in Our Time: History: The Excellent Wall Of China On Apple Podcasts
The when barren land was turned into a flourishing agricultural zone with irrigation and the use of the traction plow. Weights and measures, as well as coinage and writing, have been standardized. Wide highways were also built to let construction of the Wall. They were raised in places exactly where flooding was probably to occur and bridges allowed for the efficient transport of goods and hundreds of thousands of laborers. Some sections of the Great Wall had been ultimately reduce…