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Great Wall
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The Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years. In turn, all emperors who came to power added pieces of the wall to protect their . But the wall was not a solid wall. It was a line of barricades. First Emperor Oin wanted a much better barricade to protect his people from the Mongol invaders to the north. He wanted a wall 30 feet wide and 50 feet high. First Emperor Qin used peasants, captured enemies, criminals, scholars, and anyone else who irritated him, and put them all to work building the Great Wall. Labourers were not paid for their work. It was labour. About 3000 people worked on the wall during the Qin Dynasty. Rocks fell on people. Walls caved in. Workers died of exhaustion and . Labourers were fed only enough food to keep them alive. There is an old Chinese saying, “Each stone in the wall represents a life lost in the wall’s construction.
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