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The Great Wall of China



     
Great Wall of China is a legitimate defensive military past and rarely prominent in the architectural history of the human. It is a symbol of the Chinese nation, not only shows the intelligence of Chinese ancestors, but embodies the effort exerted in which race and blood. And is famous in the world history and ancient fortifications and the magnitude of his greatness and strength. Began building the Great Wall of China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era before more than 2,000 years.





Wall starts from Jia Yu Guan Pass Gan Su Province in the west and ends at the Shanhai Pass Guan Hebei Province to the east through the mountains towering like a giant dragon lying on the territory of the vast North China. And it is the oldest and largest defense project in China and the world. And was included in the World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO identified Organization of the United Nations in 1987 list.

The Great Wall of China is not only a wall, it is a defensive integrated project consists of defensive walls and watchtowers and walkways & Strategic barracks and warning towers and other defense installations. The controls on this project integrated defensive military leadership consists of different levels of the system. Take Wall of China in the Ming Dynasty as an example, this was the fence, which starts from the River Alwah east and ends at the Jia Yu Guan Pass westward with a total length of 7,000 kilometers divided into nine military districts, each with a chief executive area to manage separately and is responsible for the repair of the wall within the region the restoration is also responsible for defense affairs in the region or assist neighboring military districts Haunhaaldvaaah according to the order of the Ministry of National defense. The number of soldiers stationed at the fence line in the Ming Dynasty was about a million troops.

Great Wall of China is going through different and complex geographical terrain, where crosses the mountains and the desert escarpment and penetrate and pass the meadows and cut rivers. So that the architectural structures and various exotic wall as also built the fence in desert areas composed of stones local materials and a special kind of willow given the paucity of rocks and bricks. The plateau in the yellow dust northwest regions of China, built for the fence rammed earth or mud-brick, but it is solid and strong for at least the strength of the wall built with rocks and bricks. The fence built in the Ming Dynasty mostly of brick or rock or a mixture of brick and rock. Channel and no water is spent on the top of the fence in order to automatically rainwater drainage and protection of the fence.

In addition to the military role, the impact on the Great Wall of China is also China's economic development. The direction of the Wall of China was almost identical to the dividing line between the semi-wet and dry climate climate in China, and in fact became a dividing line between the areas of agricultural and nomadic areas.

In ancient times, had lived in the north of China national minorities nomadic, live the people of Han nationality in central China, and for the protection of agricultural production and prevent the looting of nomadic nationalities for their agricultural products, under the Han people are building the fence down. Thus, the Great Wall of China has become a barrier for independent development of two different civilizations.