Want To See The Most Expensive Wall In History?

[TrollBuster9090]

This is the Great Wall of China. It took 500,000 soldiers and 500,000 conscripts nearly 22 centuries to build it. It was built on the border between China and Mongolia. It was built to keep the Mongols out of China.



This is Kublai Khan. The first MONGOLIAN EMPEROR of China. Got any OTHER bright ideas, Donald?

[lunatica]

1. But you have to admit it's beautiful!

Big and beautiful. Two out of three isn’t so bad.

[TrollBuster9090]

2. Okay, listen up, Mongolia! We're building a wall, and YOU'RE PAYING for it.

And if we hear any threats from Genghis Khan, that wall just got ten cubits higher!

[pdsimdars]

21. "THE" ancient, historical testiment to a STUPID, failing idea.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Beautiful, but not BIG or TALL enough for Trumpy...

But then, China had the population then to man such a wall.

[OnlinePoker]

11. Maybe not, but I bet there weren't a lot of Mexicans that made it over it. n/t

[unblock]

4. yeah, but how many *mexicans* are there in china, huh? *huh*??

[True Dough]

5. Geez, hard to refute that point!

You're miles ahead of us, unblock!

[TrollBuster9090]

8. Exactly! Just line St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland! Proof! nt

[brush]

10. Well, have to admit, you got us there.

[akraven]

6. First tell me how to get to Xanadu.................

The pResident will want to outdo this. He can't lose - his ego won't let him!

[TrollBuster9090]

7. Xanadu? You mean the 'Winter White House' of Kublai Khan? Haha! nt

[akraven]

9. Well, at least we're not bobbing up and down with our kids in the pond

yelling Marco Polo!

[TrollBuster9090]

14. I guess when you asked how to get to Xanadu, I could have said this? ;)

How do you get into Xanadu? PRACTICE, baby!

[akraven]

15. LOVE IT!

And yes, I can still rollerskate and rollerblade! Damn kids...………….

[homegirl]

23. This had to

be the inspiration for

BOLLYWOOD!

[at140]

12. It is the only man made object visible

from space crafts in orbit. That says something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China
The history of the Great Wall of China began when fortifications built by various states during the Spring and Autumn (771–476 BC) and Warring States periods (475–221 BC) were connected by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, to protect his newly founded Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) against incursions by nomads from ...

By the way 771 BC to 206 BC is 565 years, not 22 centuries. Although the original wall was enhanced
as recently as 1944 AD.

"Especially famous is the wall built in 220–206 BC by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. The Great Wall has been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced over various dynasties; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)."

[TrollBuster9090]

13. I don't know why Schumer and Pelosi never mention this. "How'd that wall work out..."

"How'd that wall work out for the Sung Dynasty?"

I guess they're afraid it'll make them look like smart-ass librul eggheads! "History is for libtards!"

[akraven]

16. Because their "base" doesn't know how to read. Or if they do, what they read doesn't sink in.

Remember the old saying about history?

[Capperdan]

37. There should be room for Rush on it

And Coulter and Laura. GOSH MAYBE they could sell spots for donors names?

[LakeSuperiorView]

19. It's not visible from even low earth orbit without magnification...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-made_structures_visible_from_space

[ThoughtCriminal]

34. Visible from low Earth orbit but

only under very favorable conditions. Definitely not visible from Moon.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-chinas-great-wall-visible-from-space/

[LakeSuperiorView]

36. It's shadow might sometimes be visible, but it is not wide enough to discern without magnification.

from low earth orbit. The wall itself is too narrow to be seen, while many other man made structures are visible.

[mwooldri]

17. And how did the Manchurians get in?

The peasants revolted... the government was about to collapse... an army general opened the gate and let them in.

Thus started the Qing dynasty.

This was after the Mongols ... around 17th century CE

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

29. +1

[GulfCoast66]

18. I was standing on that wall 3 years ago thinking it was very impressive.

And it truly is. A marvel of engineering.

But then I looked north, toward the mongol kingdom it was designed to keep out. And I saw a huge ass mountain range and realized; any army on horseback that made it over those mountains would be over the 50 foot wall by morning break.

Come to find it was mainly built to distract the population about the horrors of the emperor. Huh.

[FuzzyRabbit]

24. "built to distract the population"

Just like Trump's wall.

[GulfCoast66]

26. My point.

Actually it did more than distract them. Half the country was forced to slave away in the wall. Either directly or to support the effort.

But the point remains. It was political.

History repeats cause humans are humans.

[at140]

25. Walls are not invasion proof!

Best Walls can do is slow down invasions. Any wall can be breached with sufficient effort.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

31. +1 very insightful.

[gordianot]

20. Humpty had a wall alas not so Trumpy.

Anyway falls hurt.

[catbyte]

22. Donald J. Trump's Great Wall of Mexico...

A monument to his vanity and a metaphor for his entire pathetic existence.

[Hotler]

27. Was that 500,000 soldiers and 500,000 conscripts .....

on any given day during that 2200 years span or............ ...

[sharedvalues]

28. Next do the Maginot Line

[sharedvalues]

30. Or Hitler's Atlantic Wall

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

32. Walls are meant to be breeched and flanked.

[doc03]

33. Trump said it was only 4 feet tall nt

[GulfCoast66]

35. The Great Wall is very impressive when standing on it.

And is the largest example of human vanity. It did not work.