Wait wait… I know nothing about the GWoC. Are they wrong about the direction the defenses facing, and the side the stairs are on? Of they aren’t, why is this “insane Facebook?”
I’m totally ignorant about the Wall, or about the famous sections of it.
Part of the problem is that the pictures they’re showing were of part of the wall that was built in the middle ages during the Ming Dynasty, but other parts of the wall were nearly 1000 years old when that part was being built.
I did see that there’s not one Great Wall, but there is the “famous” section that all tourists seem to visit and walk, and which generates the most photos. This is the section in the Facebook post, yah? Are they right about the directions, and if so, what’s the explanation for it?
There are also some inward-facing fortifications, because portions of the wall were built on the assumption that raiding parties would also be trying to leave, and they knew they couldn’t block off literally the entire border.
Edit: in case you don’t buy that, look at Hadrian’s Wall. Both fortifications are actually built on a similar premise with similar principles.
I’d say, because making the leap to “the mongol hordes built the wall” is pretty insane, when there’s many much simpler explanations? Because the idea of keeping “who actually made this incredibly long wall” a secret is nutty? Because if they were going to spend a ton of time and effort to try and pass it off as them making it, to the point there’s no records or even tales to the contrary, you would think they would have done something as obvious as moving the stairs to their side of the wall. There’s like no level at which this makes any sense. Good on you for being skeptical though
Wait wait… I know nothing about the GWoC. Are they wrong about the direction the defenses facing, and the side the stairs are on? Of they aren’t, why is this “insane Facebook?”
I’m totally ignorant about the Wall, or about the famous sections of it.
Part of the problem is that the pictures they’re showing were of part of the wall that was built in the middle ages during the Ming Dynasty, but other parts of the wall were nearly 1000 years old when that part was being built.
Edit: Here is a much older section of wall-
I did see that there’s not one Great Wall, but there is the “famous” section that all tourists seem to visit and walk, and which generates the most photos. This is the section in the Facebook post, yah? Are they right about the directions, and if so, what’s the explanation for it?
That I could not tell you, sorry.
Apparently it’s part of a myth pushed by Russian nationalists.
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/ieg2k0/tartaria_the_supposed_megaempire_of_inner_eurasia/
There are also some inward-facing fortifications, because portions of the wall were built on the assumption that raiding parties would also be trying to leave, and they knew they couldn’t block off literally the entire border.
Edit: in case you don’t buy that, look at Hadrian’s Wall. Both fortifications are actually built on a similar premise with similar principles.
I’d say, because making the leap to “the mongol hordes built the wall” is pretty insane, when there’s many much simpler explanations? Because the idea of keeping “who actually made this incredibly long wall” a secret is nutty? Because if they were going to spend a ton of time and effort to try and pass it off as them making it, to the point there’s no records or even tales to the contrary, you would think they would have done something as obvious as moving the stairs to their side of the wall. There’s like no level at which this makes any sense. Good on you for being skeptical though
No, wait… so the access stairs are on the outside (facing away from China)? And the defense turrets do face inwards toward China?
Why the hell would the Chinese design defenses like that?
Maybe the Chinese engineers just really sucked at their jobs