QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.

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The legalists were famous for laying the intellectual basis for the rule, through strict laws, of China's first emperor, Qinshi Huangdi he of the terracotta warriors, the Great Wall, the burning of books and the burial alive of Confucianists.

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