The History Of The Chinese Wall

The History Of The Chinese Wall
When you have a plot of land and want to prevent others getting into to your have area or to the territory of yours, then you will develop your thoughts in mind to build the wall of in around, right?

in ancient China, people build a thick wall around the country with similar intent, namely to protect themselves from a till.


the Chinese wall history
The Chinese Wall


more or less in the year 221 BC, a great Emperor's unifying various parts of China it under one of the great Kingdom, the Emperor's name is Shin Huang Ti, but to the North of the China, living wild roamed the tribes south of the desert, which is in feeling by the emperor as a threat to his Kingdom.

then the Emperor ordered his people to build a wall for so long and so high, so the entire province in the North of the Country that China must be protected from danger.

Great wall, who exactly is indeed a giant, one project has been successfully completed in 15 years, while the time it has experienced an expansion of the wall, rebuilt in certain parts, and damaged on other parts, however a large portion of the wall still stand to this day.

whether the Emperor managed to achieve its goal of building giant? very unfortunate, it turns out that the Emperor didn't feel quite satisfied with the great wall because the wall turned out to be less practical in preventing enemies or wild tribes invaded the country entry in around.


in addition, very often there must be only a specific section of the great wall that need to undergo repairs, so, wild tribe called the nation of Mongolia it, just come to wander around there or passed ply penetrates the wall where there are lots of opportunities for them to penetrate in.

not only that, but China's population when it doesn't do remain within the wall often of Chinese resident go to farm outside China's firewall.

even so, the great wall of china is still served until recently as a kind of wall of separation between China and Mongolia cultural boundaries, and between a way of life based on agriculture with the wandering way of life while keeping animals livestock.


great wall of China it is the longest wall in the world, including of the of dent, the length of the wall more than 1500 miles, since the wall was built as a wall of defence, then some from of Chinese wall that follows the curve of the wall mount and at another place again, the Chinese wall that utilized the narrow gaps between the two walls.

the wall was made of clay, rock and bricks, its height ranges from 15 to 30 feel and are equipped with watch towers are looming at certain places within the regular one with another, on top of the wall made the highway the width 13 feet.

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