Great+Wall+of+China

= **Rogelio: Great Wall of China** =

**__ 1.- DESCRIPTION __** > **[|First Emperor Qin]** wanted a much better barricade to protect his people from the Mongol invaders to the north. He wanted a strong wall 30 feet wide and 50 feet high. > First Emperor Qin used peasants, captured enemies, criminals, scholars, and anyone else who irritated him, and put them all to work building the Great Wall. Laborers were not paid for their work. It was slave labor. > About 3000 people worked on the wall during the Qin Dynasty. Rocks fell on people. Walls caved in. Workers died of exhaustion and disease. Laborers were fed only enough food to keep them alive. There is an old Chinese saying, "Each stone in the wall represents a life lost in the wall's construction. > This project continued long after First Emperor Qin’s death. Building the wall was a project that continued for many hundreds of years until the wall was over 3700 miles long. Most emperors used the same system that Qin used, forced labor. > Today, the Great Wall still stands. It can be seen from space, it’s that big!
 * **Built: 7th century BC **
 * **Location : China, Asia **
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 * **Type of structure: **
 * " This structure is a: Frame structure **
 * Short information about the structure : The Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years. In turn, each emperor who came to power added pieces of the wall to protect their dynasties. But the wall was not a solid wall. It was a line of disconnected barricades.
 * __2.- WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OR USES OF THE STRUCTURE? __**

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 * __3.- WHAT DIFFERENT PARTS ARE THERE? Elements of the structure... __**

**Towers and wall**

==**__4.- WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS MADE OF? __** **CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS USED ** //: //== **//STONE AND IRON//**


 * __5.- STRESSES IN THE STRUCTURE __****: **

Tension


 * __6.- STABILITY, RIGIDITY AND RESISTANCE __**
 * **This structure is made rigid by : Stones **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made stable by : Stones **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made resistant by :Stones **


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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9.- CURIOSITIES __**

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">10.- PERSONAL COMMENTS __**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">**__I think that the Great Wall of China is amazing beacause is so big and you can see it on the space.__**

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