why did Chinese build the great wall?

Answer 1

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in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria.





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http://www.travelchinaguide.com/picture/china_great_wall/index.htm Pictures of the wall


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4459311.stm Can be seen from space


http://www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/greatwallmap.htm Map of the wall


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Answer 2

The Great Wall of China is a Chinese fortification built from the 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria. Several walls were built since the 3rd century BC, the most famous being the Great Wall of China built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (this was located much further north than the current Great Wall of China built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains).

The Great Wall is the world's longest man-made structure, stretching over a formidable 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Sea in the east, at the limit between "China proper" and Manchuria (Northeast China), to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Along most of its arc, it roughly delineates the border between North China and Inner Mongolia.

Answer 3

Work on the wall started as soon as the Ming took control of China but, initially, walls were not the Ming's preferred response to raids out of the north. That attitude began to change in response to the Ming's inability to defeat the Oirat war leader Esen Taiji in the period 1449 to 1454. A huge Ming Dynasty army with the Zhengtong Emperor at its head was annihilated in battle and the Emperor himself held hostage in 1449.

Apparently the real focus on wall building started as a result of Altan Khan's siege of Beijing which took place one hundred years later in 1550. The Ming, faced with the choice of trying to defeat the Mongols with direct military force, chose instead to build a massive defensive barrier to protect China. As a result, most of the Ming Great Wall was built in the period 1560 to 1640. This new wall was built on a grand scale with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall built before.

Answer 4

If you had knowledge in Chinese history they were invaded frequently by their enemies so to to safe guard their nation, people, wealth the emperor decided to built a wall and it was continued by their successors till this great work was completed and you know that it is only structure which can be viewed from space till now build by human kind

Answer 5

1. To keep employment high (worked like a charm)
2. To keep out the mongols (didn't really work)
3. So the emperor could say "Look what I did."

Just like Hover Dam, except for the mongol part. Hey, aren't we building a wall? Mexican's / Mongols... both start with M. Our won't work either.

Answer 6

They built the wall to keep their enemies out. The scale of the wall was built to prevent anyone from being able to climb over it.

Answer 7

To keep out the "barbarians" from Mongolia. It was built in sections taking over a thousand years so the specific groups changed quite a bit.

Answer 8

Diverting slightly from the real question there is a commercial/ad here in Australia where a young son asks his father the same question. Dad, who is not the brightest, answers to keep the rabbits out. It is an ad for a telecommunications company. I find it funny so check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHx_VXW-Xd8

Answer 9

It was built in the reign of emperor Naisey Goering to keep the rabbits out they had lots of rabbits in china

Answer 10

To Keep Chuck Norris out..