You read the story. The smog, the party girl, the piña coladas and the sun coming up. Maybe smiled a little.
If you haven’t, go there, right now. Do not come back before you’re done reading.
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Now, we go beyond. It’s season two. It’s the earth, the humans and my take.
EARTH
The Great Wall isn’t one single wall. It’s thousands of walls, built over two thousand years. Different people, different builders, different generations. Most of what we have in mind when we hear “Great Wall” is the grey brick snaking over green mountains. That one is from the Ming dynasty, somewhere in the 14th to 17th century. But they started piling earth and stone together as far back as the 7th century BC. Some were built to defend one Chinese state from another. Others were built to keep northern raiders out. It helped. But it never fully worked. Or made China safe. Invading armies still found ways through it, over it, and around it.