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Great Wall of China

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

mending walls or building bridges

I will choose the building bridges than mending walls  because I choose to be alone and not to be seen by many people and have no friends than have many friends.