- Pure Facts
- The Great Wall is still today
one of the largest public works in the entire world
- The Great Wall is approximately
6,500 km, which is the equivalent of 10,000 Li.
- The wall is over 2,000 years
old
- Interesting facts
- The wall was originally built
to protect China from exterior
- Before the unification of China,
the wall was actually many wseparatealls that divided each of the ancient
Chinese provinces
- The Great Wall was actually
started in the Q'in dynasty of China, which was the dynasty previous to
the Han
- The Emperor responsible for
this was Q'in Shih Huang Ti
- The wall symbolized the unification
of all the states
- The wall was started in the Q'in
dynasty
- Continued in the Han dynasty
- And finally later finished in
the Ming dynasty
- the main part constructed during
the Han was the Great wall site at Badaling
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The Average height of the great wall
is 25 ft. The base ranges from 15 to 30 ft.