Who Designed The Great Wall Of China. Millions of the chinese people constructed the great wall. The great wall was built by emperors, generals, and state lords over a period of about 2,000 years.
To combat the mongolian ancestors of genghis khan.
In spite of opposition from their superiors, chinese border guards often traded with qin shi huangdi, the first qin emperor, was a brutal ruler who unified ancient china and laid the foundation for the great wall. The great wall of china (长城 chángchéng) stretches westward across the provinces and municipalities of liaoning, hebei, tianjin, beijing, inner mongolia autonomous region, shanxi, shaanxi, and ningxia autonomous region to gansu in the west. The great wall isn't a single wall at all, but a series of bulwarks and fortifications. The first went up some four centuries before qin shi huang, who became china's first the wall was commissioned by the first emperor who died in 210 bc, long before the emergence of the mongols around ad 800.