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My name is Nora Sharif, I’m in 5th grade and I go to Westside Elementary School. I can be very competitive sometimes. Not like sports competitive, but I can be competitive when it comes to academic stuff. My REACH project had many things that were hard to find. Although it had many interesting facts. I’ve become more observant when reading text and gathering information. My REACH project is all about ancient architecture. It has inspired me to become an architect when I get older. I am hoping that as I get older I will have more goals in life.

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In this stream I will inform you about The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.  I will answer six questions while informing you about them.  (Shown below.)
Questions

1. What are The Seven Wonders?

2.  What are the similarities and differences of The Temple of Artemis and The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

3.  What architecture was inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?

4.  What was the architectural timeline of the Lighthouse of Alexandria?

5.  How was The Great Pyramid of Giza built and why, how would we build it now?

6.  Why were The Statue of Zeus at Olympia and The Colossus of Rhodes built where they were, and why that specific Greek God?

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2) What are the similarities and differences of The Temple of Artemis and The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

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2) What are the similarities and differences of The Temple of Artemis and The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was not the largest of the wonders.Compared to the Temple of Artemis it was tiny; but today we would think it is one of the largest gardens we’ve seen.  It was only 394 square feet, into an approximation of two-and-a-half football fields. Although it was 82 feet, it was taller than the Temple of Artemis. It only took 15 days for the cement to set and the plants to be in place.

The Temple of Artemis was a large Greek temple. It was a large 64,800 square feet which is one-and-one-eighth football fields.  It is 65 feet, making it 17 feet shorter than The Hanging Gardens. It is surprising, that a temple with that

much square footage is shorter  than this garden.  Moving on, it took about 10 years to finish this; only for it to be destroyed many times

Both the Temple of Artemis and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon included water functions.  After the first temple was destroyed they added fountains in front of the temple.  The fountains were roaring lions that had water pouring out of their months. They probably because Artemis was the goddess of the hunt and had powerful hunting dogs. Her hunting dogs even had the ability to hunt lions.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon used the water for the plants, of course.  There were channels to bring in water from the river.  They also, since the river was at a lower elevation than the gardens, had screws they would turn to lift the water up into the gardens

The gardens were first documented by Babylonians, but then later by Greeks in detail. These reports had differences but all in all they both said that there were plants everywhere in these gardens. In a document it says that, as we know, a king built it to cure his queen’s homesickness.  From what information we have we can say this wonder was built for love while others were built for glory.

The temple was first recorded by a Roman writer. This was when the first one was  destroyed and second one rebuilt.  This is when a statue of Artemis was Unlike the Hanging Gardens this temple was built for glory, and was built to honor the goddess so the city would be blessed with good hunting.

Each of these wonders had simple machines.  For the temple they used them to build, and for the gardens they used to keep it working.  To build the temple they didn’t use any simple machines until the very end.  They used ramps made of sandbags to get the huge blocks of marble a bit above where they needed it to be.  Then they deflated the sandbags at the bottom until the block met its point.   For the gardens they used screws to lift the water up into the gardens by having someone turn the screw in the river, then on the next level another person would turn their screw to get the water up then on and on until the reached channels.

Neither of these wonders lasted very long.  Each of the Temples of Artemis were destroyed a few years after being built. These destructions were both human and natural destructions. During an earthquake the foundations to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon broke and everything toppled over.  Now, this one was just a natural cause. These wonders were beautiful sights when they were still intact, but unfortunately they were demolished.

This was one of the most  historical Babylonian creation it was made out of red bricks, but these did not hold up well against some of the plants force from the roots. Each time they would have a meal they would take the vegetables and fruit they didn’t eat and put it in the soil for the worms for the plant’s health.
Out of all the Greek temples  this one was one of the largest. This building was made completely out of marble. That’s over one thousand tons of marble. This is one reason why they were running out of resources while they were trying to rebuild.

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3) What architecture was inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?

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3) What architecture was inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?

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The Mausoleum is a tomb for Mausolus, ruler of Cairo. Designed by a Roman architect named Vitruvius. With the help of 4 sculptors, Scopas, Bryaxis, Timotheus, and Leochares, working on their own sections built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The base was almost completely square with a perimeter of 411 feet. 36 columns on top of the base, and a 24 step pyramid on the columns. At the very top there is a four-horse marble chariot. In the walls there are many, many carvings of the battle of the Greeks and Amazons. Now we have two remaining statues. Unintentionally inspired? Being a mix of Greek, Ionic, and Egyptian architecture, we don’t know many modern buildings that were relatively close to it. In contrast, we could not be looking close enough to modern architecture to see any relevance. When I looked at Capitol Hill and learned it was based on Greek and Roman architecture. Capitol Hill mainly looks like a Roman temple because of its domed roof and triangular pediments, but looking closer you can tell that the tall columns and symmetrical shapes represent Greek architecture. I thought it could have been inspired to do something based on different architecture. Tomb Copying is Illegal Later a rival king named Augustus was jealous so he made himself a tomb called the Mausoleum at Augustus. With the help of a Roman architect he made the biggest tomb in history. Made of tufa rubble and white limestone, and it had walls that were 25 meters thick. Now, on to Alexander the Great. He was jealous about Mausolus’ tomb, but he pushed aside his jealousy and learned to love this structure and make one inspired by it. This was the same coincidence with the Belevi Mausoleum. Even though the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was the first one ancient writers considered the Great Tomb of Alexander the Great’s and the Belevi Mausoleum better. Many tried to copy these tombs and became copies of a copy. Remaining Pieces A few hundred years later, after the Mausoleum was destroyed, the Knight of Saint John of Malta used the surviving decorative blue limestone blocks to put in the walls of the castle in St. Peter in Bodrum. Now the pieces have been extracted and currently in the British Museum in London.  (Below are blue prints of the Mausoleum)

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4) What was the architectural timeline of the Lighthouse of Alexandria?

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4) What was the architectural timeline of the Lighthouse of Alexandria?

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In this one I have explained it in a newspaper article below.

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5) How was The Great Pyramid of Giza built and why, how would we build it now? 

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5) How was The Great Pyramid of Giza built and why, how would we build it now? 

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6) Why were The Statue of Zeus at Olympia and The Colossus of Rhodes built where they were, and why that specific Greek God? 

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6) Why were The Statue of Zeus at Olympia and The Colossus of Rhodes built where they were, and why that specific Greek God? 

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