The Chineese built the Grand Canal because they thought it would be really cool.
I dont know...go to Lancaster and look at the canal and do the math
Suez Canal *Cheating on your E2020 class :-)
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yes the Yangdi built the Grand Canal and i was his most ambitious project
so they can have some funn in the sun
They started to build in 1903 and finished in 1914.
The Chineese built the Grand Canal because they thought it would be really cool.
Panama canal was started by the French, but 10 years later the US finished it
in 500 years
china built the great wall of china, the grand canal, and many other things that we use today
The Erie Canal took 8 years. It took ten years to build the Panama Canal.
I'm not entirely certain how to compare the two. Going by length, it's not even a contest: the Great Wall is over ten times longer than the Grand Canal. However, by total volume, which is perhaps a better measure of how much work was required to build it ... I can't actually find any figures for this, but I suspect the Grand Canal may be larger.
money was sold to the government to help build the erie canal
It toke 8 years to build the Erie Canal.
The French had the idea to build a canal across Panama first and they started the project; after about their sixth year working on the canal they ended up going bankrupt. that is when the US showed interest in buying the canal for the French, but Columbia, who at the time owned Panama, would not allow the purchase. An agreement was made with Panama to help them get their independence the US would be allowed to finish building the canal.