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=The Great Wall= The Great Wall of China is known as one of the wonderful wonders of the ancient world. The Wall lays against the mountain as if a dragon is guarding China. Plus The Great Wall of China is to believe to been seen in outer space with the naked eye. Another interesting fact about the wall is that you can take all of the bricks from the wall and build an eight foot wall around the equator.

The Great Wall was build with only one purpose and that is to protect China from any invaders. The emperor who came up the idea building the Great Wall was the Qin Shih Huang. He thought of the idea because too many Huns were destroying his empire. Although the wall didn't protect China from all invasions, the Huns and other invaders couldn't use their horsses which put them at a huge disadvantage.

The Han Dynasty thought the idea of the Great Wall was good, so the emperor continue building the wall. But the reason why this time was to protect the Silk Road from Hun invasion.

Then when Han Dynasty has fallen the next dynasty has taken over and it was the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty made a huge impact on the wall, it made it longer and made cannons on the wall. The Great Wall of China was officially finished in 1644.


 * My Trip:** The part I walked on was about 600 years old. I also learned that to light the towers, the Chinese had to use wolf dung.