Monday 23 January 2017

the berlin wall


The berlin wall has to be my least favourite wall and really the wall is a infamous wall but it is none the less on my blog.


The walls has along history with Russia and had divided Germany for along time until 1989. It started at the end of world war two when Germany had fallen America, Britain, France and Russia took over parts of Germany making different sectors and then berlin even though it was in soviet territory was also divided into 4 sectors.
You see soviet berlin was under dictatorship and it was an abysmal place to live and the residents there moved to east berlin. With the population in west berlin dropping they had to build a wall to divide berlin and restrict access to and from east berlin.



It was a pretty crap time to live there with all the oppression. There were many people who tried to cross it but many died trying, 138 to be exact during the three decades it was standing. It finally came down in 1989 when an east German official prematurely announced an official border where the wall is 

Thursday 19 January 2017

THE GEOGRAPHY OF FAMOUS WALLS

ever since trumps idea of building a wall I've been  thinking that sounds familiar like the great wall of china and the berlin wall so what better topic to make a blog about than famous walls.





The one in china is a GREAT wall *laugh* for example.
In 770bc-221bc during the Zhou dynasty the great walls construction, then in 221bc-207bc the first emperor of qin linked the great wall to the northern border. In 206bc-220ad during the han dynasty ther emperor han wudi extended the wall to the yumen pass, then in the ming dynasty the wall was extended around beijing


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