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Day 5 of LL- The most important part of this building is SUPPOSED to be unsophisticated?

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👑 Near the center of India, stood a beautiful and romantic building. Like the Great Wall of China, it has made its way to become one of the new 👑 seven wonders of the world. It was built between 1632 and 1653 AD, and most of it was made up of white marble and red sandstone. Also, when you translate its name to English, it literally means “ Crown of the Palace ,” and this place is the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal, which was about 73 metres tall, was built during the Mughal Empire. It took approximately 21 years of construction until it was finally done. This building was not just built for fun or a place for the emperor to go in the summer, but instead, it actually has a romantic love story behind it! ➺➺➺ The way he looks at her haha 👀  It was created to by the Mughal emperor at that time which was Shah Jahan. It was made to memorialize his beloved third wife who died when she was 39 years old. As many of you have already known, many emperors in history had marri

Day 4 of LL- The souls underneath the wall?...

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This humongous wall has always been known for being a protector who kept their country's citizen safe in their embrace. It stood still day and night. From one side, you could see little soldiers guarding at watchtowers like the green army men in Toy Story, and from the other side, there were cozy row of houses down along the side of the wall. And this protector of the “Middle Kingdom” is called the Great Wall of China. Although the Great Wall of China, , was originally started being built during the Qing Dynasty by Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of Ancient China. To be accurate, smaller walls had been built over the years, but it was not strong enough to keep the northern invaders, the Mongols, away. Therefore, he ordered that a long, long wall made with dirt surrounded by stones had to be built with thousands of lookout towers on it, which would be useful in case of an invasion. However, the wall we see today was mostly built in the Ming Dynasty. That is because during