The Wall of Greatness
By: Clarissa Marroquin The know it all
The Great Wall of China has been expanded and repaired! It is now the end of the Ming dynasty. The Great Wall of China was started during the end of the Qin dynasty. Since then the wall has been added onto but has been mostly built during the Ming dynasty. The Great Wall of China has been expanded during the Ming dynasty due to the response to the Mongolian and Manchurian powers. Although the protection did not always work. The wall was also meant to prevent soldiers or invaders from coming in on horse back and also so that no one would steal goods.
Overtime different dynasties used different techniques on the construction of the Great Wall of China. But being an advanced dynasty, like the Ming dynasty was, used the most efficient out of all of them. While the other dynasties used fine gravel dirt that were rammed between boards, and stone the Ming dynasty built the foundation of the wall of stone and on top lime and bricks were stacked. This made the wall much more stable. The wall is 6,400km long. In fact, if you were to take all the stone, bricks, and grounded earth and build a 1.1 yard high and 5.5 wide wall it would stretch around the world several times. It is not really certain who built the different parts of the wall throughout time but it is said to have been either soldiers, prisoners, and or common people living in the dynasty.
No comments:
Post a Comment