How and Why the Great Wall of China Was Really Built

[@danielsong9825]

i thought the wall was built for matt damon to lead china to victory against lizard monster armies.

[@alfonsomena8141]

Daniel Song possible just not same species as in movie, annunaki would get sexy women just as beastiality.

[@kakerake6018]

Of course the wall was built to stop the tao tei's

[@girtsfridbergs6002]

And tao teis paid for it :D

[@djlano254]

you watched the damn movie !!! !!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !

[@CoolguyYearsago]

Girts Fridbergs didnt the taotei’s go extinct already ? 🤔🤔

[@Bustedloads]

Stopping People getting over the wall wasn’t the walls main function, the wall was only 10 ft in some areas and the gates were practically military fortresses, it prevented pillagers from bringing there horses into China and it kept people who had stolen herds of animals and wagons of loot from leaving with their loot. Pillaging doesn’t seem like a great idea if you can’t get the stuff you’ve stolen home. That’s a pretty big deterrent.

[@SAF-Films]

You should created a channel and produce content

[@RobertAustinKelly]

This host is great! Contagious enthusiasm and totally hands on.

[@thomashunn3770]

IT REALLY BOTHERS ME THAT IT'S NOT JUST A SINGLE LINE!

[@morganlast5498]

Thomas Hunn moron.

[@jerimiahstephens8580]

Morgan Last bitch

[@fascistswan3470]

Great UNFINISHED WALL there.

[@paulpaul5606]

Thomas Hunn me to it so Annoying

[@carlosrosado7939]

I'm with you here Thomas!

[@kev_21]

It’s 12:37am April 20, 2020 and this probably the most random video that KZbin has put on my explore page lol. I hope you all are well during this quarantine.

[@GregsAutomotive]

I remember when “reccomended” videos were literally random. Better days.

[@stevenpoynter9982]

It took a very long time to build I wonder how they kept construction going when the northern tribes started to attack them while they were building the wall

[@TotalWarKS]

slaves

[@dongf2618]

sections of the wall were built by different states during the Warring States period. During the Qin dynasty, the Qin army raided the nomads, pushing them further north before they connected the walls together.

[@T1kr3b3u]

Helps not to have a two party system...otherwise nothing seems to get done.

[@marsilingmartian239]

The Xiongnu nomad are Calvary on horse back attacking with bow, arrows and long spears. The Chinese are mostly infantry and without the help of any walls, they will need a 10:1 ratio with shields and long spears to defeat the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu avoid direct confrontation with the Chinese troops, when they don't have an advantage. preferring to do hit and run raids at different area and take the Chinese by surprise. That is why it is very difficult to defeat the Xiongnu. The great wall help the infantry troop to temporary stop the Xiongnu advance until reinforcement arrive. The great wall is also a communication line. During the day, the troops can burn and create smoke signal to let others know they are under attack. During the night, the troop create a huge fire signal. Both smoke and fire signal can be seen miles away. The capitol city will knew about the attacks within hours and the emperor will send his generals to lead an re-enforcement to counter attack. However, this strategy are not effective in the Han dynasty. Han Wu Ti change the strategy and create strong Calvary troops to attack the Xiongnu's capital. Forcing them to flee to the west.

[@lp12nos20]

Did this old man build a wall just for this demonstration

[@rgw4393]

Knowing him and his love of history/re-enactments; most likely yes. He is a dedicated/passionate dude (I've seen a lot of his documentaries)

[@bimmybadebayo5400]

Lp12 Nos Kandela Brown he's an OG of ancient-Renaissance history documentaries

[@gopaldeshmuk1068]

Quality Content

[@xufengliu753]

As a Chinese, on the one hand I think the Great Wall is a symbol of the wisdom and hard work of my ancestors. On the other hand, I also think it is a kind of irony of ancient Chinese imperial power, because the Chinese emperor believed that the land and people of the whole world belonged to him, but he used the Great Wall to isolate the people in the northern region. Generally speaking, the lives of nomads are more miserable and cruel than agricultural peoples.

[@mariag5306]

@@xufengliu753 sad when I see walls I often wonder if the true purpose is to keep people out or to keep them in.

[@tuozecarart1729]

I like this historian he makes history alive

[@FireflyThereIsHope]

Turkic people were feared

[@mtadams2009]

Show me a 20 foot wall and I will show you a 21 foot ladder.

[@martynparkman8332]

But you can't get a horse up the ladder, the point of the wall was to hold up mounted raiders

[@emanrodr2736]

digital warfare ever heard of tunnels?

[@donb2527]

Martyn Parkman A few men with axes could break a significant hole in the wall within a few hours. The wall is more to give the archers cover, making it very hard to push

[@tepesobrejac4360]

And then I will teach you how to push a ladder and how painful it can be to be on the ladder when it falls down.

[@xuanminglu1507]

Too bad horses can’t climb ladders, otherwise that’s a great plan.

[@kingrayzeng9982]

I am a Chinese. The biggest difference between Chinese and Mongolian, huns is that they are nomads, lived in tents and raise cattle and sheep, living on the grassland. And we build cities, every city has a wall, the wall can only protect our city, there is no way to protect agricultural areas outside the city.

[@kingrayzeng9982]

The Great Wall was built at the beginning of the 2000 years ago, the northern countries face the enemy's attack between the two at the same time, need to stabilize the north, and resist the attack of the south. That is the product of age, all you say is not this time.In addition, the building of the Great Wall is beneficial to control trade, northern prairie nomads are heavily dependent on and trade in the south, if during the winter, the trade is the south cut off, they will starve to death.If it is really unnecessary, why the United States want to build a missile defense system?Is it amateurs and cowards？

[@kingrayzeng9982]

The Mongolian invasion because of the weakness of song dynasty, but it is different to the Ming dynasty, they drove the mongols.The success of the UK and Japan invaded during the qing dynasty, the manchu CARES only to maintain their dominant position, they are more afraid of is not English and Japanese, but Han Chinese.

[@kingrayzeng9982]

You mean more like offense is the best defense.I agree with you. But Trump wall is just want to crack down on illegal immigration, and not military purposes.Your fighters, the navy, army, tanks, artillery and guns are no use, now there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, if it is useful, you would have drove them out.

[@TheScotchaholic]

A missile defense system is a wall of destruction! It is active, not passive like a literal wall! What did you NOT understand in my statements? A strong, advanced, and well trained military DESTROYS enemies and therefore DECREASES threats. A useless wall is temporary and can be overcome. DEAD THREATS = NO THREATS. A wall cannot kill future threats. The Great Wall today is even more useless than it was in the past. It serves nothing more that a tourist attraction and a reminder of wasted efforts. All that you mention stems from WEAK political ruling class with WEAK philosophy on militarism and dealing with threats. Stupid strategies and tactics yield losses to enemies foreign and domestic. First thing in America is to cut off ALL welfare and entitlements to illegals, that will cause many of them to self deport. Secondly, is to PUNISH Americans that hire illegals for labor or for housing them. Third is to deny citizenship to anchor babies from illegals. The military in the America could be utilized to capture and DEPORT or EXECUTE all illegals as a stern warning to South and Central America. The political class in America is weak and corrupt like those in China's past. It has no will to really deal with domestic issues. Trump doesn't even need to build a wall! He just needs the will to post 3 man sniper teams with 50. caliber rifles to stop vehicles and people from crossing, every thousand yards with rotating shifts, 24/7 and 365 days a year. That would make good use of our military and their training. Land mines would be great as well - but the Ottawa Treaty frowns on it's use - which America stupidly decided to follow in 2014

[@kingrayzeng9982]

The Great Wall today really don't have any effect, only is a scenic spot. I also agree with national security should be based on a strong military and economic power.All you mentioned can really deporting illegal immigrants, but unfortunately, your political correct does not allow you to do that. Same happened in Europe. You have a paranoid politically correct, illegal immigration is not a national security threat, and more threat is radical Muslims.

[@ktmad]

"but while they're being cleared, men up there are shooting at you" It's brighter here! (every Smithsonian video ends with a dramatic often morbid statement followed by the joyous jingle)

[@scottsmith5623]

Kt mad... but why were they shooting watermelons at them?! You’d think they’d run out ....

[@manpluscamera5482]

Actually, according to Australian legend, it was built during the time of the Emperor Nasi Goreng, to keep the rabbits out.

[@Ryanlexz]

Josiah Bosch last i check nasi is malay not australian

[@rdty9251]

Josiah Bosch xD Nasi goreng, Nasi Lemak, Nasi Sapi

[@stevecvntniko8271]

Josiah Bosch hahahhahah I seen it on the Telstra commercial hahahahha

[@JohnDoe-fn6zd]

Actually, nasi lemak was delivered by mistake, Mongols to the Qin Dynasty.

[@RiichanTV103]

Nasi goreng.... so it was built during the emperor fried rice. Nice.

[@tomnaughadie]

The wall was built because the invaders needed their all mighty horses to travel and be a formidable army. Without the horses they were much more easily to repel. Mongolia and neighboring area was prolific with the seabuckthorn shrubs and they are chalked full of nutrition giving the horses remarkable health and stamina as the spearhead of a brutally strong army. The wall stopped the horses.

[@tenidasio591]

in fact,the wall never worked against Mongols

[@MirjaamAParada]

I love history around the world.

[@antlife1930]

I went to China one time and I'm black with dreads and people would just walk up to me and ask me to take a picture with them and can they touch my hair

[@gayestpenguinalive2600]

Ant life lol

[@Gamer-ij3ch]

Same things happen with people with blonde hair because anything different then black and brown hair is foreign to the Chinese people.

[@realdeal5712]

Not anymore in 2019. But back then, white people are like celebrity. Anyways they dont take touching as an offend. Thats why they dare to do it

[@polo-kf6yh]

@@Gamer-ij3ch now you won't get a look. Lol

[@polo-kf6yh]

Maybe it was your attitude.?

[@wallacewood2126]

Well, Genghis had this brick factory thing going on...

[@历下名士]

Initially the great wall was just walls of different warring states, after the unification of Qin, the first emperor ordered to connect them, therefore laid the foundation for the great wall. Xiongnu was not that strong, at least they did not have the ability to combat face to face with Qin army. No MONGOLS, no TURKS at that time, they appeared over 1000 years after.

[@vagifaslanov1685]

历下名士 if the the turcik Huns was not strong, why did you build it? Because they were much stronger than Qin. In history turks had much stronger and more empires! Like HUNS, EUROPEAN HUNS, GOKTURKS, SELJUKS, SAFAVID, AND OTTOMANS. IN 5 CENTURY BC WE TURKS WERE SINGLE AND NOT DIVIDED. BUT WHEN SELJUK TURKS WON THE WAR AGAINST BYZANTINES IN 1071 SOME TURKS LIVED THERE AND THEN CREATED OTTOMAN EMPIRE . OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM 1453 TO 1699 WAS THE STRONGEST EMPIRE IN THE WORLD. HISTRY OF THE TURKS IS VERY BIG AND ENDLESS. CHINESE HISTORY IS MORE ANCIENT BUT TURKS WERE STRONGER.RESPECT TO CHINE . SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH

[@bryanfong1023]

First of all, turkic people and turks are not the same. Turkic people are from central asia, turks are just turkified anatolians , greeks and arabs. You can look at the turkish gene pool and you will find little to none turkic genes on them. Second, China built the wall to secure the territory the annexed from the xiognu. Xiognu were skilled horsemen, they could easily enter and get out of the qin territory before an army arrived. Having a stationed wall will help to spot incoming hordes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin%27s_campaign_against_the_Xiongnu

[@vagifaslanov1685]

Bryan Fong ok explain me how greeks were turkified? Haha you can not because your opinion is unlogical. Turks are from central asia and came here in 1071 after the war between Byzantian empire and Seljuk empire. Seljuk empire is turcik and after the war some turks lived in anatolia and after the fall of seljuks they created ottoman empire who was the strongest empire from 1453 to 1699. Yeah some part of modern turks are turkified greeks but it is only about 10-15 % of population.

[@vagifaslanov1685]

Bryan Fong and xiognu is turkic

[@bryanfong1023]

Vagif Aslanov yes, and how many are real descendants of seljuks? It happened ~600 years ago. All seljuk traits by now should be non existant. Central asians and turkish people look too different. Turks are closer related to armenians, greeks, anatolians and arabs than people from kyrgystan, tukemistan, khazajastan, etc...

[@UXLKO]

The China government is refusing to call Xinghu as Huns and Gokturks which nations called proto Turcs. There are logical and political reasons of this. They know it very well. I am not going to tell you about these reasons here. The wall is built to protect the Silk Road from Turkish and Mongolian attacks. Mongols genetically not related directly to Turkic people, but the lived with them and for instance like Tatars, culturally they got şntegrated to Huns. Even now there are Uigurs (uygurs-turkic tribe) living in China. That is why guys do not worry to call the wall built to stop Turks. I do not understand why it bothering people to tell the real history. Yes, the wall could not stop Turkic armies, and eventually China İmperial lost against invasion. But later than,strategically and politically China played game right. After some natural disasters and long wars, Huns and Gokturks collapsed and the great immigration started which was the most significant impact of world history. So wall is great, however it was not a sufficient idea. And Trumps wall is more way stupid strategy than this :)))

[@weikema8682]

learn some history，either today's turkish people nor uygurs are turks

[@aryanras]

Gog of Magog

[@_berat.ugur_3089]

The Xiongnu became politically dominant in the steppes around 300 BC, and although the linguistic affiliation of the Xiongnu proper is still a matter of dispute, their political confederation certainly contained a significant Turkic component. By both ethnohistorical and linguistic considerations this component may in the first place be identified with the Bulgharic (Bulghar Turkic) branch of Turkic, today represented by the Chuvash language in the Volga region. The Turkic component of the Xiongnu is, however, unambiguously signalled by a number of Bulgharic loanwords in Proto-Samoyedic. Review: J. Janhunen (ed.),The Mongolic languages, London, New York : Routledge, 2003 An earlier date for the separation of proto-Turkic, preceding 209 BC would support the identification of Xiongnu language with proto-Bulgharic or one of its subgroups, while a later date of separation would make its association with proto-Turkic more plausible. Alexander Savelyev, Martine Robbeets, Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family, Journal of Language Evolution, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2020 Xiongnu (Pre-Proto-Bulgharic, in Mongolia). Mongolian Vowel Harmony in a Eurasian Context In: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics Authors: Ian G. Barrere 1 and Juha A. Janhunen University of Helsinki Online Publication Date: 18 Jun 2019 As this time depth coincides with the beginning of the Xiongnu empire (209 BCE-100 CE), the association of Xiongnu with Proto-Bulgharic does not seem unreasonable. However, given the relatively large credible interval involved in the Bayesian dating, the breakup of proto-Turkic may also be connected with the first disintegration of the Xiongnu confederation under influence of the military successes of the Chinese in 127-119 BCE (Mudrak 2009). In sum, the time depth of the breakup of Proto-Turkic can be estimated between 500 BCE and 100 CE. Martine Robbeets, Remco Bouckaert, Bayesian phylolinguistics reveals the internal structure of the Transeurasian family, Journal of Language Evolution, Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2018 The language of the European Huns is sometimes referred to as a Bulghar Turkic variety in general linguistic literature, but caution is needed in establishing its affiliations. The predominant part of the Xiongnu population is likely to have spoken Turkic (Late Proto-Turkic, to be more precise). Cite this article: Savelyev A, Jeong C (2020). Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, e20, 1-17. Do you mean BRAVE TURKS Prof. Dr. Nicola Di Cosmo in: The Turks: Early ages, Part 4. Huns (Xiongnu): The Origin and Rise of the Xiongnu Empire, Y. T., 2002, pp.217-227, University of Michigan, ISBN 9756782552, 9789756782552 "There is not much doubt among historians about the Turkish nature of the Great Hun Empire, which ruled between 318 B.C. and 216 A.D., as well as that of its predecessor proto-Huns, whose presence was confirmed by Chinese sources. The Great Hun Empire, the Western Hun Empire and especially the European Huns were examined comprehensively by Western historians." The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of peoples including existing societies such as Altai, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Crimean Karaites, Gagauz, Karachays, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakas, Krymchaks, Kyrgyz people, Nogais, Qashqai, Tatars, Turkmens, Turkish people, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, and Yakuts and as well as ancient and medieval states such as Dingling, Bulgars, Alat, Basmyl, Onogurs, Shatuo, Chuban, Göktürks, Oghuz Turks, Kankalis, Khazars, Khiljis, Kipchaks, Kumans, Karluks, Bahri Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, Tiele, Timurids, Turgeshes, Yenisei Kirghiz, and Huns, Tuoba, and Xiongnu.[24][25][26][27][28] The predecessors of Huihe were Xiongnu. Because, customarily, they ride high-wheeled carts. They were also called Gaoche during the Yuan Wei times, or also called Chile, mistakenly rendered as Tiele. - Xin Tangshu, 232 only the Turkic Gaoju origin of the Hephthalites should be retained as indicative of their primary ethnicity.[82] Weishu, vol. 103 txt: "高車，[...] 其語略與匈奴同而時有小異，或云其先匈奴之甥也", tr: "The Gaoju, [...] their language and the Xiongnu's are similar though differ a little; or to say it differently, they are the sororal nephews/sons-in-laws of the Xiongnu " According to the Book of Wei, the Yuebans' language and customs were the same as the Gaoche, who were Turkic speakers. Yuebans(Weak Xiongnu) cut their hair and trimmed their ghee-smeared, sun-dried, glossy eyebrows evenly, and washed before meals three times everyday.[18][19] Chinese sources link the Tiele people and Ashina to the Xiongnu, According to the Book of Zhou and the History of the Northern Dynasties, the Ashina clan was a component of the Xiongnu confederation.[84][85] Uyghur Khagans claimed descent from the Xiongnu (according to Chinese history Weishu, the founder of the Uyghur Khaganate was descended from a Xiongnu ruler).[86] Both the 7th-century Chinese History of the Northern Dynasties[87] and the Book of Zhou,[88] an inscription in the Sogdian language, report the Göktürks to be a subgroup of the Xiongnu.[89][90] Tiele are originally Xiongnu's splinter stocks. As Tujue are strong and prosperous, all Tiele districts (郡) are divided and scattered, the masses gradually dwindled and weakened. Until the beginning of Wude [era], there have been Xueyantuo, Qibi, Huihe, Dubo, Guligan, Duolange, Pugu, Bayegu, Tongluo, Hun, Sijie, Huxue, Xijie, Adie, Baixi, etc. scattered in the northern wastelands. - Jiu Tangshu, 199, lower English Hunnish Turkish Apple Alma Elma Khan Han Han Wolf Böri Börü/Kurt Hear İşit İşit God Tengri Tengri/Allah Mother Ana Ana/Anne Daddy Ata Ata/Baba Day Kün Gün Horse At At Moon Ay Ay Real Öz Öz Soldier Er Er White Ak Ak Black Kara Kara Eye Köz Göz Islak Yaş/Yeş Yaş Nine(9) Toğuz Dokuz Thirty(30) Otuz Otuz Sky Kök Gök Boy Oglan Oğlan Arrow Ok Ok Clan Bog Boy Man Beg Bey East Dogu Doğu Nice Kozal Güzel Water Su Su Go Kit Git Golden Altun Altın Diamond Almaz Elmas Thorn Tigin Diken Rose Kül Gül Head Baş Baş İron Timur Demir

[@but_at_what_cost]

匈奴、突厥、蒙古不一定有血缘上的必然关系，游牧民族不会像农耕文明那样稳定，语言和血缘都是混杂的。事实上，汉族人当中有许多游牧民族的血缘，陕西刘姓人群，有一部分是匈奴的后裔，至少从Y染色体遗传上来说。北魏拓跋氏，鲜卑族，发源自大兴安岭，后融入汉族。唐朝皇室，同样包含胡人血统。

[@jimh4167]

If there was the internet back in the days of the Alamo and early days of military forts (Indian attacks) those spikes may have helped in their defence

[@HistoricalWeapons]

How do the reeds help with the wall

[@ebenezermondez449]

and we all know that in the end it did not work and mongols invaded china...

[@Taurineg]

Well it held them off for over 1000 years so it kinda worked

[@rickfeng4466]

@Nathaniel12345678910 They bribed traitors behind the wall to open the gate. And it happened a few times over the course of history so yeah the great wall doesn't work.

[@Hmongboi228]

@@rickfeng4466 Bribing guards to open the gate is different from the wall not working. The wall worked, it was the humans that maintained the wall that were the flaw..

[@billpetersen298]

And now the Chinese, have occupied the surrounding countries.

[@killingfields1424]

It took two hundred years to built it against the Mongols. But when Timujin and his mongols came, the walls seems to be its not there, as the mongols overcome it like its just a not so big a boulder to climb

[@dongf2618]

the truth is more like the wall was not well maintained for over a millennium.

[@USSResolute]

i'm pretty sure the Mongols overcame the wall with bribes

[@xinyiquan666]

no, the timujin did not even over cross the great wall , it was his son who cross the great wall, also during that time, it was jin dynasty in north china, , mongol was part of jin dynasty for more than 100 years , so mongol was ruled by china for long time, and jin dynasty did not maintain great wall, because entire grassland are part of the dynasty

[@Big_Papa_Official]

I from Mongolia 🇲🇳. they defended their country from us

[@xinyiquan666]

stop BS, the mongoloa is fake mongols, the people in outer mongolia are kahkalk tribes, they are not mongols, the real mongols are all chinse citizens living in china

[@kagar3465]

@@xinyiquan666 I smell a Khorchin

[@arandomperson5434]

@@kagar3465 Probably they dongxiang erliiz

[@hamzaalmdghri8741]

The purpose of the China Walls has always been to repel a sudden attack of the Mongolian cavalry, because the Mongols are all cavalrymen and it is not a matter of cowardice or fear.

[@RascalsGangshorts]

The main reason is that to prevent mongols to plunder

[@hardondolo9357]

The 'XiongNoo" (simp. & trad. Chinese 匈奴; pinyin XīongNú) is a pronunciation of the Chinese characters in modern Mandarin. In ancient Chinese when the walls were built, and connected, the pronunciations of the same characters were closer to "Hunu" or "Huno" (depending on the time & region it's spoken), which is much closer to 'Hun". Wonder how they were linked to the Huns who appeared in Central Asia and Europe?

[@aljonserna5598]

The later great wall was really against the Mongol hordes, but the earlier great wall was built by the Zhao against the predecessors of the Mongols, or the Xiongnu or the bigger faction Donghu (take note that the Xiongnu is Mongol's predecessor while Donghu was of the Jurchens who are in North of Korea near Russia, who later became known as the Manchus was the last and final aristocratic regime of China). Edit: The great wall came even before the Qing empire, it was started by the Zhao in the warring states period of China. In the movie The Great Wall, the Tao Tei were based off these equestrian nomads, the way with diplomacy just like the Huns they demanded tributes after tributes much like how your lords asked for more taxes after taxes eating up the fruits of your labor.

[@enriquecortez1963]

The walls in guachimonton Mexico are 2,500 years ago AND still in near perfect shape. Hecho en Mexico

[@flipjupiter1]

Cos nobody wants to go to Mexico. Even Mexicans dont wanna be there.

[@rayaanmahim4654]

Really, this host is great. It is so wonderful.

[@arthursaey]

How did they build a wall in the desert? Could we consider the possibility that it was simply not a desert back then? Like most current day deserts...

[@gregoryhawkins4210]

They showed on the video how they built in the dryer landscapes and desert. Parts of the wall are still there to this day.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

I know this one,...it was build by Tuong Lu Kim of City Wok to keep out and I quote: "those gawd damn Mongolian's" ; ).

[@eepy-9]

Once upon a time when the world heard the word Mongols they shit their pants. Some still do. I’m proud that I’m Mongolian🤗

[@WellBehavedForeigner]

The great wall was an outside job. After the first Korean family grew up with king sejong's new alphabet, construction began

[@USSResolute]

"Every emperor learned that the length of his job depended on managing the frontier well." Some things never change.

[@wbw1399]

The wall is a engineering masterpiece.

[@叫我仙女姐姐呀]

Anyone know what the human cost of building the wall was?

[@gulk.t2313]

Why dont you just say they were Turks even Chineas sources claim this.

[@danferdwu2443]

Please make more videos of ancient China, I love it

[@RustyGunn7]

It was built to keep out weird dinosaurs. I saw the documentry with Matt Damen. lol

[@chaimomma9198]

Rusty Gunn 7 NWO History books coming to schools near you!

[@flipjupiter1]

Stupid.

[@larryfoulkeofficial8609]

@@flipjupiter1 r/wooosh

[@BigHead2615]

"Excuse me! When did the Mongols rule China?" "I don't know... I just work here."

[@afnanahmedkhan3862]

from 1279 to 1368.changaiz khan grandson kublai ruled the china..check yuan dynasty this was mongols dynasty in china in this time period.

[@joshmccoy1522]

I saw a Far Side cartoon that showed a couple of guys on top of the wall saying, "There! That'll keep that darn dog out."

[@tg-toneworks7595]

hi there, may i use some sequences of the footage for a Music Video trailer...of course including full credits! best thilo

[@testalagusa3153]

It was over 2 years ago but did you use anyway?

[@corniliuscab]

I thought that I was a part of living history at one time. Then I called the up the Smithsonian now I don't exist...

[@RiggyRonnie]

I feel like they should of just moved their land to modern day india that way they have the natural wall of the Himalayan mountains.

[@Nic-xq1bt]

I want more of this!!!

[@xiaoliu3397]

First, Defending from barbarians; second，Military use in civil wars, In zhou dynasty, There are many small kingdoms in China, some of them built some parts of the first walls to fight each other, some parts got linked together by Qinshihuang Emperor. Sure, there was a king of these kings, he gave land and hereditary peerages to them， but he was not called emperor in Chinese, language(Zhou Heaven Son) and lost power since first few generations for giving out too much land.

[@سهمالهاجري]

your names suggests you are chinese, tell me was it built for just the mongols? or do you have a cultural stories about it? mythical stories i mean?

[@xiaoliu3397]

​@@سهمالهاجري mongol is a young race, Han chinese exist long before mongols' existence. These walls were first built for civil walls in history book, then was connected to defend coward normad tribes because they always ran off when big Han chinese army arrived. During most times, Han chinese border soilders went in serveal numbers to loot those tribes to practice millitary skills, and those tribes dared not to rebel

[@سهمالهاجري]

@@xiaoliu3397 nice informations, so there is no mythical reason? any unusual beings other than humans that attacked china? and was one of the walls built of mix of brass and iron or just bricks?

[@willofortune7048]

It was highway , used to transport , level , flat and could slide , drag , stone for other projects , the terrain in winter, , and all season , made it super highway to connect all , easy to walk, ride , also protect , the distance is key , if it was for protection only , you would circle , or emcompass each city , not one long wall , common sense, bring something on level , to somewhere else , avoiding all pitfalls of the terrain , animals , enemy, etc , just thoughts outside the box

[@zone8848]

man he is able to present, basicly anything

[@TaiTai-py2tp]

2 words: Ancient Aliens

[@Mrpallekuling]

After this video, I still wonder how the current wall was built.

[@brandonscientia5433]

the backsound narator cannot distinguish between nomad xiongnu and the mongols. the xiongnus exists from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. the mongols are just founded by Genghis Khan at 1206 AD. you can't confuse between them Kublai Khan already conquested China under Southern Song dynasty at 1271, yet the narator said that great wall was built at 15th for prevent mongol invasion..... hmmmm, the narator quite blurred about chronology

[@damnsurfer522]

Build that wall!

[@robedmund9948]

Joe Biden, "Uh. No."

[@tomasviane3844]

As a military defence, it looks like it's a rather stupid/silly idea. Instead of building a 20.000 km wall it would be a lot wiser to build walls around individual towns or settlements... I'd say it's more like a trade route kind of construction. If it's pure defence, why would they build it that wide? It would be ideal for transport, though.

[@tahashahbaz]

u dont even know in that time they dont have guns or heavy machine guns or rockets they fight with sowrds and ther hands they dont have stairs to claim think about it in that time no stairs no guns and nothing just swords how they can get inside the wall if they try to the army who where standing on the wall will kill them

[@rebellefleur435]

wha do you mean they didn't have stairs?

[@lesliewen3428]

+Rebelle Fleur low hanging fruit

[@yytyytg]

Tomas Viane it was meant to protect villages and farmland from being destory.

[@kietma7219]

These are the frontier walls. Every city would have its own walls.

[@leowall7601]

A* for the presenter's enthusiasm!

[@leviwaldrip7093]

Just wait tell you see our great Wall of America lol

[@edstar83]

chicken wire fence.

[@tabletopwarrior]

People say Marco Polo doesn't mention the Great Wall but since the Mongols are running the place why would they give him a tour?

[@St-fr2kv]

Because the Mongol invasion of China was when China was divided,Unstable and the Mongols united under the leadership of Genghis Khan, and the Mongols seized the opportunity to attack China

[@calvinhart6793]

I think its strange how the history, use, and age of the wall keeps changing. How would we ever know the truth of it.

[@anniebrediger599]

1:43 that guy is pulling really hard on that horse's face.

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

yeah i noticed that too, horses don't like that

[@AniketKumar-ze8xr]

Very nice.

[@susanfarrelly3735]

Wow that's really amazing

[@dutchvanderlinde4969]

Chingges Kahn be like: oh how cute, lemme introduce myself

[@simpletn]

We need to build a wall

[@kingrayzeng9982]

It is obvious that we finally achieved final victory in thousands of years of battles.

[@blahbloh6503]

King Ray Zeng bitch Chinese were scared of mf mongolian🇲🇳

[@kakerake6018]

mtksbctk the Chinese were weaklings who couldn't find fight back 😣

[@mtksbctk]

Hydrogen Peroxide yeah kid, tell that to the world's 2nd largest army

[@Ryan-iu8yd]

*I was there when the people started to make the Great Wall of China and I might have to say unbelievable breathtaking. Thousands of years ago, I WAS THERE!*

[@TRUDEAUMUSTG0]

@@Creature213 time travel could be real ,, maybe the wall was built to defend communism? 😀who knows

[@n0-r3gr3tzmydevilishtwin9]

i looked at pictures of the great wall and all over the wall are giant numbers like serial numbers everywhere on the rocks gotta focus in on the numbers but they are there

[@t-kaardo]

LUOA really rocks

[@Ali-qr3ib]

China made that wall because in that years hun empire was powerfull and they had a war with china. China was scared and made this wall. Huns are not mongols

[@ThePonsor911]

It wasn’t the Huns it was the Xiongnu. Although it has long been theorized that the Huns were Xiongnu who had migrated west, there is no definitive evidence to validate this theory.

[@wendel3278]

Is it made during qin dynasty or ming dynasty?

[@ThePonsor911]

The Dunker The Great Wall we see/know today was built by the Ming. Numerous sections of the original wall were built by the various warring states that existed prior to Qin unification, but it was the Qin that would eventually connect these sections together to form the Great Wall.

[@muratdurmaz4691]

@@ThePonsor911 Whatever they say in English or Chinese we(I am Turkish btw) call it "Asya Hun Devleti" which means Asian Hunic State. So it was the huns.

[@harrynolan3791]

when did i ask

[@a_l7515]

Modu Chanyu and the Xiongnu weren’t Turks and this video proved it. Proud to be Mongolian 🇲🇳

[@SohelRana-nc9kx]

Nice video

[@frankblangeard8865]

"Visitors to China are familiar with the famous brick wall" 0:24. Then we are told that it is a rammed earth wall. 2:48

[@rickrobitaille8809]

The wall was only as effective as the courage of the men guarding it... Starving,cold,and oppressed and the rest is history...

[@xinyiquan666]

XIONGNU is not ancestor of mongols, not even close

[@thomasohaney3290]

i wouldnt say that wooden frame is sophisticated

[@steves.auckerman5966]

Turkish tribes and Mongols coming to your door steps. Yes, you better build a wall!

[@esatmermer3875]

I thought that it was made against METE HAN

[@marioavgherino8383]

Truly great ancient civilizations built using stones not mud and sticks....

[@Lone_wolf--br7fi]

The great wall of china was actually meant to keep Chuck Norris out but it failed miserably

[@DeeeGeee]

Better than trumps wall... China

[@wendys7835]

Destructive - Gaming yes

[@TheBastered]

We need build a wall keep the idiot out.

[@beethao9380]

Might as well as apply for a chance to build the earth wall. Its cheaper than the competition and you can use low wage workers.

[@Blakelikesfood]

Destructive - Gaming : ? 1) Prototypes of Trump's wall havn't even been finalized when you wrote that, how would anyone could predict the future is beyond me. 2) The prototypes alone, eclipse the Great Wall in height and strength. Thee most elite force on the planet attempted scaling some of those prototypes, and failed.

[@andtam008]

Will Trump Wall become a tourist attraction? The prototype wall is high-tech, no corridor on top. Not much an attraction.

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

What is bizarre two sides of the story where do wall begins ended and beginning is the ending and the ending beginning of latitude

[@ronevergrow8319]

The Wall China connected to the wall of Alexandria was created to keep the Barbarian tribes an the Mongol tribes out

[@buttgoomagoo6919]

They should have built it right enough to keep bats out

[@MakoRuu]

Sucks it's not the full documentary.

[@orbitexe2052]

My theory is that the wall built so that they can be protected from "dragons" dragons as you know is also knows as dinosaurs and maybe the wall protected them from dragons/dinosaurs, they're many paintings of people from millions of years ago with dinosaurs/dragons ,some people had it as pets. I might not be right but I think that is kind of reasonable knowing the history between China and ancient animals.

[@32Rats]

GamingWithMiks im hoping this is a joke lmao

[@damonz83]

Each to there own

[@jankof76]

It was built to keep Giants out.....it wasn't built to keep out regular armies......the is still hidden...wat a joke

[@HoodieBong]

Tech Yisraelite Stop being so edgy

[@SaintJamesMarkus]

Tech Yisraelite I'm feeling the urge to agree....and Israelites helped build it I think.....and Jewish people are good at killing giants.

[@SaintJamesMarkus]

those spikes said a lot....normal men can weave through those I think....giants have big feet

[@waiphyohain]

They were meant to disrupt cavalry and siege. Of course, infantry can easily cross that spikes. Infantry without chariot or siege wagon protection would be living targets for crossbows in the guard towers.

[@alfonsomena8141]

Tech Yisraelite possible, giants wouldn't be able to jump o klimb since the bones would give in. Slow moving and ungodly

[@AlptheSpearo]

Xiongnu was Turkic for sure 👀🐺

[@thewiseowl3672]

What is with man’s long history of violence?

[@RickFoxChicken]

Unfortunately it seems to be what we're best at. Not to mention anyone capable of killing is going to have a much better life expectancy than otherwise. Then those survivors pass on their ideals to the next generation.

[@whiderboss]

The Wise Owl Nature is competition, it’s about murdering and taking territory

[@aliska580]

Mete han left the chat

[@jja1483]

1.38 the drive by of its day😂still scary asf 😣

[@morbidlyyobese3972]

I thought it was built by emperor nasi goreng to keep the rabbits out?

[@caliadan5896]

Genkis Khan ha idnt if ma spell.... name is correct but he is the one who tried to conquer Japan and was one of the largest empire ruler

[@outdoorsbeyondnature1980]

I am American living in the Central Joaquin Valley of waiting for the Wall of Mexico for we, can get are job's, why let so many in the country when so many people who are Born in the USA are in of job's? Build the Wall of America for job's can go back to the hard working people who are citizens.

[@RainMan221]

Walls, they do work!

[@mrloverman2.0]

The wall was built to protect everyone from titans.

[@Rugged-Mongol]

*Hehe, we Mongols and our ancestors went brrrrrrr.*

[@ShehzadKhan-py2px]

Khan is Mongolian word but do not adopt Mongolian word Khan and Afghans occupied word khan

[@Dxco31]

Only a fool would meet the mongols in open fields -robert baratheon

[@cryogenic5456]

khilji did..and won against them 8 times with less armies too.

[@stephenblackwell8399]

Monsters from a green mountain is why the wall was built

[@marlboroman2393]

Us mexicans built it

[@andersschoen3613]

Can they build it twice as tall so it keeps all the locals trapped on the inside ?