Wall Of China Research Paper

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China is made up of mostly all of Asia. China has mountains, oceans, deserts, and bays. They have many different features that sometimes make is hard to do things and other times easy. Some places are the Gobi Desert, Bay of Bengal, Red Sea, Sea of Japan, and the Himalayas. China had a plan in 221 B.C that was supposed to keep out the attackers from the north. Chinas plan was to build a huge and long wall. They built this wall because they did not have any natural barrier that was protecting them from the north. Today they call this wall; the Wall of China.
In China, people had way different ideas of ways to choose a government official. There were three groups that had a different way to do it. The first group was the Scholars. The Scholars locked an official in a room for several
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The open boarders helped China with trading and the silk road. The silk road ran through the borders so people could come from different places and trade lots of different things. The open boarders also had some negatives. They caused attackers to come into China from the north and attack them. The open boarders would not have been a problem if it wasn’t for the attackers. China then decided to close the boarder by building a wall. However, this wall did not do much good for them. All of the attackers still found a way to get to China even with the wall there. China was affected by building this wall because it had blocked out all of the traders. China had just now lost most of their trades, sadly, the wall had now just been in the way. I think China didn't have a good plan about the wall. The only thing the wall did was block out the traders, use most of their materials, and thousands of people died trying to build it. If the United States had closed boarders we would not be who we are. We wouldn’t have much culture and have only one race. Closed Boarders didn’t work for China, so it wont work for

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