Construction on the Great Wall began in the third-century BCE under Qin Shi Huang (Shihuangdi), the first emperor of a unified China, the History Channel reports. Prior to the Qin dynasty ...

the First Emperor of Qin commissioned an extension of the wall - to protect his territory from invasion by northern states. According to historical records, the Chu State first built a "Great Wall ...

While construction began under the Qin dynasty, the recognizable segments that we think of when we visualize the Great Wall were largely the handiwork of the Ming dynasty, which created these ...

The state of Qin, based in the Sichuan plains ... That project, during which countless workers died, marked the beginning of the Great Wall. (Did the Great Wall of China work?) ...

The Great Wall of China has 15 strategic passes from the East to the West. It took over 2,000 years to construct the wall. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang took the remnants of ancient ...

when the state of Qin conquered all other states and established the Qin dynasty. The famous Great Wall of China actually consists of multiple fortifications, built in a piecemeal fashion between ...

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a ...

The Great Wall, a monumental military defense project ... The wall was not continuous, as different empires, including Qin, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Yan, and Zhongshan, constructed sections to defend ...