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SSI Brown Bag: "Military Settlements of the Great Wall"

The Great Wall was a tightly controlled military defense system, full of hierarchical, systematic, integrated features, particularly in the Ming period. The study of the military settlements near the Great Wall includes the Great Wall itself and all its fortifications, which were built for the purpose of military defense. These include forts, passes, posthouses and other military installations at many different levels and scales. The research is based on the establishment of spatial information basic database of the Great Wall military settlement and combined with relevant historical data and research results. From the perspectives of geography, statistics, and sociology, the research carries out a systematic analysis by using a geographic information systems to sort out the spatial distribution of settlements and analysis of overall spatial relations.