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Why Was The Great Wall Of China Not Effective?

famoustrip From Portugal

The Great Wall was effective to some extent in warding off the invasion of nomads from the north. However the barrier was not immune to the large-scale attacks and was broken through by northern nomadic tribes on more than one occasion.

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