Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Forbidden City

The Ming dynasty is well known for the creation of the Forbidden City, a gigantic city that was used for emperors when they where having there holidays. It took 15 years to make and required over one million workers.  It is over 2,000 miles long - it could reach from San Diego to New York! It burnt down in in the early fourteen hundreds because of a lightning storm, and was rebuilt in later years.

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