REAL REASON CHINA BUILT ITS GREAT WALL . . .

[ignorant bastard]

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One of the world's most perplexing mysteries is WHY
the Great Wall of China was constructed.
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Almost everyone believes the Great Wall was built for
only one reason: to prevent China from being invaded.
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Some others, including some Chinese historical scholars,
claim it was built to serve as a permanent barrier between
the agricultural Chinese in the south and the Xiong Nu
the nomadic cattle-raisers) in the north, since they apparently
got along like cats and dogs.
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Nonsense!
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Anyone with a semblance of common sense realizes
that, if the Great Wall had been constructed to keep
an enemy out, it never would've have been extended
to such a great length -- nearly 4,000 miles -- and
continue through so many isolated areas, through
mountain chains and deserts, far from the centers
of civilization.
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And, besides, the Great Wall --- about 25 feet high --
couldn't have done an adequate job of protecting the
Chinese from an invasion anyway.
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This was proven explicitly eight centuries ago when
the Mongolian hordes of Genghis Khan successfully
scaled the wall at numerous locations and eventually
conquered most of China.
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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
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The real reason The Great Wall of China was built
had nothing whatsoever to do with preventing an invasion
but, instead, to keep the Chinese inside China and prevent
outsiders from coming in.
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China's leaders vehemently opposed the prospect of
the mingling of their race with those in neighboring
countries -- that they ordered the start of the mind-boggling,
gargantuan undertaking to make such intermingling virtually
impossible on a large scale.
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They were concerned about the possible "contamination''
of their race by mingling -- and mating -- with non-Chinese.
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BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF PART OF THE GREAT WALL
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Many scientific textbooks claim that construction of the original
section of The Great Wall began around 400 B.C. but various
scientists, especially the Chinese, seriously question this dating
and believe it had begun much earlier.
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Indeed, it did.
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The original Great Wall was some 2,000 miles long and, at a later
time, construction began on another 2,000 miles or so, through the
mountains and deserts.
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The desire was simply to keep the Chinese race pure
and it happened again in the 1930s in Germany under
the Third Reich (but utilizing other despicable tactics).
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This information was passed on to Ed Conrad by David
Fellin, who -- along with fellow miner Hank Throne -- were
miraculously rescued after being entombed 14 days
following a cave-in near Hazleton, Pa., in August 1963.
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