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The Great Wall of China is one of the most brutal civil engineering in the history of mankind. Chronicles say that for 2100 years, from the V century BC to the sixteenth century, the Chinese fortifications were protected from invasions of nomads from the north. And its main purpose was not to prevent it from being crossed, but rather to prevent the invaders brought with them horses.
Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, famous among other things to make the terracotta soldiers of Xian, he united the empire in 221 BC and joined the stretches of wall constructed previously. During the next thousand years of the reconstruction, the wall grew to 7300 km in length.
Of the 7,300 km of wall that came to be built, there were 4,000 km of continuous wall, from Central Asia to the Yellow Sea. Watchtower tract succeed each serving to send smoke signals to communicate incursions of nomadic armies. Currently only has a small accessible part of the 4,000 km of wall. Some fragments have been restored to allow the visit.
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