@gatesofkilikien I'm searching for the video where you talk about the rocks in the Yellow River that blocked navigation and the saying that arose because of that. Can you point me to the video please?

So xaunxue and friends were hippies?

The Romans didn't have to build extensive walls since most of their borders were on natural boundaries (the Rhine and Danube rivers, the Sahara and Arabian deserts, etc). They built walls in Britain, the famous Hadrianic and Antonine Walls, and on the border with Persia, in Syria and Petrea. But there was little need for walls on the Rhine and Danube...

1:03:58 Finally decided to look up who all these emperors were out of curiosity, so here's that whole section with their names : "While there have been many poor emperors in Chinese history, we typically still try to evaluate their legacy based on the broader context of their times rather than resort to giving them stock labels. Perhaps a tyrant was brutal, but his actions may have been done in response to the unique challenges of his time. (Qin Shi Huang) Perhaps he was dissolute in his personal life, but still worked hard to fufill his public responsibilities. (Wu of Jin) An otherwise talented emperor might have made poor choices in his final years, but frailty is something that could afflict anyone in old age. (Gaozong of Qing) A young emperor might have made catastrophic blunders, but at least he did not know any better. (Yingzong of Ming) A lazy emperor had the common sense to trust his advisors, (Shenzong of Ming) Whereas an industrious emperor who did more harm than good at least tried. (Chongzhen of Ming) An outwardly weak emperor may still have enacted excellent policies, (Dezong of Tang) While a self-interested one may still have people rationalizing his selfishness in the context of the greater good. (Gaozong of Song) And then there were those who, despite being poor rulers, still had human qualities we admire; Perhaps he was a great artist, (Huizong of Song) Or a passionate lover, (Xuanzong of Tang and his lover Yang Gui-fei) Or cared deeply about the people around him. (Hui of Jin)"

love this video. This era doesn't get that much attention for some reason. Esp since its uniqueness compared to other eras

Emperor Guangwu reminds me of Darius the great of Persia. While neither of them conquered a great territory or established a kingdom, they both preserved the empire and reformed at a critical and very vulnerable period

It's really interesting how, in both Chinese history and European, the East/West axis is more important in ancient times, but over time the much more important cultural division has become north/south

11:55 Off topic and centuries apart but Joseph Broz Tito did exactly the same strategy to facilitate a breakthrough from german encirclement in 1943! But then, he actually did it and pulled it off!

30:56 of course the Song army was destined to fail. This is literally the Mongolian wheelhouse: flat, open space, loads of room for cavalry to manoeuvre. The first mistake was to engage the Mongolians on an open plain in Zhongyuan. If they were prepared, they'd have engaged closer to Chang'an or Luoyang, or even better right inside Guanzhong.

Early Chinese history is extraordinary. You should remake this video and go in more depth.

This is such a great video! It provides so much clarification and insight to topics that previously were unclear. Thank you!

Speakin of Cao Cao around the 8:30 mark being the only successful warlord to start in the middle of all the action, he truly did make it out like a bandit. Even when I play 3k Total War I could feel uneasy about how everything feels so slippery starting from that region. It just goes to show you what an incredible individual the man is to be able to help set up the foundation for eventual Jin to unite all of China.

''We are not used to running away in battle like you guys'' was the most epic comeback😂😂😂😂

For the love of god, please PLEASE compare/contrast the fall of Han vs the fall of tang

This is very informative for my fictions since you not only covered historical details but also geographucal features and routes

English(Beijing)?😂😂

Bravo! 👏🏼

Bro is spitting guides for Total Wars: TK players and fantasy writers.

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correct me don't shut me up usa made n spread covid in china - it’s usa’s ww3 on china that boomerang n usa became epic center 1 usa own 200+ labs worldwide - the only one with pandemic capability 2 italian fauci funded wuhan 3 italian peloci took it to wuhan - her arrival departure - incubation period 4 german trump blame it on china - he hate china n he got confrontational habits - he’ll bring us nukes n empty store shelves 5 fort detrick shut down suddenly - it’s the bio lab that many viruses r born they got japanese vivisection data 6 china let u n inspect usa dare not youtube google wants to force people to - not hate - hatred so inhumane n so no freedom demoncrazy - shut us up n warn us - like kids - all the time now some adult grownup history/truth/facts geert is right usa crazy childish dreamy evil multiculturalism fail - don't make another usa/hell all foreigners in any countries - immigrate back home to origin can't mix races either - especially low iqs n high iqs - bad for both - let the low iqs die away - don't make n keep them in pain obama's kids r all black africans n harry's n suukyi's r all white europeans again already burmese r from north china n thai r from south china japanese r chinese evil twin - chinese emperor sent 500pairs of boys n girls with a eunuch to find the fountain of youth n they landed in japan that's why they look shanghainese n got serious polite eunuch manners usa stole china forest n call it vietnam n use vietnam to steal most islands there usa is trying to steal china island n call it taiwan right now christian philipinos r not asians they r latinos - immigrate back home to origin - spain spanish r the very first colonist criminals muslim indonesians n malaysians r not asians they r mideasterners - to mideast hindu indians r not asians they r dark europeans - to india - out of hongkong singapore myanmar ... rohingas r not myanmar - they r call indian then bangaladeshi then rohinga - to bangaladesh stop occupying/colonizing myanmar - where is myanmar's human rights muslim ulghurs r not chinese they r turks - to turkey all kinds of indians get out of myanmar hongkong singapore ... even british had left - all foreigners out of all countries british rule india n burma as one country from 1886 to 1937 british whitemen want one world one race for simple easy rule - evil stupid whitemen racist hatecrime asians n burn asia since day one they return most countries but still to return continents islands waters … natives in the americas australia newzealand n all islands - indonesia philipine taiwan ... r from china so all these/whole pacific n half atlantic belongs to china so return all to china with reparation n without a shot like british hongkong n portuguese macau - the 2 omens of things to come n all racist sick low common thieves - 600 mil total - immigrate back home to origin - europe india africa spain mideast ... biden to ireland trump germany peloci italy haley india oprah africa cruz spain omar gaza zuckerberg israel ... abraham believers the christians muslims jews r worst colonist criminals ever they wield the cross n spread invade occupy around worldwide these 3 will return all stolen lands ... world will reset to precolonial order china 8000yrs civilization chinese highest iq - google bing search usa 200yrs wild wild west bomb happy barbarian bully usa/cia/pelocissssssssss r fighting 15 wars right now - msn.com they power profit world die debt erase usa before it war earth to extinction usa demoncrazy freedom is old boring silly usa multiculturalism fail - look at it - usa is sinking - in quicksand coward usa never dare declare their bully wars n never dare fight one on one usa did not win ww2 - russia n china did - they were fighting germany n japan for over 10 yrs n only when they start to win then usa came in with dday n nukes unnecessarily n stole russia n china's thunders - usa top coward thief usa n gang lost to lone afghan after 20 long yrs n cry n ran home with tail between legs usa n gang lost korea to lone china usa n gang lost vietnam to lone china russia is first to space not usa russia got most nukes not usa usa faked moon trip n said no water china found water n planted seeds moon is china's usa think it's #1 greatest country on earth - think again usa is on china's soil - u steal from redindians u steal from china - redindians r from china n true countries r by dna blood usa is by paper ink - usa is fake usa is a global village pretending to be a country god made one adam one eve - god made incest - evil god - silly christians muslims jews buddha gave up palace for a tree - don't want to be like him - silly indians suukyi is enemy of military - her father aungsan is soldier/military/general evil cheap traitor suukyi open thigh for a whiteman not aungsan suukyi - it's suukyi aris အောင်ဆန်း စုကြည် မဟုတ်ပါ စုကြည် အဲရစ် ပါ if no burmese military - burma will be weak burmese people will become like suukyi aris kids n grandkids - become all whitepeople - no more burmese no more burma မြန်မာစစ်သားများမရှိလျှင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအားနည်းလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာ အားလုံးဟာ လူဖြူတွေ ဖြစ်လာမယ် suukyi aris စုကြည် အဲရစ်သားတွေလိုမြေးတွေလို မြန်မာတွေမရှိတော့ဘူး မျိုးသုင်သွားလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မရှိတော့ဘူး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သေသွားမှာပါ can't let suukyi have any of aungsan property ... it'll go to aris british colonist criminals - not to burmese aungsan oo can adopt a burmese n leave aungsan's everything to him or make some decendants - fertilize some burmese eggs with his sperms n rent burmese womb/oven - so simple those will be his real n aungsan's real burmese decendants n not aris's british decendants suu kyi kids n grandkids r white people not burmese - look at them they r not aungsansssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss they r arissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss aungsan bro said that khinkyi is half indian half karen n she got many men before n after aungsan - she is the one who coined the term rohinga - before they were called bengali - immigrate back home to bangaladesh/india - stop occupying/colonizing burma - no - not genocide it's justice - rohinga muslims gang raped n killed a burmese buddhist nun that started the "genocide/justice" health care in usa is different than health care in taiwan or other asian countries in usa whether dr or dentist or vet ... they r like taxi drivers - take the long winding route to get most money n for job security n they want to over do tests prescriptions everything n they want u to see them regularly whether sick or not in taiwan health care is as necessary only - they get paid the same so they take the most effective shortest route - usa is really scary - once u check in u r victim/patient - my friend is a chiropractor n his mother is a medical dr n an acupuncturist but got same victim/patient treatment n die horrible everyone has to die - so make it easy govt let u buy guns knives ropes poisons ... all painful deaths make a happy pill for humans n pets (dogs cats turtles birds pigs cows goats frogs ...) so with swallowing a pill all just go to sleep forever killings n dyings n suicides happen all the time - n everyone has to die - so for when comes the time - u should be able to buy n keep such pills handy myanmar can be suicide country where people go to sleep forever should be good karma - u give them good death instead of horrible death - as is - everyone die horrible as for religions - god made one adam one eve god made incest evil god silly muslims jews chrisians/mideasterners whitemen god #1 country usa war nonstop evil god silly americans buddha leave palace for a tree silly indians sweden or switzerland r suicide legal countries - but u have to go inside a machine like a tanning capsule to die - not a fan china being atheist country don't have religious oppression by the clergy class - no mind control n scare tactic ... china should solve horrible death for world မြန်မာတပ်မတော် = မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်

correct me don't shut me up usa made n spread covid in china - it’s usa’s ww3 on china that boomerang n usa became epic center 1 usa own 200+ labs worldwide - the only one with pandemic capability 2 italian fauci funded wuhan 3 italian peloci took it to wuhan - her arrival departure - incubation period 4 german trump blame it on china - he hate china n he got confrontational habits - he’ll bring us nukes n empty store shelves 5 fort detrick shut down suddenly - it’s the bio lab that many viruses r born they got japanese vivisection data 6 china let u n inspect usa dare not youtube google wants to force people to - not hate - hatred so inhumane n so no freedom demoncrazy - shut us up n warn us - like kids - all the time now some adult grownup history/truth/facts geert is right usa crazy childish dreamy evil multiculturalism fail - don't make another usa/hell all foreigners in any countries - immigrate back home to origin can't mix races either - especially low iqs n high iqs - bad for both - let the low iqs die away - don't make n keep them in pain obama's kids r all black africans n harry's n suukyi's r all white europeans again already burmese r from north china n thai r from south china japanese r chinese evil twin - chinese emperor sent 500pairs of boys n girls with a eunuch to find the fountain of youth n they landed in japan that's why they look shanghainese n got serious polite eunuch manners usa stole china forest n call it vietnam n use vietnam to steal most islands there usa is trying to steal china island n call it taiwan right now christian philipinos r not asians they r latinos - immigrate back home to origin - spain spanish r the very first colonist criminals muslim indonesians n malaysians r not asians they r mideasterners - to mideast hindu indians r not asians they r dark europeans - to india - out of hongkong singapore myanmar ... rohingas r not myanmar - they r call indian then bangaladeshi then rohinga - to bangaladesh stop occupying/colonizing myanmar - where is myanmar's human rights muslim ulghurs r not chinese they r turks - to turkey all kinds of indians get out of myanmar hongkong singapore ... even british had left - all foreigners out of all countries british rule india n burma as one country from 1886 to 1937 british whitemen want one world one race for simple easy rule - evil stupid whitemen racist hatecrime asians n burn asia since day one they return most countries but still to return continents islands waters … natives in the americas australia newzealand n all islands - indonesia philipine taiwan ... r from china so all these/whole pacific n half atlantic belongs to china so return all to china with reparation n without a shot like british hongkong n portuguese macau - the 2 omens of things to come n all racist sick low common thieves - 600 mil total - immigrate back home to origin - europe india africa spain mideast ... biden to ireland trump germany peloci italy haley india oprah africa cruz spain omar gaza zuckerberg israel ... abraham believers the christians muslims jews r worst colonist criminals ever they wield the cross n spread invade occupy around worldwide these 3 will return all stolen lands ... world will reset to precolonial order china 8000yrs civilization chinese highest iq - google bing search usa 200yrs wild wild west bomb happy barbarian bully usa/cia/pelocissssssssss r fighting 15 wars right now - msn.com they power profit world die debt erase usa before it war earth to extinction usa demoncrazy freedom is old boring silly usa multiculturalism fail - look at it - usa is sinking - in quicksand coward usa never dare declare their bully wars n never dare fight one on one usa did not win ww2 - russia n china did - they were fighting germany n japan for over 10 yrs n only when they start to win then usa came in with dday n nukes unnecessarily n stole russia n china's thunders - usa top coward thief usa n gang lost to lone afghan after 20 long yrs n cry n ran home with tail between legs usa n gang lost korea to lone china usa n gang lost vietnam to lone china russia is first to space not usa russia got most nukes not usa usa faked moon trip n said no water china found water n planted seeds moon is china's usa think it's #1 greatest country on earth - think again usa is on china's soil - u steal from redindians u steal from china - redindians r from china n true countries r by dna blood usa is by paper ink - usa is fake usa is a global village pretending to be a country god made one adam one eve - god made incest - evil god - silly christians muslims jews buddha gave up palace for a tree - don't want to be like him - silly indians suukyi is enemy of military - her father aungsan is soldier/military/general evil cheap traitor suukyi open thigh for a whiteman not aungsan suukyi - it's suukyi aris အောင်ဆန်း စုကြည် မဟုတ်ပါ စုကြည် အဲရစ် ပါ if no burmese military - burma will be weak burmese people will become like suukyi aris kids n grandkids - become all whitepeople - no more burmese no more burma မြန်မာစစ်သားများမရှိလျှင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအားနည်းလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာ အားလုံးဟာ လူဖြူတွေ ဖြစ်လာမယ် suukyi aris စုကြည် အဲရစ်သားတွေလိုမြေးတွေလို မြန်မာတွေမရှိတော့ဘူး မျိုးသုင်သွားလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မရှိတော့ဘူး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သေသွားမှာပါ can't let suukyi have any of aungsan property ... it'll go to aris british colonist criminals - not to burmese aungsan oo can adopt a burmese n leave aungsan's everything to him or make some decendants - fertilize some burmese eggs with his sperms n rent burmese womb/oven - so simple those will be his real n aungsan's real burmese decendants n not aris's british decendants suu kyi kids n grandkids r white people not burmese - look at them they r not aungsansssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss they r arissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss aungsan bro said that khinkyi is half indian half karen n she got many men before n after aungsan - she is the one who coined the term rohinga - before they were called bengali - immigrate back home to bangaladesh/india - stop occupying/colonizing burma - no - not genocide it's justice - rohinga muslims gang raped n killed a burmese buddhist nun that started the "genocide/justice" health care in usa is different than health care in taiwan or other asian countries in usa whether dr or dentist or vet ... they r like taxi drivers - take the long winding route to get most money n for job security n they want to over do tests prescriptions everything n they want u to see them regularly whether sick or not in taiwan health care is as necessary only - they get paid the same so they take the most effective shortest route - usa is really scary - once u check in u r victim/patient - my friend is a chiropractor n his mother is a medical dr n an acupuncturist but got same victim/patient treatment n die horrible everyone has to die - so make it easy govt let u buy guns knives ropes poisons ... all painful deaths make a happy pill for humans n pets (dogs cats turtles birds pigs cows goats frogs ...) so with swallowing a pill all just go to sleep forever killings n dyings n suicides happen all the time - n everyone has to die - so for when comes the time - u should be able to buy n keep such pills handy myanmar can be suicide country where people go to sleep forever should be good karma - u give them good death instead of horrible death - as is - everyone die horrible as for religions - god made one adam one eve god made incest evil god silly muslims jews chrisians/mideasterners whitemen god #1 country usa war nonstop evil god silly americans buddha leave palace for a tree silly indians sweden or switzerland r suicide legal countries - but u have to go inside a machine like a tanning capsule to die - not a fan china being atheist country don't have religious oppression by the clergy class - no mind control n scare tactic ... china should solve horrible death for world မြန်မာတပ်မတော် = မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်

Every Antiquity empire loves having big civil wars until the barbarians start filling in the depopulated lands...

tyty

Oh. So nit all that cimplcated after all !

Aka: how to restart a civil war you just ended and end up doing even worse than the warlords you overthrew to reunite China. Pretty sure Sima Yi was rolling in his grave when his family started running China into the ground even faster than Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu did (which is really saying something since those three started disintegrating even before they were officially founded).

No mention of the sheer insanity that went on between Liu Bang/Han Gaozu and Xiang Yu? Trash talks don’t get better than a guy threatening to cook the other guy’s dad into soup, and the other guy pointing out that he’d be cooking his own father if he did that because they used to be sworn brothers. And that was just the start…

Would you consider making a Patreon? I would absolutely subscribe!

your grilling of emperor ling was fantastic, cutting, hilarious. thank you for your fantastic historical analyses. one of the goats of this site

I wish Dan Carlin is the reader

What were the names of the six client kingdoms you mentioned at 52:10

Casually one of the best history channels on this platform so informative

10:55 Jia Chong: Will no one rid me of this troublesome emperor?

Very nice way you explained with maps

Nice and crimp information. Very nice video

Please more content!!! I really love so much!!!

The Romans conquered and ruled the original Spanish/Portuguese ppl longer than their ancestors conquered and ruled the Americas lol

What a brilliant video. I will listen to it a few times in preparation for a visit to Xi'an soon. 真感谢你您

Was the five mineral powder popular in shu and wu aswell?

Sima Yi is probably rolling in his grave right now

It's interesting how close Former Qin came to unifying China. I wonder how things would have played out going into the fifth century.

What is the best university in China teach history. Please reply. If you open a class teach history and language, I shall apply.

A great video and informative, may I suggest about images If add more 3 d, and actors, etc. It would be more interesting.

Apparently, the Northern scholar-official clans from the Wei-Jin dynasties that migrated south actually managed to make the existence of the Eastern Jin regime in Jiankang possible: the Wang clan of Langya having their clan migrate to their ancestor Wang Lang's old job in Kuaiji jun to dominate the imperial politics in the Southlands, while the Xun clan of Yingchuan, Xun Yu's descendants, held off rebel enemy incursions past Xiangyang during the chaos of the Yongjia Disaster.

Love these videos, thank you!

10:30 How did the nomadic armies manage to cross the Gobi desert in such numbers to pose a threat to Chinese dynasties? Looking at a map, it really seems like such a massive barrier to any invasion

Finally a new video! Have been waiting for your videos a long time. Good to see you are back with high quality video again. Looking forward for more of your videos soon.

Good description of geography in ancient China.

So by this point everyone has given up restoring the Han dynasty?

My people peaked here Fuck erzhu and emperor xiaowen

very good video! i do think it would be improved by introducing general geography earlier and maybe including a brief explanation of a timeline of events near the beginning. amazing and interesting video though!