What is some great info about the great wall of china?

Question

What is some great info about the great wall of china?

Answer 1

A good place to start is wiki, I'm not going to cut n paste the information just click on the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_...

Answer 2

Communication between the army units along the length of the Great Wall, including the ability to call reinforcements and warn garrisons of enemy movements, was of high importance. Signal towers were built upon hill tops or other high points along the wall for their visibility.

The Great Wall is a maximum 9.1m (30 ft) wide and is about the same color as the soil surrounding it.

The Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles ) from east to west of China.

The Great Wall was originally built in the Spring, Autumn, and Warring States Periods as a defensive fortification by the three states: Yan, Zhao and Qin.

The Great Wall of China was built as a key to protect the agricultural lands from invasion and to keep the nation’s people from vacating the empire.

The sections in the eastern part of China were built out of bricks and stones while in the western sections of wall were made out of less durable materials – earth and grass.

The watch towers on the wall served as a deployment zone between one another.

The Great Wall was first built in the 7th century B.C. when China was still divided into many small states.

Other defensive works such as forts, passes and beacon towers were built along the Wall to house auxiliary soldiers, store grain and weapons, and transmit military information. As a product of the clashes between agricultural and nomadic economies, the Great Wall provided protection to the economic development and cultural progress, safeguarded the trading routes such as the Silk Road, and secured transmission of information and transportation.

Hope I helped :).

Answer 3

it's the first choice to go during your beijing travel.  

Answer 4

Wikipedia.org is the one you should use.  

Answer 5

Here's one:

I read somewhere that it's longer than the United States-Canada border (not including the one with Alaska)