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Great Wall China Benefits

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Did the Benefits Outweigh the Cost?

Back then, around the 200 BCs in Feudal China, there was an emperor by the name of Shi Huangdi. Shi Huangdi was a very powerful emperor; changing laws, uniting China, and building many advantageous things that benefitted China. One of those buildings being the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall, a mysterious, historical building that took many years to build. The wall in itself is quite a mystery. How was it built? How did the Chinese of that time manage to build something so humongous such as the Great Wall?... But what about the vast humanly cost the Chinese spent building such a wall? It may be true in the Great Wall’s history that many had their lives taken whilst attempting to accomplish such a big …show more content…

The Great Wall showed that China was strong a strong nation, country, etc., to other countries. Because of this, other neighboring countries probably wouldn’t have been able to ever build something like the Great Wall because of how it’s ruled. Even though the other neighboring countries may have been strong enough to fight off their enemies, the Chinese had proved that they were strong enough despite their harsh ways of living. The Great Wall also showed that the ruling dynasty was quite powerful. Even while living in harsh times, the three different dynasties that had managed to continue building despite the harsh conditions they may have been through. This is something none of the other countries could ever do. Not only did the Great Wall work for things like this, the wall had also used as a deterrent to foreign invaders. It worked because people back then from foreign places probably weren’t used to thing such as the Great Wall. The Great Wall immensely intimidates foreign invaders because of how they aren’t used to sizes such as the Great Wall. The wall seemed to overpower them since it intimidates them, and because the wall is probably too tall to

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