How were the lives of builders who built the Great Wall of China during the Ming Dynasty?

Answer 1

terrible they were captured slaves and were worked to death they were then put into the wall they thought this would increase the power of the wall the grate wall of china is the only man made object that can be seen from space by the human eye

Answer 2

Terrible. Hundreds of thousands of people died. The people who died were buried inside of the wall to help keep it together. Being sent to work on the great wall during the Qin dynasty was a death sentence.

Answer 3

According to historical data, the labor force was made up of three groups: soldiers, common people and criminals. Since the Qin Dynasty (221BC - 206BC), the construction of the Great Wall had been a very large project. The Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered millions of people to finish this project.

Soldiers made up the main construction group. This was the case with the building of the wall of Northern Qi (550-557). Also, during the Qin Dynasty, 300,000 soldiers were redirected to build the wall after General Meng Tian conquered the Huns. Still, it took nine years to finish the work. In order to take care of the soldiers and make them feel settled, the court even arranged for widows to marry them.

Millions of common people were called up to build the wall. Northern Qi's wall, starting from Xiakou to Hengzhou, used 1,800,000 laborers. A section of Sui's (581 - 618) wall in Inner Mongolia required more than 1,000,000 men to build. Besides the first 300,000 soldiers, Qin's wall required another 500,000 common people to complete the work.

Criminals were forced into labor as punishment. During the day, they were ordered to take turns patrolling the wall, while at night, building and extending the wall. They were required to serve four years of hard labor according to laws at that time.

It's a big burden for ordinary people to build the Great Wall. Sometimes, all the men in the nation were forced to construct. For instance, during the Wei-Jin and Southern-Northern dynasties (around 265-589), even children had to join this project. As a result, no men were engaged in farming, women were frightened to have a boy, and widowers dared not to marry a woman. Also the Great Wall construction led to a large number of deaths and injuries. For those who lost sons or husbands, life would become much harder.

Answer 4

very bad, there were millions of workers building the Great Wall, but they didn't have sufficient food.

Answer 5

Not so good. It was very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer. There was little food, too.

Answer 6

yes millions