HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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to provide work for peasants
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to prevent scholars from criticizing the emperor
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to protect the empire for invaders
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to promote wealth among landowners
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Detailed explanation-1: -For millennia, Chinese leaders instituted wall-building projects to protect the land from northern, nomadic invaders.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Wall of China was built to protect China from its enemies and invaders from the North, especially the Mongols. The Mongols were a tribal group that would regularly conduct raids into China. Despite the wall, the Mongols eventually conquered China. The Wall also kept Chinese citizens from leaving China.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Wall of China was built as a military defensive line to defend the invasions from some northern nomadic nations. Apart from the function of defense, the wall also boosted the economy, as well as promoted the culture exchange and national integration of different nations at its two sides.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Wall safeguarded the central plain of Mainland China in history and successfully kept out invasions from various northern nomadic tribes including the Huns in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Turks in the Sui Dynasty, the Khitan in the Song Dynasty, and the Tatar, Oirat and Jurchen in the Ming Dynasty.
Detailed explanation-5: -The wall was built to help keep out northern invaders like the Mongols. Smaller walls had been built over the years, but the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, decided that he wanted a single giant wall to protect his northern borders.