Today is may 14, 300 BCE .When the Chou began to weaken around 500 BC, these independent states began to war among themselves over territory and influence. So chaotic was this period that the Chinese refer to it as The Warring States period, and it did not end until the whole of north China was unified under a single empire, the Ch'in dyansty. Chinas first Emperor Ying Zheng or Qin Shi Haungdi 220 BCE and starts the great wall to keep Monguls out. The workers were like slaves and they didnt get to eat and a lot of them died and when they died they were burried in th wall.
Terra cotta Soldiers quard the tomb of Qin Shi Huandgi. When assasanation plots came close, china became like a prison. Liu Bang launched the Han dynasty, and exended the wall, Han dynasty Grew to 5,000,000 people.
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHEMPIRE/CHIN.HTM
The Great Wall was built over many dynasties.
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