In the year 221 B. C. E., there is a great ruler over the Chin
kingdom in China, known as Shih Huang Ti. Shih was electrical power hungry and
wanted even more land so he obtained his armed service and captured the
around kingdoms. While the leader of so many kingdoms this individual became
the first emperor of China. Shih demonstrated his cruelty when he
burnt all history books to insure that his persons and foreseeable future
generations could only remember him and none in the earlier rulers.
He had a strong army however the fierce people north of China, the
Mongols as well as the Huns, had been stronger. These nomadic tribes would
enter China and steal plants and animals and then destroy
everything put aside.
Shih was very annoyed with these invasions, so in the year
214 B. C. E. he freed prisoners and accumulated workers and herds of
animals. He gave this to Meng Tien, his loyal basic. Meng
plus the men and animals were sent north to secure Shihs kingdoms
from invading armies. Shih planned to produce a great wall membrane by
stretching and enlarging preexisting walls made by past rulers.
This great wall could serve as a barricade to keep out every
tribes that wanted to get into China. Additionally, it served to split up the
civilized acts of the farmers in China towards the barbaric serves of the
nomadic tribes. What Shih did not know is that the construction
could cause a large number of deaths and far suffering towards the builders with the
wall.
The wall which usually Meng fantastic men developed had watchtowers, forty
feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these kinds of towers
was to alert the defending military of getting close, attacking
people. The soldiers at the towers signalled to each other by day
using smoke signals, waving flags, coming horns, and ringing
alarms, by nighttime by light firework-like things in the sky. The
wall, by itself, was around fifteen hundred or so miles very long, thirty
foot high and, at the base, twenty-five foot thick. It had been made of
the core of earth and gravel. Basically, it was two walls aligned
with each other then filled in which has a stone base pounded
smooth. The wall structure traveled above mountains and through miles. It
travelled from Liatun, on the seacoast near Korea, westward towards the northern
end on the Discolored River, southward to Lintao to close off of the
north western area of the empire from the Huns. The great wall membrane is
sometimes compared to a dragon with its head inside the east as well as
tail in the west and its winding body. The dragon in China is
considered a protecting sacredness rather than destructive
animal. The top in the wall is around thirteen ft wide
so six persons riding horse could ride side by side along the top.
Quietly of the wall membrane there are reliefs, which are two-
dimensional numbers on the wall.
The Great Wall membrane of Cina took hundreds of years to be totally
completed and constantly preserved. As a barricade against
entering armies it had been very successful at keeping out undesirable
people. Regrettably, in the year 1215 AD, the Mongols arrived down
within the rule of Genghis Khan, and destroyed major elements of the
wall membrane. It took 2 years of constant fighting, nevertheless the Mongols had been
successful at breaking through the wall. Also, many years later on
the Manchus, another good tribe, permeated the wall and required
over elements of China.
During the Ming Dynasty( 1368-1644 A. D. ), the Great Wall membrane was
restored by Standard Xu Ag and watchtowers were added by Standard Qi
Jiguang. Most of what tourists discover today was performed by both of these
generals. During World War II, the fantastic Wall was used for the
transportation of troops. The truly great Wall is so huge that it can be the
just man made creation which can be seen from the moon.
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