Great Wall

As one of the most symbolic aspect of chinese culture and history the Great wall of china now stands as one of the world wonders on the planet. Built over 2000 years ago the Great wall of china was initially in the project of building as a defensive mechanism to keep the chinese communities safer from other tribes and nomadic people that were in northern part of China.The walls, together with beacon towers, passes, and fortification created an elaborate defensive system providing Chinese society with a safe and peaceful environment.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, there were many states, so they built separate sections to prevent invasion by other states. The wall was not built all at one time but rather it has

The early civilizations and first people began building small walls to help protect themselves from other people that try to invade and take over the lands. Some settlements such as the Lung-shan culture were surrounded by eastern walls built by the same method for domestic agriculture. As many more of these distant walls had gotten built they were scattered across the lands. This showed what people were thinking of at the time, and this showed how the society felt about one another. Each wall was intended to protect themselves from other people around them. After times had developed further many people began to abandon the places they had once lived in and began to live in larger society and communities together.The creation of so many scattered and unused walls, after times had changed, caused a very promising opportunity for who ever wanted to take advantage of this, and that person was Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty in China. He thought of a plan to unite these unused walls to having one wall in order to protect themselves. He intended to protect his own civilization from other nomadic tribes from the north that would threaten them and the land of the people. This would be a protection and a barrier from the outside which would give an advantage to the people of the Qin Dynasty.

Before the period of the Qin Dynasty, much of the political power that was in the chinese cultural area was divided up among regional kingdoms and rulers of a portion

Along with a vast military power the key event that set the project in motion was the defeat inflicted on a large Chinese troops by the mongols at Tumu in 1449( Geographical Review: Vol. 4. Origins of the Great Wall of China: A Frontier). The battle was lead by the Chinese emperor at the time and was also backed up by half a million soldiers, but were defeated by the Mongols. The mongols were unable to seize the area and the emperor was able to return to his land. This event brought the importance of protection from the outside and brought about to extend the wall and make improvements such as the watch towers and the use of