Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 9:15 pm CDT
Tibet, with an average height of 4000 meters above sea level, is the main part of the plateau of Tibet - Qinghai. Located between the Himalayas, Karakorum Mountains and Dangla presents the topographic structure of three steps, the northwestern part is the highest and southeast is the lowest. As the Himalayas obstructs the passage of the stream of warm and moist air from the Indian Ocean to the north, which makes the climate of Tibet cold and dry. The temperature ranges between 10 - 20 °C, the lowest values compared to other areas of the same latitude. The months of July and August are the wettest. The annual insolation is long, in case of Lhasa is 3,021 hours per year, while in Chengdu, a city on the same latitude is 1,187 hours. The difference between day and night is very large.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 8:45 pm CDT
The Great Wall has been through 2,500 years of Chinese history, and has traveled the vast territory of a dozen provinces in northern China. It has become a symbol of China. This is a magnificent project of military fortification that is considered a miracle of ancient architecture. It was initially built from periods of spring and autumn and Warring States back in the fifth century BC. Northern states built walls to protect each other. In the third century BC, Ruler Qin unified China and Meng Tian sent 300,000 troops to expel the Huns north. Meng Tian connected the broken segments of the Great Wall, from Liaodong to Gansu Linyao and continued construction to prevent attacks from the northern nomads. Some parts have survived to this day.
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