Monuments and Milestones

The five moments in this challenge

The scenes are shown below — tap a card to reveal its place and year.

1. 

   Round 1 · 1911

   Hiram Bingham Reaches Machu Picchu

   Cusco Region, Peru

   Guided by a local farmer, the American explorer and Yale historian encounters the breathtaking, vine-covered ruins of the fifteenth-century Inca citadel, hidden high in the cloud forests of the Andes mountains.

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2. 

   Round 2 · 210 BC

   Terracotta Army Buried with the Emperor

   Xi'an, China

   Thousands of life-sized, individually sculpted clay soldiers, horses, and chariots are carefully positioned in sprawling subterranean pits to protect Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, as he enters the afterlife.

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3. 

   Round 3 · 1788

   First Fleet Arrives at Sydney Cove

   Sydney, Australia

   Eleven British ships drop anchor in a pristine harbor, unloading Royal Marines and convicts to establish a penal colony that will become the first permanent European settlement on the Australian continent.

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4. 

   Round 4 · 1869

   Inauguration of the Vienna State Opera

   Vienna, Austria

   Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth attend the grand opening of the magnificent neo-Renaissance opera house on the newly constructed Ringstrasse, inaugurating a glittering golden age of Austrian culture and architecture.

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5. 

   Round 5 · 1570

   Ortelius Publishes the First Modern Atlas

   Antwerp, Belgium

   In a bustling Flemish print shop, Abraham Ortelius inspects the first bound copies of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, gathering the world's cartographic knowledge into a single, standardized book for the very first time.

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