When was the Great Wall of China built?

Question

I need an exact date. Or an approximation. I don't need the century when it was built. Can you please help me?

Answer 1

The Great Wall stretches for 4,160 miles across North China. It is the only man-made structure that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye. Its construction started as far back as the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 B.c.) and the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). Rival feudal kingdoms built walls around their territories to keep out invading nomadic tribes from the north. When Qin Shihuang unified China, he started to link up and extend these walls. Prisoners of war, convicts, soldiers, civilians and farmers provided the labor. Millions died for this cause and many Chinese stories speak of parted lovers and men dying of starvation and disease. Their bodies were buried in the foundations of the wall or used to make up its thickness. The Great Wall crosses loess plateaus, mountains, deserts, rivers and valleys, passing through five provinces and two autonomous regions. It is about 20 feet wide and 26 feet high. Parts of the wall are so broad that 10 soldiers can walk abreast. Materials used were whatever could be found near by-clay, stone, willow branches, reeds and sand. Parts of this wall can still be seen in remote parts of China. What most visitors see of the Wall now was restored in the Ming dynasty, when stone slabs replaced clay bricks. It took 100 years to rebuild and it is said that the amount of material used in the present wall alone is enough to circle the world at the equator five  

Answer 2

it was bulit and then rebuilt what answer do you want?

here though

Although the exact date is not known, it is believed that construction began during the Zhou Dynasty (770-476 BC) and was divided into two periods:Western Zhou (11th century BC-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou (770 BC-221 BC). The Eastern Zhou had a Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC) and aWarring States Period (476 BC-221 BC). Over a span of 2,700 years, more than 20 states and dynasties were involved in building

the GreatWall.

Answer 3

An exact date is hard to come by because these are ancient manuscripts. The actual Great Wall of China that is seen today is was built in the year 1449. There is more information on this site:

http://great-wall-of-china.org/facts.htm...