The Great Wall of China: History’s Biggest Barrier

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Source/Further reading:

In Our Time BBC podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s...
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grea...
Ancient History Encyclopedia: https://www.ancient.eu/Great_Wall_of_...
National Geographic on the Ming Wall: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel...
Timeline of the Great Wall: https://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...
Map of the Great Wall over various periods: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Warring States Period with map: https://www.ancient.eu/Warring_States...
Han Dynasty explained: https://www.history.com/topics/ancien... #
Song Dynasty notes: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie...
The Great Wall’s name: http://discover.china.org.cn/idiscove...
Protecting the Wall: https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
The Wall as a nationalist icon: https://books.google.cz/books?id=bYxl...
Useful timeline on all of China’s dynasties (in order): https://www.historyhit.com/the-dynast...
State of preservation today: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallel...