Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Sunday, September 7, 2008
The Great Wall of China
The great wall of China (长城 in Chinese) was literally a long fortress, it is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China. Built,rebuilt,and maintained between the 6th century through the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the chinese empire from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls reffered to as the great wall of China were built since the 5th BC. The great wall is approximately 4,000 miles long from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west. The total amount of miles long the wall is 4,160 miles.At its peak the Ming wall was guarded by 1 million men and about 2 to 3 million people died making the wall.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Versailles Palace
In French it is called chateau de Versailles.Versailles was a country village,now it is a suburb in Paris. In 1682 Louis XIV moved away from Paris and the Versailles palace, but was forced to move back in 1789. The court of Versilles was the centre (maybe meaning center) of power in ancient regime France, therefore famous not only as a building,but as a symbol of absolute monarchy that king Louis XIV expoused. The palace was also a military hospital and base during the Franco-prussian war. It would be the place where the proclomation of the German empire was created.Then finaily the Versilles treaty was signed here.
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