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    THE BEST PLACES- 7 WONDERS

    19-21/03 - Week 7 – The Great wall of China


    ►Free Game

    ►Morning circle

    Today we are visiting wonder number 5 – The great wall of China

    1. What is it? The Great Wall of China is the longest structures ever made by humans.
    Today it is a tourist attraction and a symbol of China.
    2. Where Is it? The Great Wall of China runs from west to east from northern China all
    the way to southern Mongolia, covering 16 provinces.
    3. Who built it and when? The Great Wall was not all built at the same time, it was built
    slowly over 2,300 years by the leadership of 9 different Chinese dynasties. The
    construction began during the Qin Dynasty in the 7th century BC and was added to and
    changed many times over the centuries. Between 1368 and 1644 under the Ming
    dynasty it was almost entirely rebuilt. Most of the sections of the wall that exists today
    were built during that time. The work itself was made mainly by soldiers and convicts,
    although some civilians also worked on it. It is estimated that as many as a million
    workers build all the sections of the wall, with about half dying in the process from giant
    falling stones, exhaustion, disease, animal attacks, and starvation.
    4. Why was it built? The Great Wall served three different purposes throughout its
    history: 1. To protect the Chinese Empire from foreign invaders.
    2. To act as a psychological barrier between northern and southern civilizations.
    3. To protect the Silk Road Trade.
    5. How big is it? The Great Wall is huge! It’s the longest man made structure in the world.
    The entire wall is over 21,000 km long. And it has an average height and width of about 6
    to 8m. It’s believed it would take you three to six months just to walk along the main
    section of the wall. But, it’s important to know that the wall is not actually one big long
    wall. It’s more like a series of walls, towers, trenches and moats that stretch across a
    large part of China.
    6. How was it built? Builders had to rely on what was nearby and available. The first
    sections of the wall were made of earth, stones, and wood. Later on, bricks, tiles and
    stone were used instead. During the Ming dynasty, workers even used a paste made out
    of sticky rice to stick the bricks of the wall together and the construction expanded to
    include bridges, temples, watchtowers, platforms and pagodas. Even towns were built
    along the wall to house soldiers in preparation for any imminent attacks. About one-
    fourth of this section is made up of natural barriers like rivers and mountain ridges.
    Some other parts have ditches that act as a barrier.
    7. How to get there? There are three main touristic parts of the wall near Beijing. The
    closest and most popular to Beijing is Badaling. Easily accessible by public transportation
    and you can take a cable car to the top.
    The Mutianyu section is about 2.5 hours by car from Beijing, it is less crowded than
    Badaling. You can walk, take a cable car or a gondola to the top and take a toboggan ride
    down to the bottom.
    The Jinshanling section is 1 hour from Mutianyu. It also has cable car facilities.
    8. Curious facts:
    - Each May, the Great Wall Marathon is run on the Great Wall, including 5164 steps.
    - The Great Wall is wide enough in some places to drive a car over it.
    - The Great Wall is not visible from space.
    - The Great Wall was good for protection but it did get past. In the 13th century, the
    Mongolian leader Genghis Khan and his men got past the wall and invaded China.
    - The Chinese invented the wheelbarrow while building the great wall of China.
    ►Picnic

    ►Great wall of China tag game:


    Choose one player to be the tagger and stay in the middle as part of the Great Wall.
    Everyone else stands on a line. When the middle person shouts "Go!" everyone must try
    to run past to the opposite line. The person in the middle can run along the line in the
    middle but they cannot leave it. Anyone that is tagged by the person in the middle joins
    them on the line as a tagger. The game ends when one person is left or when everyone
    has been tagged and is part of the Great Wall.
    ►Building sections of the great wall out of LEGO.
    ►Book time

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