All China's dynasties explained in 7 minutes (5,000 years of Chinese history)

All China's dynasties explained in 7 minutes (5000 years of Chinese history)
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[@EpimetheusHistory]

Check out my video on the 3 kingdoms period of Chinese history (between the Han and Jin dynasties) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2muamx-jbmjbdE Thank you guys for all the great feedback :D Mistake- the phrase "mandate of heaven" is first recorded to have been used by the Zhou dynasty, after their overthrow of the Shang.(not used by Xia) Note: 1. The canal referenced as being built by Qin Shi Huang is the Lingqu Canal....NOT the Great Canal -fyi :) Thought I should clarify that because people are incorrectly correcting that Qin did not build the great canal(the video does not say he did)... he built the Lingqu Canal 2. Kublai Khan Technically he was the fifth Khagan "great Khan" (not a king) of the whole Mongol empire...in practice, he only effectively ruled the Yuan...But he was still greatly involved in the politics of the whole realm-spending troops, resources, backing factions etc.... That is why I showed the two different labeled maps-thought people could figure that out if curious. 3. I did not Qing Manchurians (my mistake) ...trying to keep it to 7 mins is tough

[@maruthimaruthi3720]

I really like your vedios. please make video on whare Islam is started why they hate non nonMuslims.

[@zianggao5332]

Good video anyway，but you used the picture of Wei（魏文帝曹丕）when you talking about Jin，and you used the picture of a national paper current of Ming（大明通宝）while talking about Song's achievement...it is wired for Chinese people who watch this

[@bongsunhwa]

I am Korean. I do not know from where you took maps of ancient China. But your map include very controversial territory problems. In your maps, Korea lost their territory for several times or did not exist. I hope you find other map and search more. I never heard Jin dynasty took upper side of Korean peninsula. Your clip hurts many Koreans including me. And you should know. YUAN dynasty and Qing dynasty were not settled by Chinese. In the other hand, Chinese were colonized by other nations at that period.

[@bongsunhwa]

Epimetheus information on your map is very different from others. Please look at this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(265-420)

[@bongsunhwa]

Epimetheus In my opinion you took a map made by Chinese nationalists. It is very big problem and hot issue for Korean. Because they wanna annex Korean ancient history to theirs. You should be very careful, when you point range of territories in east asia. You could hurt many people not concerning with intends.

[@Dumb-Comment]

British:Give me tea China:Money first British:*drugged China and robbed the tea*

[@NotVeryRandomDude]

Dumb Comment God bless Britannia!

[@MrPip9999]

No ... They already had their tea from India. They drink Lipton like strong tea with milk and sugar, and not the light Chinese tea. But they wanted to do commerce with China all right

[@tipinwings]

Ngọc Hoàng Martian it was more like selling opium merely for a profit. The Britain gained so much that the profit carried them through a economical depression.

[@MrPip9999]

@@tipinwings : Yes ...There was indeed an economic depression in the Western world. But opium had been traded in China for centuries via the silk route because of various needs of the Chinese for this drug. The British merely helped them obtain it for a cheap price by shipping it from India to China with their merchant fleet. Now with the price of opium lowered substantially, many Chinese now could afford to use it. And that was the drama. Opium was not forbidden in Britain nor in India.

[@QuntumnPhysics]

Find a library. Read books

[@happywhale1786]

5000 years in 7 minutes means history of US in less than 2 seconds. impressed, the confidence.

[@lexaaa8984]

尚cedric WHAT REALLY? Why tho? Does the US barely have any history? 😂 (No offense tho)

[@nealsterling8151]

@@lexaaa8984 According to YT: Revolution, Civil War and WWII. Nothing else in US history exists. 😉

[@oumniaadjroud5050]

@@lexaaa8984 it was discovered in 1600 and migration start in 1700 they barley have 300 years of history while china have 5000 year ~~

[@Kyle-xk5ut]

More like 20 seconds.

[@lexaaa8984]

I understand now... Thanks guys! I've been interested into history stuff lately because of quarantine... ☺️

[@lololman]

Minor corrections: In Shang and earlier, the leader was called King (王); In Zhou, he was called Heaven's Son (天子); From Qin onward, he was called Emporer (皇帝).

[@bluemooneatlions]

Aizman 夏好像是后。

[@xq3263]

Blue Wang 啊啊啊

[@kongming2005]

It is consider not bad. Westerners are mostly misinformed, mislead and fact twisted most of the time.

[@alfredwinston4169]

天子 means the chosen one by god.

[@Dumb-Comment]

@@alfredwinston4169 天子 literally translated to "Sky Son"

[@Warmaker01]

I don't know a whole lot about Chinese history, but the Zhou dynasty having about an 800 year run is actually pretty remarkable. There are so many possible events, both foreign and domestic, that can cause any dynastic rule to come to an abrupt end.

[@AustinSauce3]

True I thought the same

[@hufe223]

how many years did the unholy nonroman not so imperial empire last? Zhou period was a lot like that period of European history.

[@Ttegegg]

@@hufe223 man can you just imagine a industrial China? What a world it could be

[@crkcrk702]

@@Ttegegg China is industrial

[@常松垚]

权利越集中，王朝越容易被推翻，周是类似欧洲古代分封制，只不是一个是天子，另一个是教皇

[@lolsmo395]

So... The Brits ruined an entire Empire for tea... That's the most British thing I could possibly heard. EDIT: Don't put up the Race card please.

[@MrKuger9]

Don't forget about the Boston Tea Party lol

[@lolsmo395]

Oh, Too much war on the British empire's side that led them near bankruptcy, So they decided to ruin another poor sod's country loool

[@Kunumbah1]

MrKuger9 Remind me not to fuck with British people and their tea.

[@ornature5324]

Lols Mo the empire was already weakened by rebellions, depression, oppressive rule, and outdated technology. They had it coming to them

[@clarkdave]

British Empire is probably the most evil European empire in the world history who manages to get away with their crimes because they were in the side who fought against Germany and won

[@HistoryMarche]

Good recap of Chinese history. Watched this while having my morning coffee. Thumbs up!

[@wdnmd3395]

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[@oliversun1974]

Thank you for having interest in Chinese history

[@GaemingStudios]

your not british

[@moclykim8220]

The northern part of the great wall is not Chinese land.It was dominated by Mongolian and Manchurian ,Koreans.Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall of China to prevent so-called Northern Orang Cae.Since then, China was conquered by the Kim Dynasty and Mongolia.also the Manchurians conquered China and ruled for 300 years (1616~1912). Manchuria Wonryugo(滿洲源流考) compiled during Qing Dynasty, also identifies that 金(kim) Dynasty is originated from the surname of the king of Silla (korea) 대금(大金, 여진어:  /amba-an antʃu-un/[1], 1115년 1월 28일 ~ 1234년) 金=Kim=korean family name "The Gojoseon(ancient korea) civilization that appeared 5,000 years ago was the third ancient civilization in the world after the Mesopotamian civilization (5500 years ago) and the Egyptian civilization (5100 years ago). The Gojoseon civilization was 1500 years ahead of the Hwangha(china) civilization.

[@musicismoreimportantthanyo9246]

5:40 have those artifacts in my home

[@mrcannotfindaname]

For someone who comes from China, I must admit this is a very short and accurate account for China's history. If you observe closely, China's territory mainly occupies the eastern and southern part of the mainland, from geographical point of view, reason being the northern and western part are mostly inhabitable. Gobi desert in north, Himalayan mountain ridge in west. In times when sailing technology wasn't so advance, the only way out was the Silk Road. Coastal regions have more fertile lands for farming as well.Minor improvement to the video, some of the pictures shown are not in the same dynasty as the script is describing. But overall, jolly good video.

[@jackliu5269]

I agree with your points. I am very impressed by this video as it is.

[@朕-c8e]

不要妄自菲薄，罗马、希腊也是你们西方的文化源泉……

[@davidmoss2576]

China has the best and most interesting history.

[@red-baitingswine8816]

Trivia: Imo: The "in-" in "inhabitable" actually means something like English "in", unlike in some words where it means 'un-, not". So "uninhabitable" is correct here, and "inhabitable" means, roughly, "habitable".

[@Stuck_One]

@@davidmoss2576 China sucks

[@uninterruptedrhythm4104]

The British loved tea so much, they invaded China and force fed them drugs lol

[@petergray2712]

No. The Chinese refused to create an exchange system of trade that would allow the British to offset huge trade deficits. The Chinese aren't as innocent, or the British as guilty as one has been led to believe (American traders came to dominate the Chinese opium trade, for example).

[@uninterruptedrhythm4104]

dubious but if you say so, im just making a joke

[@hujiaming6151]

Only because the British were lucky and patient, they waited so long until the last few years of the Qing dynasty, the Brits knew they would not stand any chance against the Qing dynasty in military unless Qing enters the end of its life span, which happened to all China's dynasties. At the end of the dynasty the nation grew weak, then the Brits invaded China and made unfair trade deals, that was just pure luck for Britain, nothing else.

[@davidhouseman4328]

Lucky, I guess, in that the British were at the zenith when China was weak. But patient, you give the British too much credit. They stumbled into it and barely consider it a war, and give it less cultural relevance than the Boer war.

[@pou603]

China was so rich at that time, but British want their gold, so selling drugs to them, it increased the poverty growth in china at that time. You can see lots of documentary of this online, and it could be one of the reason why doing drugs has most severe penalty nowadays in China.

[@silverchairsg]

Fun anecdote: I remember this particular chapter in my Chinese textbook during my schooling days, where the story was about this band of ancient cavemen (like the images literally showed them as Chinese folk with long loose hair and wearing bearskins) who were fighting in a battle against their enemy. They were losing badly, until their chieftain seized a drum and used it to boost the morale of his troops, and they won. I remember this vividly because I got 0/50 for moxie for that passage (the spelling equivalent in Chinese, where you have to memorize the passage and rewrite it entirely from memory. One wrong stroke and the whole character would be counted as wrong). I studied so hard, yet got literally 0/50. And I can still remember this 20+ years later. Sigh.

[@carlwei7559]

Moxie is also a nightmare of all Chinese students, including me😂

[@prasanth2601]

@@carlwei7559 What's the reason? I mean it's not like you are supposed to write the essay in Wényanwén.

[@alanchen8452]

@@prasanth2601 As a Chinese student, the education system forced and carved all those ancient texts, literature, poetry into my brain when I was a child. And now I can still remember them when I am old enough to appreciate them, which I am grateful.

[@doomgao3571]

@@prasanth2601 No, at least not in Mainland China. Some books written in traditional Chinese in Taiwan still use vertical format, I know Japs also use vertical format to write their book.

[@EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

@@doomgao3571 🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳Don't speak about our Chinese brothers, faceless m0r0n 🤣👉🇺🇲🧟‍♂️

[@tantpwei]

The reason why Qin Shihuang is translated as 'first Emperor' is because after the unification of China, Qin dynasty introduced the title 'Huang-di' '皇帝', which is a combination of titles for ancient sage-kings of China (三皇五帝). This title is claimed by all sub-sequent emperors. Hence Chinese would translate the title 'Huang-di' '皇帝' as 'emperor', and consider Qin Shihuang to be the first emperor. The ruler of Shang and Zhou uses the title 'King' (王) while the states loyal to Shang and Zhou uses noble ranks equivalent count duke etc... (公侯..) The state of Qin removed the Zhou king towards the end of warring state, but shortly before that a number of states including the state of Qin already claiming the title of 'King' (王) for themselves.

[@sasino]

I think it's also worth noting that the English name of "China" comes from "Qin"; it entered Romance languages as "Qina", "Cina", and then entered English as "China". The "i" became an "AI" sound because English continuously changed the way they read words overtime.

[@fliu5282]

Men, such a b.s. hisory, full of inaccurate dates and historic record. I would give you F for grade. 6:35 You should paint Taiwan (ROC) GREEN and not PINK while China is RED. This video is sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party. f off...

[@hyouzanren1846]

Its amazing throught out these chaos each dynasties still manage to write history and kept it safe for thousand of years!

[@Veiljustin83]

Cos china dynasty has a habit of keeping historical records to learn from the mistakes (Which they never do) and the greatness of their ancestors. All dynasties have a historian position where his job is just to record everything that has happened. Some records may be destroyed during the wars but a lot of them are preserved and brought over to the next dynasty that succeeded. China officials are split into 2 types, the scholar type and the warrior type.

[@rogerzhang5417]

The very first, all of the dynasties are broken by people at the bottom of society.

[@chandrawangsa7796]

All this histories some are compiled in... you can say an "encyclopedia" like Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian (94 B.C.) and many others "encyclopedia", yeah so the records keep safe for many centuries

[@冠军侯-m2u]

因为每个朝代的皇帝都有一个共识，那就是国可灭，史不可灭。

[@lowgalaxy7232]

The history of a dynasty was writtern by its successor. In ancient China you can't write the history of your own dynasty.

[@WSOJ3]

Goes like this (by significant periods): 3 Emperors Era (pre-historical tribal period), 5 Sovereigns Era (pre-historical tribal period), Xia Dynasty (first officially formed dynasty following the 5 Sovereigns Era, backed by archeological findings, but no writing found from the period), Shang Dynasty (first dynasty backed by numerous archeological findings and with writings on), Zhou Dynasty, Spring-Autumn Warring States Era, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, 3 Kingdoms Era, Jin Dynasty, South-North Dual Dynasties era, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, ROC, PRC.

[@2233forlolz]

I would like to point out a few points here and there zhou is historically devided into west and east zhou due to different capitals and power of the heavens' son han dynasty is also devided into west and east han and there is a shin dynasty in the middle of it so is song dynasty but it is devided into north and south song because they lost a war.

[@Dragons_Armory]

Great video man, small points I noticed. Both the Tang and the Ming were much bigger than shown, Although only for short intervals less than 40 years. The Tang once stretched into what is Mongolia today and was as far westward as the Aral Sea (although it was largely inherited from the Western Gokturk Khaganate and was never truly administered directly by the imperial bureaucracy but more through vassals.) As for the Ming dynasty, during the reign of it's first several emperors- especially during the rule of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, he expanded Ming territories across what is Manchuria and also the far east coast of Russia. Keep up the awesome works.

[@coxwang40]

yes, the maps in the video about Tang and Ming were not the biggest territory they ever had.

[@dongpan8931]

Wrong, the Tang Dynasty set up administrative agencies at the provincial level to protect the capital in the western regions.

[@dongpan8931]

@@coxwang40 Wrong, the Tang Dynasty set up administrative agencies at the provincial level to protect the capital in the western regions.

[@அழகன்ஆசீவகர்]

Dragon. Tamil god murugan srilanganpeaple kathir kramam

[@EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

🤺☦🇷🇺❤🇨🇳Chinese are descendants of Obal son of Joktan, the Hebrew, in the line of Shem. Here is their ancient lineage👉 *YOKTAN* (Qatanites; east Asians): *Almodad* (Amerindians: Olmec, Maya, Inca, Sioux, Cheyenne... YUCATAN - ne/nw/c/s.Amarica) *Sheleph* (NaDenes: Slavey, Dakelh, Navajo... - nw.Canada/s.USA) *Hazarmaveth* (Hadramaut: Oman, s.Arabia - A.Australians/Micronesians/Pacific Islanders) *Yerakh* (Inuits: Aleut,Yupik... •Yuuyaraq♤Tarqeq -Yukon, Greenland/Alaska/n.Canada) *Hadoram* (Tai/Siam: "Rаm"◇praeRhaem◇ Ahom>dharma+rhmañña - Thailand, Laos) *Uzal* (Turkics: Siberians - Yakuts, Ouzes, Oguz, Turkmen, Selkup..) *Diklah* (Koreans: Silla, Baekje, Goryeo) *Obal* (Han Chinese: Balhae, Mohe, Malgal) *Abimael* (Malays: Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia♧"Malang") *Sheba* (Romani: Indians, Sri Lankas) *Ophir* (Austronesians: Indonesia> "golden isles" - Philippines, Polynesians, Pacific Islanders) *Khavila* (Tibetans: Burmese, Andamanese, Bhutanese, Japanese) *Yobab* (Mongols: Xianbei/Shiwei/Khitan)

[@TechMagnet]

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[@vloggerzblogg6494]

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[@moclykim8220]

The northern part of the great wall is not Chinese land.It was dominated by Mongolian and Manchurian ,Koreans.Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall of China to prevent so-called Northern Orang Cae.Since then, China was conquered by the Kim Dynasty and Mongolia.also the Manchurians conquered China and ruled for 300 years (1616~1912). Manchuria Wonryugo(滿洲源流考) compiled during Qing Dynasty, also identifies that 金(kim) Dynasty is originated from the surname of the king of Silla (korea) 대금(大金, 여진어:  /amba-an antʃu-un/[1], 1115년 1월 28일 ~ 1234년) 金=Kim=korean family name "The Gojoseon(ancient korea) civilization that appeared 5,000 years ago was the third ancient civilization in the world after the Mesopotamian civilization (5500 years ago) and the Egyptian civilization (5100 years ago). The Gojoseon civilization was 1500 years ahead of the Hwangha(china) civilization.

[@ingdjr5573]

@@moclykim8220 korea=universe

[@pepetiredofursht]

I was forced to learn this in 5th-10th grade, and now I remember NOTHING of it. This video thought me more in 7 minutes than 5 years of history in class.

[@rickdeckard804]

That’s not the teachers fault. That’s your fault.

[@gaylord3592]

@@rickdeckard804 I don’t blame him, 5 years of CHINESE history is a bit hard to remember. 可是本片解得好/plus this video was explained pretty well.

[@sophiepaiva1473]

That’s your fault. I learned this in middle school and still remember half because I watched a lot of dramas.

[@pepetiredofursht]

@@sophiepaiva1473 HAHAAH good one

[@pepetiredofursht]

@@rickdeckard804 okay, you're the smart guy.

[@StarBoundFables]

That was really cool! I've been studying Mandarin for a few years now, & I'd like to say this is 1 of the best Chinese history vids I've seen. Clear & concise. Thank you

[@mirencepeda5990]

佛教其实从汉朝就传入中国了

[@AurelioSon]

It would be nice to add a drawn timeline bar at the bottom with different colors from the different dynasties/periods

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Good suggestion :)

[@AurelioSon]

Hey thank you! Love your content!

[@yantingli8651]

images.chinahighlights.com/allpicture/2017/07/99a04d09f69f4ac7b474c509.jpg this should give a good comparison. just knowing the "tang song yuan Ming Qing " will be sufficient. many Chinese themselves might not be able to link all dynasty together correctly

[@moclykim8220]

The northern part of the great wall is not Chinese land.It was dominated by Mongolian and Manchurian ,Koreans.Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall of China to prevent so-called Northern Orang Cae.Since then, China was conquered by the Kim Dynasty and Mongolia.also the Manchurians conquered China and ruled for 300 years (1616~1912). Manchuria Wonryugo(滿洲源流考) compiled during Qing Dynasty, also identifies that 金(kim) Dynasty is originated from the surname of the king of Silla (korea) 대금(大金, 여진어:  /amba-an antʃu-un/[1], 1115년 1월 28일 ~ 1234년) 金=Kim=korean family name "The Gojoseon(ancient korea) civilization that appeared 5,000 years ago was the third ancient civilization in the world after the Mesopotamian civilization (5500 years ago) and the Egyptian civilization (5100 years ago). The Gojoseon civilization was 1500 years ahead of the Hwangha(china) civilization.

[@mikeli8318]

@@moclykim8220 Korea is the best and only superpower of the world

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Wow, I did not think it is possible to sum up all of the dynasties of China in such a short amount of time. Good work overall!

[@donovan5656]

Favorite dynasty is the Tang. They had a fondness for thick women, among all the other cool things going on during that time.

[@hmmmhmmm6917]

T H I C C

[@martytu20]

Yang Guifei is T H I C C

[@周行健-d4e]

thicc

[@espadac4746]

And they did not discriminate against any race nor creed, anyone is welcomed as long as their talented and useful to the empire.

[@Surstromming22]

what the fuck is thicc??

[@giannb5145]

Minor correction on the western border of the Qing map. The Qing also included eastern Kazakhstan (the border being at Lake Balkhash) and most of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. These lands were lost to Russia in the 1860s.

[@dongkwon1242]

Maps are not accurate.

[@emonsuparman9248]

Yes I believe Qing Map China controlled Tajikistan, half of Kyrgistan, but I didn't believe China under Qing Dynasty controlled Kazakhstan

[@giannb5145]

@@emonsuparman9248 Qing controlled the south-east of modern Kazakhstan, the border being Lake Balkhash. Russia annexed these lands in the 1860s

[@liyixuan9038]

他错的地方很多，尤其是唐代的部分，几个都护府和册封的国家根本就没算争议地区也没算，就连部分直接控制的也没算🤦但是总体还是比其他视频的更加贴切❤

[@kclee6968]

My late grandfather had migrated from Kwangtung, China together with his addiction to British opium to colonial Malaya. He spent most of his daily life in the opium den in Malaya.

[@lanlantulan]

Thanks to United Kingdom?

[@sophiepaiva1473]

Moral of the story: don’t do drugs

[@eb94499]

@@sophiepaiva1473 be like the Brits sell them instead and force a country to accept the opium trade

[@TheKaMeLRo]

My great grand fathers came to Thailand from Hainan, had kids and then died. This is all I know.

[@juliachiu535]

China does not have 5000 years of history. There was no such country named China. China was only formed a hundred years ago. In ancient times, there were all other countries in the that land, nothing was called China. It is all lie by the Communist.

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Your work is really impressive sadly you are underrated

[@Dan-qn9ob]

Elias Frahat I need your help

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Dan it is fine how can I help you :)

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Dan I guess I can help what points do you need

[@Dan-qn9ob]

Elias Frahat do you have Instagram?

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Dan yes ly0x_

[@weareorigin]

This guy taught me more about China, than in 12 years of Ohio public schooling did.

[@snowdog03]

WRO I'm certain you learned much more about Chinese history than was taught about American history over there.

[@fansongyi]

I learned more on youtube than my 12 years schooling in China

[@isaacjiang1831]

Songyi Fan dude this is all requifed knowledge if you ever passed.

[@stevenw2933]

actually that is not the case. History is a huge deal in China and as America was/is the most powerful country in the world Chinese people know more about American History than vice versa. But perhaps thats more of a commentary on how little Americans know about the rest of the world than any particular praise for chinese education. Learning English is also mandatory in all chinese schools from grade 1. Most continue to study english into post secondary education.

[@simonli6865]

Songyi Fan LOL, that’s funny. You definitely suck at being a student.

[@sylview9991]

Great video! Minor correction with the map. Island of Taiwan was called 夷洲 (Yizhou) in history and it was part of Kingdom Wu from the Three kingdom dynasty, as recorded in the book of 临海水土志, a book written by Shen Ying from Kingdom Wu at 230 AD.

[@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236]

The history kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5q7aJaCppWCmqc.k

[@EL-gz3sh]

Many of terrority was lost during its time. Taiwan was lost and claimed by KMT.

[@dddanw6268]

@@EL-gz3sh Not lost. In fact, the civil war has not finished

[@oivinf]

It was never part of Wu, they merely explored there. There is zero evidence of permanent Wu settlement or governance

[@李嘉俊-v6l]

are you robot? he said the Kingdom Wu period. @@EL-gz3sh

[@rogerwang2435]

such a great video!! when I try to self study china's history, I always get lost in the procession of dynasties, and their relations to one another. the visual presentation of each dynasty and its territory and a brief intro of each time period all wrapped in one video is very helpful.

[@Stuck_One]

China like sh!t.

[@juliachiu535]

China does not have 5000 years of history. There was no such country named China. China was only formed a hundred years ago. In ancient times, there were all other countries in the that land, nothing was called China. It is all lie by the Communist.

[@润章]

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[@marcotam6285]

Really liked this condensed version of Chinese history. Definitely beat pouring over all the Wikipedia pages and putting everything together. Thanks for making this! If there is any opportunity to expand a bit more on the success and achievements of each time period, that would be awesome!

[@dongpan8931]

if you don't know, you can get to know the surnames of the Chinese people. Since the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou carried out the enfeoffment system and divided his descendants to various places. His descendants took the land as their surname, while the Shang Dynasty before the Zhou Dynasty was a vassal state ruled by the Xia Dynasty before the Shang Dynasty, and the Xia Dynasty was also a group gathered by the tribes in the Yellow River valley. The Xia Dynasty was the first slave country established by Yao and Shun, the Yellow Emperor, because of Yu's meritorious service in flood control. So, the Chinese have been a family since 5000 years ago.

[@geleksamphel4558]

Although I appreciate your attempt of simplifying Chinese history to the general mass, but still finds the need of pointing out few mistakes, the bronze mask that was depicted in 1:16 was actually from sanxindui civilization, yes they are believed to be an ancient Chinese civilization, but they have no tie with shang dynasty. The building of great Wall actually started before emperor shi Huandi who founded the qin dynasty, there are evidence of the wall being built during the Waring States period, but he did made it famous, the great Wall you see on the magazine or book covers are builted during Ming dynasty. Lastly, when you are talking about the sui dynasty, you had a picture of emperor wei wendi,cao pi who is the son caocao the famous warlord of the three kingdom period, the chinese text on the painting reads" emperor Wei Wendi, Cao Pi". Yeah, the chinese name and country are pain in the ass to know and I do appreciate your efforts.

[@sunbang9000]

The most famous topic of a dynasty: 1. Xia -- question at History books VS Archaeological evidence 2. Shang -- inscriptions on bones 3. Zhou -- the system of enfeoffment 4. Spring autumn & warrior period -- legendary guys, legendary stories 5. Qin -- the first empire of China 6. Han -- influence spreading, even today, Chinese still call them self 'han' 7. Three kingdoms -- the romance of three kingdoms 8. Jin -- Dynasty for "hippie" 9. Sui -- The emperor did the things that should be done in many generations, so he was f**ked up 10. Tang -- the peak of China 11. Song -- the weakest yet the longest empire, dynasty for literati 12. Yuan -- Dark age of China 13. Ming -- Geek emperors, special agents, rising of folk cultures 14. Qing -- Darker age of China A.K.A China was fucked by wild pig

[@lilithshopping7904]

Qing was not a Dark age of China.Quite the contrary

[@kihuu4055]

AGREE

[@支那人-p6d]

yes, Qing was the darkest age, it weaken entire Asia

[@qi8705]

In fact, Song is the peak, not Tang. Tang is the most powerful, but powerful =/=peak.

[@nobblkpraetorian5623]

Yuan dynasty is not a dark age either. If there is ever a dark age of China it would be the Jin dynasty and the following Northern and Southern Dynasties.

[@ZerogunRivale]

Great video, but i'd love to see a 70 minute super detailed version of this from you. Every dynasty and era of China is just so fascinating.

[@tipinwings]

ZerogunRivale even a 7 years program of bachelor plus masters degrees can not cover all the Chinese dynasties in detail.

[@lyd2550]

You need some Chinese history books.Come there,All of them just $100.😎😎

[@MikeAnderson-mh2og]

Very impressive video on the entirety Chinese History. Great description on the Tang Dynasty which was China's golden age. Keep these vids up !

[@liangxu8402]

Those who say that Chinese traditional culture is absent do not understand China or culture at all. I really laughed to death. I have no idea of ​​what culture is. Culture is dynamic and not static. This is how people with 5000 years of history are. It has evolved over the years, and will continue to evolve in the future. The core source is that the Chinese people have a very strong ability to adapt to environmental changes. This is what Chinese people have brought about resisting nature, resisting invasions, and resisting dynasties. Various risks. China is a long-standing agricultural nation. They live a relatively comfortable life on this land, so there is no need for foreign aggression. Almost all wars are defenses against foreign enemies and civil wars. People pay attention to farming, solar terms, and people. Relationship with people. The West is a commercial civilization, a lot of adventure and robbery, and the continuous flow of population has led to more attention to the relationship between man and nature. This is the most essential difference between Chinese and Western cultures. When today's Chinese society enters the age of industrialization and technologicalization, the Chinese will quickly adapt and adjust, find the know-how, and integrate into their own life and culture. This is the direction of China in the future. Please don't be kidnapped by a certain ideology to think about China.

[@miniaturesandstuff5209]

Great video!!! My ancestors moved south from China to the Philippines around the latter 1800s. The history if the Filipino-Chinese people is very colourful too, if little known actually. Kudos to you and looking forward to more of your videos!

[@juliachiu535]

China does not have 5000 years of history. There was no such country named China. China was only formed a hundred years ago. In ancient times, there were all other countries in the that land, nothing was called China. It is all lie by the Communist.

[@Linfamy]

I love this video, concise and informative!

[@starroving6464]

Aye Linfamy, the future celebrity of KZbin Japanese History!!!

[@CNX625]

Ming! Oh look, China just make itself China again.

[@VitaSineLibertatenih]

Not a big price to pay for modern civilization. I thank Brits and other Europeans.

[@yushitawajun93]

CNX625 yeah!

[@rodkirsop4291]

Epimetheus is the best! A fantastic concise history of Chinese dynasties. Thank you Epimetheus.

[@feelsgoodman9751]

I wish u made a longer more detailed video about the epic history of China. there's just so much to tell

[@ValdezJu]

5,000 years of Chinese history 7 minutes! Epimetheus is probably working on follow-up videos now (hope so!)!

[@titleatptitleinsertcoordin3701]

"what say we go fishing this weekend, OH NO I HAVE STROKE" -oversimplified

[@connormurphy683]

Early civilizations Zhou - used writing, slaves Shang - origin of Taoism, Confucianism, autonomous subdivisions Warring states - China was divided Qin - Qin Shi Huangdi, unified China but force and destroying regional identities. Built canal + terracotta army Han - took over when Qin Shi Huangdi died. Existed at the same time as Rome. Silk road + civil service. First golden age Three kingdoms period - three different emperors claimed succession Jin - reunified under military rule Northern and Southern dynasty - warlords split Sui - reunification. Brief Tang - second golden age. Spear Chinese culture. Five dynasties Song - compass, gun powder, printing Yuan - Mongols Ming - prosperous, art, pottery Qing

[@杜子垩]

You got Shang and Zhou reversed bro = =

[@blessedevelyn339]

Xia - Abrahamic Christianity. King Yu was for sure a Christian pre-Jesus.

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

What about the Qing? It's just empty.

[@guilhermehx7159]

@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon the worst dinasty

[@Tatiana-jt9hd]

Qing - (nothing haha)

[@alaricthescholar2517]

You have such colorful and detailed illustrations! Really makes the history come alive.

[@jackliu5269]

This is the best condensed China history explained in any language that I had seen on KZbin. I am a fan of Chinese history, due to surprise awaking of the culture richness of my parents' old country, my heritage; I didn't know until by chance got involved at work.

[@许文箴]

你有没有line呢？我想我可以和你交流中国文化

[@mingwang5745]

Your parents are Chinese.？

[@言って-b5b]

Came here after reading Kingdom manga. It made me curious about everything related to China's unification down to the real characters.

[@DA-jh7gn]

Warring states period 475-221, i learn from Kingdom manga 😂

[@karimm.elsayad9539]

We also get a bit of a spoiler: Ei Sai is a big asshole.

[@hanhan9487]

@@karimm.elsayad9539 LOL HAHAHHA

[@tigerfist2864]

Ah love the anime but its just weird watching chinese speak japanese,and japanese so funny whrn they drawing chinese character in anime always with slanted eyes ,but japanese character always with colorfull round eyes ,they dont realize have same slanted eyes? lol

[@fikriirshade1132]

@@tigerfist2864 its just the mangaka style, theres ton of manga that dont have big rounded eyes character.

[@tigerfist2864]

@@fikriirshade1132 maybe but still most mainstream anime have big eyes...its like they dont proud with they original look...its sad tbh mostly anime character more like represent white people than asian ! Shame on u japan

[@dwangaa]

3:18 the three kingdoms explained in 6 seconds... Zhang Fei called, he wants to talk to you.

[@johnnyzhu9867]

The picture for Sui is not correct. It is Cao Pi from three kingdoms period

[@CaeruleanXII]

I'm glad Im not the only one who noticed this.

[@jackytang3683]

You missed an important period "chunqiu or spring and Autumn which appeared many philosophy and poems and thinker"

[@mavs013]

Cold fact: 1、The history of China is only 3000 years in the view of many historians today（including Chinese historians as well）, and this debate has been going on. 2、China has a huge population, and at the same time, several wars with the most casualties in world history also took place in China--acoording to Wikipedia. 3、There have been many wars in China since ancient times, and the Chinese are also a group of people who have extreme distrust of the government and lack a sense of security, so many of their practices and psychology are understandable. 4、The new Chinese regime is actually a very young country with a history of less than 80 years. 5、There are Chinatowns（唐人街 in Chinese） in many places because the Tang （唐）Dynasty was very prosperous and had great influence. 6、崖山之后，再无中国 means after Yashan, there is no China, referring to the last battle of the end of the Song Dynasty, many Chinese don't think the ruling Mongols of Yuan Dynasty are their leaders. 7、三星堆文化 or so called Sanxingdui culture, in many people‘s eyes including many Chinese historians, has nothing to do with China. 8、The ancient Chinese people wear long braids because of an ancient saying “身体发肤，受之父母” which means that the body, hair and skin are inherited from their parents, and they do not belong to them, so they cannot be discarded casually.

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

Other fact: China as nation state only exist in modern era since Republic of China in 1912, before that Chinese still living in concept of dynastic empires. Like crowns of Europe before French revolution, China as a state confined in the concept of mandate of heaven.

[@holyholyholy40]

I liked this a lot!! Do more like these!

[@tazisayshi]

Sui, is pronounced as 'Sway'. However, I was really impressed by your on point pronunciation of Qin Shi Huang.

[@bredmond812]

you should also mention longshan is pronounced "low"ng shan, the xia is pronounced like "sh"(without curling the tongue)ya, the shang is pronounced sh"ah"ng; the zhou is pronounced "tzh"ou; the tang is pronounced t"ah"ng; the song is pronounced s"oo"ng, the yuan is pronounced yu"Ann". The parts in the quotes are the areas that need changing. If you or Epimetheus dont like this post, i just mean that he seem to like knowing the right way to pronounce these things, since he "loved/pinned" your comment. I'm not trying to be a smart aleck. Good video by the way. I learned something about the prehistory, which is the area i am most interested in.

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Brandon Redmond Love prehistory too! Gobekli tepe I find one of the most fascinating places in the world...I have a huge respect for our far ancient ancestors-I believe they will continue to surprise academics of what they were capable of. Probably not right away...but I think I might want to do future videos on the individual dynasties(maybe just the earlier ones) I do appreciate the correct pronunciations, I do appreciate correct diction...I always try to get better with languages :)

[@bredmond812]

Epimetheus i kind of like gobekle tepe, but a lot of what is published comes from fringe theorists. They start getting into antedeluvian stuff or the watchers/annunaki/ lizard people, so in the end, there is only so much literature about it that is real. I have tried to learn a bit about haplogroups and such, but that is a lot of work for what is really just an amateur interest/ escape. Same with linguistics. I wish there were more on KZbin about prehistory, but economics prevents it, especially when Julius Caesar and the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the Egyptian pyramids is so compelling to more people for some reason. I must be an expert in those subjects by now. We will see what the future brings. Good luck on your future videos.

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Brandon Redmond Thanks! I am glad you found my channel I have mixed feelings about the "watchers/annunaki/ lizard people" crowd 1. many of them are nuts-have the imagination in the overdrive gear (which can be entertaining) But... 2. they have a genuine interest in the time period and are willing to promote further research into it, and preserving it (I like that part) I think they could play a part in preserving/revealing the past...perhaps unintentionally or misguidedly Annunaki is a fantastic word by the way...I just like how it sounds :)

[@blessingmasawi3616]

If they didn't inform the *emperor of the deal that means there was never consent from the emperor for his resignation. Meaning he did not resign.. making the Quing empire valid today.. or am i missing something?*

[@peaceleague6514]

so back then, the emperor was just a little kid, but the eunuch acted like he was still the emperor, keeping the secret about the dynasty's downfall under wraps.

[@jeffwang6460]

Lol I love how you used orange to represent the Tang dynasty. (I see what you did there)

[@88hyperman]

Good job here and I love the art work!

[@christheconquerer9944]

Your vids are great man you’re awesome!

[@mengni4426]

1:23 the mask pic you showed it acturally belongs to Sanxingdui (Three Star Mound), which co-exsited with Shang, but in Sichuan (west side of China).

[@liweisun2037]

4:12 wrong picture...That's the King of Wei during the Three Kingdoms time, according to the words at the upper right corner.

[@Preuen-zs1fz]

I really love how the maps look

[@GoldenOwlEvents]

Great video! Very easy to understand, enjoyable to watch. Good introduction to Chinese history. Thank you for making it!

[@quanyuan6760]

5:10 Compass was old, really old, older than the Xia dynasty at beginning of the video. And also gunpowder already exists long time ago, Song Dynasty use them as rockets and unguided unmanned glider with bombs on them. Before that, Tang Dynasty already use gunpowder for grenades, and also flares for a long times.

[@maxtoth5561]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe at 1:42 you're mistaken. Confucius lived during the warring states period, and it was the instability of the time that led him to create his philosophies.

[@linjie1213]

In fact Confucius lived during the Spring and Autumn period when Zhou rulers were still there but started losing control of the regional states. (Thus, Spring and Autumn = Western Zhou) The instability of the time did contribute to his philosophies.

[@syedrahman5334]

Your work is really amazing. I love history. Loved this video. Parallel to these short videos Could you please make longer ones that go into greater details. Could you please make a similar one about the Indian Subcontinent and About the Aryans and Indo Aryans. I would love to help in any way possible. Keep up the amazing work.

[@syedrahman5334]

Lol just saw that you already made a video on the Indian Subcontinent. Great. Like I said in my last comment, please make some with more Details.

[@thoughtsauce7225]

“IT’S LU BU!” - poor soldier

[@tuna84]

M we spell it Lv Bu 呂布 instead of Lu Bu

[@warlordhuo4647]

Lü* (aka lv)

[@johnrayordas]

Famous last words of foot soldiers

[@sophiepaiva1473]

@@tuna84 Lü not Lv. Lv was only invented because you can’t type ü on the desktop keyboard.

[@zhaochongyao9997]

Lv Bu

[@CarlosBDW1]

Chinese are still using the characters now, just like 2000 years ago.

[@zollyz]

Let's not pretend that the characters haven't evolved throughout the years. Many are hardly recognizable compared to today's form

[@goldend1104]

Ancient Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese

[@jacklee-oc3tv]

not really..

[@louiswu6300]

@@zollyz Yep, and If you are good at chinese in high school level, you could still read the ancient books such as 'the art of war', and 'tree kingdom'. Chinese wisdom comes from these books.

[@edukid1984]

@@zollyz The characters began to stabilize in form and structure by the late Han Dynasty. So yes, a high school kid in China today can still recognize a large number of words from almost two thousand years ago - though the prose have changed so much that it's hard to understand the meaning without some prior knowledge in the "old ways of writing"!

[@IopheusHarrison13]

4:05 this dude is actually the Emperor of the Wei dynasty from the Three Kingdoms instead of the Sui Emperor way after. The calligraphy on the right says so. He's Cao Cao's son.

[@ginavandonk5505]

Awesome, thanks for time and effort putting this all together!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Your welcome! Glad you liked it :)

[@jasond1429]

It’s the morning of the test I think we all know why you’re here

[@TheAceLewis]

6:08 gee, thanks Britain. Is there anything y’all don’t fuck up?

[@ValdezJu]

Can you recommend any good historically accurate movies from any of these dynasties/periods?

[@EpimetheusHistory]

The emperor and the assassin (1998) is one of my favorite foreign movies Red cliff (2008) is pretty good for a movie Both of these I feel are much more historically concerned than many of the other movies that focus on action and have lots of flying around. But could not recommend "The emperor and the assassin' more is a fantastic movie and really gives a complex picture of the unification of China by Qin...and the pros and cons.

[@EpimetheusHistory]

The last emperor (1987) about the last emperor of the Qing is also really good...kinda depressing...but really good

[@ValdezJu]

*_¡muchas gracias!_*

[@EpimetheusHistory]

De nada amigo

[@davidtruong5332]

Jimaro Morales the 3 kingdom.

[@jonseilim4321]

The information was a little sparse, but overall it was well presented and accurate! :) Take a subscribe my good man!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Thank you! :D

[@TexasGI47life]

A little sparse? Turning 2,000 years into seven minutes means sparse. I am not sure a seven-hour video would be watched 13,000 times in three days, but sure ... some info was left out.

[@davidedwards9097]

He should of at the very least mentioned the Qing Dynasty's situation with the Han Chinese majority and Manchurian elite.

[@ameliat6617]

I NEED THIS FOR MY FREAKING SOCIAL STUDIES TEST THANK YOU

[@rimcage3528]

Thanks for this 7 mins summary of the Chinese dynasties. This is indispensable video for teaching history since kids nowadays are mostly having short span of attention.

[@liunima9930]

I would like to point out a couple incorrectly chosen images. At 3:59, the image says 魏文帝曹丕, who is the first emperor of the Wei Kingdom rather than Sui Dynasty. Also, at 5:13, the paper money is from the Ming Dynasty as it says 大明 at the top and 洪武 at the bottom. Anyways, this video is awesome and I would definitely subscribe to your channel.

[@不以幽為靈]

我也刚想指出来结果看到了你的评论XD

[@666-o1l]

Nearly all Westerners are illiterate in Chinese language. That’s why they keep making this kind of childish and obvious mistakes. Lol~

[@liunima9930]

It is always good to learn something and one should not discourage learning.

[@flyingbirdskingcloud2908]

纸币来自宋朝

[@francinelin]

厉害厉害

[@77jkmahlum]

Man, great video! But immediately it stuck out to me that more of these names were being mispronounced than being pronounced correctly. If memory serves, Qin, Qing, Ming, and Han were pronounced correctly while all of the rest were wrong to varying degrees. Some were pretty close. For Tang you said "Tayng" when it should have been "Tawng". (Tang rhymes with "Bong") Etc. If you want to check out the correct pronunciations, check out the Hanyu Pinyin system. Or you could always just type it into Google Translate. Great editing and content though! I really liked it.

[@عماراحمد-ق7ن]

Watching this and realizing ancient people were just like us… but with better fashion sense!

[@KingMias]

i like this guy but I would really love to hear the story from an actual Chinese person who has lots of knowledge on their background I can wear the uniform and outfits that the men and women wore during this time that would be amazing the visuals I’m sure it would be epic

[@dylangtech]

The way Chinese civilizations rose, fell, and developed fascinates me, as few places in the world have histories like it, and none this long. I sorta feel as though the USA will someday undergo these periods of warring states, as all things come to an end. We're too similar to one another, and each state too powerful and populous to be conquered from abroad. I'd argue China still is in such a system as well. What we today know as "the People's Republic of China" is simply "The Mao Dynasty". Sure there is no emperor, but for all intents and purposes, Mao and Xi rule as emperors, and legalist ones at that, like under Yuan or Qin.

[@keeganbradly5982]

Hey Epimetheus, I Like Your Videos, They're Are Great!

[@laabitres]

freaking brits and their tea smh

[@laabitres]

LMFAO they might invade your house

[@andrewnorrie2731]

Britian may have forgotten the Opium Wars, China has not; something Britian is about to discover post-Brexit.

[@pasterofmuppets666]

@Taylan Safak xD

[@gregoryfietz3831]

@@andrewnorrie2731 YOUR ON IT ! If I was a Chinese I would be pissed off with all Europeans colonialusts .

[@wyswygsommer2769]

Im not agree with the Brits, but i can undrestand some how. The Brits were living in a cold and isolated island. They have almost no natural resources, limited sun light, no spices or tea, no interesting wildlife,etc. Its really a hopeless country. The only way to enjoy the life is to go to the other countries.

[@karchi12]

Hope more westerners know more Chinese history to obtain the most objective image of this great people.

[@倚杖听江声]

Westerners will only think we were slaughtered 😂 They think we are poor and need to be saved

[@moclykim8220]

The northern part of the great wall is not Chinese land.It was dominated by Mongolian and Manchurian ,Koreans.Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall of China to prevent so-called Northern Orang Cae.Since then, China was conquered by the Kim Dynasty and Mongolia.also the Manchurians conquered China and ruled for 300 years (1616~1912). Manchuria Wonryugo(滿洲源流考) compiled during Qing Dynasty, also identifies that 金(kim) Dynasty is originated from the surname of the king of Silla (korea) 대금(大金, 여진어:  /amba-an antʃu-un/[1], 1115년 1월 28일 ~ 1234년) 金=Kim=korean family name "The Gojoseon(ancient korea) civilization that appeared 5,000 years ago was the third ancient civilization in the world after the Mesopotamian civilization (5500 years ago) and the Egyptian civilization (5100 years ago). The Gojoseon civilization was 1500 years ahead of the Hwangha(china) civilization.

[@yoloi2470]

@@moclykim8220 gojoseon was more advanced than china? Its funny how they lost the war against the han dynasty and was colonized by the han as the four commanderies is established. By chinese you meant the han central plainers, since manchurian and mongolian is somewhat absorbed as chinese.

[@马日磾-e2u]

History of China: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, Eastern Han, New Dynasty, Western Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

[@马日磾-e2u]

@@8circlewizard Hello friend, you are from that country, and I also want to know the history of your country.

[@8circlewizard]

@@马日磾-e2u I apologize for my rude behavior. I was angry at some Chinese did historical distortions in videos related to Japanese and Korean, Vietnamese history. So I think I did something rude to you who was supposed to be Chinese. It was wrong to insult someone all of a sudden. Of course, China’s cultural status in East Asia at the time cannot be ignored. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam have developed many independent cultures. But East Asian culture cannot be explained without China. As such,I know that China’s history and culture, from Xia to Qing, occupy a very important position in East Asia. Once again, I apologize for the disrespect I caused you. I hope you have a great day.

[@ragnarokws2670]

American histroy be like : boom boom bang bang kill kill kill usa usa usa

[@JackY-pu5nh]

This is very short and simplified but also accurate, as a Chinese history buff and a Chinese myself I can confirm this. Good job 👏

[@JackY-pu5nh]

@@smlie986 是的，也是一贯的西方视角，很少有看到西方人能如此站在我们的视角讲中国历史

[@Bellasie1]

Well done, your videos are a great way to make these topics accessible to all or just refresh old memories from past studies.

[@starfthegreat]

In 1915, Chinese President Yuan Shikai declared himself Emperor but was forced to resign 83 days latee after heavy armed backlash from his army. In 1917, a Qing loyalist warlord took Beijing and tried to restore the Empire by returning Puyi to the throne,however once again this was an unsuccessful attempt and Puyi had to resign after 2 weeks.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:46 Qing was the ascendancy of the Manchus, when ethnic Han men were required to wear their hair in those long braided queues to indicate their subservient status.

[@promo4842]

anyone here for the ap wh exam tomorrow?

[@JJHanna]

bro i am good luck

[@waltergoggins3327]

Same

[@katelynd807]

we out here gl fam

[@jays5926]

Me

[@brendanora8345]

Me

[@rip1596]

I am a Turk I came here wondering because there is always something related to china in history class😂😂

[@johane4764]

How do you make these videos from your tablet? The graphics, audio etc. are pretty polished. Well done

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Thanks! Surface tablet so is pretty much a full computer...I use sketchbook pro for the drawings and Microsoft movie maker for the editing and I use a Blue Microphones Snowball ICE Microphone which I think sounds really good for around 50 bucks

[@johane4764]

I'm binge watching your videos right now. Amazing how you could come up with such great content while other KZbinrs invest on more premium software and hardware. Your effort on research is great too. You got a new sub.

[@Kalleosini]

Look at this channel popping up in my recommendations, thanks -google- youtube, you did a good one this time. smashed that sub button.

[@timecrashv5wu709]

Its so awesome that you make this video all by yourself!

[@codyshi4743]

There’s one question I don’t get, why in each Chinese history, kingdom divides, reunite, and collapse.

[@zhangbolun268]

Cody Shi we call this 天下大势分久必合，合久必分。（This world will seperate after long time united. Also will do the opposite after long time pliting.）

[@s03ckw48]

divides, reunite, collapse, replaced by another dynasty, and divides again. It was a loop for every dynasty in the world, not only China. However, when other new dynasty in the world is formed, culture, language, religion, or even their own people will be replaced, lost, and finally disappear in history. Some dynasties may continue their own civilization for more than thousand years, but is still destroyed by other civilization. Only China are able to sustain their own civilization, Chinese culture, religions for more than 3500 years and to the modern day. Chinese also has the complete written record of history starting from Shang dynasty. Those records are always a good source to discover some lost empires, stages, or cities. Therefore, China is suitable to use this sentence "kingdom divides, reunite, and collapse" because Chinese dynasties may collapse but their civilization still remain and their people will reunite. The sentence is not negative in my opinion. You may look at Persian culture, Greek, Roman, Egypt. They already lost their original culture, religion.

[@casecao8412]

Because court culture is a garbage way of ruling a country

[@tomyoung8523]

Notes: (mostly about pronunciation) 1.Longshan is pronounced long shaan, not luung shaan 2.Xia is pronounced Sha not Zia 3.Shang is pronounced Shaang, Mandarin has no 'ay' vowel 4.The bronze mask you show on the screen while talking about the Shang is from Sanxingdui, and is associated with the Shu kingdom, who were enemies of the Shang and allied with the Zhou kingdom to topple their reign 5.Daoism in the Zhou period was philosophical, not spiritual, religious Daoism developed under the Huang-Lao school in the early Han Dynasty 6.Qin Shi huanG not Qin Shi Huan 7.Sui is pronounced Sway 8.Tang is pronounced Taang 9.The ua in Yuan is a dipthong, it is not disyllabic. think Y-ooeeh-n

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

Very informative, thank you

[@javierromero9993]

Well done synopsis. Keep 'em coming.

[@MoDiDi-e7j]

Good video,but your picture to show the Song's world's first nation paper currency is wrong,the picture you show is "大明通行宝钞", the Ming Dynisty's nation paper currency. Song's paper currency is called JiaoZi:"交子"，which is invented by SiChuan province's businessman because of the difficult transport between Song's SiChuan province and Song's central plains.

[@Kissamiess]

The period that intrigues me most is the Zhou dynasty. I should read up more about the other eras, though.

[@Hoo88846]

Origin of Li and Yue - Zhou Dynasty m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaLToZx-mc6lmZI

[@rahadityap2375]

It's actually mindblowing, how every time new dynasty rose up in china, it became global superpower and even most advanced once until fell and rises new one back to position again

[@HarveyMushman]

Great contend! I'm more than happy to subscribe!

[@SuwinTzi]

That moment when you see similarities in art between early Chinese and South American cultures.

[@casecao8412]

Didn't the original first nations migrate to North America through a connected landbridge of Asia?

[@TengkuAmier]

@@casecao8412 Yes but most of them came from siberia

[@namfingerstyle8403]

@@casecao8412 not from china. And it happen 30-40 Thousands years ago

[@bobbyqiu]

Although Japan's Imperial Family has a long history of rule and is a culture that Japan is proud of, Japan has long been a vassal product of Chinese culture throughout East Asia, especially in the Okinawa region

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

Good but you didn't mention the Jin 金 which was the reason for Northern and Southern Song.

[@lyhthegreat]

he only has 7mins...

[@Rigmealee]

Thank you for the history of my own country in a few minutes. Keep up the great work!

[@op9764]

Hate China from TW

[@paulstrassel8326]

One of the beautiful cultures of the world and a wonderful, intact civilization. I am going to love learning about Eastern Civ.! :X