Welcome to China Mr. Marco Polo.

Thousands of these towers along the Wall housed the emperor's border troops.

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#48 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (The "Greatest" Wall)

August 12th 2006
What are the expections for a first time visitor to the greatest and largest construction- site known to human kind? To walk along man-made fortifications, that are reputed to be "the only human-made structures discernible from the moon", and are an amazing 16,000 miles long? Whose planning and building began some 3,000 years ago, one thousand years before the birth of Christ, and still ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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