The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Great Wall of China
Also known as The Great Wall
- other
- Chinese defensive architecture
The long frontier fortification separating the Chinese empires from the steppe nomads. Gibbon invokes it as the distant barrier beyond which the same nomad pressures that shook Rome and Persia originated.
- Type
- other
- Style
- Chinese defensive architecture
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 280
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The long frontier fortification separating the Chinese empires from the steppe nomads. Gibbon invokes it as the distant barrier beyond which the same nomad pressures that shook Rome and Persia originated.
Appearances
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