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Peeking Inside of
the World’s Biggest
Flora Dome
The Great Wall of China is the collective name joined together by Qin Shi Huang (220–206
of a series of fortification systems generally BC), the first emperor of China. Little of the
built across the historical northern borders of Qin wall remains. Later on, many successive
China to protect and consolidate territories dynasties have built and maintained multiple
of Chinese states and empires against various stretches of border walls. The most well-known
nomadic groups of the steppe and their sections of the wall were built by the Ming
polities. Several walls were being built from dynasty (1368–1644).
as early as the 7th century BC by ancient
Chinese states; selective stretches were later
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