The purpose behind each structure and the challenges builders faced during their construction, were that the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal had people die and also the lack of money to continue building the structures. The Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal are to different things but they are the same in different was. The great wall was built for many different reason and problems that China might have had with other countries. the panama canal is like a station for ships and it all started to be a train canal were trains pick up people and take them were they are going to go to. The Panama Canal was a waterway that links into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. …show more content…
According to the text, “In 1904 the United States stepped into to build the Canal,” because the French had no money to keep building and the United States had the money and the workers to continue to build. The Americans interest in the Canal was to use it for the military so the navy ships could move quickly from one ocean to another. After ten years of working the canal finally opened in August 15, 1914 and they spend about 6 hundred million dollars to build and employed 80,000 workers to help build the canal. The Panama Canal took many struggles such as 30,000 people that