How Was The Great Wall Of China Built? | Blowing-Up History: Seven Wonders
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- The Great Wall Of China was built to protect a growing empire and the Silk Road that brought in wealth, but how exactly was the wall built?
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Videos like this remind me of the early 2000s when the discovery channel and the history channel where actually educational and not filled with fake realty show's.
yeah and it's nostalgic, i even believed WWE that time
I just couldn't agree more
Reminds me of Naval Legends
Exactly. I don't like most of the shows that are now aired on Discovery & History TV.
Its really interesting,
I have been to china and the great wall and can honestly say everything about it is just incredible!!! Videos and pictures cant do the justice you should all really get to see it once in your life trust me 😊
Hopefully one day
Hey I would love to travel, can you send money?
10 mins is only a quick summary. Not even an hour is able to show the Great Wall, forget talking about China at the time ...
Agree 100%
Its will happen one day
One million men working on 13000 miles of wall at such impossible heights. This is mind boggling. Truly remarkable achievement for that time 👏👏
Correction, still truly remarkable in current time. That whole shit was built with no machinery.
@@Racso88e exactly and we havnt even discussed the building process of Egyptian Pyramids
@@hhydar883 Nothing is more impressive than The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Great Wall of China is impressive but we know how they did it, it's not very complicated. But to this day we have no clue how the pyramids were even built. Its mindblowing 🤯
@@jiggnorth3593 both are wonders cause the we only assume the great wall was built with a million workers same as in Egypt we assume they used tamed wild elephants.
@@shaheenshad5012 Absolutely nobody assumes that the Egyptians used elephants to build the pyramids. I think you've been watching to many movies.
This is really interesting! I could watch topics like this all day!
So do I!
Me too
Same here 🙋♀️
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I imagine columns of thousands of people that looked like ants. Imagine just the logistics of supplying food, water, wood and materials to all the workers.
People forget about food and water for workers in these types of videos, imagine having to supply food and water for 1.000.000 people every day...
@@rodrigofilho1996it’s simple. they didn’t
When most of the labor is done by slaves, that's not as much of a factor
@@jonathansteiner8053 China didn't employed slaves, it against their culture since Confucius.
@@notalexh0ytfr ppl act like the Chinese don’t lose a million ppl for every war and obstacle. It’s a country w over a billion people.
The fact that these structures cannot be built now ,they were made uniquely and look absolutely insane 😍
morden days building
They can be built now quicker, easier and even more fortified. What are you talking about Mevlisha?
I never been before it would be beautiful for me too go I would love to go there
bahahaha why do you thin it canot be built again? are you saying politically speaking or like actual knowledge of the cnstruction? cause we can build this better stronger and bigger now a days not too mention 1000 times faster.
to be honest i dont know why every country doesnt have a great wall. every house should have a fence IMO physical lines to mark ownership
@@petejones6827 thats a waste of money the possession of modern/nuclear weapons already solves that
I've been to 6 sections of the Great Wall already and I hope to be able to explore more of it.
Is it as breathtaking as U?🌫️
much more than me !!!
Stopping penetration of the wall wasn't the main purpose, it was meant to hold up and cause delay just so thar reinforcements could be sent. Every wall can be penetrated, when being attacked the watchtowers would signal for reinforcements from the other watchtowers.
That's a bloody lie!
Lol it can’t be penetrated during that time because ancient chinese army only uses ladder as their way of siege
@@wildestcowboy2668 thats the truth. the chinese built them to delay the the nomad armies and to buy time for the central to gather reinforcement. the chinese dont deploy lots of men at the wall, only a some minimum sentries to guard the wall, because the cost is very high to support a soldier at the wall, you dont understand how difficult it is for people in ancient time to bring food and water there. the chinese knew the wall itself cannot stop the warriors from the north, you people have no idea about how the nomad fight, its not just a bunch of riders, but also followed by the herds of sheeps and cows, which is the support for the nomads. the wall might not be able to stop the mongolian from climbing and crossing the wall, but it definitely is a great obstacle for the herds. if the invaders want to storm China with speed, they will need to give up their herds at the wall, else they gonna waste some time to get the herds crossing the wall to continue the conquest. one of the main advantage the mongolian and other nomads have is their mobility, they dont rely on supplies from the rear line like the chinese army, the herds are their food and supplies. and the wall is connected from other provinces, which means that even the mongols broke one point of the wall and made it through the wall, it doesnt mean that they have controlled or completely destroyed the wall, in fact, the chinese always can use the remaining part of the wall to send their back up to take back the wall and form a great encirclement against the invaders. now thats how the wall is meant for. you learned something new today
Transmit information by smokes and fires on a line of watch towers was a brilliant idea.
I am watching this on my way to the great wall as part of pre-visit information gathering process
Absolutely astonishing to watch discovery like this, just amazing...
(0:06) *13,000 Miles of Wall*
Dude, my mind was so blown by that stat that the rest of this video just went in-one-ear-and-out-the-other.
Tall and Thick. Human labor.
High up on the mountains....
I want this sort of informative contents should be back on Discovery.
Can you imagine a ancient battle there. Thousands of bows shooting off that wall had to be nuts. I can only picture a helms deep type of battle there lol
Mongols didnt bother to scale that shit. They fucking used the far end to go around the walls then started defeating Chinese until they got their asses kicked. Millions died tho.
@@sirmiles1820 I’ll have to study up on that. It was probably wild.
ahh... helms deep is also my favourite...
My answer is China if we have a time machine and to be at this era when this mighty wall was constructed. It truly truly earns the spot to be the Wonder of the World.
This definitely deserves its spot as a world wonder, such a significant formation. Also, we need more of such informative content videos like back in the day.
biggest evil in chinese history. after the people feel safe, their human nature of laziness show.
Scientific description: super tough bricks 😂
Least it wasn't "made from earth" like the old walls
Discovery UK: How was the great wall of China built?
Discovery UK: we don't know
Sometimes, "I don't know" is the only answer we have.
0:33 like some three-year old looked at the map and decided to draw a few lines here and there.
"look daddy, I drew a bird"
Chinese poem says;
"He who has not seen The Great Wall,
His might and beauty so rare".
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I was in Great Wall of Badaling, what a magnificent preserved part. Unfortunately, you can see a lot of vandalism, I mean some local Chinese tourists are carving their name or something on it.
chinese wouldn't do this, likely japanese
If you go to another section of the Great Wall, it will be more beautiful than the Badaling Mountains, with fewer people and fewer people
Thanks for the upload. Got lots of information..
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Legend has it, America was calling the Great Wall a debt trap when it was being built
Legend has it the us wasn’t being raided by Mexico via horseback
Not only they had probably a few million workers, they'd also need to have a few millions of warriors to spread them throughout the whole wall.
I think it's better to hear commentaries from a chinese Historian.
That’s my point, these Westerners pretend to know everything about other people but don’t want people to tell their story. Hypocrisy.
and how is that the modern engineers structures do not withstand even a single monsoon season!!!
Bcz modern society care for profit.. Don't give fuck about values, honesty and dedication
What an awe inspiring structure.
13k miles of wall and battlements just incredible really.
An you can see it from space is fantastic.
Great to watch programs on the subject just wish I’d of gone to some part of it last time I was in Southeast Asia as I doubt I’ll visit that part of the world 🌍 again.
India next for me.
You can't see it from space.
im chinese and thanks for the compliment, however, you cannot see it in space though
i’m glad you guys fixed the audio so you can head the narrator. i had to stop watching one of your other videos because i couldn’t hear anything.
I visited the Great Wall in March 2020, still had snow on the ground. Only few parts of the walls are open for tourism. The climb are very steep and mostly 40 degrees up. One section seems almost vertical 😢.there only one restroom on the entire tourist route and its the world most stinky toilet and it was disgusting 🤮🤢
lol
Wht only few parts of wall are open for tourists??
The ancient Chinese faced great threats from the Mongols and the Huns. Building the Great Wall can protect us from being invaded by these barbarians! At the same time, Europeans also faced threats from nomadic peoples in the East, but the degree was far less than that of China
just like recent war you see
The effective protection of the Great Wall caused the weak nomads to be eliminated. Only the stronger, more organized and aggressive nomads could survive, so the Huns, Mongols, and Turks moved westward.
Amazing !
That kind of structure have thousand of builders to finish .
thousands? lol more like millions. you got to think in Chinese scale when doing project.
Over a million.
American can't even build the wall in Texas.
You spend all day on an American website.
This was really good
Proud of my Half Chinese heritage!
China Namba Wan
Ho lee phuk
Knowing that youve helped build the great wall must be such a proud feeling
Proudly made a slave?? Wtf m8!
And when you died they would use your body as structure under the wall. Brutal
oh yeah, I remember that thing. They also called this as longest cemetery sometimes
That's good... Anyway it was going to land to rot... Why not makes it to some use
Ok good i thought i was the only one remembering that
thats just a myth since the wall would just break down after a couple of decades if actual bodies were used
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Most incredible!!! What a feat of human toil and ingenuity!!!
It was built to keep the Mongols out, what a masterpiece of engineering for its time.
All you need is one breach,no matter how long it is.unless it's completely manned, its quite useless.was it?
@@homoerectus744 u think those watch tower guards were all blinded?
Mongol's advantage is horse. can't pull horse up the great wall and during that time they don't have weapon to bring down the wall
@@user-vc6xs6cz8p Actually during their invasion, the mongols employed thousands of chinese siege engineers into their ranks that they ironically fielded the most sophisticated siege weaponry and tactics at the time that brought down mightiest cities all over asia.
Never in history
How did they produce so many bricks at that time how many bricks did it take. And the ovens and man power at that time amazing and the logistics to move to the location needes without semi trucks and up the mountain wow
These guys make trumps wall look like a kids contraction project
if i was china i would rebuild the great wall. Do u know that the span of time from the first brick laid to the last is farther than the last brick to present day!! That would mean if the wall was rebuilt it would quote on quote still be an on going process. And in modern times all the walls would be attached. Every section would have sections may be arched at intervals and some stretchs of the wall would be arched to allow people and animals to pass and for plants to grow. By rebuilding the wall several important things are accomplished. First off there are over a million bodies wihtin teh walls and they would all be exumed and then reburied along the walls lengths in national cemiteries. Second, modern Chinese citizens could have their names on a brick along with any other Chinese from the past; this would be an honor to all that had their names on the bricks. Some of the brick could be kept and used in the interior of the walls of the tower but most would be used in interior walls of towns and cities that would be built along the wall, as well as for park benches and many other things close to the wall. This Would symbolize that the Great Wall isn't just a stone wall, but a living breathing thing; a dragon who is still protecting the people. it would be the most amazing thing to walk and or bike on....
Yeh , another build back better wef mouthpiece
I love your second point !
This is actually a Tomb ! Millions died and buried !
Finally a decent explanaition
It is a remarkable achievement.
That's how you build a wall. Maybe next time the U.S wants a wall built,they should call the Chinese lol
Ironically the wall failed to stop the mongols and later the manchus
Do one Sanxingdui discovery and artifacts next
Then scientist say "aliens help to build the pyramids" but Chinese built the Wall.🤦🏾♂️
I "like" how historians talk as if they were there!!😂😂😂
Hampi would be great for research expecting documtary on it.
I see now why it’s one of the seven wonders of the world 🌎
The effective protection of the Great Wall caused the weak nomads to be eliminated. Only the stronger, more organized and aggressive nomads could survive, so the Huns, Mongols, and Turks moved westward.
Are you saying that the birth of European Civilisation started in Mongolia?
It was used as a trade route opening trade between the west and Asia.
Oh yes the #1 expert of ancient Chinese structures.. the White Man.
Trump needs to take notes
For what?
1 man moving 100 bricks a day for a year is 36,500. 10,000 men is 365,000,000 in a year. When you figure out the number of workers they're saying built it, they didn't have to move many bricks a day for more than a few years. It's the digging, setting up, and the process of making the bricks that made them so efficient. The chinese have always been intelligent, and the great wall is just another example of their knowledge and abilities. I'd love to see it in person. To see the silk road and the palaces all over china. Can you imagine visiting the Mongolian empire in its prime? It must've been an amazing sight.
A bunch of warrior living in dirty tents.
Just imagine the years of learning how to operate the kilm the Chinese continue to be extremely industrious I have to visit china before I die
5:06 - anyone see the face in the dirt 😂😂cool
This is the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty, and the Great Wall built by Qin has long since ceased to exist. The Yuan Dynasty built by Mongols was in front of the Ming Dynasty, which was to defend the Eight Banners of Manchuria and later the Great Qing Dynasty.
This is what I want to achieve in every survival game
All i can see is the suffering and death those people went throught to build this
You are an example of 'the Downside, - of Empathy'.
most Beautifull and amazing country on earth china 😍💚💛💖💗
Yeah thanks for COVID
@@mc4240 who knows from where covid originated you only beleive what america says
What brought me here? I had a taste for some Chinese Food tonight, so on my way to the house I stop to pick me up some. They had a picture on there wall showing part of the Great Wall. I always wanted to know why they built the wall in the first place. Now I know and a whole lot more. Thank you for posting this video. 2/6/2023
We don't know either
'But the mongols still captured the whole of China'
I am Chinese and I’m proud
400,000 ppl died? That was a huge sacrifice.
the worlds oldest dock (fishing pier)
Human in the past is much more energetic,,and healthy body that's they can build this kind of wall for a thousand years
this must be cool to watch happening in person! I Actually want to learn more
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China did not built it. It was Tartaria. If you look at old maps, China was smaller than it is now.
"How was it built" ?
With the blood and sweat of countless slaves.
Very interesting construction!
- Who were prosecuted under the wall etc, like it is spoken and shown in some movies and other sources?
Goku ran the whole thing
Dre parker ran in the great wall of china
Bhai China Walon Ki Bahut Bahut Acche video Dikhane Per Aapka Bahut Dhanyvad Bhsi Ram Ram China Jindabad
they are elivated roman roads not walls. the
ramparts are on both sides therefore they are a road system built to defend and facilitate the movement of goods. as part of the silk road to the middle east
I'm pretty sure one of my ancestors were there building as well.
This is awesome! How God gave man a gift to build this great wall for his children to see and enjoy
During the Mongols invasion of China in 13th century, the mighty Mongol army creatively went around the Great Wall of China, easily got inside and savagely massacred all the Chinese people, leaving a mountain of human skulls/bones outside the Great Wall that could be visible from miles away for years. “Body [of the Chinese prisoners] stacked ‘like rotten logs’ littered the ground for more than 30 miles.” The mighty Mongol army led by Subedei (also known as Subutai-one of the greatest military commanders and strategists in history), continued to brutally burn, pillage, rape, and murder all the populations of 90 Chinese cities over 6 months. But, wait! It was not China's true Great Wall people talked about. Many even confirmed that the actual Great Wall of China had not been built until 16th century by the Ming Dynasty, long after the mighty Mongols invasion of China! This truly answered many questions. First, the 2,700-year-old history of China's Great Wall was just a myth because it has been in fact built for only about 500 years since 16th century. Also in 1644, the weakened Ming government was quickly overthrown by the Manchus-a peasant led rebellion marching their army through gates of the Great Wall at “the First Pass under Heaven” (aka shanhaiguan) without any fight! This meant the Ming Dynasty ironically spent over 100 years building the Wall to defend Mongol invasion ... only let another group of northern foreigners simply march through and take over, starting a new dynasty: The Quing Dynasty! Moreover, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, it took less than 3 days for the Japanese troops to break through the Wall after having totally defeated the United Chinese Front. Today, thousands of bullet holes can be seen along the Wall from the battle. The last question is: Was the Great Wall of China effective in keeping out foreign invaders? The answer is NO! Because of its ultimate failure, many people around the world, including Chinese people have seen the Great Wall as "an enormously expensive strategic folly." It is in fact said in ancient Chinese folklore, "Even a woman's tears were enough to collapse the Wall." Eventually, unable to protect the Chinese as intended, the Great Wall of China has sadly become a historic symbol of China's eternal shame and failure. Even Chairman Mao viewing the Wall as a "feudal relic", had actively encouraged farmers to make use of the stones and bricks from the Wall as free construction materials even before the Cultural Revolution and Red Guards.
Real History of The Great Wall of China
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
Louisa Long
ruclips.net/video/-nh25s-zAZo/видео.html&t=835
Citations brother citations , you don't know how many arrows were shot in the head of Mongols through those archers holes
@@user-cq8hw3ni7g According to historians, known as the most violent barbarians in human history, the Mongols had been fully responsible for displacing the world populations and changing the face of human history through their widespread bloody massacres. Scholars regard the Mongol conquest as one of the deadliest invasions in human history. In fact, it took Iran almost a century to recover its original peak population prior to the Mongols' invasion. Every inch on earth the Mongols passed, was greased with human fat and soaked with human blood. Even the deadliest winters in Russia could not deter the Mongols from invading Moscow and Kiev. Suffering the same fate as the European countries, countries in West Asia including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey one by one submitted to the mighty Mongol army. Sadly, China was not an exception. The Chinese Empire said to the mighty Mongol Empire, "Our Empire is as vast as the sea, yours is but a handful of sand." The Chinese had paid a deadly price for their arrogance they would never forget. The mighty Mongol army creatively went around the Great Wall of China, easily got inside and savagely massacred all the Chinese people, leaving a mountain of human skulls/bones outside the Great Wall that could be visible from miles away for years. According to historians, “Body [of the Chinese prisoners] stacked ‘like rotten logs’ littered the ground for more than 30 miles.” The mighty Mongol army led by Subedei continued to brutally burn, pillage, rape, and murder all the populations of 90 Chinese cities for over 6 months. As a result, unable to protect the Chinese people from the Mongols' attack, China's Great Wall has sadly become a historic symbol of China's eternal shame and failure. Finally, the mighty Mongol army conquered all of China in 1279 after Western Xia Dynasty, Dali Kingdom, Jin Dynasty and Song Dynasty all one by one shamefully surrendered to the Mongols. In less than 80 years, the Mongol Empire encompassed entire land from the Pacific Ocean to the Danube River.
@@user-cq8hw3ni7g The defense of the Great Wall during January 1 - May 31, 1933 was a campaign between the armies of Republic of China and Empire of Japan, which took place before the Second Sino-Japanese War officially commenced in 1937 and after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. It is known in Japanese as Operation Nekka and in many English sources as the First Battle of Hopei. During this campaign, Japan successfully captured the Inner Mongolian province of Rehe from the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang, and incorporated it into the newly created state of Manchukuo, whose southern frontier was thus extended to the Great Wall of China. The Second Sino-Japanese War-World War II’s often overlooked “missing section of the jigsaw,” as British historian Antony Beevor puts it-took root long before Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland. Indeed, by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, which gripped the Western world’s attention, China had been embroiled for five years in an even bloodier military conflict with Japan. However, China was not ready for full-scale war against Japan and adopted the controversial policy of “first internal pacification, then external resistance.” Hence Chinese forces in Manchuria put up virtually no resistance against the Japanese invasion. Eventually, Japan’s occupation of China is estimated to have caused the death of three to five million Chinese citizens.
Reality of how it was built.
Every household had to send one labourer to the site of the wall. They walk hundreds and hundres of miles under mounted guards to reach the building sites. These labourers had to procure, carry and cook their own meals. On the site they worked on stravation diet. Many died of exhaustion and beatings. There bodiesvwere bricked up into the wall. To be conscripted to build that wall was like being a footsoldier in Mao's army. Just expendables, cannon fodders and non human
Lol you just copied the egyptian pyramid theory. But history has shown us you can't make these stuff with excellent quality using slaves /forced labour.
@@lordbry470 This is not theory, it is documented history. If they used only skilled labourers, the construction would still be going on.
Bull theory . The workers on that wall were decently paid . It was not a concentration camp but a military fortification built by several different regions .
@@lordbry470 They where not forced labour, if they was not willing, they would die also their famillies killed for invaders or hungry. The emperor asked them and all was willing. There was not much choice. It survive of all.
It almost seems like most people back in the days were less afraid of heights than people now..
On day my son and I are going to visit the great historic wall
Ya know, at 16 feet wide, they could've just built the Silk Road exactly like this, making trade carts and caravans immune to attack.
◇Human Marvels....Unceasingly mind boggling!
Whoever they were defending, gotta be scary af.
Centuries? You mean Millenia America..
America? You mean United States, America its a continent
It’s like the 1st Ancient freeway.
If China can protect there boarders so can we !
China can build us a boarder😂
Their*
Wait how tf do you just glaze over “400,000 people died building the wall” and throw that in at the end? What the fuck?
Imagine Building a wall in almost 2,500 years with millions of bricks and manpower to defend your country, and someone bypasses it with a plane. lol
it is built 2500 years ago.rather than use 2500 years to built.and it did help China be under safe a long time.i mean,thousand years.only tens of years turks/mongolians/manchurians can pass it,other time they even dont dare to close the scary wall.If you have no any mind about thousand years,i mention you,it is 10 time of USA history
Virus jumped over those walls for greatness
2:35 damn someone walking alone
Salute to the cameraman took this video in 1550
Hard back-breaking work how many died building wall?
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Why is the watch tower pointed towards China not one but all of them
how the FK do they get the bricks into and out of the kiln, though?! the kiln process is hardly explained, even though it seems to be one of the most important parts of the entire brick-making process! wtf?