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Great Wall of China
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Wall of China is a series of stone
and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt,
and maintained between the 5th century BC and the
16th century to protect the northern borders of the
Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties.
Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China,
were built since the 5th century BC.
The most famous is the wall built between 220 BC and
200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang;
little of it remains; it was much farther north than
the current wall, which was built
during the Ming Dynasty.
The Great Wall is the world's longest human-made structure,
stretching over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)
from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west,
along an arc that roughly delineates
the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches
to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total.
It is also the largest human-made structure ever
built in terms of surface area and mass.
At its peak the Ming Wall was guarded by more
than one million men.
It has been estimated that somewhere in the range
of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the
centuries-long project of building the wall.
For a more information about
Great Wall of China see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
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Great balls of fire!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the "North Pass" of Juyongguan pass, known as
the Badaling, you can see the wall climbing up and down
large hills as far as the eye can see without much effort.
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!
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