10 facts about the Great Wall of China.
1. The Great Wall of China is one of the largest building construction projects in the world architecture.
2. The Great Wall of China was built as a military-old facility. Its history could be traced back more than 2,000 years.
3. The idea of the wall belonged to the great reformer and a tyrant, Shi-huandi Prince of Qin Dynasty. The total length of wall building was estimated at more than 6 thousand kilometers. It is incomprehensible!
4. The Great Wall used to be called the Ten Thousand Li Wall which referred to the wall’s length.
5. The Great Wall is the only manmade Earth objects, which clearly visible from space.
6. The Great Wall’s height averages from 6.6 meters to 10 meters high.
7. Its thickness ranged from about 4.5 to 9 meters and was up to 7.5 meters tall.
8. The Great Wall of China was built by millions people who happened to be peasants, prisoners and soldiers. Thousands of them died in the process.
9. The Great Wall was during the Qin (pronounced as “chin”) dynasty that the modern word “China” was derived.
10. If you took all the bricks from the Ming portion of the Great Wall alone, they could circle the Earth at the equator in a wall 1.5 m high and 1 m thick.
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