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Activity Discussion History Write about the historical background of Great Wall of China?

  • Nehal Rathi

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    June 9, 2021 at 11:28 pm
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    The Great Wall of China is an antique arrangement of walls and strongholds, adding up to in excess of 13,000 miles long, situated in northern China. Maybe the most conspicuous image of China and its long and striking history, the Great Wall was initially brought about by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century B.C. as a methods for keeping attacks from savage migrants. The most popular and best-saved part of the Great Wall was underlying the fourteenth through seventeenth hundreds of years A.D., during the Ming administration. In spite of the fact that the Great Wall never adequately kept trespassers from entering China, it came to work as an incredible image of Chinese progress’ suffering strength.

    Qin Dynasty Construction

    In spite of the fact that the start of the Great Wall of China can be followed to the fifth century B.C., a considerable lot of the strongholds remembered for the wall date from many years sooner, when China was isolated into various individual realms during the supposed Warring States Period.

    Around 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang, the main sovereign of a bound together China under the Qin Dynasty, requested that previous strongholds between states be eliminated and various existing walls along the northern line be joined into a solitary framework that would reach out for in excess of roughly 3,300 miles and shield China against assaults from the north.

    Development of the “Wan Li Chang Cheng,” or 10,000-Li-Long Wall, was quite possibly the most aspiring structure projects at any point embraced by any human advancement. The celebrated Chinese general Meng Tian at first coordinated the task, and was said to have utilized a monstrous multitude of warriors, convicts and average citizens as laborers.

  • Shivani Thakkar

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    June 11, 2021 at 10:03 am
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    With the death of Qin Shi Huang, and the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the majority of the Wall fell into disrepair. After the fall of the han dynasty, a number of the border tribes, took control of northern China. The most powerful of these was the Northern Wei Dynasty, that had been built on and expanded the existing walls in order to protect themselves from the attacks of other tribes.

    Bai Qi kingdom (550-577), or repaired more than 900 km of the great wall, and the short-lived but effective Sui Dynasty (581-618), repaired, and extended the Great Wall of China-on several times.

    With the fall of the Sui Dynasty and the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the Great Wall has lost its significance as a fortress, which it defeated the Tujue tribe, in the north, and has expanded outside of its original borders, with a defensive wall.

    During the Song Dynasty, the Chinese withdrew and was forced under the threat of the Liao, the Jin, the peoples of the north, and the capture of many of the areas on both sides of the Wall. The strengths of the Yuan dynasty (Mongols) (1206-1368), which was founded by Genghis Khan, he eventually controlled all of China, as a part of Asia, and other parts of Europe.

    Even though the Wall was not of great value to the Mongols, the military fortifications, soldiers, and was entrusted with the defense of the walls in order to protect the merchants and caravans traveling along the lucrative Silk Road trade routes established during this period.

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