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He died in 210 B.C. while on a tour of Eastern China. But his youngest brother wanted to be emperor and was with his father when he died and so he concealed his father's death and faked a letter to his brother from his father telling him to commit suicide and after he did that he became emperor. But his rule was not as strong and only 3 years the Qin empire completely collapsed.

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There is evidence that he was not of royal blood but was actually the son of a merchant but still became emperor and when he did, many attempts of assassination on him were committed which led him to having an addiction to becoming immortal and so he ordered his best scientists to search for a way to live forever and digested lead pills as a solution.

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Though he improved China much during his rule, he also committed dreadful crimes. He prohibited many religions and made people only have faith in the government, he made most books be burned and created his own teachings that everybody had to follow, and if scholars did not let him burn their books, he would have them killed.

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Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of China, was the emperor that started the Great Wall of China. He started by joining and lengthening pieces of walls that previous leaders had built, that were fallen apart. The Great Wall of China was not his only accomplishment. He is also famous for building a magnificent tomb, which he made 700,000 workers make, along with a whole army including  8,000 warriors and warhorses made of terra-cotta, a type of clay, to protect it. He even built many wooden chariots along with the set. He also divided China into districts, and made a whole new currency for the whole of China. That made a huge effect in its economy. He made a new type of writing since different parts of China weren't able to communicate well due to many different forms of writing. He constructed canals and roads to make transport and trade throughout China easier.

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China started passing out laws to ban the destruction of it in 2006 and whoever damages it will be fined.

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But the rest of the wall is falling apart. Storms have damaged it, people have taken bricks from it, holes have  even been made in it to make new roads.

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When China fought Japan in the 1930s, part of  the battle occurred next to the Great Wall. Artists painted it, and word spread about it.

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Soon, many  tourists from America and some other places came to see it. At first, not many tourists came, but nowadays, many tourists come to see the Great Wall of China

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Every two miles, they built a watch tower on the wall where soldiers would stay on the lookout for invaders. If they spotted enemies, they  would send smoke signals.

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They joined the pieces of the wall with boards, then they poured in stone and gravel. To form the path, they placed bricks on top of everything

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After the  Qin dynasty fell, the Han,  Northern Qi, the Sui, and the Ming dynasties kept rebuilding, expanding, and remanning the wall.

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He forced many people to build the wall for him. Among those people were soldiers, criminals who did it as their punishment, and sometimes even children.

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China started maintaining the part of the wall near Beijing which is now rebuilt and in very fine condition since that is where tourists go.

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After the Ming dynasty, China made peace with other countries and no longer needed the wall. They stopped maintaining the wall and it began to fall apart.

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The wall is made up of many materials. In areas with desert, they used sand, reeds, and sticks to make up the wall while in other places they used gravel, stone, or bricks.

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Qin Shihaungdi, the first emperor of China, wanted to build a wall to keep China safe from invaders.

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The Great Wall of China is the biggest wall in the world. It is so big that some people thought that it would be able to be seen from the moon, but it isn't that big. It is very wide and 5 people on horses can ride on it side by side. It is 8 meters tall. No one knows the exact length of the wall but Chinese people call it the "Long Wall of Ten Thousand Li" which would be about 5,029km.