Show keeping I 1 up wi t C cien biene I 1 e sc I 1 n servie e r v Je e 0 science service service chinas cainas great wall marked north noah line of spreading empire lly hy EMILY 0 C DAVIS DA VIS now new york why ancient chinn china built her great wall that twisting dragon of 0 n wall 1600 miles across the north is a problem for geographers they see more in chinas cainas stony guardian than a military defense As p war almo barrier the wall was ineffective though thousands of chinese were worked to death to build it one jester summed up the tha result the chinese nover never got over I 1 it t but the tartars did somo some chinese have accounted tor for their great wall as a powerful stone itono dragon built to keep evil spirits out but geographers probing into a ancient chinas cainas political and kocl social problems are beginning to lo 10 look upon the great wall as a geobra geographic affair in a report to the geographical review owen lattimore geographer points out that the chinese were great wall builders long before the day of 0 tho the great wall in feudal days when china was still made of separate states fifth to third centuries 13 C these states built walls against one another as well as against the northern barbarians vague northern boundary so when emperor huang tl formed the states into an empire the idea of rigid boundaries was familiar and all china was driven to concentrate on marking tho the empires northern n line this was was done it appears to keep undesirables out and to keep do dc strables sl st in the wall marked plainly the northern limit beyond which the tha empire did not wish to spread this separating sheep from goats was highly desirable for civilized china tribes in manchuria mongolia and central asia were uncouth and their life alfo in forest desert or plain was for far different from chinas cainas intensive farming economy but the great wall mr latti more explains was never moro more than vague boundary there was pro pressure sn sa and pull in a wide border region barbarians would become partly chinese and frontier chinese would drift into anti chinese tr traits its the balance of power in many of chinas cainas struggles has rested with and bet in zones spreading out from the great wall |