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    The Great Wall In China

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    The great wall was built by humans and it was built over 2,000 years ago. China will want to build these walls to protect there home and for defense. When invaders come and try to attack, the wall will protect their town. When china defeats many invaders they start to become an empire. Almost more than 300,000 workers died because of construction. Lots of workers was buried inside the wall they built. The wall wasn’t making any succes about keeping out the barbarians. People built stronger walls

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    The Great Wall Of China

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    includes modules of ________ so you can see the construction of _____ Today I am going to be presenting the Great Wall of China and what political and military reasons it was built for. The construction was a feat of great magnitude and reflected the innovations and technological advancements of the Ancient Chinese. The reason I have decided to focus upon the Ancient Chinese is because I find China a very interesting civilisation. The ancient Chinese civilisation began 7,000 to 8,000 years ago and about

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    Great Wall China

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    The Great Wall of China is a beautiful, very well known, landmark. The great wall was built by the Qin, Ming, and Han dynasties, and took hundreds of years to construct. The wall was built to to provide security, intimidate/ impress visitors, and enhance the glory of china. Without the wall, China wouldn't be nearly the same nor as influential as it is in today's world. First of all, the great wall of china provided security for the citizens and soldiers of China. According to the background essay

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    The Great Wall Of China

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    The Great Wall of China is known as the largest construction project to be put in effect in all of world history. The wall, also known in China as "long wall of 10,000 li," is a collection of numerous short walls extending along the crest of hills on the southern edge of the Mongolian plain. Although it is a common misconception that the Great Wall of China is one long continuous wall, it 's structural inconsistency in no way undermines its greatness. The wall has been built, destructed, rebuilt

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    The Great Wall Of China

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    The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China was built and was useful in many ways. One purpose was to keep invaders from China like the Mongols. Yet another one was to warn China’s rulers and the citizens of approaching enemies. These points will be discussed throughout the essay. The Great Wall of China expands more than 5,000 kilometers and took more than 2,000 years to build. The Great Wall of China was built to protect China. The protection was from its enemies and invaders from the North

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    The Great Wall Of China

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    It has been said that the Great Wall of China is so immense that it can be seen from space with just the human eye. Unfortunately, that is simply a rumor and has been confirmed false. Nonetheless, the Great Wall of China is also the world’s longest wall and biggest piece of ancient architecture, which is still a pretty big deal. Its official length is about 13,170 miles long, more than four times the width of the United States. The wall crosses over ten provinces and cities, including Qinghai, Gansu

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    The Great Wall Of China

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    The Great Wall of China James Allen World History 1st period February 1, 2015 The first unified Chinese empire was formed in 221 B.C., that was when seven states were brought together by Shi Huangdi, a conqueror from the state of Qin. Shi Huangdi means “first emperor.” Until the twentieth century all rulers of imperial China called themselves the emperor. The emperor was believed, by the people of China, to be the son of heaven, God-like. They believed that each of the emperor’s

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    The Great Wall of China

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    The Great Wall of China is an assemblage of smaller walls built by various dynasties over many years. Builders erected these walls for protection from invasions by those from the north. The Great Wall itself, with a history lasting over 2000 years, measures approximately 5,500 miles in length, although some of the sections lie in ruin or have disappeared altogether. It is about 25 feet high and is 15-30 feet wide. It is the longest man-made structure in the world. In the 7th century B.C. the first

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    Great Wall China Benefits

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    BCs in Feudal China, there was an emperor by the name of Shi Huangdi. Shi Huangdi was a very powerful emperor; changing laws, uniting China, and building many advantageous things that benefitted China. One of those buildings being the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall, a mysterious, historical building that took many years to build. The wall in itself is quite a mystery. How was it built? How did the Chinese of that time manage to build something so humongous such as the Great Wall?... But what

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    the world is the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China is the longest wall the in the world. “The "Long Wall" has a long history — more than 2,300 years. It was built in different areas by different states/dynasties to protect different territorial borders. It stretches about 1,500 miles from Bo Hai off the Yellow Sea in the East to the Gansu province in the West and it also took over 10 years to build.” (Kelly). The wall was very long it reached over 4 places. “The wall dates from the Ming

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