Building China's Great Wall Of China

Did you know it took over 2,000 years to build the Great Wall of China? Affirmative, it took 2,000 years to build the wall. It additionally took multiple dynasties to create and finish the wall; nevertheless, all the dynasties were doing the same thing with the wall, prospering their predecessor. The Wall of China was mainly built to protect to protect China from their number one enemy: The Mongols. Even though China’s Great Wall had many costs, it still protected people, information, trades, and unified China. Without it, China wouldn’t be the same today. The Great Wall protected many people and trades all throughout the borders and behind the wall. China’s biggest rivals or enemies wer e the Mongols, China considered Mongolia or anyone from Mongolia a barbarian. The reason for this is because they didn’t really wear armor and China just viewed them as ‘savage and resisting.’ They often invaded China. So China’s emperor at the time, Qin, devised a plan of building a wall to keep Mongolians out. So people were hired, peasants and soldiers, to work on the wall, many people died, but it was still worth building if it …show more content…
Information was valuable at that time, very valuable. Travelers didn’t use cars and neither did information passes, or ‘mailmen,’ since there weren’t any. So since people traveled on foot, there were sometimes soldiers or barbarians, hiding and waiting to attack people. Whether it be for the pedestrian’s goods, mail, or sometimes just because. Until the wall was built, in consideration of when people and goods have been protected. Arguments come from people saying that building a wall to mailmen and pedestrians is going way too far. When actually, if it weren’t for the Great Wall, China and some of the rest of the world would lose valuable information and people. Thus, consequently, expanding into a probable future