The Great Wall of China is the biggest structure that man has ever built. It is 15m thick and as tall as a house. It stretches for about 1500 miles across the mountains and valleys of northern china. Every 200 or 300 yards there is a tall watch over. The entire wall was made by stones and earth. Different parts of the wall were built at different times, but all of it was built many, many hundreds years ago.
Thousand of men worked patiently with their hands to builds this long wall.
Why did they build it?
The wall was built by order of the Chinese emperors to keep out the barbarians in the north – the Han people. The Hans has been riding their horses to china, killing people and stealing things. After the Great Wall was built, the people of China feel safer. If an enemy approached the wall, smokes signals would be passed from watch over to another watch over. A signal fire would be lighted if an attack came at night.
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