The Great Wall Of China Research Paper

There are many wonderful man-made structures in the world today, new and old. Twenty-two centuries ago, a poet by the name of Antipater made a list of the Seven Wonders of the World. All of these structures were wonderful and man-made, but there was one structure that belonged on the list that wasn't on it: the Great Wall of China. It is the longest man made structure ever created and can be referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World.

The Great Wall of China isn't one continuous wall; it is several walls that have been connected over time. The wall was built completely by hand and extends over 4,500 miles long across the northern boarder of China. It wasn't built in a straight line because they believed demons from the north would be able to pass through the wall. They thought demons only traveled in straight lines
The wall was mostly deteriorated by the time the Ming started to rebuild and repair it. It had been almost a thousands years before the Great Wall had been worked on; the last time was around 87 B.C. and now again around 1368 until 1644. The first emperor of the Ming dynasty was Hongwu; he decided rebuild the Great Wall. They started rebuilding the part of the Great Wall that protected Beijing; only twelve mile long. They first made repairs to the towers of the wall; they built them taller and stronger. Inside these towers, they put food, fuel, medicine, and weapons. After building the wall over 2000 years, there were 25 thousand towers that had been built. They also built double gateways next to the towers and places of military importance. Near these gates they built their most heavy fortifications; attacking enemies had more trouble attacking the gates then the normal part of the wall. The enemies of the Ming also had more trouble, then in the past, attacking and breaking through the regular part of the wall. The Ming used brick to layer the outside of the