The Great Wall of China is actually a series of barriers that stretch over 15 regions in northern China. It is more than 2,700 years old, with construction beginning in 300 B.C.E. under Emperor Qin Shi Huang and ending during the Ming Dynasty. The wall spans 21,168.18 kilometers (13,171 miles), with an average height of 6-7 meters (20-23 feet) and a breadth of 6.5 meters (21.3 feet). At its tallest point, the wall stands 14 meters (46 ft). More over a million people died while building the Great Wall…

Historians commonly regard the defensive walls built during the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BCE) and the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to be the initial sections of what would eventually become the construction known as the Great Wall of China, which is about 3,000 years old.

By Whom It Is Constructed-

                                          Around 220 BCE, Qin Shi Huang, often known as the First Emperor, unified China. He orchestrated the process of combining the existing walls into one. At the time, the majority of the wall was composed of rammed earth and timber.

It Considered As Chinese Greatest Cultural Icon-

                                    In previous dynasties, the army was the primary force behind the construction of the Great Wall. Qin Shihuang erected the Great Wall, and General Meng Tian was solely responsible for it. After Meng Tian led 300,000 warriors to compel the Huns to retreat, the troops took nine years to finish building the Great Wall.

 Transporting the vast quantities of materials required for construction was challenging, therefore builders usually sought to employ local resources. Mountain stones were employed across mountain ranges, whereas rammed earth was used in the plains.

There are no surviving historical sources that show the precise length and course of the Qin walls. Most of the historic walls have crumbled over the centuries, and just a few pieces survive today. The human cost of construction is unknown, however some scholars believe that hundreds of thousands of workers died while building the Qin wall.

Later, the Han, Northern dynasties, and Sui all restored, rebuilt, or expanded sections of the considerable Wall at considerable expense to guard against northern invaders. The Tang and Song dynasties did not make any big efforts in the region. Non-Han ethnic dynasties also built border walls: the Xianbei-ruled Northern Wei, the Khitan-ruled Liao, the Jurchen-led Jin, and the Tangut-established Western Xia, who ruled vast territories over Northern China for centuries, all built defensive walls, but they were much further north than the other Great Walls as we know them, within China's autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and in modern-day Mongolia itself.

It Is Not A Wall, But A Succession Of Fortifications-

                               The Great Wall is not a single structural wall; it comprises beacon towers, obstacles, barracks, garrison posts, and strongholds along the walls, which together create an integrated defense system

                              The Great Wall is a gigantic monument constructed of various materials; most of the sections visible today were made with bricks and cut stone blocks, with lime mortar used to hold the bricks together.Where bricks and blocks were not accessible, tamped soil, uncut stones, and wood were employed as local resources.

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