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Set high upon the crest of a mountain ridge above Peru's Sacred Valley lies the fabled 15th Century Inca citadel Machu Picchu.

A site that bestows wonder upon all who make the journey to its soaring heights, this marvel of Inca architecture is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century.

This is a common misconception largely due to it never being reached Spanish Conquistadors in their invasion of Peru in the 16th Century.

In the 9th century, more people started living in London again.

However, it did not become the capital city of England until the 12th century.

The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.

During most of the 19th century, in fact, the term tennis referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis.

In the 20th century engineers invented many different computer architectures.

When CPUs were invented in the middle 20th century they had many different word sizes.

The most successful robot designs in the 20th century were not made to look like people.

There used to be ostriches in Middle East in the 20th century and, further back, also in Asia.

Some elements of football have been seen in many countries, dating back to the second and third century AD in China.

The modern games of both rugby football and association football comes from 19th-century England.

The earliest references to pancakes are in the poems of the 5th century BC poets Cratinus and Magnes.

The first pancake recipe that appeared in an English cookbook was in the 15th century.

Hoi an Ancient Town is recognized as a historic trading port with a mix of indigenous and foreign influences, dating back to the 15th century.

There is also the fine wooden Japanese bridge, with a pagoda on it, dating from the 18th century.

Later, by the 14th century, the Cham moved further down towards Nha trang.

By the 18th century, it was considered to be the best place to trade in all of Asia, according to Chinese and Japanese merchants.

You can view a 15th century shipwreck that was discovered in the 1990s, which was full of ceramic artefacts.

In the late 19th century, after hundreds of years of isolation, Seoul opened its gates to foreigners and began to modernize.

Horses have been used in the police force since the 17th Century.

Although they became less popular with the introduction of the automobile in the early 20th Century, hundreds of horses are still used by the police today.

During the first half of the 20th Century, bald eagles were considered a threat to the salmon fishing industry and over 100,000 eagles were killed.

Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein is one of the most celebrated scientists of the Twentieth Century.

Einstein was a truly global man and one of the undisputed genius' of the Twentieth Century.

Chips had arrived in Britain from France in the eighteenth century and were known as pommes frites.

It wasn't until the 15th century that Dutch bakers transformed the crust-less apple pie into the lattice-style pastry we commonly see today.

There are American apple pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the 18th century.

By the turn of the 20th century, the pie had been established as a key part of American culture.

A dam was built in 13th century in the river Amstel (that's why the city is called Amsterdam).

The city grew fast in the 15th century.

That number would even rise to 200,000 near the end of the 17th century, making the city a very large city for its time (only London and Paris also had that many people).

In the 18th century, the number of people living in Amsterdam fell back to 140,000, ending the Golden Age.

The original type of sushi, nare-zushi, was first developed in Southeast Asia and then spread to southern China before its introduction to Japan sometime around the 8th century AD .

Before the invention of refrigerator, people had used icebox for more than a century.

But by the 12th century, other ingredients and seasonings began to be added to the pot.

The city is famous for its 19th century modern architecture.

Housed in a former 19th-century chapel, which now functions as Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

She is a model, actress, singer and arguably one of the most famous women of the twentieth century.

She took drama lessons and got her first movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox.

Saint Andrew was a fisherman who was tortured and crucified on a "X" cross in the first Century BC.

She was the only designer to be listed in the Time 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century.

In the 20th century, Australia saw a large amount of immigration, including from those across the sea in the Mediterranean countries.