Inside the Great Wall of China: Facts part 1

[MsNicole22222]

i wanna go there someday..



[onlinetravelforum]

Great wall of China is truly a great attraction in the world. I have visited and have seen the charm of it.

[cuijiashousinacom]

this is fucking copying!!! this video does belong to this guy, he/she copied it and put japanese captions on it. watch?v=dTY7yJ7JWFU

[mahedihassanar]

I like it very much!!! my face book name is mahedi hassan

[mahedihassanar]

I like it very much!!!

[anikrys]

i was so lucky that i visited this place.......

[Megablaze9292]

@anikrys It was probrably a great experience for you.

Height and Lenght

[groovylocks]

it seems different cultures have different architectural obsessions. Egyptians and the americas liked triangles and pyramids.. Celts liked giant rectangles and towers and boxes. And chinese liked walls.

[DeeStylistic]

Scared? Building a wall doesn't mean you're necessarily "scared" of something outside. Read: Ming, Tang, Sun, Jung. I have a wall around my house, but I sure as hell am not scared of thieves coming in.

[groovylocks]

@DeeStylistic why did you put a wall around your house?

[gimkilo57]

I'm watching this while I should be studying Quebec's history... China has way cooler history.

[EdikShepherd]

0:25

Okay, what the fuck. No army is even going to come within ten miles of cliff-topped mountains like that and any random barbarians that actually manage to climb that shit would be so few in number that they wouldn't even be worth the tower built to keep them out.

And even the rest of the wall only kept unorganized tribes from making assaults. It didn't seem to bother the Mongols much.

The Great Fail of China

[CHINAisHERE]

@EdikShepherd

The Great Wawr of China was not buiwrt to keep Mongorians out, but to srow them down when they retreat Chinese army. Stupid round eye!

[EdikShepherd]

@CHINAisHERE HAHAHA

That seriously made my day man xD

[saigonpunkid]

@EdikShepherd WHen the Mongols invaded none of these have been built.

[EdikShepherd]

@saigonpunkid And what major threat was there north of China after the Mongols invaded? The north was under tight Mongol control, so why would they even need a wall?

[4realfuzzz]

poo

[4realfuzzz]

no

[sarmashi]

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

[TheJekinho]

vai c fude

[CrazyNative4]

i need 2 go there 1 day !

[nowak93]

video.google(DOT) com/videoplay?docid=6281871866­464281261# for the whole thing!

[ilive2write]

this was so helpful for my project! :)

[TacoStoneProduction]

@ilive2write Agreed. I need to do a project on this too, with my friend Cameron.

[PelleLolMo]

mofos"!"!!

[MGLomerta]

power of mongols will rise again. Our god Genghis khan will come to us oneday and save us! Mongols will never fall.

[core6198]

@MGLomerta get the fuck out. this is modern times now.

[hotpamela20]

it helps a lot for those people who want to research about the events that were happened a lot of years ago....

hope that it will be recognized again....

[blunklaura]

An amazing video--the Wall shows the strength of a leader and his people,back in a time before screws and electric drills,before the word 'patriotism' was coined.

[chelazy]

Mongolians just keeps harassing hans cities. Thats why we built the walls. Every time we get pissed off and kill them all, theyll stay silence for like a few years and the harassment comes again. Anyone living in a way like this will feel like building a wall.

[FullBloodedHmoob]

nothing can compare with the great wall, not even the paramids

[DevinGold]

This is a remarkable site. Plus it is really big :)

[77moessa]

The wall was built to keep out the invading mongolians. Led by Ghengis khan.

[remotecont888]

The wall was built because han chinese were scare of Goguryeo and Mongolia!!

[TheXanian]

@remotecont888

This wall was first constructed during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), much earlier than Goguryeo or Mongols.

By the way, we Chinese were never afraid of Goguryeo. Goguryeo was detroyed by Tang Dynasty.

Mongols did conquer China, but they only controled China for a short period of time. They were driven out of China by the Ming Dynasty.

[24kulangot]

astig ng great wall

[raven1234]

"The Chinese character for city is also the Chinese character for wall." Really?? C'mon don't make me laugh. Who made this documentary?

[valentinian2003]

"A 1000 longer as any other monument ever built?" Well the "Limes Germanicus" or the Roman Wall in Germany, the second longest monument ever built, measures 550 kilometres. I highly doubt that the Great Wall is indeed 550000 kilometres long. ;-)) Regardless, the total length of +- 56000 kilometres, including all the different alignments, constitutes a mesmerizing undertaking of indeed gigantic proportion!

[smithyboi1000]

it looks brand new still

[PakistaniisPower]

China is truely amazing, 1 of my favourite tourism place in the world, way better than NAZImerica, Japeeland (Japan), Euro-garbage slumps (Europe), Crockrea (Korea), & Suckdia (India).

[exceederexe]

@PakistaniisPower and so much beter then Asstralia

[everquestboy]

i reson the guys on hourses attack is becuse the chinies whouldnt trade with them were studing it

[HoSayLiaoLah]

"Why build so many walls?"

Well, the empoerer's hobby might be to collect walls.

[wilsontt88]

I firmly believe that whoever ordered the construction of this wall is a total idiot.

If I were the enemy, I'd just bribe the gatekeeper to let my soldiers pass.

...and for goodness sake, how hard is that?

Seriously, building thousands of kms of walls over 2 centuries, when you could just walk through (sigh... 7 - 9 meters) easily?

Moreover, if I were the enemy, I could've attacked even before the wall's finished. Just re-route to the unfinished section of the construction & regroup!

[stimsWonderland]

well technically you'd had to bribe all the gatekeepers that just saw your calvary charging towards the wall and that would be impossible. the only way you'd get in was the way it had actually happened in history, someone let you in willingly without a bribe

[wilsontt88]

Wonderland,

1. If every gatekeepers had Godly visions spotting 10s of kms of land at night, along the entire 6000+ kms stretch of walls, then I'd agree on your point of view

2. Why not bribe that "someone" in the first place? Well, not just him. Historically the Chinese guards are very "clean" in money matters weren't they? If historically "someone" can let you in, then "anyone" for that matter is capable of letting you in. Thus when they're coming, where were the gatekeepers at that time?

[stimsWonderland]

@wilsontt88 At night you wouldn't be able to see if there weren't any moonlight but that goes for the Mongol hordes as well which is why they would have had to carry torches for the flock leaders to head the march towards the wall. Technically they would set up tent to rest during nighttime anyway. In fact you wouldn't just stand on the wall and wait for the enemy to arrive. You'd be camped in other remote locations not seen by the enemy and send message pigeons to alert news of disaster.

[wilsontt88]

Then bribe the gatekeepers beforehand & head towards the gate in the morning/afternoon/night at moonlight. It wouldn't make any difference, won't it? Any problems were solved once bribery was involved. If historically someone can let them in freely without bribery, it wouldn't be so hard to tell that others wouldn't let them in as easily - with money, goods, and other astronomical bribing objects.

You've got a million oppressed soldiers, how many of them are "clean" & unwilling to cooperate?

[wilsontt88]

But here is the most important issue:

"The Mongols wouldn't have any problem breaching the wall by going around it"

How long does it take to finish the wall before there were unfinished sections here...there...EVERYWHERE, since it took 2 centuries to complete?

You could've come in from ANYWHERE. Isn't it the same as having no walls at all then?

[stimsWonderland]

@wilsontt88 Also taking advantage of the wall security where it was weak could only happen when the wall was in its infancy which probably lasted for many decades. But after the wall was raised to about 10 feet it pretty much functioned the way it would even after piling up more dirt to double that height. There have been walls built during earlier generations but due to gradual reinforcement of its height and materials you see the wall that it has become today.

[wilsontt88]

These walls aren't built all at once along the entire 6000+ kms stretch. There were unbuilt sections all around. Everywhere for that matters & it took 2 centuries to complete the link. Proceed your armies from the unbuilt sections & it's breached

Here's another question. Rather than wasting so many lives, money & resources building walls, wouldn't it be easier & economical to train the million lives killed as soldiers & together with current armies use them to finish the job with the Mongols?

[stimsWonderland]

@wilsontt88 Wall circuits were linked before serious threats from nomads arose. From there on walls just kept getting upgraded. Similarly, nobody stops building a house just because rainy season decided to hit right before the house gets completed. Military units that did nothing all year long until winter time battles were fought were not very cost effective. So troops were drawn from the farmer populations to perform soldier duty. Mongols come and go - you can't just "finish" them.

[SpicyHam]

@wilsontt88 I think u r quite simple minded. Please expand your view

[wilsontt88]

@SpicyHam I think you are. Please expand your view.

[SpicyHam]

@wilsontt88 you really think the wall was expensive to make

[wilsontt88]

@SpicyHam Hmmm... that's all? I think you are very intelligent indeed :). Thanks for the reply, you really made my day.

[groovylocks]

@wilsontt88 i'm guessing they did that too. I get the sense that the barbarians were like the scots. It took more than a wall (and more than a roman legion) to stop them.

[groovylocks]

@wilsontt88 i guess.. why would the chinese put so much energy and resource and time into this wall? Probably for a similar reason that the egyptians put that sort of energy and resource and time into the pyramids. Pissing on a fire hydrant, you know.

[PakistaniisPower]

@stimsWonderland & or if the dynasty is weakening or crumpling. If the the empire is strong and has no problems no one can get in, ppl who tried are ALL DEAD even provened during the Ming dynasty.!

[Rico8458]

i was there. amazing. and human work population control project in human history.

[catrashoo]

very interestin video thanks.