The Great Wall of China (In Our Time)
1368 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Wall of China.The Great Wall is not a single Wall. It is not visible from space, contrary to popular belief, as it is much too thin. But it remains a spectacular architectural and historical phenomenon.The Great Wall's military importance, and its symbolic power, have varied widely in its long existence, as its place
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Around 1368
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)