How Did The Panama Canal Revolutionize The World

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The Panama canal was a great invention to revolutionize how the world traveled. First how it was constructed it was made by first off digging a big line right through Panama. Then they added concrete and added the vowels to raise the water level. After that they added the big gates to let ships in and out of the locks. But this was a very long process that took 15 years. And it took a lot of hard labor because machines didn't do all of the work. Then there is that we had to work day and night no days off or anything just work. And all the parts were hard to build like the locks and gates. Problems making the canal. One of the problems was there were a lot of mosquitoes carrying around diseases and infecting people. Then there was no sanitation

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