{"id":148,"date":"2018-04-01T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/?post_type=chapter&p=148"},"modified":"2022-04-09T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T23:48:39","slug":"great-wall-of-china-ce","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/chapter\/great-wall-of-china-ce\/","title":{"raw":"Great Wall of China - 700 BCE to 1600 CE","rendered":"Great Wall of China – 700 BCE to 1600 CE"},"content":{"raw":"The Great Wall of China is an impressive engineering feat.\u00a0 \u00a0It runs for more than 8000 kilometres from east to west from Mount Hu near Dandong, in Liaoning province, to Jiayu Pass west of Jiuquan in the northwester Gansu province.\u00a0 It is a series of fortification made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood and other material.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Great-Wall-of-China<\/a>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_152\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\"]\"Great The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling taken in June 2013 by Severin Stalder CC-BY 3.0 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling-edit.jpg[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIt was built to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe.\u00a0 \u00a0Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century\u00a0BCE, these were later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are collectively referred to as the Great Wall.\r\n\r\nEspecially famous is the wall built in 220\u2013206\u00a0BC by Qin Shi Huang,\u00a0\u00a0the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. The Great Wall has been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced over various dynasties; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368\u20131644 CE)\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Wall_of_China<\/a>\r\n\r\nIt is one of the largest building-construction projects ever undertaken. The Great Wall actually consists of numerous walls\u2014many of them parallel to each other\u2014built over some two millennia across northern China and southern Mongolia.\u00a0 \u00a0The most extensive and best-preserved version of the wall\u00a0dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).\u00a0This wall often traces the crests of hills and mountains as it snakes across the Chinese countryside. About one-fourth of its length consists solely of natural barriers such as rivers and mountain ridges. Nearly all of the rest (about 70 percent of the total length) is actual constructed wall, with the small remaining stretches being\u00a0ditches or moats. Although lengthy sections of the wall are now in ruins or have disappeared completely, it is still one of the more remarkable structures on Earth.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

The Great Wall of China is an impressive engineering feat.\u00a0 \u00a0It runs for more than 8000 kilometres from east to west from Mount Hu near Dandong, in Liaoning province, to Jiayu Pass west of Jiuquan in the northwester Gansu province.\u00a0 It is a series of fortification made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood and other material.<\/p>\n

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The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling taken in June 2013 by Severin Stalder CC-BY 3.0 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling-edit.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was built to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe.\u00a0 \u00a0Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century\u00a0BCE, these were later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are collectively referred to as the Great Wall.<\/p>\n

Especially famous is the wall built in 220\u2013206\u00a0BC by Qin Shi Huang,\u00a0\u00a0the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. The Great Wall has been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced over various dynasties; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368\u20131644 CE)<\/p>\n

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It is one of the largest building-construction projects ever undertaken. The Great Wall actually consists of numerous walls\u2014many of them parallel to each other\u2014built over some two millennia across northern China and southern Mongolia.\u00a0 \u00a0The most extensive and best-preserved version of the wall\u00a0dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).\u00a0This wall often traces the crests of hills and mountains as it snakes across the Chinese countryside. About one-fourth of its length consists solely of natural barriers such as rivers and mountain ridges. Nearly all of the rest (about 70 percent of the total length) is actual constructed wall, with the small remaining stretches being\u00a0ditches or moats. Although lengthy sections of the wall are now in ruins or have disappeared completely, it is still one of the more remarkable structures on Earth.<\/p>\n

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