Speaking of the Great Wall, it is natural to think of the Great Wall of China, but as everyone knows, in the distant European Britain, ancient Roman time, almost at the same time as the Chinese Qin, the Romans built the famous Hadrian's Wall.
The Great Wall is 118 km long and spans northern Britain, connecting the east and west coasts. It lasted 3 centuries.
It was an outpost of the Roman Empire
Roman soldiers during the construction of Hadrian's Wall
Britannia
Trajan's nephew, an Italian card from Spain, during his reign he stopped the empire's expansion and began a recuperation strategy.
During this period, there was war in Great Britain, so a governor stationed on the Danube border was sent to preside over the situation and victory, so Hadrian visited Britain and stayed there for several months. He decided to build the Great Wall and personally participated in the design.
Hadrian was obsessed with majestic architecture, and he once rebuilt the Pantheon.
Built along a steep slope
The Corps was a unit, with 30 (5,000 men each) corps and three corps stationed in Britain.
A corps is divided into 10 brigades, each of which consists of 6 hundred men.
The fortress is about a kilometer apart from the Great Wall, which has towers guarded by soldiers.
At the beginning of Antony's succession, war broke out in Britain, and the Brigants launched a war to invade Georgia, a territory of the Roman Empire.
After the end of the war, the Roman layout changed, and Hadrian's Wall was no longer the main facility of the northern frontier, but instead pushed north to the Scottish lowlands. Antony's Wall was built between the Bay of Forth and the Gulf of Clyde. The new Great Wall was built with grass mud and wood, and the design of a fortress was added at the beginning of its construction.
The construction of Antony's Wall deprived Hadrian's Wall of its main function and was eventually abandoned.
The famous Aurelius also erupted in the British Unrest in the early years of his reign, which led him to change his strategy again, Antony's Wall was abandoned, Hadrian once again became the border infrastructure of the empire, and archaeology shows that the fortress of Antony's Wall was carefully demolished rather than violently destroyed.
Hadrian's Wall was remodeled, and the biggest change was the construction of a military road between the walls and the ramparts, connecting the ribs, towers and fortresses.
On the northernmost side is a trench, which is V-shaped, about 2.7 meters deep and 8.5 meters wide.
There is a flat narrow passage between the edge of the trench and the walls of the Great Wall.
The towers are about 9 meters, about twice the height of the city walls, and many are roofed with tiles or wooden tiles, with platforms on all four sides
The structure of the tower
There will be civilians around the fortress, and townships will slowly form
The fortress has granaries, a hospital, baths, and other accommodation for troops.
Near the Great Wall, there were fully functional facilities, as well as baths, and the Roman soldiers were of high status, and in the early days they were distributed proportionally by the nobles, with a high sense of honor.
The Romans loved to bathe and also provided soldiers with many baths for their rest.
With the decline of the Roman Empire, the function of the Great Wall as a defense suddenly disappeared, and the cities that had gathered from it disappeared in an instant.
Later generations of defense rarely relied on a structured line of defense, as evidenced by the Maginot Line in World War II.
And the real line of defense is the backfire of people's hearts.