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The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China. 4,000 miles long . You can see it from space. The wall itself is actually in sections and was built by few different dynasties. Around 800 BC the Wall building began by the Zhou Dynasty. A little rustic looking basically mounded up dirt made up the wall.

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The Great Wall of China

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  1. The Great Wall of China

  2. 4,000 miles long

  3. You can see it from space

  4. The wall itself is actually in sections and was built by few different dynasties

  5. Around 800 BC the Wall building began by the Zhou Dynasty. A little rustic looking basically mounded up dirt made up the wall.

  6. The Warring period 475-221 BC At this time the Dynasties were fighting for Power and the wall continued to be built.

  7. Qin Dynasty 221-206 BC

  8. Han Dynasty 206 BC – 220 AD

  9. Sung Dynasty 960-1271 More Modern not as rustic as past dynasties

  10. Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 The wall the exist today was built mainly by the Ming Dynasty

  11. The Great Wall

  12. Genghis Khan Mongol Empire – Biggest land empire in the history of the world

  13. Genghis Khan Started the Empire Some say the wall was built to try to keep the Mongols out of China

  14. Kublai Khan grandson to Genghis Kublai was more tolerant than most of the other Mongol Emperors

  15. The wall was built for defense purposes but… The wall had gaps and armies could easily walk around the wall

  16. The Wall is so long there was not enough men to man this great wonder Armies could throw up a ladder or scale the wall to get over it and there could be no one there to stop them.

  17. The Great Wall Of China Is a Massive creation that took over 2,000 years to build What we prominently see of the wall was built by the Ming Empire The wall was built by the dynasties to discourage them from attacking each other. It is One of the new seven wonders of the world.

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