*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts from Ancient accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading Even before the first Chinese dynasty, complex societies inhabiting the area now known as China organized into settlements, and the most important settlements were protected by rammed earth walls.
Differing from later walls, which were built along a strategic defense line, these walls wer.
The first dynasty, the Shang (1600-1050 BCE), built large walls as early as around 1,550 BCE. *Includes pictures *Includes excerpts from Ancient accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading Even before the first Chinese dynasty, complex societies inhabiting the area now known as China organized into settlements, and the most important settlements were protected by rammed earth walls
