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- From: leeman@daimi.aau.dk (Steen Lehmann)
- Subject: Re: Great Wall of China
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.105457.14374@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: leeman@daimi.aau.dk (Steen Lehmann)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov19.022250.15553@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:54:57 GMT
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- dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
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- > How effective was the Great Wall of China? I don't know much about the
- >history of the area, so I don't know how well it did what it was supposed,
- >or even what it was supposed to do.
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- I read someplace that its function was not so much to repel the attackers,
- but to make sure they didn't get away with very much loot. I can't provide
- the sources, I'm afraid, but I think it makes good sense.
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- Steen.
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