to anthropology and architecture, “Just right of the Ming wall is a much older remnant of the Great Wall dating from the Sui Dynasty at about 500 AD. Finding remains of the Sui Dynasty wall by spaceborne radar imagery is helping archeologists to map a major cultural feature that has been buried by desert sands for generations” (Radar 1).
Many unfamiliar with the Great Wall are surprised to find that the top of the Wall is not a smooth path. Instead it is a series of huge steps that seem to have built for a race of giants, steps that take considerable ability to scale for any length of time and distance. The Great Wall was not originated as some massively scaled project by the Chinese leaders. Instead, it was more of a piece-meal project that developed as individual Chinese states erected sections of wall for their own military protection. It was not until the emergence of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) that the different sections of the Wall were joined (Shea 1). The First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuangdi, was instrumental in the connection of the different sections of
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