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Were the Walls of Benin and Sungbo's Eredo in Nigeria constructed just for defense? Or were they a way to unify a diverse area into a single kingdom as the Wiki article says? Has anyone done any labor estimates on how many people and how much time it would take to build these massive earthworks?

by /u/Mictlantecuhtli in /r/AskHistorians

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