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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

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End of the Great Wall of China, Shanhaiguan District (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

The wall would have been manned back in the day. Even if you sneaked a small force through, there's no way 10,000+ men are getting through, let alone wagons.

More than preventing invasions, it made it much easier to tax goods.