COLLAPSE OF THE YUAN DYNASTY - TOGHON TEMUR AND THE MONGOL PERSPECTIVE

Almost a century after its foundation, the Yuan dynasty, and its mongol overlords, were overthrown and kicked out of China following the Han red turban rebellion. Watch how an entire empire decays through the lense of its figurehead, emperor Toghon Temür, despite efforts by such figures as Toghto, Chaghan Temür and Kokë Temür
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= MUSIC =
Total War Three Kingdoms - End of an Era
Total War Three Kingdoms - Oath of the Peach Garden
Europa Universalis IV - Forest Shade
Total War Three Kingdoms - The Calm before the Storm
Total War Attila - Main Theme
Total War Three Kingdoms - Bitter Winds
Total War Three Kingdoms - Duel of Fates
Mongol Court Music of the Khans
Total War Three Kingdoms - Lotus Blossoms
Total War Three Kingdoms - Shadows of War
Total War Three Kingdoms - Harmony
Civilization VI - Guzheng Improv 2
Lost in the Forest
Total War Shogun 2 - Resolve
Total War Three Kingdoms - Stratagem
Civilization VI - Mogolia Medieval Theme
Total War Three Kingdoms - The Art of War
Civilization V - Genghis Khan Peace Theme
Total War Shogun 2 - Point of No Return
Total War Three Kingdoms - Scorched Earth
Total War Three Kingdoms - Vanguard
Total War Three Kingdoms - Betrayal
Total War Three Kingdoms - Eternal Peace
Total War Three Kingdoms - Besieged
Total War Three Kingdoms - Duel of Fates
Total War Attila - Fiddler of the Plains
Civilization V - Genghis Khan Peace Theme
The Loyalist - Lotus Lane
= VIDEO CREDITS =
Empress Ki (2013)
再生緣 Eternal Happiness (2002)
Founding Emperor of Ming Dynasty (2006)
= MAIN SOURCES =
The Cambridge History of China - Volume 6 (1994), Denis Twitchett & John King Fairbank
= TAGS =
Yuan dynasty documentary
collapse of the Yuan dynasty
Rinchinbal
Bayan Merkid
Toghon Temur
Zhu Yuanzhang
Red Turban rebellion
White lotus sect
History of China
El Temur
Introduction: (0:00)
Context: (00:37)
Toghon Temür's enthronement: (02:54)
Bayan's dictatorship: (06:03)
Bayan's doom: (11:27)
Toghto's first chancellorship: (16:37)
A worsening situation: (21:34)
Toghto's return: (25:09)
The Yuan's fragmentation: (33:38)
Chaghan Temür's saga: (36:52)
Kokë Temür's saga: (38:58)
The rise of the Ming: (44:47)

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HE HATH RETURNED

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Indeed 🎉

[@Replicaate]

I don't care if it takes you years to make another dynastic history, if it's anywhere near the quality of this one it will be worth the wait!

[@pawnyi7742]

Toghtog Khan every 10 seconds after dealing with event that could lead to the destruction of the empire: We're so back! 10 seconds later: *another crisis happens*

[@ElBandito]

Being a general in 1330's Yuan dynasty is like playing the game in Very Hard setting.

[@History_of_China]

Pretty much! It'd make for a great strategy game though

[@JiaruiChen_]

like it was never hard to kill people idiot

[@YuuSHiiiN]

Fun fact: The actor playing Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty drama footage(Hu Jun) also portrayed Khublai Khan in the 2013 "The Great Yuan Empire Founder" series, and is of Manchu descent. It's too bad he hasn't been able to play Nurhaci yet to complete the hat trick.

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The qing state made their official language and script Mongolian. The inner Mongols betrayed their Ligden king and joined forces with the Qing to fight against the Ligden king. During the war, Genghis Khan's descendant Ligden Khan fell ill and died, and the war ended. At that time, Dzuungar was the most powerful country in the eastern region, which occupied more than a thousand Muslim cities, including Tibetans, Uighurs, Kyrgyz, and Kazakhs. In 1688, the Dzungar Mongols invaded northern Mongolia. It is a history that the Northern Mongols sought help from the inner Mongols and the Qing and became a political and military ally. During the Qing period, the Chinese were prohibited from entering the Mongolian territory, and only Qing and Mongolian people were allowed to hold high positions. and the Mongol princes were paid annually. qing, inner mongol, and north mongol joined together to overthrow the dzungar state.

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The Manchu Khan gave the Mongols the right to rule themselves. Genghis Khan's descendants continued to rule. Also, in 1851, Sengerin, a Mongolian general, led the Manchu army to suppress the Taiping Rebellion started by the Chinese. The rebellion was suppressed and the main leader, Li Kaifang, was captured and executed. Also, in 1859, when England and France invaded the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu-Mongol forces led by the Mongolian general Sengerin won.

[@user-sw6ip2hk5w]

The Qing were a semi-nomadic people living outside the Great Wall. their ancestors are Kidans. The Kidan people are considered to be Mongolian ancestors because they are descended from the Xianbi people of Dunhu Province. Also, it is evident from the historical findings that they speak Mongolian. This is why the Mongolian script was made the official script of the Qing state.

[@Tronathon242]

The Yuan seemed to be so schizophrenic when it came to cultural and organizational matters: always changing and never settling on one policy for long. No wonder they couldn't handle the challenges they faced and no wonder the locals thought the heavens were punishing them with all the natural disasters.

[@miketacos9034]

These pronunciations are so perfect omg

[@YaminoSeigi]

Toqto seems like to be a very decent guy

[@TheLordRichard]

Can’t wait for the Ming Dynasty series 😁

[@Shadowless_Kick]

Conquest by force cannot last long, only conquest by culture can. That was the most important reason why the Han Chinese civilization empowered by Confucianism has lasted 2500+ years

[@kaloarepo288]

Didn't stop the Muslims from securing permanent footholes everywhere nor the Romans, nor the Spanish, nor the Normans in England!

[@ElBandito]

Toghon Temur sounds like a very educated and cultured fellow, from his early life experience.

[@WWK186]

Watched the Korean drama Empress Ki on Netflix. Didn't realise it was historically accurate. Thank you for this history lesson on Yuan dynasty. So interesting!

[@ezradja]

Actually, it's not accurate.

[@edwardsnowden8821]

my goddess, how did you listen to this and come to the incredibly inaccurate conclusion that empress ki was accurate is beyond me.

[@History_of_China]

Unfortunately it is pretty abysmal in terms of accuracy. Also, while I could tolerate it for Bayan, I couldn't use clips for Toghto/Toqto'a (Tal Tal in the show) because of the ridiculous haircut they gave him.

[@davidjacobs8558]

Empress Ki was responsible for the collapse of Yuan Dynasty. She was also horrible to Koreans. Her family became powerful in Korea after she became empress of Yuan, and with their power, became extremely corrupt.

[@TV-jg2kj]

​@@History_of_ChinaMany Korean historical dramas have been adapted based on real people or events. Since there is a mixture of real and fake, you have to filter it out or check the authenticity yourself if you are curious. The reason is that Koreans are not very proud of Korean history.

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[@alexiakembia8041]

Empress Ki is one of my all time favourite Kdramas and a cinematic masterpiece. So happy to learn some of the context :)

[@alessandrodelogu7931]

Very nice and interesting video. These Yuan princes and ministers plotting and scheming against each other in the face of collapse look like Renzo's capons in "The Betrothed" by Manzoni. Even in their way to be butchered they still couldn't stop pecking each other. The fall of the Yuan is a tragedy of indecision. They were never able to decide whether they were Chinese or Mongolian. They were incoherent, constantly changing their mind between a Mongolian or a Chinese style of ruling. I don't think that any Chinese imperial dynasty had as many power struggles and succession crises as the Yuan, something very reminiscent of the Turkic empires of the Middle East. I'm surprised that no Yuan emperor ever came up with some measure like the Ottoman law of fratricide. Now you could make a video about the later Yuan, those who ruled in Mongolia after 1368. It would be the best ending for the story.

[@History_of_China]

You summed it up pretty well! While I don't plan on covering the Northern Yuan specifically, I'm not done talking about the Mongols yet as they will have pretty significant interactions with the Ming (even going as far as capturing a Ming emperor !)

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[@History_of_China]

Ming dynasty coming up next :)

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[@History_of_China]

Thanks for your comment! It does take a lot of time, but feedback such as yours makes it ever so more rewarding :)

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[@History_of_China]

Thank you! I have to move on to the Ming first though ;)

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[@History_of_China]

Thank you!

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Finally the Long awaited Moment. Wonderful video as Always. I wanted ti ask whithc documentaries and dramas where take for the scene inside the video?

[@History_of_China]

Thank you! I always add my video credits in the description. In this case I used clips from the Korean series Empress Ki (2013), the Hongkongese series Eternal Happiness (2002) and the Chinese series Founding Emperor of Ming Dynasty (2006)

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[@History_of_China]

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Loved watching it, maybe a series about the Song one day ?

[@History_of_China]

One day for sure! But for now, I'll move on to the Ming :)

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@@History_of_China for sure it will be as great as the Yuan and Qing ones. About the southern ming i know a good book by lynn a. Struve if it may help you 😊

[@caseygobel1227]

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[@History_of_China]

Thanks! Fascinating how the same patterns keep emerging with societal shifts throughout history

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Welcome back :) I'd love to see a video on Sun Yat Sen

[@History_of_China]

Thanks! I'd like to cover the Ming before moving on to new subjects but I'll take it into account :)

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Beautiful pronunciation of Avignon

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ANOTHER BANGER OF A VIDEO

[@History_of_China]

Thank you!

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The khan is back

[@doreensika837]

I love that you did this. I love the show empress ki but I hate how they made her this good hero when she wasn’t. And let’s face it the Mongols were good at capturing cities and wars, but they were not good at ruling.

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I was just having a conversation about the yuan dynasty the other day, how fortuitous.

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It’s been so long friend ! We missed you :)

[@litog888]

Just finished recently recently the wuxia heaven sword & dragon slaying saber, and empress ki a while ago. This certainly provided a profound historical context to these. I've even learned something new, that the popular ming blue & white porcelain were developed during the yuan dynasty. Interesting and well-researched; this provided profound insight to the decline of yuan; not only the usual incompetence or lack of ability of the rulers. As they say, the beauty of the details provided lots of insight for launching penetrating questions & analysis. In the end, it is the confluence of events & serendipity on the side of the hans that dealt the final blow. As with others, i'd like to see more of tang dynasty to the jurchen through to the period prior to the fall of the hans to the mongols. But more interestingly it would be to have as detailed a history series of the central asian peoples/"barbarians" such as xiongnu, khitan & jurchen people as they shaped china, south & east asia, west asia and europe. But, that is out of the scope of this channel.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) While I'll mention contacts between dynasties and kingdoms in China with neighbouring "barbarians", the focus will indeed always be on the events in China itself. Next series will be the Ming dynasty and its emperors!

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[@History_of_China]

Thank you so much!

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Kipchaks! Interesting..

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Thanks for your videos Buddy, I hope you will do Ming dynasty emperors videoes next inshallah

[@History_of_China]

Thanks for following! That is the plan :)

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Thank you!

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welcome back!!

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Thank you!

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The return

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We missed you

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YAY YOU'RE BACK! I look forward to your videos

[@History_of_China]

Thanks!

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I was so rooting for the tormor guy for some reason. How stupid can the emperor be omg.

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The legend has returned. Will you now make a series about the ming dynasty?

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China returns

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35:06 oh my god he literally did the "why don't we just print more money" idea help😭😭

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welcome back

[@History_of_China]

Thank you!

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not only will I "leave a like" I will also leave a comment. it has been a while since I have seen one of your videos. I look forward to the next. (I think I have figured out the numbers that precede the year dates, finally. month/year?)

[@History_of_China]

Thank you! Yes, I always use the D/M/Y year system, I find it the least confusing :)

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Wow great video about China history very interesting

[@History_of_China]

Thank you!

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I love the pronunciation

[@mckdgz4994]

TOGTHO was effective but was displaced by the emperor. I wonder what happened to him after he exiled himself. Too bad the nation he solemnly swore to protect was ended because of Emperor Huizong and Ayushidara.

[@History_of_China]

It's not known for sure what happened to him after banishment, but it's likely he was assassinated by political rivals during his exile, possibly to prevent a comeback.

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It is criminal how underviewed these are- and it's not like the history of China is an oversaturated niche on KZbin; certainly not at this level of detail

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Finalllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! It’s here!!! Where have you been?

[@History_of_China]

Working, unfortunately!

[@markusforsberg6741]

Hallo are you home or back Is the first episode of the ming dynasty be relesed next week or the week after that.?:D

[@History_of_China]

Hey Markus! I need another few weeks of work. I hope to release it in March :) This one's gonna be good!

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​@@History_of_Chinaawsome.:D is it early or late march.?:)

[@History_of_China]

@@markusforsberg6741 Probably late, it's a long one !

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[@khalidalali186]

It’s fascinating how all Royal or Imperial courts are similar. Regardless of what epoch you are looking at, or the civilization in-question. For all we care, this could’ve been about the Abbasid Caliphs of the 9th or 10th century, or the Byzantines of the 6th, etc. 🤷‍♂️

[@raidang]

Eastern Roman court (Byzantine royal family) is far more chaotic, dramatic and tragic than this

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Finally he return

[@ieatfood891]

I'm related to Bayan, I think. From what my mother told me, I'm the 24th generation of Bayan's nephew Toqto.

[@budyonny3324]

Great work.Do you have a video plan about northern yuan dynasty? The reign of Northern Yuan was as long as that of the Ming Dynasty and became Ming`s greatest enemy. In the end,both conquered by manchulians.

[@History_of_China]

Thank you! I don't plan to cover the Northern Yuan itself, but as I cover the Ming I'll regularly talk about it as both indeed had strong (mainly antagonistic) interactions :)

[@cowking1st]

I've played too much eu4 if I can recognize the rebel revolt sound effect. Feel authentic to what you always do to the Qing. (Or witness results of)

[@History_of_China]

Lol, I think it's a pretty fitting sound FX :)

[@nicbahtin4774]

Time to play Ming again in EU4

[@gorygremlin13]

Were you going to do the Ming dynasty?

[@History_of_China]

I am! Next video will be Zhu Yuanzhang's rise and the founding of the Ming