The Great Wall, not just one wall, but many walls that is said to extend to about 5,500 miles long. I have to build it, the Qin Dynasty, well actually Shi Huangdi, wants to build this wall to keep people like invaders, or people who would love to take China, out. That's not the only reason, the next reason is that he wants to keep China in it.
206 B.C
A few years after the awful building of the "Long Graveyard" or the Great Wall, a man by the name of Liu Bang, who is part of the Han Dynasty, wants to extend this wall. Currently, the population of China is 50,000,000 (50 million) people, so obviously, Liu wants China to be safe and not to wonder into another territory. The effect on China was that they built this amazing and advanced way of defense.
Sources:
Weller, Peter, Perf. Engineering an Empire. Perf. Weller, Peter. Discovery: 2007, Film.
It really wasn't that great of a defense.
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