Around 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China under the Qin Dynasty, ordered that earlier fortifications between states be removed and a number of existing walls along the northern border be joined into a single system that would extend for more than 10,000 li (a li is about one-third of a mile) .
Explanation:
5th to the 15th century is when the middle ages were!
Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia, Connecticut, and Rhode Island/Providence Plantations.
They wanted to form their own way