepter that he had in his hand. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">**Questions and answers (Giza Pyramids)** <span class="hps" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Were the pyramids <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> at <span class="hps" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giza <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> built <span class="hps" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">between 2600 and 2500 B.C.? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> - Were the pyramids at Giza built with limestone blocks? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> - Who chose the P yramids at Giza as one of the seven wonders of the world ? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> - What do the pyramids represent?

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Answer to Dairet's questions **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The largest of the three pyramids is the Great Pyramid.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Which is the largest of the three pyramids? **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> The pyramids of Egypt were built between 2600 and 2500 B.C.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> Yes, the pyramids are the representative of the link between heaven and earth. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> Yes, Horus was the ancient egyptian god of the world.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">When were the pyramids of Egypt built? **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Are the pyramids the representative of the link between heaven and earth? **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Was Horus the ancient egyptian god of the world? **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">Terrazas Yuanyang <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">The magic sculpture made by Hani people. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The mountains with terraced fields are like non-literal huge historical books, presenting the long history that Hani people struggled against nature and grew. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">According to the record of Hani Nationality, big fish created the universe, heaven, earth and the first pair of people. They gave birth two children, the third of whom was a dragon. The third son of them became the dragon king in a sea when he grew up. To thank his parents for bring him up, he sacrificed three bamboo tubes of presents, including a tube with paddy grains. Grain-planting is an old agricultural activity of Hani People. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">As the masterpiece of Hani Ethnic Group, Yuanyang Terraced Fields are located in the south of Ailao Mountain, Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Hani Terraced Fields has being famous gradually since 1980. And a ccording to the record, the rice terraces were worked out by the ancestors of Hani people when they were relocated their homes to Ailao Mountain area from the Tibetan Plateau in around 2500 years ago. Also, in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the emperor granted them the title of "Magic Mountain Sculptors". Being built up from generation to generation, the fields today on the mountains have covered an area of 11,333 ha. The rice farmers have had to practice ecology and land preservation centuries before those concepts were widely accepted around the world. Now we can see the abstract pattern of terraced rice fields lie at an altitude ranging from 144 along the Red River up to nearly 3,000 meters above sea level. In Yuanyang, the terraced areas of interest to visitors are mainly found between 1,000 and 2,000 meters above sea level. From the tidy and well-constructed fields, anyone has to admit that it is a human engineering feat only made by those hard working people. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">This structure has been praised as a sustainable ecological system. Yuanyang Rice Terrace is a self sustaining ecosystem, their irrigation system constitute ingenious agricultural innovation. During winter to early spring, the entire field is irrigated with spring water from the forest above to rejuvenate and getting prepared for the next season. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Yuanyang Rive Terrace is a perfect example of SYMBIOSIS with nature. The water evaporate from the rice terrace to form cloud, the rain is collected and trapped by the forest on the mountains, the spring water flow down to the rice terrace and the whole cycle repeats itself perpetually. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">A wonder of the world future.