Great Wall Of China Research Paper

The Great Wall of China
(the facts to go along with my pretty model) The Great Wall of China’s construction began in the Qin dynasty when the general Meng Tian ordered the tearing down of old fortifications and the building of new united ones in their place. This was largely a precautionary measure against attacks and was infinitely more impressive than the works of the pyramids because of the fact that it took 7 years instead of the 20 for the pyramids and, persevered through changing climates as it wound among the mountains and with the northern barbarian’s threat of attack constantly lingering. The wall from then fell into disrepair until the people of the Northern Wei dynasty repaired areas of the wall to help protect from raiders. The next group of influence on the wall was the Bei Qi dynasty who repaired around 900 miles of the wall. The next people to actually build onto the wall rather than to just patch it up was the Sui dynasty which ordered the construction of 100s of extra miles of wall [1]. This wall was unlike Hadrian’s wall in the fact that it did not separate them from barbarians but from attacks in the words of Mrs. Brown “They weren’t considered uncivilized just unwanted.” [2]

During the Song dynasty it was withdrawn behind and once again used as a defensive barrier to try to stave off the enemies approaching from both sides of the wall. Also, it was manned during the Mongol dynasty to help protect the caravans and merchants from the threat of robbers and