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Apart from defense, other purposes of the construction of watch towers, troop
Great Wall have included border controls, barracks, garrison stations, signaling
allowing the imposition of duties on capabilities through the means of
goods transported along the Silk smoke or fire, and the fact that the
Road, regulation or encouragement of path of the Great Wall also served as
trade and the control of immigration a transportation corridor.
and emigration. Furthermore, the
defensive characteristics of the
Great Wall were enhanced by the

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