Why is the Great Wall of China not one of the seven wonders of the world?

Answer 1

Actually it is one of The Seven Wonders of the Medieval World.

These are:

Stonehenge
Colosseum
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
Great Wall of China
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
Hagia Sophia
Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are:

Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

Then 7 Modern wonders are:

Channel Tunnel
CN Tower
Empire State Building
Golden Gate Bridge
Itaipu Dam
Delta Works
Panama Canal

The New Seven Wonders Are:

Potala Palace
Old City of Jerusalem
Polar Ice Caps
Hawaiian National Marine Monument
The Internet
Mayan Pyramids of Chichen,
The Serengeti and Masai Mara Plains
The Grand Canyon

Hope this has cleared things.

Answer 2

The Great Wall of China is NOT one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The list was compiled by the Greeks and at the time they did not know about the Great Wall of China.

Answer 3

The Great Wall of China was built during the Qin Dynasty and got connected to the Mediterranean Sea when the silk roads were built around 220 B.C. The Greeks knew that the wall was there but, the list formulated by ancient Greek philosophers had been completed before the silk roads. In a short answer the great wall was built to late to be acknowledged as a wonder of the ancient world.

Answer 4

It is, depending on what list of the Seven Wonders you're looking at. There are actually multiple lists.

The Great Wall is on the list of Seven Wonders of the Medieval World. It is also on a rather unofficial list of what tourists think are the seven wonders of the ancient world.

But the Great Wall wasn't constructed in the "ancient" world. It was constructed in the 5th-7th century BC. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were typically constructed hundreds of years earlier.

Answer 5

The Seven Wonders of the ANCIENT world are:
The colossus of Rhodes;
The statue of Zeus;
The mausoleum at Halicarnassus;
The hanging gardens of Babylon;
The temple of Artemis;
Pharos of Alexandria;
And the pyramids of Egypt.

The are also seven wonders of the natural world:
Grand Canyon
Great Barrier Reef
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Mount Everest
Polar Aurora
Parícutin volcano
Victoria Falls

And there's the seven wonders of the MEDIEVAL world:
Stonehenge
Colosseum
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
Hagia Sophia
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Great Wall of China

So it gets a look in somewhere!

Answer 6

every time i see a list of the new or modern seven wonders of the world, it's different. nobody agrees. the seven wonders of the ancient world are mediterranean-centric and set in stone, but updating things a bit i would say the wall is definitely one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. it can be seen from outer space, consider that

Answer 7

If you go into www.new7wonders.com you'll be able to vote for the new wonders of the world and then the Great Wall of China will become on of them. Good luck!!!

Answer 8

The phrase "seven wonders of the world" refers to natrually occuring wonders such as the great barrier reef. The seven natrual wonders of the world are:
Mt Everest, Nepal,
Victoria Falls, Zambia/ Zimbabwe
Grand Candion, Arizona USA
Great Barrier Reef
Northern Lights
Paricutin volcano in Mexico
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Im sure if you were to compile a list of man-made wonders, the great wall of china would be one of them

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Answer 10

I always thought it was the "Seven wonders of the natural world" and just shorted for ease of use in conversation. As such, it would not qualify.