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Article #3996Re: GREAT WALL OF CHINA - Why Was It Built?
From: firstjois
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:28
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:28
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and if you'd stop cross-posting and answering him the wall would still be there. Jois Pete McCutchen wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:40:08 GMT, Ed Conrad <edconrad@verizon.net> >> wrote: >> >>> One of the world's most perplexing of life's mysteries, along >>> with the construction of the pyramids, is WHY the Great Wall >>> of China was built. >>>> >>> Almost everyone gullibly accepts the proposition that the the Great >>> Wall was built for only one reason: to prevent China from being >>> invaded. >>>> >>> Then there are others ( i.e., some Chinese historical scholars) who >>> 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 as >>> well as cats and dogs. >>>> >>> Nonsense! >> >> The Great Wall of China was built for one and only one reason. It's >> obvious, once you think about it. >> >> Kong! >> >> -- >> >> Pete McCutchen
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