Great Wall of China
Hey guys i m back and today i am going to talk about the "Great Wall of China". "Great wall of China'' is one of the wonders of the world,so what is this ''Great wall of China'' is all about? Many people will surely had though of this picture at the first moment of hearing this name....
This is how people think of great wall of china if they never seen the real one.
Ok so lets back to the topic, the great wall of China is actually 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 to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. This is how the real Great Wall of China looks like
Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century bce these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built 220–206 bce by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. 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 is from the Ming Dynasty.
Other 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. 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.
DO YOU NOW WONDERING HOW LONG THE WALL IS?HERE IS THE ANSWER
The Great Wall stretches from Dandong 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).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.Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi).
Map of all the wall constructions
MANY Tourist throughout the world are visiting are visiting this place everyday and it can
be said that it is one of the main attraction of tourist to visit CHINA but do u know that many lives had be sacrifice just to built this wall? It is said that as many as 400,000 people died during the wall's construction; many of these workers were buried within the wall itself.
Picture of poor villagers building the great wall of china
Another great thing that amazing about Great Wall Of China is that it is said that it can be seen from space.According to Leroy Chiao, a Chinese-American astronaut, took a photograph from the International Space Station that shows the wall. It was so indistinct that the photographer was not certain he had actually captured it. Based on the photograph, the CHINA DAILY later reported that the Great Wall can be seen from 'space' with the naked eye, under favorable viewing conditions, if one knows exactly where to look. However, the resolution of a camera can be much higher than the human visual system, and the optics much better, rendering photographic evidence irrelevant to the issue of whether it is visible to the naked eye.
SO thats is a little facts about the ''Great wall of China'', i hope you like it and do share to your friends and you also can check more details about the great wall of china here..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
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