All major decisions have an effect on the economy. The Great Wall of China started circa 221 BCE. The wall has protected the whole of China from enemies ever since its completion in 206 BCE. The benefits of the Great Wall outweighed the costs because it protected China, made it more prosperous and united, and conveyed Chinese innovation.
One way the Great Wall helped China of by protecting it. According to the background essay, the Great Wall’s purpose was to shield China from Mongol invaders. In addition to this, the Great Wall of China protected much of the Silk Road, as stated in the diagram in Document A. With the Great Wall in place, citizens were safe from invasions. In addition to protecting the country, the Great Wall of China impacted
The first reason why the Great Wall was not worth the cost was because the wall was not very effective . The chin and Han dynasty's built the Great Wall to keep out invaders. People would walk around the spots where there wanot a wall built yet or a spot where guards were not on duty. ( Doc B ) The purpose was so that not as many guards would have to be on duty, but just as many guards were then as there were when the wall was not yet built. There were not guards protecting all spots of the wall, leaving it a blank opening for other enemies to enter. The wall was not just
The Great Wall of China was built to protect China from invaders and to keep out raiding parties of nomadic tribes, such as the Mongol, Turic and Xiongnu, from modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria. The Mongols were a tribal group that would regularly raid China. The wall was successful in keeping the Mongols out of China for a while but eventually, the Mongols conquered China. The Wall also kept Chinese citizens from leaving China.
The Great Wall was first build by Qin and Han.The reason why they build the wall is because to keep the enemies away like The Mongols.However, the benefits of the Great Wall of China did not outweigh the costs.
◎ The Great Wall of China was started to be built by the Han and the Qin dynasty. They built the wall to keep the Xiongnu Mongols out of China. However the benefits of building the Great Wall of China did not outweigh the costs. According to Document B it showed the Chinese had to pay tribute in silk bales to the Xiongnu mongols. This showed that even though the Chinese had built a wall to keep out the Mongols the Chinese still had to pay them tribute. To add on, as the Chinese added to the wall and made it greater and more massive the tribute they had to pay started to increase as the years went by. Another reason why the benefits of The Great Wall of China did not outweigh the costs is The Great Wall caused many deaths. Another reason
The benefits of the Great Wall did not outweigh the cost. According to document C, the Qin and Han Dynasty built the wall in order to keep out attackers but since they built the wall someone needed to protect it so the soldiers did and they would die.In document C, it also says the soldiers had to work on the wall for two to five years because they had to work on it for so long they were forced to leave for several years. If they never built the wall it wouldn't matter because soldiers would go to war instead of dying from protecting the wall. In conclusion they should not halve built the wall because it did nothing but kill soldiers.
Have you heard of the Great Wall of China, one of the most extravagant and controversial construction projects of all time? Under the Qin and Han dynasties (c.221 BCE-220 CE), its construction began. When construction on the wall commenced under Emperor Qin, nobody in China had seen anything like it before. Not that it was the first wall in China, but it was the first wall that was quite to that scale. The wall was primarily built for security, specifically to keep the Xiongnu Mongols from invading China.
Whether you have learned about it or not, you have probably heard about the Great Wall of China. Eventually stretching more than 13,000 miles across northern China, it has become one of the most visited places in the world. The construction of this famous wall began under the Qin Dynasty. Shi Huangdi, (Emperor of Qin), had believed that the wall would defend the northern border against the Xiongnu, also called Mongols. Many would say that Shi Huangdi was more interested in himself than in the good of his own people.
Achievements is 40% the strength of the Ming Empire because of the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China of the Ming Dynasty has grown from Jiayuguan, surrounding Mongolia and around the yellow river, into Shanhai Pass, and going to the Hushan Great Wall portion in the North Korean border. The Great Wall of China purpose was to stop North China from being retrieved by the Mongols. While the Great Wall of China was continuously being fixed under imperial rules. The Great Wall of China was built mainly by laborers, by hand.
Qin built the Great Wall of china to protect the city from Nomads. Nomads lived in the Gobi. The Gobi is located at China’s northern border. Nomads are people who move from place to place with herds of animals. Nomads were masters at fighting on horseback. They often attacked Chinese farms and villages. Several Chinese rulers in the north built walls to keep out the Nomads. Qin liked this idea, so he forced farmers to connect and strengthen the walls with stone, sand and trash. The final result was the Great Wall of China! Although Qin did not build the Great Wall of China we know today. Qin’s great wall was built over 1,500 years ago.
In the mid- 17th century the wall was broken into by the Manchus from central and southern Manchuria. They encroached on Beijing and forced the fall of the Ming Dynasty and began the Qing Dynasty. Throughout the 18th and 20th centuries the Great Wall was viewed as the emblem of China for the Western world and was a symbol of strength during the manifestation of China. It was a representation of the barrier maintained by China to repel foreign influences and exert control over its citizens.
Why was the wall built? The wall was built because one time the Mongols invaded china. The reason that they built it was to stop the mongols to invade china. In the north of china was a way that the mongols would invade china.
In conclusion, the Great Wall had an overwhelmingly negative impact, physically, economically, psychologically and politically during the Qin Dynasty, as any benefits of the Wall were deadened by the overpowering disastrous on the people. While it minimised the attacks made on China by the Mongolians, it was not impregnable. Despite the use of local materials, expenses to bring labour to the Wall were unmatched in waste, and labour was diverted from more essential activities for China’s wellbeing. Also, while the Wall represented power and prosperity to outsiders, imprisonment reigned in the minds of the civilians, whose culture waned with isolation from neighbouring nations. Yet the most devastating impact that of the people:
The Great wall of China may be one of the seven wonders of the world but it cost a lot of money, tons of lives, and the hard strenuous work of many laborers. The construction of this great wall took many lives and hard work to complete. During the Qin Dynasty the soldiers, slaves, and peasants would have to leave their families and villages to guard the wall. Most of these people died from loneliness, boredom, hunger, and severe climate temperatures. This leads to the question. Did the benefits outweigh the cost? No, construction of the Great Wall was not worth the cost. The benefits did not outweigh the cost because there were harsh working conditions, high mortality
The Great Wall provides an excellent form of defence since it had been created in strategic places and has played and important role back then. During the Qin Dynasty, the kingdom of Qin united the different parts of China into one empire but, to defend off the invasions from northern invaders, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls joined up. Because of this, the great, longest wall came into being and has represented the unification of China. Not only that, but the Great Wall also represents the seperation of China and the rest of the world since it was the national boundary of ancient China. For atleast 2,221 years, the Great Wall that has zigzagged over mountains and rivers of China like a fabulous dragon, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese, but to people from all over the world. Over 10 million people visit the Great Wall every year and viewed as one of the world's most-visited tourist attractions. Note however, that the different sections of the Great Wall each have their own admission fees depending on how far the tourists want to
As the first Ming Emperor, Hongwu, saw the destructive effects of the Mongolian rule on the Chinese economy and the first thing he did was to restore agriculture to its former place as the center of the Chinese economy. Another main objective of the Ming Dynasty was 10% to make China great again. Even though they had defeated the mongolians, there remained a constant threat of Mongol invasion in the north. During this time period, the Ming rulers,wanted to focus more on defense than exploration. This focus on defense and making sure China’s borders were secure proves that the Ming Dynasty wanted to established Chinese rule. Because of these two factors, it led to one of Ming’s most greatest achievements, The Great Wall of China. While the