NO i'M TALKING ABOUT THE LONGEST STRUCTURE EVER BUILT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD iT’S OVER 13,000 MILES LONG AND UP TO 25 FEET HIGH HOW FAR’S 13,000 MILES iT’S HALF THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH OH RIGHT SO IF YOUR FRISBEE GOES OVER THAT YOU’VE HAD IT 4
BUT IT ISN'T JUST ONE LONG WALL THEN QIN DYNASTY MING DYNASTY HAN DYNASTY CHANG'AN HAN CAPITAL XIANYANG QIN CAPITAL NO THERE ARE AT LEAST 16 WALLS 300 MILES IN DESERT REGIONS THEY WERE MADE OF COB BASICALLY MUD AND IN THE MOUNTAINS OF BRICK 5
iT TOOK MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS TO BUILD THEM ALL AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIED DURING THEIR CONSTRUCTION THE GREAT WALL IS THOUGHT TO BE THE WORLD’S LARGEST CEMETERY iT WAS ALSO A SYMBOLIC DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ON ONE SIDE THE CHINESE AND ON THE OTHER FOREIGNERS WHO WERE CONSIDERED BARBARIANS DID THEY BUILD IT FOR DEFENSE UGH YES THEY DID BUT NOT ONLY THAT 6
THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE CHINESE iN FACT THEY DON’T CALL THEIR COUNTRY CHINA THEY CALL IT ZHONGGUO WHICH MEANS MIDDLE KINGDOM THEY WEREN’T THE ONLY ONES YOU KNOW iN ANCIENT EUROPE FOR EXAMPLE THE GREEKS HAD THE SAME IDEA MIDDLE OF WHAT WELL THE WORLD i GET IT THEY FIGURED THEY WERE IN THE CENTER AND ALL AROUND THEM WERE BARBARIANS LIKE OUR BUSHES KEEP THE NEIGHBORS OUT ARE THEY BARBARIANS TOO 7
