1. Quiz
1) Why was the social hierarchy of China different then that of others?
2) Where did the emperor receive his power?
3) How did the dynastic circle look like:
a. old dynasty -> new dynasty -> disaster –>
b. new dynasty-> old dynasty-> disaster ->
c. disaster -> old dynasty -> new dynasty
Peasants above artisans and merchants
Mandate of Heaven B

2. Looking Beyond the Pictures: Analyzing Photographs
Aim: Why was the construction of the Great Wall so important to China ?
Looking Beyond the Pictures: Analyzing Photographs

3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION
Imagine carrying a 300 pound stone.
How would this make you feel?
Well, the Great Wall is made out of millions of these stones and other types of materials.
Each one of the stones have to be in an exact shape or the enemies can take control and break in.

6. The Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years.
About 3000 people worked on the wall during the Qin Dynasty.
It’s 6,400 km (4,000 miles)[ miles long.

7. The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)

8. That’s longer than the distance across from New York to California by about 1,000 miles!!!!

9. You can see it from…
Space!!

10. Emperor Qin was the
First to begin construction
of the Great Wall
Each emperor who came to power added pieces of the wall to protect their dynasties. The wall was not a solid wall, it was a line of disconnected barricades.

11. Emperor Qin used peasants, captured enemies, criminals, to build the wall.
It was a form of slave labor.
It was very dangerous to work on the wall of China.
Chinese saying: “Each stone in the wall represents a life lost in the walls construction”.

12. Construction The Great Wall is made mostly out of granite and bricks.
Bricks were used most often because its light weight made the construction much quicker.
In the Gobi Desert, the workers would create pounded earth to continue building the wall. However, these parts were destroyed much easier than other parts of the wall.

13. Beliefs of the Great Wall
The belief of the Great Wall is that it is told that the Chinese made the Great Wall twist and turn not only to protect China but to make it represent the long back of the mighty dragon!
By making the Great Wall like the dragon’s back, it would be a good omen and will lead the Chinese to victory!

14. Why barricade their land?
1) Emperor Qin wanted to protect his people from the Mongol invaders to the North.
2) China wanted to be isolated from the other countries
3) Fear of outside world

15. Virtual Tour of Wall
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16. Lets Think! 1) Why do people build walls?
Protection, to live within them (home)
So lets think real hard about this now….
2) What are some other examples of walls that we know?
a) Wall Street
b) Wall between Mexico & United States
Protection, to live within them (home)
What are some other examples of walls that we may know?

17. Wall Street
Who were the “unfriendly hostiles”-> Native Americans
Many years ago when New York was New Amsterdam ((a Dutch colony)), Wall Street was literally a Wall - the most northern part of the colony separating the Dutch from the unfriendly "hostiles" in the wilderness to the north.....

18. Wall between Mexico & U.S.
People who WANT to build a wall between Mexico and the United States.
“Border watches" exist to look for illegal immigrants who try to cross the border.

19. What do you see in the image?
Borders, walls, place names, bodies of water
What are the dominant features?
Borders and the walls
What can you infer?
The Great Wall is or was a series of walls, not a single wall
The Great Wall was a series of small walls that were built between B.C and B.C.).

20. What do you see in the image?
Mountains, wall, watchtowers, path
What are the dominant features?
Mountains, wall, length
What can you infer?
The wall was built on mountain tops
The wall stretches was built on mountain tops to keep invaders out , and move soldiers quickly.

21. What do you see in the image?
Horse & rider, castle, wall, plain
What are the dominant features?
Castle, wall
What can you infer?
Wall also built along flatlands
The wall that was built on flat land was also made of stamped earth. There were parts of the various dynasties that did not run along mountain tops, which were harder to defend.

22. What do you see in the image?
watchtowers, wall, windows
What are the dominant features?
watchtowers
What can you infer?
Men were in the turrets, used for different reasons
There was a watchtower built every 100 meters or so. They were intended to watch for enemies and light signal fires to warn people that an attack was coming.

23. What do you see in the image?
Wall, watchtowers, window
What are the dominant features?
window
What can you infer?
Windows used to watch/ defend safely
The watchtowers had windows that were use to watch for enemies and to shoot arrows. They provided safety, too.

24. What do you see in the image?
Watchtower, people, wall, mountain
What are the dominant features?
Gate, watchtower
What can you infer?
Gates used for a variety of reasons
The Great Wall had gates in it. These were used for trade, communication, and even attacking enemies.

25. Other Interesting Things About the Great Wall of China
The wall was also built to keep nomadic people from going out, and from coming back in with stolen property (which would make enemies angry and cause an attack).
The Ming Dynasty emperors had the most work done on the wall, and the best because they used bricks and stone instead of rammed (stamped) earth.
Commoners were forced to build the wall, where hundreds of thousands died from cold, heat, hunger, or abuse. Many of these peasants were BURIED IN THE WALL and have been unearthed by archaeologists.
It’s the largest human-built structure in the world.

26. What do you learn from these paintings?

27. Great Wall of China- Video4

28. Your Turn Task 1: Lets build our Great Wall in the classroom!!!
On each brick write why the Great Wall of China was so significant. ( Be sure to include at least 3 dash facts
Task 2: Can you think of any other “wall” that may exist throughout the world?