万里长城　百题问答

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Introduction

List of Maps

Earliest Long Walls

The Various Great walls

Wafts in Mongofia

Northeast Asia Reef

Ming wall

Han Empire Expansion

Genghis Khan's Conquests

shanhaiguan 'siege'

List of Figures

China ＆ Nomadic Adversaries

Mound Trench Weathering

Wall Cross Section

2007 Ming Wall Survey

1.1 The Wall's Name

1.2 Name in Chirtese

1.3 Waft Defined

1.4 Classification

1.5 Study Sources

1.6 Ancestry of Urban Walls

1.7 The First Long Wall

1.8 Warfare Reform ＆ Walls

1.9 The Qin Unification

1.10 Post Qin Waft Building

1.11 Main functions of Walls

1.12 Wall Building Dynasties

1.13 Recyding of walls

1.14 Locations of Walls

1.15 The Great Wall on Maps

1.16 China's Nomadic Enemies

1.17 walls of Alien Regimes

1.18 Walls in Mongolia

2.1 Reasons for Conflict

2.2 Nomadic Lifestyle

2.3 Dependency on Animals

2.4 Chinese Lifestyle

2.5 Success of Cftinese Farming

2.6 Breakout of Conflict

2.7 Chinese Response to Attack

2.8 From Needs to Wants

2.9 Nomadic Strategies.

2.10 Reliance on Walls

2.11 Alterntives to walls

2.12 psychology of Warfare

3.1 Government's Role

3.2 Wall Planning

3.3 Building Materials

3.4 Labour Sources

3.5 Transportation

3.6 Logistical Challenges

3.7 Rock Quarrying

3.8 Brick Production

3.9 Mud Wall Construction

3.10 'Dragon' Wall Construction

3.11 Reed ＆ Wooden Walls

3.12 Engraved Tablets

3.13 Legenl Of Lady Meng

3.14 Local Legends

3.15 Descent from Builders

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Glossary

Dynastic Chronology

Ming Chronology

Photography/Copyrights

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

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