Civilization - History - Contemporary

Contemporary

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  • Western World
    • Europe
    • the Americas
      • Latin America
      • Anglosphere
    • Eastern Orthodox Church countries
      • Greece
      • Russia
      • Southeast Europe
      • Ukraine
      • Belarus
    • Australia
    • Israel
  • Islamic world
    • Arab world
    • Middle East
      • Turkey (in transition from the Islamic World to the Western World)
    • South Africa
    • Somalia
  • Eastern world / Far East
    • East Asia
      • Sinosphere
    • South Asia
    • Southeast Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
      • South Africa (to the Western World)
Examples of civilizations
The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Kairouan, Tunisia), also called the Mosque of Uqba, is the oldest mosque in North Africa and one of the most important monuments of Islamic civilization.
The city of Mohenjo-daro, built around 2600 BCE by the Indus valley civilization, spanning Pakistan, India and Afghanistan is one of the world's earliest cities.
The Acropolis, directly influencing architecture and engineering in Western, Islamic, and Eastern civilizations up to the present day, 2400 years after construction.
The Roman Forum, the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the Ancient Rome civilization, during the Republic and later Empire, its ruins still visible today in modern-day Rome.
The Great Wall of China

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