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 WALLHOMEWORK DUE WEDS—MAP TEST & READING

FOCUS/SEC. REVIEW PAGE 651—all and 658-5 & 6.

China—Great Wall

http://www.zonu.com/fullsize-en/2009-09-17-594/East-Asia-Political-Map-2004.html

CHINAChina– BEIJING—Capitol

LARGEST POPULATION IN THE WORLD --2.5 B 1/4 of the Earth’s population lives in China

Govt : single- party– COMMUNISTLanguage(s) : Mandarin, local Chinese dialectsChina 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

http://www.crystalinks.com/greatwallofchina.html

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--3000 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 WALLwatch 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.