Questions by kelsi.bogan - Page 26
Read then answer the question:What do you think would be more effective in discouraging a Xiongnu invasion, walls or a large Chinese population along the border? Explain your thinking.The Xiongnu live on meat and For the immigrants in such border cheese, wear furs, and possess no house or field. They move like birds and animals in the wild. They stop only at places which abound in grass and water, want of which will start them moving again. Today the Xiongnu are herding at several places and hunting along the frontiers.... It will be profitable to you to dispatch generals and officials together with troops to govern the frontier areas. People [slaves, convicts, and willing peasants] should be selected to settle along the border areas permanently, who can set up families and grow food grains while getting prepared against possible invasion by the Xiongnu. areas, the government will construct walled cities, well protected by high walls, deep moats, catapults, and thorns. Each city, along strategic points and thoroughfares, will be designed to hold no fewer than one thousand households.... Each walled city will have an inner wall and an outer wall 150 paces about 209 meters apart. Each residential area in the outer-wall area is to be surrounded by sandy fields to detect the intrusion of enemies in the night [Intruders will leave footprints in the soil.]