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    Introduction: The Great wall stretches out miles and sits a top of hills. It does nothing but protect this large area from the outside wall. Transition: although the wall has been here for 2,000, it still stands strong and long. Thesis statement: this paper will cover how the great wall of china was created, why it was created, and where it was created. It will also cover how it’s still standing today. Why is the great wall of china so important? The wall protects the area that is…

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    Southern China from invasion anymore, but it is up to show the world what China has gone through many years ago. The Great Wall is now standing as a tourist attraction; about 4 million people visit it each year from all around the world. It is also said that the Great Wall can be seen from space. The Great Wall of China may be apart of history, but that doesn’t make it from holding a Guinness World Record. It holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest man made wall. Since the Great…

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    The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is “the most awesome structure ever devised by man, one that “lies across the northern borders of China like some great sleeping dragon, stretching and sunning itself on the peaks and ridges of some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the world…The Great Wall of China was more than 2,000 years in the building, and the only way man can look upon the sum total of handiwork is by viewing it from outer space (Waldron, pg 2).” The Great Wall…

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    The Great Wall of China is one of the world’s largest manmade objects. Many people are unware that China was not the only country or civilization to build a structure like the Great Wall. The Roman Empire, England, and Korea are a few to mention that in their history had built a similar wall. These countries along with China had built these walls for military defense. The name, The Great Wall of China, leads one to believe that is a single wall and also believed that the wall was built all at…

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    Singh Qin Shi Huang, also known as Ying Zheng, is the first successful emperor of the early Chinese Empire in 221 BC at the age of 13. He had complete power over China because he conquered every other warring state and united all of China. He started some big architecture projects and accomplished much over his time of ruling China. Qin Shi Huang also followed legalism to make his hold on the empire more firm, and he was obsessed with the “elixir of immortality”, for he wanted to live…

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    Emperor of China The China first Emperor was Qin Shihuang. Qin was born in 259BC he was the son of the king of the Qin states. Qin has left behind so many legacies like for instance The Great Wall of China. Till this day The Great Wall is still standing, and millions walk it every day. Qin was a cruel ruler; he killed people who didn’t like his ideas. He had a Dynasty that was called the Qin (Ch’in) Dynasty. Qin was only 13 when he took the throne to become the First Emperor of China. Qin…

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    The Great Wall of China is about 2,300 years old. Since then, the wall has been repaired, maintained and rebuilt. The Great Wall of China is made of sections made of stone, brick, wood, and other things. It is built across the Chinese borders. The Great Wall of China was used to protect Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of various nomadic groups. Various states built their section of the wall to protect themselves from invasions from nomadic tribes. It was a huge defense…

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    I chose subject from an architectural design such as a building, a bridge or a monument with artistic quality and I'm writing about the Great Wall of China. A structure that stretches as far as China's northern wall and becomes the world's greatest defense walls. When you look at the tower, it looks like a long, thin river. Po Hay Sea is located here in the Gulf and the last Gobi continues westward from the south of the desert. The foundations of this structure were first laid by the Vhu…

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    The Great Wall Of China Marlenne Perez 3/23/2016 Have you ever heard about The Great Wall of China? Well if you have, then you might know a lot about it. About the benefits and the costs that it caused. I personally think that the cost weighed the benefits. The Great Wall was supposed to protect China from Mongols. It may have done the complete opposite. First, the benefits that were supposed to outweigh the costs. The first benefit is that they protected the people on “both” sides of…

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    The Great Wall of Ancient China: Did The Benefits Outweigh The Costs? The Great Wall was one of the beautiful man made wonders of Ancient China. It was made out of dirt over a span of a 2,000-year period by the Qin dynasty and the Han dynasty. Though building something of such size and greatness was quite the challenge. There were many hardships involved with the wall, though there were benefits because of the wall as well, such as protection against the Xiongnu Mongols. The costs of the Great…

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