Great Wall of China

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The Great Wall of China was originally built as a military defense but now serves as a symbol of the Chinese culture and their dedication to keep their empire safe. The wall is a reminder to the Chinese people of their history and their ancestors.

Irresponsibility on the part of the Chinese government. They protected certain areas of the wall for tourists to visit, but left others to the mercy of villagers and sandstorms.

Destroyed walls are commonly used by peasants to rebuild houses.

Millions of common people were called up to build the wall. Some were soldiers and some were prisioners.

This ancient great wall was actually built of wood, earth, grass, and three principal different types of stone: granite (magmatic rock), white marble (metamorphic rock) and and white stones (sedimentary rock, like sandstone and limestone). The stone(s) are from the hills surrounding the area, therefore many types of stones are involved in the construction including a white metorite. The answer is vast and to name a single stone would be incorrect. See the geology of that area. This was a massive undertaking and needed thousands of workers. Over 300,000 workmen, criminals and political prisoners were dragged off to build the wall. Many died from starvation, fighting, or just plain exhaustion before even getting to the construction sites. It is thought that some of the dead were buried in the foundations of the wall to ward off evil spirits. For the surviving workers, the problem they faced was the constantly changing terrain as they travelled west. There wasn't always rock available, so they used earth and rubble that they pounded until it was hard. In other places the hills were so steep that oxen couldn't pull the carts of rock up to the building site, so the men themselves carried the rocks on their backs. In the desert, the wall was built using sand, pebbles and grass. Shi Huang Di became the first emperor of a united China and decided that the various walls needed to be fortified and joined together. He ordered thousands of watchtowers to be built 12 metres tall and 12 square metres at their base with 6-metre walls of granite joining them

Because China is a massive country and It stretched the whole legnth

The wall is deserving of its English title because of its size : it is the longest wall in the world. Although many sections are missing or in disrepair, the wall stretches for a length of 4000 miles (6400 km). The actual Chinese names for the Wall reflect this. "Long fortress" or "Wall of 10,000 Li" ( 1 Li being about .5 km). In Chinese history, the Great Wall played an important role in preventing the central plain from nomadic invasions. From that standpoint, it also deserves the adjective 'great' in its name.

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The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China was first ordered constructed by Emperor Qin during the Qin Dynasty to defend his realm against marauding nomadic tribes, and its construction continued throughout successive Chinese dynasties.

The part of the wall that still remains today formed part of the Silk Road route and was built during the Ming Dynasty. It stretches some 6,350km. Over the centuries, armies were garrisoned along the wall to provide early warning of invasion and a first line of defence. Contrary to belief, its purpose was not so much to deter the northern nomadic tribes and Manchus from entering China, but to prevent them from stealing property and escaping from China.

After the formation of the Qing Dynasty, the wall no longer had any functional use as the country was then ruled by the very people the wall was built to keep out. It then became a source of construction materials for nearby villages and towns, contributing to its deterioration and destruction

They used stone, bricks and dry scrunched up hay, with cement to stick the combination together, even though it looks wonky now before it was a real wonder that had just been built.

None. They knew better than to weaken the wall with a decaying corpse. There were people buried near it, presumably laborers who were worked to death, but no bodies have ever been found inside it.

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Incorrect. Thousands of bodies have been found buried in the foundations of the wall. The labor for the wall was in the form of soldiers, convicts, prisoners of war and civilians such as farmers, etc. And many died of starvation and disease. Materials for the wall consisted of anything nearby, such as clay, stone, willow, reeds and sand. The bodies found in the wall were mostly in the foundations or used to make up thickness. It is estimated that between 2-3 million Chinese died building the wall over the centuries. But, as the above answer states, there have also many many bodies found buried in close proximity to the wall as well.

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They couldn't have because when the bodies decayed, the wall would have become weak and if there were millions of people buried it would have collapsed by now. No bodies or bones have been found inside it. Bodies where buried near it but not under on in it.

this structre is not a frame structure because it is not hollow i think it is a combination structure because it is solid but has hollow parts!!! anyway look it up some where else this one sucks!!!

The original purpose fo the wall was to prevent nomadic tribes from conquering China.

Although many sacrifices were made, China and Mongolia are both independent countries.

So in short, Yes.

The history of the Great Wall of China is as bloody and gruesome as the history of ancient Chinese civilization itself. Construction of the Wall began in the third century B.C. when the first Emperor of China, Qin Shih Huang Di engaged in a bloody battle and ultimately succeeded in uniting what was known as "the Warring States." For the first time, China was unified. But with enemies all around, particularly the Mongols encroaching from the North, Emperor Qin set about to strengthen his defenses. He gathered a work force consisting of 200,000 convicts and 100,000 soldiers and commissioned them to build a barrier that would thwart all enemies. It took 10 years to construct this wall, often referred to as the first Great Wall of China. During this time, thousands of workers would die from exposure to the elements and fatigue. Others died from enemy military action that cropped up during the building of the wall. And still other workers were put to death at the end of the construction project so as not to reveal secrets of the construction itself. In fact according to the history of the Great Wall of China, so many workers were said to have died during its building, that it is often referred to as "the longest cemetery on Earth" or the "longest graveyard."

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The Great Wall of China is not in one specific city, it is in many cities. It's sort of a border around China.

in no year did the the mongols cross the great wall and conquered China, China at that time was divided into several nation states, China proper was ruled by the Song dynasty, which fight against the mongols for almost 50 years, because the Song dynasty was very corrupt at that time, so Song China lost, but they killed Gengis khan's oldest son, the mongols payed a great price. after his oldest son was killed in sichuan, mongol army led by his other sons began to retreat from east Europe and middle east to Mongolia to compete for the Khan's throne. In a way,China had save the world.

some pieces may have been damaged either deliberately or by the forces of nature but the great wall of China was not knocked down.

in Ancient china they had various types of ways to build the wall with many ancient Chinese people each would come up with a brilliant idea of what to build so they can put tons and tons of rock to its original form..

the great wall of china is curved to match the shape of china. in china's histroy there was alot of wars so they would use the wall as a protection for enemys and so that soldiers couldn't invade china.

Yes, it was built in the 6th century BC [1]

The great wall of China is actually a series of many walls that were eventually built to meet and join with each other.

The various walls that make up the great wall vary in thickness widely from as little as 6 inches to a maximum width of around 30 feet.

However; the most famous portions (where you would normally walk if visiting and what is typically shown in film and literature) average a width of around 16 feet.

Most of the wall is in the range of 15 to 20 feet wide; with only small sections going much lower or higher.

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