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This project explores the motivations behind the construction of the Medieval Wall System in China, analyzing its political and ecological implications. It challenges the traditional view of Great Walls as military defenses, suggesting they were built to manage nomadic movements during ecological stress.
Why did some (but not all) Chinese dynasties invest huge amount of resources in the construction of Great Walls?
The proposed project will focus on precisely that question, in an attempt to unravel what is perhaps the most enigmatic episode of Great Wall construction.
Roughly dated to the 10th-13th centuries CE and located far to the north of other Great Wall lines, this Medieval Wall System (MWS) is one of the longest walls ever constructed in world history, stretching over more than 3,500 km a…
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