where is the Great Wall?
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(m)\n\nThe Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. \n\nThe first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property.
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it runs along the Northern border with Mongolia, the wall was built to keep the Mongolian army out of China
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Ø1.The Great Wall of China.\n\nØ2. The Eiffel Tower France.\n\nØ3. The Taj Mehal Agra (India). \n\nØ4. The Niagara Fall Canada.\n\nØ5. The Statue of Freedom New York.\n\nØ6. The Ihram Egypt.\n\n7. The Pisa Tower Italy
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http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213201/GreatWall.htm\n\n\ntry this site, It is really intresting, I learned things, and history was my favorite subject in school. hope it helps.
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Although Rome and China (the great wall was also a road) are known for their paved roads, the first in Europe was probably Sparta in Greece (founded in about 900 BC).  The Agora or marketplace was paved as were many of the roads in the city leading to it by perhaps 800 BC.
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Great Wall of China  \nEssentials Flights/Hotels Maps Facts Information China Visa The Great Wall of China\nA defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. There have been five major walls:\n\n208 BC (Qin Dynasty) \n1st century BC (Han Dynasty \n7th century CE (Sui Dynasty) \n1138 - 1198 (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period) \n1368 - 1640 (from Hongwu Emperor until Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty) \nThe first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but by joining several regional walls built by the Warring States. The walls that were linked together at this time consisted of rammed earth with watch towers built at regular intervals. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall with its eastern end at modern day North Korea.
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Many are familiar with the claim that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space or from the moon with the naked eye. This is simply not true.\nFrom a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, such as highways, ships in the sea, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some individual buildings. While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard.\n\nFurthermore, when leaving the earth's orbit and acquiring an altitude of more than a few thousand miles, no man-made objects are visible at all. NASA says, "The Great Wall can barely be seen from the Shuttle, so it would not be possible to see it from the Moon with the naked eye." Thus, it'd be tough to spot the Great Wall of China or any other object from the moon. Furthermore, from the moon, even the continents are barely visible.
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Wugga is right-The Great Wall of China can NOT be seen from orbital space, and was NOT seen by the astronauts-that is a myth, and the astronauts themselves have no idea where it came from.  Regardless of how long the Wall is, its only a few yards wide-far far too small to be seen from hundereds of miles away.  However, the land reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands is visible from orbit, and Dubai is building an artificial island that is already visible from space with the naked eye.
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The Forbidden City or Forbidden Palace (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjìn Chéng; literally "Purple Forbidden City"), located at the exact center of the ancient city of Beijing, was the imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing Dynasties. Known now as the Palace Museum (Chinese: 故宫博物院; pinyin: Gùgōng Bówùyùan), its extensive grounds cover 720,000 square meters, 800 buildings and more than 8,000 rooms. As such, it is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world, and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 as the "Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties". The imperial palace grounds are located directly to the north of Tiananmen Square and are accessible from the square via Tiananmen Gate. It is surrounded by a large area called the Imperial City.\nAlthough no longer occupied by royalty, the Forbidden City remains a symbol of Chinese sovereignty and the image of its entrance gate appears on the seal of the People's Republic of China. The Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Recently, the site has been under much renovation which has limited visitors to the main courtyards and a few gardens.The Palace Museum in the Forbidden City should not be confused with the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Both museums derive from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.
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The best place to go to find this type of thing is the Google Earth community website (see source link below).  They have a search function that will pull up posts, often with a placemark file you can download and open, that talk about locations you want to find.  I also included a link to one of the many Great Wall of China posts on that site.
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Yes some Chinese program calling "Great Wall" There is not English version released yet unfortunately
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It depends on how far up you are.  There is a longstanding myth that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade object visible from space. It and several variations on the theme are great fodder for water cooler arguments. In reality, many human constructs can be seen from Earth orbit.\n\nShuttle astronauts can see highways, airports, dams and even large vehicles from an Earth orbit that is about 135 miles (217 kilometers) high. Cities are clearly distinct from surrounding countryside, and that's true even from the higher perch of the International Space Station, which circles the planet at about 250 miles (400 kilometers) up. \n\nEgyptian pyramids have been photographed from space several times with standard digital cameras and high-powered lenses. The largest pyramid at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, is 745 feet (227 meters) wide and 449 feet (137 meters) tall.\n\nWith binoculars you can see ships on the ocean.
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Good question! I want to know about it too\n\n:/ maybe something to do with the wonder wall in china? XDDDD who knows?
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The Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. \n\nThe first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property. \n\n\nThere have been four major walls: \n\n\n208 BC (the Qin Dynasty) \n1st century BC (the Han Dynasty) \n\n1138 - 1198 (the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period) \n\n1368-1620 (from Hongwu Emperor until Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty)\n\nThe Ming Dynasty Great Wall starts on the eastern end at Shanhai Pass, near Qinhuangdao, in Hebei Province, next to Bohai Gulf. Spanning nine provinces and 100 counties, the final 500 kilometers have all but turned to rubble, and today it ends on the western end at the historic site of Jiayu Pass, located in northwest Gansu Province at the limit of the Gobi Desert and the oases of the Silk Road. Jiayu Pass was intended to greet travelers along the Silk Road. Even though The Great Wall ends at Jiayu Pass, there are many watchtowers extending beyond Jiayu Pass along the Silk Road. These towers communicated by smoke to signal invasion. \n\nThe Kokes Manchus crossed the Wall by convincing an important general Wu Sangui to open the gates of Shanhai Pass and allow the Manchus to cross. Legend has it that they took three days for the Manchu armies to pass. After they conquered China, the Wall was of no strategic value as the people whom the Wall was intended to keep out were ruling the country (becoming the Qing Dynasty). \n\nThe government ordered people to work on the wall, and workers were under perpetual danger of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it has obtained the gruesome title, "longest cemetery on Earth" or "the long graveyard". Their bodies were not entombed in the wall, however. A body buried in the wall would have weakened its structure, so workers were buried nearby instead. \n\nWhile some portions near tourist centers have been preserved and even reconstructed, in most locations the Wall is in disrepair, serving as a playground for some villages and a source of stones to rebuild houses and roads. Sections of the Wall are also prone to graffiti. Parts have been bulldozed because the Wall is in the way of construction projects. \n\nThe materials used are those available near the site of construction. Near Beijing the wall is constructed from quarried limestone blocks. In other locations it may be quarried granite or fired brick. Where such materials are used, two finished walls are erected with earth and rubble fill place
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Beijing is the capitol of China. Depends on where you live, but get a good desktopclock like symm time, you can look up all places all over the world there.
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Wall March and Wall April
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Beijing, China in 2008. :)