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The Great Wall of China

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Along the wall you can see the different types of bricks that were used to build the wall during each construction period.  The large bricks on the bottom were from the original wall.  They weigh 1 ton each and were carried up the mountains by slave laborers.   

The other sets of darker, smaller bricks were used to further fortify the wall after the Mongolian empire ended.

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