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Event wonder Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE

Inca citadel set high in the Andes…

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15th-century Inca citadel in Peru

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Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Inca citadel set high in the Andes Mountains

Standing in 1450 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Hadramaut Polity · Middle East 323 BCE – 1700 CE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE

Around the same time

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1438 CE Inca Empire Expansion 1445 CE Russo–Kazan Wars 1453 CE Fall of Constantinople 1455 CE Wars of the Roses 1459 CE Sixty Dome Mosque 1460 CE Mapuche–Inca War
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