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  • Hi everyone!

    Recently I received an information that the high side of the Great Wall (with battlements and "arrowslits") is looking to the South. If the Wall was built to protect against the northern barbarians, then it should look to the North!

    Can anybody explain this nonsense?

  • behold the jewel of China

  • i climbed it a few weeks ago. it is actually bigger than you think it is. and very steep. it is only when you climb it that you really appreciate how amazing it is.

  • I am a Chinese, I have never been there. I suck.

  • Giving the size and height, I imagine that the ppl would mount there defense along the top with spotters and projectiles. But like like some one mentioned below you could go over, under or around. Either way had to be a sight to behold.

  • 9 Mongolians watched this video.

  • YAY! im going there next month!

  • wow

  • Wow ! That is really impressive. I've always admired the Chinese.

  • @Askar590 Ofcourse they are asian looking.. they live in Middle Asia... and Huns are not Chinese.

    Huns are Orgin of Turks old Turk folks But this is Diffcult.

    what poeple not Accept is that they are Turks. thats the problem for us. Whe are so proud for our Culture not other culture i think u understand me? also my english is bad.. srry..

    what i know is No one is gonna accept each other. because all poeple who write a comment even don't know about Facts,Turks or Huns...

  • Middle Kingdom.

    This is the real name of my country. Not "China".

    My government should file an application to the UN and officially change the name to Middle Kingdom.

    My fellow Zhong Guo Ren, don't you agree?

  • @Shaolinkungfucat agree, how did they even come up with China?

    zhong = middle

    guo = kingdom

  • China can you please come and build a wall the fraction of this size that runs across the US and Mexican border to help keep immigrants from entering the US? The US seams to have a hard time doing this simple task as most of their time is spent controlling the people's lives who live in the US and now trying ever so hard to control every country.

    Better yet just wipe the US government off this planet so the world can be free again!

  • @Beefer413

    LOLOLOLOL you are a very smart and funny person. God bless you. 

  • i Can Give a Answer to all youre Comment. But most of it What you poeple learn in E.U. America Al LIE's, The biggest history has Turkey and china and not E.U.,

    now u poeple gonna say The Maya's? Maya's are Turks to i can explane it u in 5 seconds. but i tell u again AMERICA E.U. Lie's, This is the History of OUR i now it better. China isn't Amerca How you poeple now that?

    I don't wanne Give answer's one Youtube its full of Lie's and trolls..

  • Barbarians? he said barbarians? AMERICA fuck u LIE's Again every Time u LIE every Time Just fck u, you call Gökturks Barbarians?

    OMFG nothing Else They build it because They was scared from them. its true it was for protect china But why he is calling Gökturk Barbars? i mean wt'f? the Gökturks has build The First Piramide's but China is Hide it.

    You America E.U. can't Live without LIE'S That is it.

  • @iTurk61 The Goturks WERE barbarians as classified from an anceint time just like the the Mongolians, Vikings, Slavs, Saxons, etc. were. The Main Super Power of the Ancient world labeled them as such because they didn't understand their intentions, culture, and even the way they fought. Times have changed ALOT since then. There is a much more clear definition for barbarians now if you choose to call them that, like Terrorists can be sorted as such. I'm just sayin' I think you misunderstood. :)

  • @J88Wolf uh? Mongolians, Viking, Slavs, our, etc? your people they have make them Famous. Because they are white people or Christian's ,European thats the reason why you poeple make them Famous. You wants that the Turks had the largest history, i think so not. you culture is just Egoistic, before u call Turks barbar's that was 5000 year for Chr. when you ancestor hunting lived and in caves, we let us be busy with agriculture and letter (Turks). whe can read before 500. year for CHR. i have facts

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  • In 1644 AD China was conquered by Jurchens/Manchus again. Chinese lost their country by invading Manchus army at that time. Therefore 100 years ago there was no Chinese country in the world. It was in 1912 AD that Chinese gained independence from Manchus conquerors.

  • , brutality, killing simply not been subjected to savage, to do this nation has suffered the pain or the pleasure now nation can not stand among the nations in the world, nature is despicable

  • World War II, the Japanese quickly defeated Asian countries, only China is still resistance, although there are US-Soviet help, but at least not stopped fighting, but rather South Korea, XX, obediently doing all the obedient citizens, who in the end it does bone Gas? Now this time, boasting of war,

  • Guangfu China, not because of the demise of the Ming after the payment, this is only one factor, Ming Li Zicheng victims are, by him to make a mess inside, Qingjunruguan, the inner To have been no longer able to resist the army, but still continued to struggle against the demise of the Qing. I did not know who is not Han Chinese,

  • quickly failed miserably. No feelings of the Southern Song Dynasty in northern Han Chinese, many of the military attack Song Han Chinese origin are the same people, the ultimate demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. But less than a hundred years the rule of Yuan, Ming army quickly defeated the Mongolian army captured a large number of Mongol princes,

  • including the Central Plains farming civilization a complex society, the strength was very strong; Mongols attack Song of resources used before the war a great success, which repeatedly , spent 40 years time To wipe out between the Southern Song Dynasty, and other places such as the Arab world, Eastern Europe,

  • If there was a strong local government as the Five Dynasties period did not allow Khitan bigger and stronger, and the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao also play a separatist regime in northern nomads can not find the North, Liao, Jin Han Chinese can not do without the strong class contribution, Liao, Jin has a simple evolution from nomadic society to a multi-ethnic co-existence,

  • the result that only the future of Song to the plains against the infantry and then free access re-riding nomadic tribe, and then the inevitable demise, but also against the Mongolian Song half a century, and the Liao, Jin and the formation of the see-saw;

  • Han was betrayed. 2. Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty (Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian), Tang chaotic world, the strength of local warlords are not strong, Shi Jingtang (Shatuo family) sold You state (Central Plains Cavalry origin) to the Khitan,

  • summon somebody to surrender to the Huns and other Submission of the Han dynasty, a huge number of nomads, many of which are mixed and the local Han Chinese, the Eight Princes confused chaos, submission honor to serve as a traitor who openly rebel, the results attracted a large number of other nomads into the customs, the results become collaborated with The situation can not pick up, so to see "the importance of immigration control,"

  • but because the characteristics of nomadic migration variable can not be completely eliminated; The role of the Great Wall is like a "wall" to prevent roving bandits (nomads) can freely enter, and you have to send troops to seize him; with the wall, you can alert and guard against and prevent them from prowling, not because the fight However, while others made the Great Wall; indeed been a few nomadic tribes occupied the Central Plains due to: 1. Five random Hua period (Xianbei, Huns, etc.),

  • Added: for nomads, the basic no logistical problems and their troops can eat off the looting of food, and even human flesh, and the Central Plains of the armed forces must have logistical support. Often not beat them, because we wanted to beat him, He went to the depths of the desert, hiding; off Hun Han, Ming Zhu Di in-depth attack on the desert of Mongolia, are either not find, to find the meal severely beaten,

  • so for the central government often have to put in huge Vast human and material resources, if the event of natural disasters, it is simply a nightmare, so the real battle, the Han army is often the number of actual combat less than the nomads, but the war Hungary Han, Tang and Turkic war, are made from the final victory of these barbarians either finished, or packing, which depends on the courage of our ancestors, and strong logistical support.

  • but is often hundreds of thousands of troops with an army, like China, more than the total number of troops, but distributed in a vast land, in the ancient war, for the farming nation, is a huge problem for Transport , sent a man to fight, often to a few people to transport weapons and food transport,

  • according to my translator this is what zachope111 said:

    Do not know why some people be so wanton defamation of the Han, Does he really is unbearable, as you imagine it? The Great Wall is used to prevent the nomadic farming on the Central Plains area of harassment, we all know, is the horse nomadic peoples, the basic men can enter the war, but also because of mobility, a short time to accumulate, forming a huge army, Although the total population of less nomadic,

  • Where is the Great wall of China ?

  • The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed misserably.

  • How the hell could anyone build this! Utterly mind blowing.

  • @BillDFC

    It was mentioned in the video that almost each dynasty built a wall of their own, I'm thinking that means the Great Wall that we now know off was made section by section, until the later dynasties joined it up.

  • @maicull People's Republic of China (Communist China) is now trying to extend the wall to Liao Province (a part of Manchuria) and Korean Peninsula. In order to do it, they destroyed Korean-style fortresses and rebuilt their wall there in Liao Province. Chinese want to say that Manchuria or Korean Peninsula were a part of China, even though they had never ruled there. On the contrary, China was often conquered by various Altaic-origin invaders such as Tongyi, Senbi, Jurchens/Manchus, and Mongols.

  • @KoriSenbay some korean just can't get used to the fact that you are a tiny race on this planet. You got nearly nothing to be proud of in terms of history.

  • it didn't work very well. hahahahaha

  • @TheMasterofbows it didnt? chinas still here? i guess it did hahahaahh

  • @supra16 not really, considering how many times it was breached and northern china being invaded, flooding the south with migrant settlers.

  • that what the U.S need to do along the mexican Border. those fense wont help

  • Contrary to popular belief, the great wall of china was originally built to keep me out..suffice it to say it failed miserably

  • Humans are simply amazing.

  • I don't understand the point of a wall this size. I understand that it keeps unorganized tribes out, but all you need is a single large force with ladders to attack one point and completely overwhelm what little garrison they have at that point. For it's size, it had a pretty big weakness to match.

  • @EdikShepherd

    Did you listened it at all?

  • @DaHugBug Yes, I did, and I also know that the Mongols probably did exactly the same when they attacked China.

  • @EdikShepherd Actually the Mongols went around the great wall not over.

  • @Lennon743 That's even worse

  • @EdikShepherd Indeed :)

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  • Great documentary, great upload, too bad it's a bit fuzzy!

    Fanks,ntl !

  • @zachope111 dude we are in America speak English bitch

  • @MadShotzz1110 There's youtube in China dumbass...

  • @MadShotzz1110

    really cause i thought youtube was world wide

  • @MadShotzz1110

    and not everyone in america can speak english

  • i am doing a presentation for the great wall of china it's really amazing fantastic building great job actually it's really trully hard to be done.

  • Couldnt you just Digg a Tunnel under neath it... and evaded that way

  • 如果当时存在强大的地方政权就不会像五代时那样让契丹做大做强了­,三国时曹操一个割据政权也能打得北方游牧族找不到北,辽,金的­强大离不开汉族阶层的贡献,辽,金已经简单的从游牧社会进化到多­种族并存、包含中原农耕文明的复合型社会了,实力很是强大;蒙古­人攻宋动用了巨大的战争资源才成功,里面多次反复,用了40多年­的时间来彻底消灭南宋,而世界其他地方如阿拉伯,东欧失败得很快­很惨。北方汉族对南宋没有感情,攻宋的军队中很多都是同样汉族出­身的人,最终南宋灭亡。但是元的统治不足百年,明军迅速击败蒙古­军队,俘虏大量蒙古王公贵族,光复华夏,明的灭亡不是因为后金,­这只是一个因素,明是被李自成害的,内部被他弄的一塌糊涂,清军­入关后,内地已经无力再抵抗一支军队了,但是反抗斗争依然持续要­清的灭亡。我不知道说汉族不行的是谁,二战时,日本人迅速击溃亚­洲各国,只有中国还在抵抗,虽然有美苏的帮助,但是起码没有停止­过抗争,反倒是韩国,XX,乖乖的全部做了顺民,那请问到底谁有­骨气?现在这个时代,吹嘘战争,野蛮,杀戮根本就是没有受到过开­化的人,以别民族曾今抑或现在遭受到的痛苦取乐的民族,是不可能­屹立于世界民族之林的,本质是卑劣的

  • @zachope111 why is this in chinese ??????

  • 补充:对于游牧民族来说,基本没有后勤问题,他们的人马可以吃关­内劫掠的粮食,甚至人肉,而中原的军队则必须要有后勤的支援。很­多时候不是打不过,是因为想打他时,他跑到大漠深处,躲起来了;­汉灭匈奴,明朝朱棣深入大漠攻打蒙古,都是要么别找到,找到则一­顿猛揍,但是因为游牧民族迁徙不定的特性,无法彻底地加以消灭;­长城的作用只是像“围墙”,防止流寇(游牧民族)可以肆意进入,­而你派兵却抓不住他;有了围墙,则可以警戒和防范,阻止他们窜来­窜去,而非是因为打不过别人而造长城;确实中原曾被几个游牧民族­占据,原因是:1.五胡乱华时期(鲜卑,匈奴等),内地招降的匈­奴和其他归顺的汉朝的游牧民数量巨大,很多都和本地汉族杂居,八­王之乱弄得天下大乱,归顺人光荣地充当叛徒,公然造反,结果引得­其他游牧民大量进入关内,结果成了里应外合,局势无法收拾,所以­看出”控制移民的重要性“,汉族被出卖了。2.五代宋朝时(契丹­,女真,蒙古),唐末天下纷乱,地方军阀实力均不强,石敬瑭(沙­陀族)出卖幽州(中原骑兵产地)给契丹,结果使得宋将来只能以步­兵再平原上对抗出入自由的游牧族的重骑,灭亡再所难免,但宋也抵­抗蒙古半个世纪,与辽,金形成拉锯;

  • 不知道为什么有的人要这样肆意的诋毁汉族,难道他真的是你们想像­的那样不堪么?

    长城是用来防范游牧民族对中原农耕区的骚扰的,众所周知,游牧民­族是马背民族,是男子基本都可以参战,而且因为机动性好,短时间­内可以积聚,形成庞大的军队,所以虽然游牧民族总人口少,但是军­队往往就是几十万大军会与一处,反观中国,军队总数多,但是分布­在广阔的土地上,在古代进行战争,对于农耕民族来说运输是巨大的­问题,送一个人去打仗,往往要几个人来运粮食运武器,所以对于中­央政府往往要投入巨大的人力物力,如果再发生天灾,那简直就是噩­梦,所以真正作战,汉族军队的实际作战人数往往比游牧民族少,但­是汉匈战争,唐与突厥战争,都最终取得离胜利,将这些蛮族要么汉­化,要么赶跑了,这靠的先民的勇气,以及强大的后勤保障。

  • In the nickelodeon show "Avatar the last airbender", there is a city called "Ba Seng Se" It's protected by an outer wall. The inspiration was deffenetly the great wall of china.

  • when u actrually go there all u see other than the mountains are people!!!!!!!11

  • ok... so my friend mindy just called me from the great wall of china OMG!!!!! thank you thank you xx

  • DAMN! such daring construction!

  • "The chinese are the smartest people" quoted from Henry Kissinger! Superpower status was always theirs

  • this is quite a piece of work

    no wonder is called the "great" wall

  • @chrisevilmonkey I think Long Wall is not as great than we expect. Although Chinese built the wall on their northern border line in order to protect themselves from strong enemies, it was not really successful. You know it is not hard to find that the invaders such as Senbi, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongols, and Manchus often conquered and ruled Chinese. Long Wall was actually useless when China was conquered by the invaders who lay beyond the wall, wasn't it?

  • @chrisevilmonkey And what is worse, Chinese destroyed Korean fortresses located in Manchuria for the purpose of stretching the wall toward the east. Manchuria was Korean territory for thousands of years and of course there exist Korean fortresses. But now Red China is not only distorting Korean history but even destroying the historic sites. How can Korean fortresses be a part of Chinese Long Wall. It's really WTF

  • @KoriSenbay koreans are prolly chinese to begin with..

    you might go crazy on me if you are korean. but lets face it, japs, koreans, chinese are really the same thing to begin with.

    i read about this stuff awhile ago about how the 1st chinese emperor sent out a bunch of people to look for the life extending drugs, so the peeps who got sent to japan and korea was too afraid to return since they cant find anything and decided to live there for the rest of their lives. but then, who knows.

  • @chrisevilmonkey What are you talking about? I can't understand what you said. Korean originated in what is now called Manchuria and Korean Peninsula. Yayoi (the people who lived in southern Korean Peninsula) migrated into Japanese archipelage 2500 years ago and became the origin of Japanese. So Korean and Japanese have the same origin. On the other hand, both Korean and Japanese have totally different origin with Chinese. That's why their languages belong to different language family.

  • @KoriSenbay

    where did you get that information from ?

    i said chinese, korean, and japanese are the same thing.

    like scottish, irish, british.

    its all the same damn thing.

  • @chrisevilmonkey Well, Chinese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, on the other hand Korean and Japanese (both are the closest languages) are isolated languages or closely related to Tungusic/Altaic language family. Chinese language has totally different grammatical structure with Korean because they have different origin.

  • @KoriSenbay you know that Korean writing and japenses both uses kanji?

  • @ericown I know that Korean use Hangul (Korean characters and writing system).

  • @ericown Hangul example: 한글은 세종대왕에 의해 만들어졌습니다. This is Korean writing.

  • @KoriSenbay before 1900 they use Chinese character.

  • @ericown Hangul was invented in 1443 AD. Anyway, I know why you try to mention the Chinese characters. But you know that the characters is a logogram which represents morphemes instead of phonemes. Even though Japanese use the same characters today, it does not mean that Japanese and Chinese have the same ethnic origin. It's only the result of mutual influence.

  • @KoriSenbay when you call it a mutual influence, it means japan has its influence on the chinese characters, which is not

  • @shijmus i thought its the Chinese that has influence on the Japanese characters, a lot of Japaneses words in kanji are copied from the Chinese characters and have similar pronunciation, Chinese characters are from under no influence to other races or culture, there are actually pictographic words inspired by the things they are named after ,and had been modified by chinese themselves over centuries , constantly making it better,more logical and easier to write .

  • @ericown Think about the origin of the Chinese characters. When Tongyi (eastern strangers) conquered Chinese their oracle bone script was introduced into China and finally the Chinese charaters was derived from the script of the invaders. So using the characters in East Asia is the matter of mutual influence not origin.

  • @KoriSenbay wtf.. china is a conquered country...mix with alot of people. but han is the main.

  • @ericown

    Conquered by who??? The mongols??? Their strength of civilization assimilated the mongols who were nothing more than nomads. The europeans and westerners?? mao kicked out all foreigners! Read some history bitch!

  • @jewishwarrior666 China had mini country, then 1 emperor conquer them all. later mongo

  • @jewishwarrior666 Well, China was actually conquered by Tongyi, Senbi, Jurchen, Mongols, and Manchus.

  • It's interesting that 萬里長城 is translated as Great Wall in English. 萬里長城 means Long Wall.

  • @KoriSenbay

    cus the wall is not simply long , its great.

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  • this is a documentary about the great wall. i am disgusted with the racist idiots blaming 'easterners' and 'westerners' for the worlds shitty cock ups. both of you idiots get a life, and a job. i am going to watch this documentary and i am sure most other people would prefer if u losers fucked off to somewhere else

  • @tonydeafmessiah very well siad!!

  • Fuck you.

  • @tonydeafmessiah I have to show this video to my calssmates and I am in 6th grade and if you cna somehow remove this comment...it would be much appreciated

  • @tonydeafmessiah  totally agree.

  • Islam schmizlam. You are jealous.

  • What have you invented? Machines of war to kill people more efficiently and endless more ways to consume the earth until our water runs dry and air is filled with toxic chemicals?

    The people and cultures you have killed, do you hear their wail beneath the land you have grabbed from them? the disease you spread to the native populations, the lack of respect towards mother nature coupled with a primitive, vengeful religion you propagate.

  • What have you white people brought to this world? Communism? Fascism? invented by whites, lacking the Wisdom and calm of Zen and Tao and bring nothing but hatred and havoc onto this world.

    You accuse us Easterners of authoritarianism you brought upon us with your guns and bullets, fearful of our revenge In the same way you once exacted on us? Now we are beating you at your own games. One day you will pay, white man, you will pay for the crimes you have committed with your own blood.

  • Amen Best comment I have come across on Youtube, they divided india pakistan, african nations to fight each other, put puppets in Power, They are scared of the Unity of India and China. Today Japanese owns technology and Motor Industries. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Peace

  • @strongestass while i am not 'christian', i am reminded of a bit of wisdom from the bible, (or possibly older originally)... 'attend the beam in thine own eye, before trying to remove the mote from thy neighbors'.... (this is a paraphrase, so don't bother correcting me; i don't care) point being, why don't you just go try to make things better instead of bitching about it. honestly, do you think someone is going to look at your comments here and have a profound change of heart?

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  • my dear friend, the Chinese people have been peacefully living on this world for thousands of years, making up for about 40 percent of the world's population most of the known history. And it's only recently with the aid of Chinese inventions: paper, printing press and most importantly gunpowder and compass, were you able to fuel the spread the vermin and venom of the expansion of a bloodthirsty religion, and the explosion of the population of a race whose way of living are wrecking the earth.

  • @strongestass wow.. o.o you are really fanatic.

  • @strongestass

    Great great comment. Could not have said it better in English language.

  • Islam,

    The most amazing thing about this is that EVEN THE SO CALLED ASIANS just like my Moorish (so called Egyptian/African/Black/Negro/N­ubian/Ethopian etc) ancestors built a great wall to keep the savage nomadic barbarian neanderthal devils away from them. This wall was built between Derbent and Dar'yal, two cities of Daghestan in the Caucasus Mountains, the land that lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. So we see, NO ONE WANTED THE PALE EUROPEANS AROUND, now hes EVERYWHERE.

    Peace

  • The word

    is PLAGUE

  • As a Taiwanese I have to agree. I also consider myself to be Chinese. Don't listen to all the trolls who just want to promote hate. They are pathetic.

  • China's art is the most beautiful of the world

  • This whole construction is something beyond my imagination. Looking at the Great Wall of China is like experiencing something for the first time in your life. You can't compare it to anything else.

  • The Manchurians would never have penetrated the wall if it were not for the traitor Wu sangei.

  • all han chinese should understand that the so called TAIWANESE who bitchin about china all the time on youtube are nothing more than immigrants from south east asia countries who are permitted to stay in taiwan. no han taiwanese would insult their han chinese counterpart. we are related to each other only difference in nationalty

  • @torelloBank han chinese consists of 98% of people reside in taiwan nowadays, think about it

  • Your a cowardly fool hiding behind YouTube, making comments you know you wouldn't say in real life, if you did you would get pounded to death.

  • Hey are you stupid? Taiwanese are no different then Chinese, they are the same people. You are making fun of your own ethnicity.

  • its funny how u have nothing else to do but go on youtube and say how bad china is..

    what did taiwan contribute to the world?

    NOTHING? THOUGHT SO AHHHAHHA

  • u have lost ur mind. and u just simply an unciliized asshole, waste time to talk to u. read history...please tell me, which ethnic never failed?

  • every ethnic failed...but we still stand, and we beat them all. we are the final winner...we have the war, but the barbarians have the desert, their desert compare to our wall, and our wall is almost nothing.

  • its funny.cuz without china doing all that stuff u wouldnt exist..and ur prolly not even from taiwan

  • great wall is the symble for ture human being civilization counter barbarians...we did have many enemies since we built the wall, but all of them were disappeared or falling and continue falling....people with brain and strong faith will never die...if u recieve education, watch ur words, otherwise, u are just simple the junk.

  • hey, have u been to desert? do u know how hard it is to cross a desert and fight people are nomad? they hit and run, nowhere to find them, and the nomad were the biggest trouble for all over the human-being history...u cannot find them, but they can find u..barbarians are the killer of human civilization.the barbarians invaded europe, and the whole europe in a dark period for many years. the same here. however the barbarians don't have good brain, and strong faith.they all got ruled.

  • How long did it take to finish it

  • all the walls combined took almost 2000 years to build...its like if u start building now it would be finished in the year 4000

  • Dammmmm..thats a longass time...i thougt it took like 100 years or less

  • Latest studies have shown that the wall is 180 miles longer than previously thought.

  • wait...wasnt mongolia part of china until 1924?

  • am i able to put this on a powerpoint project????

  • so what types of people were they trying prevent from entering? other than Mongolians

  • The Chinese called them XiongNu... they are some nomadic tribe, something like Huns..

  • They're weren't any bodies in the Great Wall, they'd dicompose and make the infrastructure weak. They used rice and morter mix to stick the stones together.

  • really! thinks for the information

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  • I'm chinese, but I'd never heard of Hmong tribe before. I wanted to laugh.

    I think Chinese built the Great Wall not just for defence purpose,

    Government or ruler at that time might wanted to get people to have something to work on. Life was simple back then and there was not enough jobs to satisfy huge supply of labours could be one of the reasons.

  • there are 3 millions of hmong ppl in mainland China, but they're called Miao there, i betcha have heared of them. the hmong ppl here in the US are mostly originated from southeastern asian countries like vietnam, laos and thailand, and many of them were betrayers of their homeland during the vietnam war looking for a shelter here

  • chinese were AFRAID of miaozu(hmong or mong) so they builded the great wall to keep us out.

    ask any chinese that know about ours history it true. that's why when the yellow emperor died they put stone soilder in his tomb to protect him from us in HALL

  • Psh, china built it so they could kick their asses even more and protect their people. What? Jealous that hmong didn't think about creating a wall?

  • it's not like that completely. Yes, the Chinese built the wall to keep out invaders but the builders were all slaves ranging in age from 6-76 years old. We despised that wall - if you look at any painted portrait; non of it includes the Great Wall. They believed in building bridges, not walls with their neighbour and that this wall was a sign of weakness. It wasn't until Westerners came and put a different value on it that they accepted the wall for the interest of trade. Qin was a mad emperor.

  • Qin was not an emperor, it was a dynasty. Perhaps you meant Emperor YingZheng.

  • Qin Shi Huang and Ying Zheng are the same person - Ying Zheng was his personal name. lol, so yes, you are right, I did mean him as well. ^^

  • lol.. sorry then i misunderstood you. But according to my teacher he made other major contributions that were ofter overlooked, like unifying Chinese characters and buiding roads and canals.

  • Oh yes! definitely! Emperor Qin did some OUTSTANDING things in his life! Things that are still practiced and existent in China today - China wouldn't be the place it is today without him. But on the opposite side of the coin, he was a paranoid madman; so focused on gaining immortality by any cost - ...which lead to his ironic death...

  • Well it's really all come down to Qin's perfectionist style and his liking for grandeur, he did fantastic things in his reign, and of course sometimes wise rulers make some unwise decisions

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  • They use it do defend from Mongolians, Huns, Uyghurs, Naimans, Xianbei and many others. All are northeners.

  • The walls are build to protect the Chinese from the Huns.After defeated the Huns,Meng Tian,a Qin general,under the Emperor's edict,built the wall within 4 years.This extrodinary speed of building is due this wall was built from the remanent from the previous states of war such as Zhao.

  • i could build this within one life time

  • ... lol <.<

  • tard

  • They build it against Turks

  • this is a masterpiece ... so beautiful :)

  • imagine how long did it take to build this....

  • hmm i heard parts of the wall are even made with dead bodies packed with mud and such because well you dont got infinint supply of money and bricks.

  • Thats really stupid, because dead bodies weaken the structure.

  • yeah, but it is true. like if somebody died, they just stuck them in there.

  • Very true. Much of the wall was built by prisoners and so when one died, they were just buried within the walls.

  • hmm ? who's telling you this stuff xD ?

    I really doubt that

  • I took a Chinese history course in my first year in University. Plus, doesn't everyone know that?

  • wow If that is really true .. I have to say they really think beyond normal minds :x

    and thanks for sharing that with us : )

    I never knew about that ^^

  • Would you like to know how other culture treated their POW or slaves at the time? they weren't bloody saints I could tell you that much >_>

  • what an amazing feat of man.... if walls could talk eh...

  • Good luck..We here now!!!Lmao!

  • we need to build the Great Wall of the United States to keep the mexicans out

  • Thats so mean!!! I'm not mexican but at least I care about them

  • I bet the native americans are thinking the same thing.

  • We need to build the Great Wall of the United States to keep the americans INSIDE. Specially if you could fill it up with water and put a lid on the top.

    Such ignorance...

  • like the simpsons and place a bomb in

  • Its ok you will get over your jealousy one day. Not everyone can be great and sexy like us.