The Great Wall of China

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Wall. The wall is the longest wall in the world.

The history of the Great Wall began when seven powerful states appeared around the same time in China. All of the states wanted to defend themselves so each state built walls and kept soldiers stationed at the wall to keep out ant intruders. When these states existed the wall was about 3,100 miles longs and six different states owned different parts of the wall. The emperor at the time was Emperor Qin. He wanted all of the states to become unified. He succeeded at doing so and all the states set up the first unified kingdom in Chinese history. He ordered his men to build a long wall to keep out the nomads who would attack them. Qin ordered 800,000; men, soldiers, prisoners and peasants to construct the wall. If there wasn't enough stones they used dirt to build the wall. The workers would pile the dirt into large wooden frames and pond the dirt in with pieces of wood until it became solid.

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("Great Wall of,", 2008; Iveson, n.d.). Despite the situation, additions and modifications were made, thus three different sections of Qin's Great Wall were formed which were the western, middle and eastern. The western section started from the Min County to Inner Mongolia in Gansu Province. The middle section started from Xinghe County in Inner Mongolia to the north border of Wulanbuhe Desert. The eastern section started from Huade County ended in Fuxin City in Liaoning Province (Marco Polo International, 2011).

In the year 221 B.C.E., there was a great ruler over the Ch'in kingdom in China, named Shih Huang Ti. Shih was power hungry and wanted more land so he gathered his army and ...

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