Why exactly was the Great Wall of China built?
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The Great Wall of China was built to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria. Several walls, also referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC, the most famous being the one built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang; this wall was located much further north than the current wall built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains.\n\nThese links should help.
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Many are familiar with the claim that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space or from the moon with the naked eye. This is simply not true.\nFrom a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, such as highways, ships in the sea, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some individual buildings. While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard.\n\nFurthermore, when leaving the earth's orbit and acquiring an altitude of more than a few thousand miles, no man-made objects are visible at all. NASA says, "The Great Wall can barely be seen from the Shuttle, so it would not be possible to see it from the Moon with the naked eye." Thus, it'd be tough to spot the Great Wall of China or any other object from the moon. Furthermore, from the moon, even the continents are barely visible.
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What is the point of invading Japan? All war nowadays is fought for economic gain - to destroy the infrastructure in Japan is to obtain a piece of infertile land, with not much strategic value, full of mountains, earthquakes and with very little natural resources. \n\nJapan is also rumoured to be able to build nuclear weapons within one day as they have almost completed the process (something like 99%) of enriching uranium. invading Japan may not be the best idea for China......l
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The answer is in the following link:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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Illegal immigrants will not stop by building a few fences.  The government needs a quick solution to stop the illegal entrance, but they cannot figure out any better idea.  If I am that immigrant, the fence won't be able to stop me, not even the great wall of China.
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http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213201/GreatWall.htm\n\n\ntry this site, It is really intresting, I learned things, and history was my favorite subject in school. hope it helps.
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A well built wall will also become a tourist attraction.  Look at all of the people who travel to China and visit the Great Wall.  (My friend went to China and visited the wall.  She said it is a major attraction.)\n\nWhat an idea.
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The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Sea in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
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There is no specific death toll.It took place during so many dynasties!!!!!!!There's no telling how many people died.But there is a rumor that 300,000 people died during the Qin dynasty or something......\n\nhttp://www.great-wall.org/facts.htm\n\nTry this website.It's the best I've found so far after going through 5 pages.Hope it helps in some way.
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The Chinese are generally credited with discovering gunpowder, and used it in battles as well as for celebratory functions. \n\nThe colors and such were added later on by many many different people.
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Currently: The Three Gorges Dam being built on Yangtze River, China\n\nPast:  Great Wall of china
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The Earth, this country included, was, is, and will be based on the migration of people.  I think that it is rediculous to keep people from moving about the planet. And I think it is rediculous to build a wall to keep people off of land that, though you think belongs to you, does not belong to you.\n\nNo - a wall should not be built along the US/Mexico border.
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Too big for it to ever have been built.\nToo many animals to ever carry enough food.\nToo many animals for the smaller ones not to have drowned/suffocated in all the waste they animals would have produced.
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It was built, as was the rest of the Iron Curtain, to contain the citizens of East Berlin, and to limit contact between East and West.\n\nGenerally, the Communist regime in Soviet Russia and its satellites (Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc.) were economically and otherwise so depressed and depressing that people would have left if they had half a chance.   (Many left, via escape, anyway...)   So the wall was necessary to prevent a mass exodus, and to limit the inflow of information about the "greener pastures" outside.
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An interesting sidelight - When I visited China just a few years ago, the people of Beijing were very excited to be hosting the 2008 Olympic summer games. Beijing has terrible air quality problems stemming primarily from the use of soft brown coal in power plants and industries.  With the pride of the nation at stake the Communist government simply decreed that after a given date (before the beginning of the Olympics) no one in the area would be allowed to burn coal. They will then burn relatively plentiful supplies of natural gas.  How is that for evil producing good!
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Berlin Wall, 1961–89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later extended along the entire border between East Germany and West Germany. It was built to halt large numbers of defections and to prevent E. Berliners commuting to the West. Erected at a time of growing tension between East and West, the barbed wire was eventually replaced by concrete topped with wire. In 1989, after hundreds of thousands of East Germans had fled westward via Hungary and Czechoslovakia, on Nov. 9, the beleaguered East German regime lifted travel restrictions, and days later dismantling of the wall began. Built to keep people in, the wall was dismantled in a failed gamble by the Communists to keep power. By Jan., 1990, the regime was selling large slabs of the wall for hard currency, and had set December for its total demolition. In Oct., 1990, however, East Germany was formally reabsorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany and only short sections of the wall remained standing, as memorials.
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This question is asked very often, and sometimes it is not phrased correctly, just like: "Can you see the Great Wall of China from the shuttle or from the space station?". Of course you can see it from there! (Although personally I was not able to see it, as our inclination was not enough, or to put it in other words: our mission did not take us over that Wall.) In the special programme "Looking down on the Earth with Marilyn Monroe" I thoroughly explained that everything larger than 30 metres can be recognised with the naked eye from a near Earth orbit. And of course also the Great Wall. \n\nBut the well-known rumour is as follows: "Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made work (incl. cities etc.) that you can see from the Moon?" As (unfortunately) I cannot answer this question from my own personal experience, I asked two of my Apollo colleagues - Charles M. Duke (Apollo 16, 5th moonlanding, April 1972) and Eugene A. Cernan (Apollo 17, 6th moonlanding, December 1972) - to enlighten us with the answer. Their answer was as follows:\n\nCharles M. Duke (Apollo 16): "... I do not think that you can see anything created by mankind from the Moon. Nobody saw the Great Wall of China from the Moon. You cannot see any large cities or man-made objects from the Moon. It is already difficult enough to see the different continents from the Moon. ... It is a common misunderstanding that we were able to see the Great Wall of China from the Moon. I do not know how this came about."\n\nEugene A. Cernan (Apollo 17): "There are NO man-made objects that you could see from the distance of the Moon, neither with your naked eye nor with the monocular we had with us on the Apollo mission. ... Yes, you can see the Great Wall of China from 200-300 miles, from the Earth orbit of the shuttle, in space. I could also see the Dome Stadium in Houston on Gemini IX with my naked eye. But these things, including large cities, cannot be seen from the Moon neither during the day nor at night. ... You should realise that the Earth, which appears four times larger than the Moon , is covered in oceans and clouds. From the Moon, we see the Earth just as the Lord created it, we do NOT see any man-made objects." \n\n\nI think this is an answer to this probing question once and for all.