This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 86 of Real Cool History for Kids.

This episode is for Andre Nunes, who wanted me to tell the story of the great wall of China.

Hey Andre, this one's for you.

Before I even begin our story, I want you all to grab a globe or world map and find China

so you can see where we're talking about.

In this episode, I'm going to tell you a variation of a story I wrote about in one of my

own history books, The World Story One.

That book has this story and many more like it all set in the ancient time period.

So here is the story of the ancient Chinese, their way of life, and a great big wall.

A couple thousand years after the dispersion of the people of the Tower of Babel, there

were people groups creating civilizations on all seven continents.

You remember guys, this is before Christ was born.

This is when many of the great ancient civilizations began, civilizations like Mesopotamia in the

Middle East, Egypt, in Northeast Africa and India, which is, well, it's in basically

the same area even now.

Like most civilizations of the ancient time, the early civilizations in Asia and Africa

started along major rivers.

Why?

Well, that's because those rivers served as a source of water for crops and almost just

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