APRIL 20, 2015  LT: I can explain why china has been invaded so many times. (AND WHY THEY BUILT A WALL)  Bbc: migrant workers in trouble again  Today: NOTES—GREAT WALL  HOMEWORK DUE WEDS—MAP TEST & READING FOCUS/SEC. REVIEW PAGE 651—all and & 6.

China—Great Wall

CHINA  China– BEIJING—Capitol  LARGEST POPULATION IN THE WORLD B 1/4 of the Earth’s population lives in China  Govt : single- party– COMMUNIST  Language(s) : Mandarin, local Chinese dialects  China borders fifteen countries

THE GREAT WALL  Built to keep foreigners out and political & social thoughts from “infecting” Chinese Society  The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces.  4,500 miles long (approx.) Miami to the North Pole.  It would take approx. 3 yrs to walk length of the Great Wall

THE GREAT WALL  The Wall was built in 221 B.C.  built with earth and stone with beaten clay, rice flour for mortar  20 feet high men in 10 years built wall along northern border  Averaged 1 mile a day  1996 earthquake ruins north towers-- It was 20 feet tall with 26 feet beacon towers, now only 8 feet tall.

THE GREAT WALL  criminals and people who challenged the emperor were sentenced to work on the wall  many corpses along roadside--people who died working  1 million people died in building the great wall  peasants were used to building of the Wall

THE GREAT WALL  watch towers built every 200 yards.  ONLY MAD MADE OBJECT VISIBLE FROM OUTER SPACE  $380 billion to duplicate the Great Wall - --$360 billion to build interstate highway

HOMEWORK: DUE WEDS AT END OF CLASS  READING FOCUS PAGE AND SECTION REVIEW PAGE, QUESTIONS 2- DON’T FORGET MAP TEST ON WEDS.