Great Wall of China

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A place I would like to go is the Great Wall of China. It is a bunch of walls lined up that was originally built to protect northern china from the Chinese Empire. There is no specific location to where it’s located, except that it was built towards the west side of China. It was built in the 7th century B.C. However, in the past 2,000 years, it has been rebuilt and modified and also extended. It wasn’t really built or designed by a specific person, but the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty overlooked the project. The building of the wall was also passed down to the next dynasty so they could finish it off and use more advance materials to renovate it and expand it. All the way back then they didn’t have a lot of technology so the wall was built with local materials like stone and soil. The whole wall represents Chinas history. They only built it to protect themselves, and it worked really well. It is protected today as a cultural thing because a dynasty built it. They didn’t want other people coming into their territory and talking over the religion and what not so they built the Great Wall of China. It is located in China where they speak Chinese. The most popular religion there is Buddhism, which is a religion that has a lot of different traditions and beliefs. I would like to go to the Great Wall of China because I think all the walls look so cool. When I see it in pictures it’s interesting how the walls go up and down all the hills and people can still walk on it today. I think it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to say that you walked on the Great Wall. It’s incredible how someone so long ago could figure out how to build something like that. It still amazes me today and it would be awesome if I could see it in person.
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