GREAT WALL OF CHINA

PRESENTED BY
JAIDER SLEYDER TORRES
RONALD ALEJANDRO TRIVIÑO
ELVIS XAVIER TORREALBA
SEIJAS
PRESENTED TO: JOSE URREGO

901 2023
 WHERE IS GREAT WALL OF CHINA LOCATED?
To consolidate the territory and protect the
country from the harassment of the northern
nomadic tribes, he ordered the construction of
the 5,000-kilometer Great Wall, starting from
Liaodong Bay in the east and ending in Lintao
of Gansu Province in the west.

The Great Wall of China is a series of walls that

stretch from Liaoning through Hebei, Tianjin,
Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and
Ningxia into Gansu within the country of China
WHO CONCEIVED THE WALL OF CHINA?

• Emperor Qin Shi Huang

Perhaps the most recognizable
symbol of China and its long and
vivid history, the Great Wall was
originally conceived by Emperor
Qin Shi Huang in the third century
B.C. as a means of preventing
incursions from barbarian nomads.
What  year was great wall of china built and
when was it completed?

• The Great Wall was continuously built from the 3rd century BC to the 17th
century AD on the northern border of the country.
• The best-known and best-preserved section of the Great Wall was built in the 14th
through 17th centuries A.D., during the Ming dynasty.

• Badaling the best-known section of the Great Wall of China – Badaling,

located 43 miles (70 km) northwest of Beijing – was rebuilt in the late 1950s,
and attracts thousands of national and foreign tourists every day.
• The Wall is widely thought to date back 2,000 years to just after 221 BC, when
China was first unified.
• 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.
CONSTRUCTION IMAGES
• The first Great Wall was a three-thousand-mile
structure built of tamped earth. It was begun under
the whip of the tyrannical emperor Qin, starting in
221 BC. Qin's people built upon earlier pieces of the
wall, some of which had been in place for 150 years
• Who was the engineer of the Great Wall of China?
• The Great Wall Was Built By Several Dynasties

• The First Emperor Qin unified the Great Wall.

Emperor Han Wudi extended the Great Wall west to
Yumen Pass. Chinese hero General Qi Jiguang
rebuilt the Great Wall
WHAT MATERIALS IS THE CHINESE WALL
MADE OF?

• The construction materials of the Great Wall were mainly earth, stone, brick,
lime, and wood. The materials used depended on the local resources
available. When building the Great Wall on mountains, stones were used
from the mountains; when building it across the plains, the materials used
were earth, bricks, and lime.
BUILDING
PROCESS
WHAT KIND OF MONUMENT IS GREAT
WALL CHINA?
• By the time of its completion the wall stretched some 4,000 miles (6,300
kilometers) across, and today it is widely known as the largest cultural
monument in the world. In fact, its immense scale has given rise to the false
belief that it is visible from the moon
• Every year, more than 10 million people flock to the Great Wall of China,
making it one of the world's most popular tourist attractions. In 2013,
10,720,000 tourists visited the Badaling and Mutianyu areas of the wall
• In spite of extreme difficulties, the answer is YES! The whole Great Wall is
quite long and the existing Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
alone counts 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). However, long distance is not the only
difficulty one has to face. The journey is also very tough
 MAIN DESIGN FEATURES OF GREAT WALL
OF CHINA
• . The Great Wall had three major components: passes, signal towers (beacons),
and walls. Passes: were major strongholds along the wall, usually located at such
key positions as intersections with trade routes. The ramparts of many passes
were faced with huge bricks and stones, with dirt and crushed stones as filler
• Walls were made of tamped earth sandwiched between wooden boards,
adobe bricks, a brick and stone mixture, rocks, or pilings and planks. Some
sections made use of existing river dikes; others used rugged mountain
terrain such as cliffs and gorges to take the place of man-made structures.
 SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT GREAT WALL
CHINA
• The total length of the Great Wall is 21196.18 km.
• There are 15 strategic passes from the East to the West. 
• It took over 2,000 years to construct the wall
• It is not a wall but a series of fortifications
• Various materials were used to build the Great Wall.
• The Great Wall of China became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in
December 1987. The wall is the longest man made structure in the world,
with a total length of about 13170.7 mi or 21196.18 km. Made over the
course of hundreds of years, the wall was built by over 6 different Chinese
dynasties, and is over 2,300 years old