China is a very large and beautiful country. It is full of history and culture. Even so, China has grown slowly and unevenly to its present size. This is due to the fact that all the components that China consists of haven't always existed in harmony in the past. They have fought long and hard for their freedom and independence as a people. It's a very interesting society with many different aspects that make it worth a very close look into the areas of geography, economy, and history, past and present. The people of China, from all the nationalities within have joined together to create a wonderful culture and have a glorious revolutionary tradition. They have bonded together and fought long and hard to become

The wall that Shih wanted to have constructed eventually became the Great Wall of China, which was used to protect China from its enemies is now world renowned.

The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attacking using smoke signals, waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells. At nighttime they were to light firework-like objects in the sky. To walk the Great Wall from end to end without stopping would take about sixten days. The stone and brick wall was approximately fifteen hundred miles long total, and is about one thousand five hundred miles east from west one way across northern China. The wall is roughly thirty feet high and, at the base of the wall it is twenty-five feet thick. It was constructed of earth and gravel. First, they would make tall, wide mounds of dirt, and which they shaped by using bamboo poles. Then they made huge clay bricks and cut squares from stone. The bricks and stones were lifted and placed on the sides and tops of dirt mounds. The entire wall was just covered dirt with brick and stone. The way that they actually constructed it was as to walls aligned with each other. Then they would fill it in with a stone base pounded smooth. The wall traveled over mountains and thruough valleys. It went from Liatun, on the coast near Korea, then westward to the northern end of China on the Yellow River, and then southward to Lint'ao to close off the north west area of the empire from the Huns. The top of the wall is approximately thirteen feet wide so six people riding horses could ride side by side along the top. The great wall not only servered as a social divide, a protecting barrier, a physical record of history but also was a running work of art. On the side of the wall there are reliefs, which are two-dimensional firures on the wall. The great wall is sometimes also compared to a dragon with its head in the east and its tail in the west and its winding body. The dragon in China is considered protective and sacred rather than that of a destructive creature.

a free people. The people of China encountered wave after wave of struggles for national independence, liberation, for democracy and freedom. It wasn't until the 20th century that great historical changes have taken place in China. "The Revolution of 1911, which was led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, put an end to the feudal monarchy and marked the beginning of the Republic of China" (Chinascape). Unfortunately, even threw all that, the Chinese people had yet to fulfil their historical task of overthrowing imperialism and feudalism. After many hard and tortuous struggles, it finally came to an

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