Why is The Great Wall of China called the longest cemetery in the world?

Answer 1

The Great Wall of China, with a surviving length of more than 1,240 miles, is actually a series of shorter fortified walls and watchtowers, built during the Bronze Age Zhou Dynasty and then linked together by the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Shihuangdi. Repaired and improved over many centuries, the wall acted as a defensive border to protect the Chinese farmers from attacks by nomadic tribes.

Such a massive building project needed many workers over many hundreds of years. Unfortunately, many of the workers died while working on the wall, and were buried close by. This makes the wall the longest graveyard in the world.

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They were actually buried within the walls, not close by. When the workers died, the other workers would throw them in the wall.

There was actually thousands how died.

Answer 2

Of the thousands of laborers, hundreds of them died while building the great wall. Instead of a funeral, they just through them over the side and into the center. This cemetery is 31,000 miles long.
Lots of people died building it.

Answer 3

Some people call the Great Wall, the "Long Graveyard", becausemany people died while building the wall.

Answer 4

The wall is called the longest cemetery in the world because approximately 1 million people died building it.

Answer 5

because there was so much demand, and presure to get so much manpower to work on this project that many people perished.

Answer 6

Many of the workers who died building it were buried around or under the Great Wall. Many did, there were no cranes or machines and it was so long!