What is More Impressive: Hadrian`s Wall or the Great Wall of China?

Which is more Impressice


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Only on AH.Com would we go into a page long tangent on the correct plural for Jesus:D

Seconded :D

I'll add that unlike that names of the second declension, the U in "Iesus" is part of the root and is long (so that you should not be able to drop it in the paradigm, normally), as shown also by its destiny in Romance languages where it does not follow the same changes endured by the short U of the former, which was part of the ending.
 
Whilst the Great Wall does have the advantage in size, China also had the much greater population that could be used as slave labour to build them - and really Great Walls would probably be more appropriate considering that it's a series of lengths of wall. What sort of labour force did the Romans have available to build Hadrian's Wall does anyone know? On effectiveness they both failed so no real winner there.

Just to be contrary - what, on AH.com? Never! ;) - how about the walls that Hadrian built on the Empire's southern borders in Africa? Like the Great Wall they were a chain of lengths of wall between other impassable barriers mountains or deserts, the conditions were much rougher, and I'm assuming that they had nowhere near the same levels of manpower to draw upon.
 
Whilst the Great Wall does have the advantage in size, China also had the much greater population that could be used as slave labour to build them - and really Great Walls would probably be more appropriate considering that it's a series of lengths of wall. What sort of labour force did the Romans have available to build Hadrian's Wall does anyone know? On effectiveness they both failed so no real winner there.

The Legionaries had hand in building it.
 
Just to be contrary - what, on AH.com? Never! ;) - how about the walls that Hadrian built on the Empire's southern borders in Africa? Like the Great Wall they were a chain of lengths of wall between other impassable barriers mountains or deserts, the conditions were much rougher, and I'm assuming that they had nowhere near the same levels of manpower to draw upon.

This. Hadrian's British wall and African walls were just a part of the Roman limes system which delineated and protected vast stretches of the Empire's borders. It should be taken as a whole when compared to the GWoC.
 
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