who has built the great wall of china?and when?

Answer 1

No one can tell precisely when the building of the Great Wall was started but it is popularly believed that it originated as a military fortification against intrusion by tribes on the borders during the earlier Zhou Dynasty. Late in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC), the ducal states extended the defence work and built "great" structures to prevent the attacks from other states. It was not until the Qin Dynasty that the separate walls, constructed by the states of Qin, Yan and Zhao kingdoms, were connected to form a defensive system on the northern border of the country by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (also called Qin Shi Huangdi by westerners or the First Emperor). After the emperor unified the country in 214 BC, he ordered the construction of the wall. It took about ten years to finish and the wall stretched from Linzhao (in the eastern part of today's Gansu Province) in the west to Liaodong (in today's Jilin Province) in the east. The wall not only served as a defence in the north but also symbolized the power of the emperor

Answer 2

My grandfathers brother, greatuncle bill about 1932. My great aunt had a lot of china and bill built the cabinets to cover one complete wall in their parlour, it had glass doors and indeed it was a great wall of china.

Or did you mean China, and did you mean the Great Wall, cause that is quite the other thing as you might know.
They spent about 400 years building the thing, it is a huge stretched out fort about 4,000 miles long. I said 400years(300ad to about 700ad)

only they did not just build one wall, there are at least 5 of them. they run from the mountains of manchuria in a large curving and snaking line to chiuch'uan which is north of Tibet. Basicly it potected the borders of China from Mongolia. Not fair to say that it was built to stop Mongolian Immegrants, there were other groups of people just as bad as them. and the first of these wall startedto be built more than 200 years before Christ but the main wall is the 400 yr one.
To ask who built the walls should really get the answer "the Chinese" but I think you mean which kings and emperors.
The first Wall was by the First Emperor of China, Kin Shi Huangdji and continued fairly steady until the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Great Wall in the end might be considered a failure because the Mongols came over it And old Kublai Kahn became Emperor of China.
The wall itself(or walls) are impressive with water stations, barrack houses, watch towers.
That is about all that I can remember about it you might find more on a tourist site for china, or a history site or maybe someone will have written it up in wikipedia

Answer 3

It was first built in the 7th century B.C. when China was still divided into many small states. After the unification of China in 221 B.C., the first emperor of Qin Dynasty (you must have heard of his teracotta army) linked the walls of the three states in the north and formed the first "Wan Li Chang Cheng" (ten thousand li Great Wall, li is a Chinese length unit, 2 li = 1 km). Since then, the Great Wall was rebuilt, modified or extended throughout Chinese history for over 2,000 years. Most of the Great Wall we see today was built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). In some areas, two walls built in two different dynasties can be seen running side by side
Based on the technology available at different dynasties, the Great Wall was usually built with local materials, mostly earth and stones. Natural terrain such as mountain ridges was often taken advantage of to form part of the wall. West Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 25 A.D.), for example, used sand and crushed stones filled with layers of reeds or tamarisk twigs to build the wall in grasslands and desert areas that are subject to strong wind erosion.
In 1449, the Mongols attacked China again and kidnapped Zhu Qizhen, Son of Heaven, sixth emperor of the Ming dynasty and ruler of all China. Once again, power had shifted to the Mongol invaders and they threatened to invade the Forbidden City.

The Chinese people were so frightened of the Mongols being in power again that they decided to once again build a wall to keep invaders out.

There was no master plan for building this wall. Each leader in a given town built a portion of the wall where they thought the Mongols threat of invasion was the greatest. Construction across northern China continued in this way for 200 years. This way the routes through mountain passes that the Mongols used most often to reach China were blocked with walls. Those walls were then connected with other sections of wall, thus creating the Great Wall of China.

In the western part of China, the wall was constructed out of pounded earth, in the eastern part of China, then the city of Peking and now called Beijing, workers used bricks and blocks of stone. Many workers were needed to build the wall. Where it was made of pounded earth, peasants and prisoners were used and where it was made of brick and stone, stonemasons and brick makers were needed. Tens of thousands of men were involved in building the Great Wall of China.

Along the wall, they built forts and watch towers. Soldiers patrolled the walls sending up smoke signals and cannon shot as communication signals if Mongols approached.

The wall was built to shape and fit the Chinese landscape it passed through. In the hilly areas, it twisted and turned like a dragon and in the desert, it ran straight. At its eastern end, the Great Wall of China ran into the sea.

By 1644, the Great Wall of China ran from Jiayuguan in the west, past the Gobi Desert, across the Yellow River, past Peking (Beijing) all the way to Shanhaiguan on the Bohai Sea in the east. Over time, the world outside China was changing. The Manchus, another nomadic tribe, attacked the Forbidden City and seized power by offering to help the leaders of the Ming dynasty. They instead seized the throne and established the Qing (ching) dynasty. The combined forces of the Manchu and Chinese soldiers drove the Mongols to distant parts of the steppe and the Qing dynasty controlled both sides of the Great Wall and the Mongols were no longer a threat. In 1912, a two year old boy named Pu Yi became the last emperor of China when a revolt led by Sun Yat-sen threw the Manchus out of power. China then became a republic headed by a president. The days of emperors and dynasties had come to an end in China.

Answer 4

If you watch TV in Australia, the wall was built by Emperor Nasi Goreng to keep the rabbits out. . .lol

Answer 5

I think the link that I've provided below can help you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_wall_of_china

Answer 6

Mexican immigrant workers!

Answer 7

Hope this helps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

Answer 8

i think that would be... uhh.. the chineese!