#230 - Ming 19: A Futile & Stupid Barrier

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Happy Year of the Tiger! Great Ming decides that it's going to (re-)(re-)Build a Great, Great, Great Wall...and MAKE THE MONGOLS PAY FOR IT!* (*claim disputed by Mongolia) Major Work Cited: Fairbanks, John King. China: A New History, 2nd Edition. Mote, Frederick W. “The Ch’eng-hua and Hung-chih Reigns, 1465-1505” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, Part I. Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	A feudal and stupid barrier.
0:53.0	The Art of War teaches us to rely not on the likelihood
0:59.0	of the enemy's not attacking.
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