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When was the great wall of china built,when did they start and then end it ?.? |
Travel Info When was the great wall of china built,when did they start and then end it ?.? Travel Tips The Qin dynasty of the First Emperor is credited with joining and extending the Walls of China: 221 BC to 207 BC. Many States of China along it's Northern boarder built walls independently prior to the Qin Dynasty. After the Qin Dynasty united China the wall was competed. It was made by craftsmen, prison laborers, and soldiers. I remember one poem: Drinking Horse at the Foot of the Great Wall by Chen Lin (? ~ 217) A drinking horse at the foot of the Great Wall, The chill of the water hurts its bones. Go talk to the local officer, Stay not, young man, is all his advice. The authority follows only its own schedule, Hounding more and more countrymen into the project. Who should have died in the battlefield, Rather than labouring gloomily here day and night. The Great Wall is extending all the time, Well exceeding three thousand miles in length. At the construction sites engaged many men, young and healthy, Widows, nothing but widows stay behind thousand miles away at home. Some were clever and did wrote back, telling their wives, "Marry soon and wait no more. Take a good care Of your new family and remember --- Your lost husband once in a while" Others not sure when it was built where it start or end but it was built to keep the rabbits out loll The great wall was first built before Qin dynasty, but in Qin, the emperor called Qinshihuang who I admire a lot began a whole country's campaign to build the great wall, and many many people died. In Ming dynasty, the emperor was still building the great wall, but after that, the wall is no use, and today it's just a place of interesting for people to visit. |
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