Why did a lot of amazing rulers in Antiquity/Classical times like building walls and huge barricades, Veeky Forums?

Why did a lot of amazing rulers in Antiquity/Classical times like building walls and huge barricades, Veeky Forums?

Walls are pretty useful man...

Even if it does jack shit it helps remind the plebs that the ruler is protecting them.
But seriously walls were OP before the gunpowder patch.

humans like to own shit and they like security, like a fence for your play pen or box for your toys.

>amazing
like the USSRs east berlin wall or trumps mehico?

Like Hadrian's Wall or Shapur's Wall.

wastefull*

>walls op b4 the gunpowder patch
LOL

They lived in violent and dangerous times

To keep subhumans out.

Gunpowder wasn't really a thing until the late 14th or early 15th century with siege cannons. So I'd say walls have a good track record for going about 5000+ years.

But the subhumans are inside the walls too.

Treebuckets m8.

how many walls did sparta built?

4 more mouths to feed
>can humans eat brick & mortar yet?

shaggydisaintweed.

Those aren't any more auto-win against walls then ballistas were.

>how many walls did sparta built?
Who cares?

anything within a 5000km radius that wanted to stay alive (and built subsequently required walls)

What? Not every city was walled, not everyone lived in cities

>how many walls did sparta built?
Building walls in Greece is like pouring sand into the desert. The relief offered all the choke-points you wanted to hold.

Dang that is a big ass hat, I bet the guy wearing it is really smart and we should do what he says.

What if they built a wall at thermopylae

To stay alive

>Building walls in Greece is like pouring sand into the desert. The relief offered all the choke-points you wanted to hold.

Greece has/had plenty of pretty fuck-huge walls

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Sassanids had style, that is without a double above any questioning.