HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Question
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to keep out invaders
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so that Emperor Qin could show how magnificent he was
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to give the people something to do
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they wanted to build something that could be seen from space
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Wall of China was built over centuries by China’s emperors to protect their territory. Today, it stretches for thousands of miles along China’s historic northern border.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why did he do so? The Qin Empire was threatened by the Huns (the Mongol Empire of the time) in the north. In 215 BC, he sent general Meng Tian to build the Great Wall, using the basis of the northern states’ Great Walls to defend against the Huns.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.