The Other, (sometimes) Forgotten Great Walls
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Probably everyone is familiar to some degree with the famous Great Wall of China. There are, however, other "Great Walls", of varying length and duration of use. This short video will briefly explore a few, but by no means all, of them.
Walls and fortifications have always been a staple of military history and its adjacent fields--after all, it would be rather difficult to talk about a "military revolution" in Early Modern Europe without taking into consideration the development of defensive and offensive architecture. More recently though, there has been interest in other branches of history, like borderlands history, as to the function of walls in marking off defined cultural spaces.
So, this video will explore several of these other "Great Walls" of history. We start with the Amorite Wall, otherwise known as the Wall of Mardu, constructed in the ancient near east and which unfortunatley no longer survives. From there we move onto a massive series of earthworks in Nigeria known as Sungbo's Eredo, a structure which has elicited fascination since its discovery. Next up are the Bosporan Wall and the Cheolli Jangseong (The Great Wall of Goguryeo), both designed to fend off nomads (the Scythians and Khitan respectively). The Red Snake of Gorgan, built by the Persians to help counter the Huns, and the Long Wall of Quang Ngai, in Vietnam are next, both of which survive only in fragments. The video closes with a Roman defensive structure--the Wall of the Julian Alps--and the Serpent, or Snake (or Dragon) Walls in Ukraine.
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please don't drop the narrations, I love to listen along your videos while doing other stuffs.
Whilst I appreciate that slowing the video down or pausing is an option I think each slide could have been lingered over for a few seconds longer. I'm a fast reader but still struggled to take in the information provided before the next slide came up. Apart from that minor gripe it was all good.
Hadrian's "Wall" in North Africa I think is also fascinating. While it probably was a series of interconnected forts, it still functioned as a wall to control the traffic in and out of roman territory.
Wait....why does this video feel like a conspiracy theory....?
The wall theory
The walls were built to keep out the Annunaki-Atlantian world invasion.
Don't listen to the walls, man.
beware of walls, they have ears.
The music really gives it the "insane shit you watch at 2am" vibes haha
Although this is kinda interesting as a run down personally I think this would have been a better video if you'd focused on more on providing the context and history of one of these specifically.
perhaps, a new series I smell?.
I would love a longer-form video on these, looking into the evidence behind them
It’s coming!
@@TheFallofRome Nice!
The Great Wall of Gorgan is also the second longest wall in the world after the Great Wall of China, if I'm not mistaken.
Truly fascinating! It would be cool to see expanded coverage of these.
Nice to see a new video. Thanks.
170 miles of wall in 2000 BC is, in fact, truly 'great'; I will be looking into these further, thanks for pointing them out; I think you have a bunch of grumpy commenters this morning... ;)
The Forgotten Weapons/French Wall rebuttal was awesome. Ian would be proud!
What do you mean with the forgotten weapons french wall rebuttal?
I follow Ian and this channel but i don't get what you are saying.
Early on in the thread is a comment suggesting the video should be named 'Forgotten Walls'.
The reply that followed suggested the similarity to 'Forgotten Weapons' noting that he'd need to include a 'French Wall' (Ian always using the opportunity to show his FAMAS or cover the Lebel).
Some of the earlier comments had been, I thought, a bit grumpy (I love this channel) and I thought the comment was 'dope'.
I would love to see an in depth video on the Sassanian Gorgan wall . Fascinating, and my understanding is that the Romans helped finance it as well.
That is going to be coming…at some point. The main book on it is currently somehwere in the US mail system. It’ll show up at my place eventually and then I can start writing the script
@@TheFallofRome what book is that if you don’t mind me asking?
Another one that also could get memtioned here, is the Dannevirke in northern germany.
Good stuff
Hey, what happened to some of your old videos?
There's a old great wall in Jordan right next to Israel border. It's not that well study but it might be from biblical times.. only really looked at in the 1960 -1980 I think it's hundreds or dozens of kilometers in length
I read about a wall in the Caucasus - a joint venture between the romans and "persians"???
Should pause longer hard to read fast on phone.
You mean Forgotten Walls ?... 😏
Nah. If it were simply named Forgotten Walls in allusion to the Forgotten Weapons channel, there would have to be at least one French wall included.
@@ernestcline2868
oh... .French Forgotten Walls... 😏
How about the great hedge of India? That should count!
Goguryeo mentioned ❤🎉
American walls?
Ah the Great Trump Wall.
@@user-dc1ud6px3s he's gonna build it bigger and better....around NYC
@@54032ZepolEscape from New York with Kurt Russel.
@@54032Zepol He better. We've been waiting a while for it.
When the video is too long to be a short and too short to be a long 🤣
Reading that on a cell phone is impossible with old eyes.
old and young. we certainly do not open YT to read a video. A simple A.I voice would have been convenient if the youtuber's too shy to narrate.
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anyone else completely stunned by the length of the Benin Iya? 15,000+ km????
That's probably a conversion mistake, it's 160 km according to wikipedia