How was Zion built Matrix?

The Architect himself said that The One left the Matrix with others to build Zion and rebel against the machines and resumed the Machine War. So the 23 people built Zion with The One's powers, resources, and existing technology. Of course, it did not happen overnight. It took many years for the creation of Zion.
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How was Zion created in the Matrix?

Zion is a control measure designed specifically as a society expecting a messiah figure. This expectation, which is created by The Oracle's prophecy, helps to ensure that when the next One arrives on the scene that they will treat him as a messiah and cause him to eventually believe that he is The One.
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Is Zion real in the Matrix?

Zion is NOT the real world; it's simply a Matrix within the Matrix. In other words, both movies have been fooling us, and the characters never left a computer-generated world. The evil machines have designed a Matrix that lets people ”escape” without ever leaving their control.
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What does Zion represent in the Matrix?

Zion is a living sanctuary and a memorial to the efforts and faith of a chosen people. When Zion appears in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, its symbolic connotations intensify as its inhabitants fight for a true human community.
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Why did the machines build Zion?

Zion exists because the machines need it to survive

As the Architect (the program responsible for designing the Matrix) explains in The Matrix Reloaded, all of the series' events up until the present storyline have been orchestrated.
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How did machines know where Zion was?

The machines, especially the Architect program, already knew the location of Zion during the events of the movies. The only reason Zion was allowed to exist because it served a purpose for Matrix.
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How long does it take to rebuild Zion?

This means that Zion grows to its final pre-destruction size in only 100 years.
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Did Zion destroy 6 times?

Related: The Matrix: When Was The First Computer Simulation Built By The Machines? The One was presented with this choice five times previously, each time deciding to destroy Zion. The city, and humanity as a whole, were then rebuilt through the selection of 23 humans meant to begin the controlled reestablishment.
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How can there be multiple Zions?

A certain level of freedom helped maintain the illusion, but every time the human population reached a certain level, The One would reset the simulation, Zion would be destroyed, and the cycle would start again. In this sense, multiple iterations of Zion have existed throughout the timeline.
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Who is God in Matrix?

In Greek mythology: Morpheus is the god of dreams. In the movie: Morpheus is the leader of the rebel forces who fights to awaken enslaved masses from a dreamlike reality.
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Is Neo a Zion?

Zion is in the Matrix. That is why Neo has powers to destroy the machines on the way to the machine city. Also Neo is actually in hell, he is a criminal, and he wakes up in a hell hole... literally... with lava flowing around them during their little celebrations in Zion.
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Why do the machines let Zion rebuild?

As was discussed elsewhere on the site, the machines are not interested in humans being wiped out, they (as shown in Animatrix) just want to co-exist with humans. As such, the machines allow the building of new Zion so that humans would not - as the quote you provided says - would not go extinct.
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How far underground is Zion in the Matrix?

However soon the humans' fate in the war became evident, and the tunnels were expanded and drilled down 4.3 kilometers deep into the ground to begin the construction of an underground city of Zion as the last human resort.
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Why did Zion fall Matrix Resurrection?

But the implications are pretty clear: Zion was destroyed and Morpheus was killed because he led as though their struggles were over. As if Neo parleying with the machines and defeating Smith solved all their problems.
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Why did Neo not save Zion?

Neo did not have to choose between saving Zion or Trinity, he had to choose between following the normal path of The One (going through the right door, which leads to the Source) or attempt an alternate path (going through the left door, which leads back to the Matrix).
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How many ships did Zion have?

There are twelve hoverships in Zion's fleet, of which ten are shown or mentioned in the films and video game, Enter the Matrix (2003), and whose names and captains are as follows: Osiris - Thadeus; Logos - Niobe; Nebuchadnezzar (Neb) - Morpheus; Mjolnir (Hammer) - Roland; Caduceus - Ballard; Gnosis - Ice; Vigilant - ...
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How did Trinity come back to life?

Sensing the power in Neo and Trinity's connection, he persuaded his machine bosses to let him take their bodies. The Analyst then resurrected them using resurrection pods created by Sati's parents and plugged Neo and Trinity back into the Matrix, using them as a source code to build a new iteration.
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Why does the oracle live in the Matrix?

The Oracle is, according to the Architect, the “mother” of the Matrix. She is an intuitive program originally designed to study the human psyche, and she proposed a solution: creating a simulated reality that would offer humanity a choice to mistrust the very nature of that reality, if only on an unconscious level.
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How did Trinity get powers?

In The Matrix Resurrections, Trinity develops the same reality warping powers as Neo after being reawakened to her true identity. By touching hands, Neo and Trinity can let out a powerful telekinetic shockwave and she is later able to manipulate the appearance of the Analyst with just snaps of her fingers.
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Can the Matrix be destroyed?

Finding the One, the human rebels rally behind them, supporting them until they reach the Source. There, the One discovers that they are not meant to destroy the Matrix, but rather restart it. At this point in the cycle, the Machines attack Zion and destroy it, killing the rebellion.
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Why do they wear sunglasses in the Matrix?

The renegades and the Agents always wear sunglasses in the Matrix. Sunglasses hide the eyes and reflect those who are being looked at. The removal of sunglasses signals that a character is gaining a new or different perspective, or that he or she is vulnerable or exposed in some way.
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Where is the human's last refuge in the real world Matrix?

It was located at Earth's Mohorovičić discontinuity.
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