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FIVE TYPES OF
1. Great Pyramid
of Giza, Egypt, GOVERNMENT
WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
built c. 2500 bce
MONARCHY The head of state is a monarch
(king or queen).
2. Hanging Gardens
of Babylon, Iraq,
REPUBLIC The head of state is usually an
built c. 600 bce
elected president.
3. Statue of Zeus at THEOCRACY A state governed by a religious
Olympia, Greece, leader or leaders.
carved by the sculptor
Phidias c. 435 bce
DICTATORSHIP A state ruled by a single person
4. Temple of Artemis who may have seized power by
at Ephesus, Turkey, force or been elected unopposed.
destroyed by Gothic
SINGLE-PARTY A state governed by one political party
tribes in 262 ce STATE where no other parties are allowed
to nominate candidates for election.
5. Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus, tomb
of King Mausolus, A JUMBO JOB
Turkey, built c. 350 ce
The marble and
6. Colossus of stone used to build
Rhodes, a giant statue the Taj Mahal in
of the sun god Helios, Agra, India, in the MIGHTY
built in 280 bce 17th century
were carried there by
7. Lighthouse of 1,000
Alexandria, Egypt,
destroyed in 1365 ce
elephants.
GREAT CITIES Hangchow
Nineveh Chang’an Constantinople Ctesiphon Cordoba (China)
250,000
(Turkey)
(Spain)
(Iraq)
(Iraq)
(China)
Many places have 120,000 people 400,000 people 300,000 people 500,000 people 450,000 people people
held the title of
world’s biggest
city—and their Thebes (Egypt) Babylon Rome Constantinople Baghdad
Xian (China) (Iraq) (Italy) (Turkey) (Iraq)
populations keep 50,000 people 200,000 people 450,000 people 400,000 people 700,000 people
getting bigger! 800 bce 650 bce 400 bce 200 bce 100 bce 350 ce 500 ce 625 ce 800 ce 1000 1200
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