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The Great Wall of China is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and is also one of the world’s favorite tourist attractions. In this blog entry I am going to tell you about the building of the Great Wall during the Ming and the Qin and all about the Great Wall today. The Great Wall of China was built during the Qin dynasty (255 B.C. to 207 B.C.) The Great Wall or the long wall as it was referred to at the time it was built, started out as a collection of much smaller walls. Because of invaders from the north, the Qin had to connect the many little walls to create a “Great Wall” The emperor that was in charge during the construction of the wall was Shi Huangdi. Shi Haungdi was mainly afraid of one thing: death. He had scientists make potions to try to make him immortal. The Great wall was a huge project and took a long time and a lot of people. To be exact it took them 10 years to build. The way that the wall was built is that the workers would fill a frame with loose dirt and pack the dirt down really hard. They would keep doing this until the wall was the height that they wanted. The Ming Dynasty was the dynasty that created the walls that we are familiar with today. Instead of packing down loose dirt, the Ming dynasty made clay bricks that were almost as strong as the bricks we use today. This part of the wall could be built on some of the most dangerous terrain in china, even on incredibly steep mountains! Today The Great Wall of China is one of the world’s most favorite places to visit. You can walk along so much of it and there are even tours! Right near the great Wall There is a huge burial ground of ancient Ming emperors. Between the Shi huangdi and the Ming burial grounds, I would say that The Great Wall of China is a pretty amazing place. If the Qin and Ming worked so hard to build it, then people should definitely enjoy it.