Living One Day in China 214 BC — The Great Wall: A 13,000-Mile Cemetery

Описание: In 214 BC, the Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the greatest wall ever built. He didn't ask for volunteers. Every man who refused was executed. Every man who agreed was never seen again.

This is the story of one day on the Great Wall of China construction site — 214 BC, Qin Dynasty.

400,000 men were forced to build a structure that would last 2,000 years. Most of them did not survive to see it finished. Historians estimate that for every mile of wall built, dozens of workers died from exhaustion, starvation, or execution. Their bodies were buried inside the wall itself.

What was it like to wake up on that construction site? What did they eat? What happened to workers who couldn't keep up? And why did the Emperor believe this wall was worth the lives of hundreds of thousands of his own people?

This episode of Living One Day In takes you inside the most brutal construction project in human history.

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