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- The Great Wall, like the Pyramids of Egypt, the Taj Mahal(1) in India and the Hanging Garden of Babylon(2), is one of the great wonders of the world,The world-renowned Great Wall more than 6000 km in length, with more than 12000 li, thus known as the Ten Thousand Li Wall in China. The 15-foot-high, 25-foot-wide, 1,500-mile-long structure was built to keep out invading enemies.The Wall climbs up and down, twists and turns along the ridges of the Yanshan and Yinshan Mountain Chains through five provinces--Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu--and two autonomous regions--Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, binding the northern China together.The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property.
- According to records, the emperor Qin Shi Huang used nearly a million workers to built the Great Wall, representing the country's population of 1 / 20, when there is no machinery, all have to rely on human labor, it is an enormous project during that time.