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GREAT WALL OF CHINA!



      The Great Wall of China, the stone dragon, is the largest man-made structure in the world, and although no, it can't be seen from space (according to urban myth) it is still incredibly impressive and incredibly beautiful!

      Here's Some Photos of The Great Wall. Enjoy! :)
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      The Great Wall is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces.

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      Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger, stronger, and unified are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220-206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.

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      The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).

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      This is made up of 6,259 km (3,889 mi) sections of actual wall, 359 km (223 mi) of trenches and 2,232 km (1,387 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.

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      Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi).

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      Built over about 1,600 years ending in medieval times, there were no modern safety precautions for workers. People referred to the Great Wall as 'the longest cemetery on earth' during its various periods of construction. The construction of the Great Wall cost thosusands of lives.

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      Some purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls, allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration.

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      Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watch towers, troop barracks, garrison stations, signaling capabilities through the means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor.

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      The sections built of bricks are the most recently constructed sections. About 70 percent of the Great Wall consists of adobe and rammed earth, which were used well into the years of the Ming Dynasty that accomplished so much of the Great Wall's length. Bricks were not used until after the Ming Dynasty, which ended in 1644.

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      The Chinese invented the wheelbarrow, which was used extensively in constructing the Great Wall.

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      In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) placed the Great Wall on its list of the world's great national and historical sites.

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      More recently, the New7Wonders Foundation declared the wall to be selected by Internet votes as one of the wonders of the known world.



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