Jun 10, 2020 23:00:00

Research results that part of the Great Wall of China was 'made to monitor the movement of people'

by Hebrew University

The

Great Wall , which is counted as one of the Seven Wonders of the New World due to its length, is said to have been 'built by the Emperor Shiki to intercept the invasion of the northern races.' .. However, some research results that overturned such a theory were announced by a research team in Israel.

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Since the Great Wall of China is a representative building in China, it is also the name of the Great Firewall, a Chinese censorship system that monitors the Internet usage of the people. It was the team of archaeologists Gideon Shelach-Lavi and others at the Hebrew University in Israel who announced that the Great Wall was actually built to monitor people.

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While researching the Great Wall, the research team paid particular attention to the Northern Line, which is a part of the Great Wall and is 737 km long. 'Before our investigation, most people thought it was designed to stop the Genghis Khan invasion,' Shelach-Lavi said of the Northern Line.

However, as a result of the research team investigating the northern line for two years using drone aerial photography and satellite images, the northern line was generally ``built in the lowland of the valley with poor view and the wall height was low , It is near the road.' Also, unlike the ' Ming Great Wall, ' which is famous for being made of stone, the northern line is made by compacting soil.

From this, Shelach-Lavi said, “The North Line shouldn't have been so formidable because it had no stone towers or fortresses, so the North Line was more than a threat to the military invasion. It was designed to limit the movement of nomads and livestock migrating regardless of domestic circumstances, to tax nomads, to crack down on trade, and so on.'

Located in the north of China, Mongolia often

experiences large-scale cold waves called ' Zud '. As a result, the research team speculates that it will be necessary to control and tax the entry of nomads coming south to protect livestock from the cold and starvation, which led to the construction of the Northern Line.

The research team also found that there are square and circular structures near the northern line. According to the research team, 'square ones are shelters for people who worked on the northern line', 'circular ones are confiscated or taxed from livestock or nomads of people who worked on the northern line' It is estimated that it is an animal house that houses livestock.

In a paper, the research team said, 'Our findings are not incompatible with the traditional view that the Great Wall was for defense against the invasion of ethnic groups living in the north.' , The findings suggest that there is a subtle twist in these 'conquest and domination' models: a better understanding of the functioning of the Great Wall is not about the dichotomy of China and herders. , We need to consider how nomadic and semi-nomadic people in the region have been involved in the dynamics of political societies.'