The Ancient Empire | Animated History of China | Part 1

[@Suibhne]

Stay tuned for part 2!

[@GojiGuru]

Suibhne looking forward to it! Please check out my post on Chinese pronunciation below. If you want any assistance I’m happy to help.

[@khadirafarah1314]

Suibhne Finally! You did a non-european country! :)

[@DQUACK]

see you in 5 months

[@sherbertdashington2788]

Soon? Or like next month?

[@mongolchiuud8931]

xiongnu were turks...donghu/xianbei were mongols. lol

[@HoovyTube]

I've been finding myself interested with ancient history, thanks for a nice introduction

[@livonianmapper2720]

Alright, now GET BACK TO ANIMATING

[@ruki4585]

Same 😍😍😍

[@Draxler01k]

I’m surprised your not verified yet

[@wokk9543]

Same, im only 12 but when i grow up i want to dress like how people did in alot of time periods not just ancient... but also like mid 20th century lol

[@arddermoutcramer5695]

Check the youtube channel History with Cy for more ancient history.

[@Designed1]

China's history in a nutshell *Collapse* *Reunite* *_Repeat_*

[@jacklee-oc3tv]

thats what a big country do

[@absboodoo]

And after the course of 4000 years, we are now really good at screwing ourselves up.

[@雾雨奈绪]

In Chinese, it is "分久必合，合久必分".

[@handylingua]

The very abstract taijitu illustrates this cyclical reality very well.

[@colinpeng4560]

True, the same word said by an ancient chinese philosopher: The empire, long united, must divide.Devided, must unite.

[@TheBeatlesfan1991]

I took a Chinese history course in college it was really interesting and I loved it

[@muhammaddzakyrafliansyah3587]

Chinese history is very hard and complex that took much of my time to learn it. But yeah, i a bit fall in love with Chinese history... Pardon my English

[@jorgeyipzhong5199]

My parents are Chinese..... the only one Chinese history class i took was called “a step into the past” 18 years ago....

[@KhAn-ql5wp]

Chinese has revisionist history. Their history changes every few centruries. Another interesting thing about Chinese history is, whenever foreigners occupy their countries they call it Chinese dynasties. Yuan dynasty is actually a Mongolian occupation. Ching dynasty is Manchurian occupation. Why does Chinese cherish Ming dynasty? Only true ethnic Han dynasty since Xia dynasty among foreign occupations.

[@cisi7220]

@@KhAn-ql5wp probably because the han culture is adaptable. Several emperors accepted the han culture and adapted it to their own culture and claimed themselves as the central empire. If you go to northern China you may find places which shows the process of mixture of those cultures.

[@KhAn-ql5wp]

@@cisi7220 Northern China as in Inner Mongolia where ethnic Mongolians are not allowed to use their own language in their school? Perfect example of Chinese process of forced erasure other cultures after Chinese occupation. There is no such thing as an ethnic han. Where did people of han originate from?

[@kamou8499]

1:30 Xia Dynasty 夏朝 2:10 Shang Dynasty 商朝 2:29 Chou Dynasty 周朝 3:05 The spring and the autumn 春秋戰國 3:35 Qing Dynasty 秦朝 4:49 Han Dynasty 漢朝 6:00 Xin Dynasty (Xin Mang) 新朝（新莽） 6:23 3 Kingdoms 三國 6:27 YiJin South North Dynasty 魏晉南北朝 6:47 Sui Dynasty 隋朝 6:52 Tang Dynasty 唐朝 7:30 5 Dynasty and 10 Kingdoms 五代十國

[@Seinaru]

But where is the Wang Dynasty (check my later comment lol I corrected)

[@ghoast.9203]

Thanks

[@haicdong5293]

@@Seinaru In fact there’s no such a dynasty called “Wang Dynasty” I guess you've just misunderstood the meaning of “王朝” "dynasty" can be translated into “朝，朝代，王朝" that's to say,（Ming）dynasty=（明）朝，（明）王朝

[@Seinaru]

@@haicdong5293 no I actually misunderstood it as the leader being named Wang, turns out it was the Xin Dynasty

[@raditiongaming2671]

*Zou

[@user-oe4wy2fg3e]

Mongol: I have fought China the most! Japan: No, I have! Korea: Idiots, I have fought China the most! China: Amateurs.

[@dangphucuong]

Vietnam: ...

[@elvinbi1367]

Korea was allies of China not enemies Oh plus that was some times other wise they were just chill

[@user-oe4wy2fg3e]

@@elvinbi1367 I slightly have to dissagree, because Japan had colonized Korea in the 1930's toward the late 1940's. Japan fought China, by also using Korea, But I can see your point.

[@nucleardog6675]

This is so true. China really hates itself for some odd reason(Historically).

[@---bm5bc]

путин путин umm I’m

[@TheArmchairHistorian]

Awesome stuff as usual Suibhne. Your animations are really improving, keep it up! Griff

[@theamazingjack1168]

The Armchair Historian I love you’re videos keep up the great work

[@alejandrokaplan7243]

Also how were soldiers trained in the First World War, it is extremely hard to find information on it

[@jamesscott3290]

WHERE YOUR DOMINOS AT?????

[@alejandrokaplan7243]

What?

[@jamesscott3290]

Communist-Marxist Karl-Engels Because this man in one of his live streams was playing rainbow six siege (sucking ass really) And the entire time this man could not get his GODDAMN DOMINOS

[@unifieddynasty]

"Yu the Engineer" Well of course Yu is Engineer. Yu must be engineer. Or doctor. Or scientist. Or Yu are disowned!

[@kokichiouma4879]

Lmao 😂

[@lucinda2189]

Asian parents?

[@historyandconspiracy6173]

@@kokichiouma4879 Yu parents sound Indian

[@brandon9327]

There was no such thing as America😂

[@mrkeatttttt]

Laugh in Chinese xixixixi

[@tomkelly8827]

That is a great book. I read it 10 years ago when my Chinese friend recommended it to me. I had asked him how I could learn more about China. He bought me that book. Very interesting

[@安荣-f5g]

"Those long divided shall be united; those long united shall be divided: such is the way of the world." “天下大势，分久必合；合久必分。”

[@mellowhead]

@TyRaNno 你脑子是出了什么问题

[@fabio7746]

elitisty81194 他们就是那种 打架打输了 逼到小破岛上 要面子那种

[@dwaynethewokjohnson6646]

@@shihaong2220 and you’re a ccp shill?

[@thetheoryofhappiness229]

What a beautyful aforism. Where are you my friend im from mongolia.

[@frankiehompson2746]

The level of detail when a lake is shown only in a zoomed in view that lasts about 3 seconds when it’s an animation and isn’t necessary to the video at all is just very impressive

[@jellyrolls2765]

"Famous for inventing paper... which is apparently what people used to write things on." XD

[@crosbychang]

Wow, you only mentioned the brief 3 Kingdoms period for only a few seconds. Even though it's a mere small blip in history, it gave rise to one of the great classical literature, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Numerous opera shows, movies, tv serieses, and even video games were inspired by that period of history.

[@elisabethsun7059]

三國演義

[@leijohnwang7627]

Majority of events happened during spring and autumn months, hence called Spring and Autumn period.

[@dragongamer5293]

@@leijohnwang7627 No. The 3 Kingdoms period happened almost a millenium later. He mentioned it at 6:23

[@why-em2ig]

@@leijohnwang7627 三国时期和春秋时期是两个相差了将近六百年的不同历史时期，我纠正一下

[@TTTTTTTTT853]

As a person knowing Chinese and English, “Doesn’t translate well into English” makes me smile

[@royalyeen2845]

Lol I bet I was funny

[@lucasmuller819]

Hello from France ! I really hope there will be subtitles in this channel ! Good job btw

[@linyang9536]

Great video! Wang Mang is a man said to be a time traveler :-). There is just a small error start from 7:32 to the introduction of Mongolian where it is “Song" and 宋 in Chinese, but it is translated as "西夏” on the map while there is "Xixia 西夏“ to the left of the middle of the map. Going to watch the next part.

[@vault34overseer]

2:20 It should be 鳴條instead of 名盜 2:38 Wangcheng should be 雒邑 3:59 It should be Xianyang instead of Wangcheng again 5:31 It should be 喀什instead of 喀市 The Border between Jin and the sixteen kingdom and Northern and Southern dynasty is not accurate both Chang'an and Luoyang should be included in the north rather than the south 6:55 Thai? You got to be kidding me. It should be 南詔 Nanzhao instead of Thai; And also Goguryeo 高句麗instead of Goryeo 高麗 7:33 宋 instead of 西夏 Please check the Chinese translation before you release part 2. If you need any help, I would be happy to give you some. Your animation is great, but the mistake in translation are too obvious.

[@dingloong2470]

大佬，受我一拜。

[@vault34overseer]

Bigbrother Chen 咁又唔駛,睇唔過眼啲錯處啫

[@dingloong2470]

你还是说中文吧

[@vault34overseer]

Bigbrother Chen 這是粵語,我是說"不用客氣,只是看不過眼那些錯處而已."

[@dingloong2470]

不不不，小弟雖是工科專業，但是自認為對中國歷史和地理了解頗深。直到看了你的帖子，我才知道我的中國史知識只是您的皮毛

[@theboyuan0jcfan]

As a Chinese, I compliment your effort to make this video as accurate as possible, but there are several errors. No mentions of Xiongnu dividing into northern and southern Xiongnu, no mention of the Tartar Confederacy who originally rivaled the Mongols, and why is Song written as 西夏? It is not Thai, but Nan Zhao南昭. It is called Spring and Autumn period because Confucius wrote a chronical book about this period called 'The Chronicles of Spring and Autumn'. No mention of the Han came to power by defeating Western Chu. Xiongnu are not direct ancestors of Mongols, but one of the nomadic tribe subjugated by them is(东胡). No mention of Gokturk being divided into Eastern and Western Gokturk, and no mention of the rivalry and wars between Tang and Umayyad, and Abassid Caliphates, which were pivotal to world history! No mention of other schools of thoughts outside Confucism, such as legalism which helped Qin defeat the other warring states. And most pronounciations are off, sorry to say because I know you are not a,native speaker and your mother tongue is of a non-tonal language.

[@Junbug92]

Other than these points, it was a great video though. You can only cover so much under ten minutes o else it will be a documentary which often do a worst job of summarizing history

[@mertomerbozlak6220]

Xiongnu's rulers were Turkic but the folk was both proto mongol and Turkic

[@cindyliao1893]

theboyuan0jcfan wow.. u are truly Chinese

[@麤鬻彠爨軉灪]

Mert Ömer Bozlak Donghu are more mongolic the three main nomadic groups in qin han era. Qiang (sino-tibetan), Xiongnu(Turkic), Donghu(proto mongolic) later develop into Wuhuan and Xianbei.

[@mertomerbozlak6220]

@@麤鬻彠爨軉灪 you are right

[@whatsmyname5202]

This really helped with my school project

[@ajay4319]

Why am I finding this channel now?! It's so awesome!

[@Dragons_Armory]

Loved Part 1! Can't wait for Part 2! A quick note about the Tarim Basin as being referred to as Turkic during the Han dynasty. Actually they were not so, at least during the Han dynasty. Horse-borne Turkic people were still East Asian- and Mongoloid in appearance then, and had lived on the steppes of modern Mongolia. The Tarim Basin was then ruled by the Caucasian Tocharians and other Indo-European peoples who spoke Sakka in various oasis city-states. Many served as Han clients and governors. The Tarim Basin would not became Turkic until the 10th- 12th centuries where the migrating Uyghurs (who were East Asian in appearance) married with the native Tarim Basin inhabitants. Another minor quick note is the polity marked as "Thai" and 泰国- which translates to "Thailand" in the areas of Yunnan and northern Thailand- that area was called Nanzhao, and later the Dali Kingdom. Anyway, aside from those small points I just want to say great videos as usual man, and I look forward to see more coming out. Thanks again for making this

[@Suibhne]

Ah. Thanks. Always a few mistakes

[@rigaudmackson4167]

And you didn't explain the conficus period enough you didn't even say where he was Born

[@varunkaushik2834]

History would have been so interesting in my school days if they taught us with videos like these.

[@mentalmen111]

This was really fascinating. I love learning about the history of these nations in a condensed form for me to choose wha I want to expand upon. The next chapter is something I've wanted to learn about for years. I'd really love for you to cover Japan and then onto the Koreas at some point as, as far as I'm aware, they connect with this and each other really well.

[@朱弘宇-j2n]

You will find that South Korea has always been a dependent country. Previously, South Korea was a subsidiary of China. In modern times, it was a subsidiary of Japan. Now it is a subsidiary of the United States! Japan has always been a bandit. From the past to the present

[@eefe7161]

Even the audible advert was executed perfectly!

[@QuikVidGuy]

I don't know how to say it, but... "Spring and Autumn" makes a lot of sense

[@julienpento3636]

Because it's the end of an era but also the beginning of another.

[@GojiGuru]

Hey man, awesome video and great research! Glad to see a China video finally. However, one friendly critique: your pronunciation of many Chinese words/names is off. (Sorry, I can’t help it; I was a teacher in China.) I know it’s not easy if you’re not learning the language; pinyin is notoriously non-phonetic. Just a few examples: Zh is a hard J, so Zhou” is said “Joe”. X is an sh, so Xia is shya. Good job in catching that Q is a ch sound. Any word ending in “ng” is a long vowel, so Shang is said Shon. So Yan is, well, Yan lol, and Yang is said Yon; Tan is Tan but Tang is Tong. When Y precedes A or E you say the Y, but not if it precedes a U, as in Yue, in which case just say “üe” (yes, it’s the same sounds as the German ü). And J is a soft J sound, so Jin is said Gene, not Gin. It’s all a serious pain in the butt, I know, and honestly you did better than most, but just a heads up if you make future China videos. Heck, I’d be happy to coach your pronunciation if you want. All the same, keep up the great work!

[@awesomedr6916]

Evan Sizemore quite a lot mistakes have been made in the video to be honest. Not just the pronounciation.

[@enriquejaramillo4244]

Hey man I need help with the special 7 or 9 any volunteers?

[@masoncheung715]

Evan Sizemore 哈哈，天才，good work ᐕ)⁾⁾

[@答大答]

​@@awesomedr6916 yes yes they're really know nothing about china , they just wana guesses china

[@tasty8186]

@@答大答 When can we expect your video to come out then?

[@MrLolx2u]

Oh no... This is not gonna be easy for one episode... 1) Calling the period after the breakup of Shang "Spring and Autumn" is correct because there's no other way to put it when in Chinese it just means the same with "春秋时代" in Chinese just means "Spring & Autumn Period" in English. 2) Qin Shihuang, China's actual 1st ruler and the emperor of unified China under Qin, was a maniac. The reason on why he ordered books to be burnt was not that he's fearful of books but he saw that books are the weapons of intellectuals and if the state has more intellectuals, his regime would be "corrupted" by these smartasses and his power would wane. So, he ordered books to be burnt and anyone who was caught keeping books to have their entire generation of family members be it close or in-laws to be executed. This led to massive unrest and many past generals that kept war manuals hid their bamboo books underground. He even ordered his own burial ground to be littered with thousands of terracota warriors and chariots to be buried with him when he died so that "These beings can follow him to the netherworld and still protect him" while laying his body around a makeshift river of mercury. In fact even after building his tomb, hundreds of workers were even locked inside and starved to death in order that the location of Qin's tomb won't be leaked. That's how maniacal Qin himself really was. 3) The Great Wall isn't as great at Qin Shihuang's time to what we know today. In fact, the Wall has been just dirt moat all the time with only bits and pieces of the wall being reinforced. It only took almost 5 centuries during the Ming dynasty under a competent general, Qi Jiguang, that completed the wall to how we know it today taking a huge amounts of money and manpower. Due to the ridiculousness of the expenditure and loss of live during the entire construction, Qi himself was nearly executed but thank god his ambitious project came to life. 4) Tang was really the golden age of China. Not only half of what we use in the modern world now were made from the Tang dynasty, they were also known to be the safest period in all of China's history where it is known that people don't even have to lock their doors when they sleep as everyone is rich enough that no one would even steal anything due to the immense wealth everyone had. In fact, when it comes to technologies, many were from the Tang like gunpower (It was popularized and spread by the Ming but it was actually invented by the Tang), compass, cold steel technology, nailless architecture (Japan and Goryeo (Present-day Korea both learnt their architecture skills from the Tang), mass printing and many others.

[@sean668]

I thought Qin Sihuang was burning books because he wanted history to forget that other philosophies existed

[@MrLolx2u]

That's the point. Books were bringing old philosophers into people's lives and Qin did not even like one bit of it in fear that these people would learn the philosophies of the olden ways and topple his government. The most fearful book that he wanted to get rid of the most was Sun Tzu's Art of War. With that book gone and other scholars and books were either executed or totally eradicated, no one would be smart enough or competent enough to overthrow him and his regime. Apparently he never heard of how mere farmers or commoners can just gain power with absolutely just a small sword. *Cough* Liu Bang *Cough Cough*

[@Suibhne]

After watching the video, viewers should read this comment for more information 😆

[@MrLolx2u]

Hey I had always liked your video. Being a Chinese and a part-time history lecturer in my local university while being a full time business owner, it's great to have videos like this teaching your students how the world in the ancient past really was and it's a pleasure to share my personal knowledge of my own personal culture's history to other people. We gotta absorb to improve and get better ain't we? Anyways, keep up the good work and I really like what you do. Keep on trucking mate.

[@slein1055]

Suibhne then pin it

[@tinchosabala]

YEEEEEEES, FINALLY A NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRY GETS IT’S HISTORY AIMATED BY SUIBHNE!!!!!! Also, I’m really excited for Genghis’ steamrolling, also, didn’t China meet a little bit with the Romans?

[@MrLolx2u]

They did and that was during the Han dynasty. The Silk Road opened and when the Romans vertured into the East, they somehow landed themselves at the gates of China which is present-day Tajikistan. They traded goods and stuff and that's how the Romans gained silk back into Rome and their ideas for their Scorpio which is a crossbow artillery piece (Crossbow was used by the Chinese 1st before anyone else) and how the Chinese got to know something called olives and grapes.

[@j.2512]

They didn´t tough, no one went all the way up the silk road, (until Marco Polo, and that was centuries after when China was controlled by mongols) all merchants did was trade good from one outpost to the next one closer. and there were thousands of those outposts, they simply went a bit further away from their city, sold the goods and then return to their city to fetch more. Eventually the goods crossed the continent little by little and it took years. Romans had silk in Rome but they never actually went to china themselves, and viceversa, there was olive oil in China but no chinese person ever went to Rome. The contact was completely indirect. The farther a Roman expedition ever got was still far from a Chinese capital, they still didn´t venture into China but they reported to Rome that farther away was a great empire that was as big as Rome since they knew from traders and locals. (China was actually a much bigger empire than Rome ). Don´t remember the exact emperor it was but the anecdote stuck to me from when i studied it.

[@marvelfannumber1]

+Tincho Sabala They did have contact with Rome, but only indirectly. As far as we know no single trader travelled the entire silk road during antiquity, there would be intermediaries. The Persians also tried to prevent the two from gaining any formal contact as they benefited from being the middle man in traade between Rome and China. For example there were some Chinese emissaries that travelled west and apperantly got quite close to Mesopotamia, but when they asked the local rulers how far it would be to get to Da Qin, the Persians lied and said they were only half way there. Da Qin btw is the Chinese term for Rome (kind of). It's complicated, but in Chinese mythology they believed that at the opposite end of the world there was a mirror China or Da Qing (Great Qin), which they associated Rome with. However they did finally have formal contact in the form of emissaries supposedly in the 160's A.D, as Chinese sources state the Emperor was visited by emissaries from Da Qin who brought many exotic gifts. They may have been frauds, but it's difficult to prove or disprove. At some point the Chinese started calling Da Qin, Fu Lin, which they still believed was a continuation of Da Qin. Under Constans II (who the Chinese called King Boduoli of Fu Lin) they apperantly got even more Roman embassies. These latter contacts are actually believed to be pretty genuine because the Chinese record a pretty accurate history of what was going on in Rome at the time. Chinese sources state that Fu Lin had been attacked by Da Shi (the Arabs), led by their commander "Mo-Yi" (probably Muawiyah) and that Da Shi had tried to attack Fu Lin's capital (Constantinople). They also describe Constantinople in some detail, although the details may be completely bogus. Such as the city having massive granite walls, golden statues of men and some kind of water clock. Roman sources around the same time also talk about China to some extent and get quite alot of information right suprisingly. They identified China's capital as "Kubdan" (maybe a corrupton of Xi'an), that the current ruler was named "Taisson" (which referred to Emperor Taizong of Tang) and even correctly stated that China had been divided, but was briefly reunited under the reign of Roman Emperor Maurice (who was a contemporary of the Sui Dynasty that briefly reunited China).

[@MrLolx2u]

China did have contact with Rome but it was a mishmash of timeline be it the Western Roman or Eastern Roman empire because.. Well.. Both called themselves Roman but yes. Rome did have contact with China all along.

[@eagle162]

Jun Kitami they didn't get the idea for the Scorpio from China.

[@phineasemanuel2140]

I'm here because of the manga Kingdom!! Awesome manga based on reality between 770-220 BC. This is an amazing video! Thank you for the Quality and also you should read that manga, is THE GREATEST MANGA OF ALL TIME!

[@tillallareone7299]

Wow,Over 5000 years of history! I’m blown away.

[@TheECSH]

Good work! Though I feel everything after the Han Dynasty separated into the Three Kingdoms gets a bit rushed. Also, several others have already pointed out, you have a typo at 7:32, Song should be 宋 in Chinese, but instead you wrote Xixia 西夏 twice.

[@nickl5998]

TheECSH I wouldn't say it is rushed considering it only lasted 60 some years.

[@TheECSH]

you misunderstood. I meant he spent the majority of the video talking about pre-Three Kingdoms eras, and everything after that was a bit rushed and crammed into about 2 minutes.

[@andrewbuck171]

Agreed. The three kingdoms period is covered in one sentence and six seconds of video!

[@matthijsvanwijhe864]

Very nice vid! just a small point of correction: the Korean kingdom that was taken in the 7th century was goguryeo, not goryeo. Goryeo came in the beginning of the 10th century.

[@seoxsun]

goguryeo changes its name into goryeo while king jangsu's regime(413~491). we just call it goguryeo just not to confuse the two countries.

[@驻马南山]

@@seoxsun 高句丽是扶余人的国家，而高丽是朝鲜人的国家，要区分的不仅是名字，两个族群的基因也是不同的，比如扶余人的父系基因是C2南支，朝鲜人的主要父系基因是O1b2。

[@eric7473]

@@seoxsun 高丽和王氏高丽是两个国家，高句丽和高丽是中国少数民族建立的政权，王氏高丽才是新罗（韩国人）建立的朝代

[@shujiang2560]

2:40 In the "Spring & Autumn"(春秋) era, they are actually just "lords" rather than "warlords". This is very important because it's the early form of Chinese feudalism which then transformed to different forms over the years, it's not just a cycle of "Collapse -> Reunite".

[@marisasagala5924]

The History is Very Important. Thanks❤

[@BuriUrLuve]

honest to god you helped me through my japanese degree and i just started my chinese degree and turns out you also have chinese history. i love you

[@brandonbohr.7301]

The Animated History of Greece please !

[@idkhowtoright479]

Ares Brandon 1997 macedonians triggered

[@stickmanhistory8598]

Animated History of Debt

[@b.sapounas5110]

Stickman History HA.

[@bloodyshark16]

Still more rich history than your pitiful country haaahahaha

[@bloodyshark16]

not more than your father

[@lalanodga6249]

0:32 I love how they just floats

[@Nostogi]

There’s a mistake in the video at 5:15. At the time of the Han dynasty, the Tarim basin was inhabited by Indo European people, not Turkic people. Turkic peoples arrived a millennia later and conquered and displaced the original inhabitants.

[@rickr9435]

the poor tocharians and some scythians.

[@ahamedihamiyun5927]

Bullshit

[@ramiribat]

I love it!

[@wegehrkniggle4611]

Great video man!

[@alejandrator1]

Gotta say, another guy corrected a lot of things but, as a East Asian History student as of today, I feel the need to add a couple things: First of all, the Xia Dinasty is recognized as such due to the discovery of the Erlitou archeological site, considered their capital. Also, there were some states (mainly Jinsha and Sangxidui) in the modern Sichuan during the Shang Dinasty period. Finally; Xia, Shang, Zhou (and the states of the Late Zhou periods) weren't empires; the first emperor was Qin Shi Huangdi (which name translated roughly if I recall to "First Qin Emperor") and that his dinasty name is the origin (probably) for the European words for "China". Nevertheless, it is a great video.

[@rigaudmackson4167]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@factorerivative]

Chinese history is more amazing if u look closer,there r many reasons and potential hazard but fun or even epic important characters to every kindom

[@nickyang1703]

one error with the Chinese word for "Song dynasty", should be “宋”

[@dailydoseofspoilers8089]

There are a billion Chinese words.😂

[@YananLiAsura]

@@dailydoseofspoilers8089 Most of the Chinese dictionaries (even used by Chinese population) usually includes from 48K - 85K characters, out of which most of them are almost 100%-exchangeable variations of other characters, while you only need to know approximately 8K-10K for daily communication including reading. But on the other hands, "words" are considered as combinations of various characters, so yeah, I guess a billion might be a close enough estimate.

[@dailydoseofspoilers8089]

@@YananLiAsura That’s still enough words to learn.

[@alexrosales4204]

I love this channel.. by using those cute drawings of people makes it more interesting. Straight 3 watching from diz channel!.. shout out for the new ep. Thanks!!!

[@whitefarmer]

This is the best video i have ever seen.

[@youhengchen9675]

its 宋，not 西夏

[@Peter-lv-0220]

刘大哥 哈哈，老外都不太懂这些

[@rickyhuang6874]

刘大哥 宋不算弱

[@doky7174]

what

[@Peter-lv-0220]

doky eummm，what what...

[@s.a.n6162]

Wat

[@bhsdhmu]

zhongguo means "center kingdom" not derived from zhou

[@장전-q7q]

True

[@kalinsapotato]

I've just re-watched that part and he's definitely implying that the name was coined during that period, not that it has its origins in the word "Zhou".

[@ShahanshahShahin]

And we call India "Bharat" in our languages

[@janetmissjacksonifyourenas2904]

middle land, yea

[@UltramanII]

You don't understand what the video maker meant. 中国(zhong guo) is not derived from the word "Zhou", but it's from how people call the capital of Zhou. 中国 at first only means "the central city". In Zhou dynasty, any city resident is referred to as 国人(guo ren) while people living outside of cities are referred to as 野人. So 中国 is the capital city, where the Zhou King lived. Only later did its meaning expand to mean all of China.

[@williamsledge3151]

Nice Crash course clip at 1:11

[@0animalproductworld558]

Very very very blessed video. Bright and beautiful 2D arts and colors

[@jackyniu5194]

4:33 by the way, it’s due to this that gun powder is invented

[@ezzeklive]

Thanks for drawing drawing Asian people with eyes just like everybody else’s: D

[@joshuamason2227]

ikr

[@topman8565]

Wait people dont think asians have eyes

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

but your eyes aren't like everyone else's?

[@preciousoh705]

@Amber MGL No they don't.

[@GeneralLiuofBoston1911]

Ngl, our eyes are slightly smaller, but yes, I agree they are not direct slits, but still noticeably small

[@ahmedtifardine2396]

Can you do animated history of Morocco plz And thnak you for your great work keep going

[@watchstory2815]

Brilliant works.....ur videos should be played in every kindergarten n elementary school, so educational

[@農ホ寸靑姩]

瑕不掩瑜，支持一下。 Good job!👍🏻

[@niallhamblin]

Obviously a great introduction, loved the video. These are a great way to just get started with things, and jump on in! That being said; how could they have hated books before paper was a thing? Were books made from other materials before that time? (I dont know much lol)

[@Adrian-si1gz]

If you still don’t know they used bamboo pretty sure

[@佳亮胡]

竹简或者布。

[@Trypod-uk3zl]

Chinese history: Fascinating Chinese culture: Ritch Chinese food: Incredible Chinese government: *[redacted]*

[@JT-dd9fi]

As a Chinese this is so true hahahah

[@vinhny2406]

I would love you to mention more about the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring state period and the Three Kingdoms period But I can’t blame you because the quality of this video is on point

[@davidguindo7003]

Very nice

[@bm-ub6zc]

Good video! A little correction on pronounciation: Shang = "Shung" Zhou = "Joe" [...]-Yue = "Yu-er"

[@iwatchthings1456]

This helped me with my Chinese history exam, Thank you!

[@sterkar99]

Animated history of Greece!

[@X-AEA-12]

Everyone knows this already

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Long time no seen I missed you and your videos

[@wafflepenguin4440]

I can never escape you, I see you everywhere

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

I see you every where.

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Blood Fire Drake because you are everywhere :0

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

so we both see each other but never interact?!The plot thickens

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Blood Fire Drake no you find me here and there because you exist here and there also

[@koalapop4770]

im so glad that you use traditional chinese!!

[@adeelabbas5113]

This Chinese historical documentary is amazing.

[@nacosiren]

@7:32 The map has a typo: "SONG" is labeled "西夏" (Xixia), but in fact should be labeled "宋" or "北宋". (Note that Xixia appear twice on the map). Also, after Jin's rebel and conquering Liao, Song should be labeled as “南宋”. @3:54 Confucianism became popular in Han dynasty because it was not until then that central government adopted it as the official ideology.

[@discipleinblack]

"Yu, an engineer" Wait, what do I have to do with Ancient- Ohhhhhhhh

[@aprilzhang6336]

"Yu" doesn't sound like "you". It sounds more like "oo"

[@PrimusProductions]

He wasn't an Ancient, we was a Goa'uld.

[@andraslibal]

1:30 it is impressive that they developed writing early, and I don't want to detract from that but being connected to others and learning from them is super important ... the mediterranean also had systems like the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians (I guess drawing things comes first) but then the Phoenicians made the leap of writing letters ... that was a big leap (Syro-Hittites made it and then Phoenicians spread it ... Greek Latin etc. all come from it). The Chinese in their isolation went in a different direction. They did not get that crucial input of switching to letters.

[@randomcallum]

pinying

[@张末-v4b]

有收到输入，但由于中华民族的同化属性这些都没有真正传播

[@andraslibal]

@@张末-v4b that is an interesting point yes I discussed it with a Chinese student once that anything invading China like the Mongols etc eventually because Chinese themselves.

[@jennykang187]

If something is divided, it will unite, If something is united, it will divide.

[@jessicaqu]

I literally LOL’d when Emperor Qin died from one of the alchemist poisons… I mean, potions. Amazing animation and narration

[@Karan-fs5mp]

Great Chinese culture, people and achievements are never depicted in right way in India. I love Buddhist agnostic beliefs Love China ❤️👍

[@matthewtenorioduenas202]

KK 00 not chinese but thanks for having good image for china

[@naelie2288]

It’s kinda sad that I know nothing about China’s history even though I’m Chinese so this video is great!

[@Rockstarmade224]

I’m not Chinese but I love watching these

[@sagisdoodleverse9696]

I’m Chinese and I’m just here to learn about my country since I only know the history through historical tv shows

[@lijieni6708]

我觉得你可以看中国通史。

[@sagisdoodleverse9696]

@@lijieni6708 通史？

[@jargaldude]

Intro is epic as always

[@mayydog8783]

Thank you so much for helping me with my homework 😅☺️👌

[@ServitorSkull]

I love how you can use flash to keep the same map in view, change the iconography and move forward in time all in one video. Great use of maps! More of these please.

[@往圣]

I am Chinese. In Chinese legend, Nuwa and Fuxi are half human and half snake

[@来去-y7l]

西汉时龙身，壁画里都有脚，但是那时文献里没有说是什么身。东汉才变成了蛇身。

[@firefly4784]

Spring and Autumn is the name of the history records written by Lu, one of the states in Zhou dynasty. It went all the way to the point when Lu was terminated by another state. As it’s history came to an end, so did the Spring and Autumn period, and the Warring States period started in which many states fought and terminated one another and consolidated to only 7 states.

[@samstock3531]

really good work！

[@chxr-z9q]

this very helped me

[@jhonli939]

5:58 Yes Wang Mang did seize over the Han government for a short period but he did not use a single pawn. He instead poisoned the emperor and made religious relic items that made people think that he is the real emperor assigned by God.

[@luong599]

History nanyue (Việt Nam) ad .thank you

[@biffadi1365]

Make an animated history of Sweden video please

[@hgl9590]

Hej Hej

[@patrykgora3051]

History of Finland 🇫🇮

[@周经纬-m8r]

I think your job is good！Although there are some errors, I like it.

[@lucinda2189]

Had to watch this for school

[@Cecil97]

lol the rise of HAN was such a significant part of Chinese history, and you just glossed over it

[@swisskristin12]

Almost 2 minutes of a 10 minute video covers the Han, how is this glossing over? Dope.

[@Cecil97]

@@swisskristin12 considering that around 90% Han Chinese are in China right now, yes it is glossed over

[@swisskristin12]

@@Cecil97 If you are interested in a more thorough analysis, you probably should look further than a 10 minute animated synopsis of 6,000 years of Chinese history. Dope.

[@chrisgrudge6964]

Cecil uh that’s just their name...Han people existed before the Han dynasty

[@Chris-hp9be]

Every dynasty contributed somehow to what China is today. Their history is just too long and rich to go into detail

[@alfredodestino5035]

suggestions: 1.Tell more about the time before Xia dynasty,that period is quite interesting and full of legends. 2.You can translate Xiongnu to The Huns and Qin Shi Huang to First Emperor of Qin(In fact the first Emperor in Chinese history).

[@Supernaltooth]

匈奴Xiongnu were not Mongolian, they were Huns.

[@seljukkaganat8588]

Huns truks

[@seljukkaganat8588]

@@KBKim-jt6uj turks huns modun chanyu is oghus khan

[@OhThatKwik]

That opening earned you a sub.

[@PatrickAllenNL]

The podcast of John & Hank Green brought me here. Amazing animation!

[@bowencai6295]

7:33 SONG is 宋，not 西夏！

[@bowencai6295]

@@leeentertainmentchannel247 hahaha,nobody care about you, poor man

[@你的父親-j3h]

You labeled “song” as 西夏 actually it should be 宋

[@ardaaslan1923]

Correction: The Mongols descended from the Xianbei while the The Xiongnu that you mentioned as "ancestors of Mongols" were the first Turkic state known in history.

[@Momoko111]

nice video!

[@manooxi327]

Tnx

[@wtf317]

So many basic mistakes: 1. During Zhou Dynasty, you mark two "鎬京" on the map. And what the hell is Wangcheng? 2. 高句麗 is not Korean people. 3. There was no Thai in Tang Dynasty, it should be Nanzhao in the map.

[@wcchudds1840]

You're kidding me right? The ancestors of Korean people mainly come from the three kingdoms; Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. I agree that the Goguryeo Kingdom could be common ancestors for some southern manchurians as well but it does not mean that Goguryeo is not Korean people. There are tons of Koreans whose ancestors are from Goguryeo as well. I think you'd better say; it's not fair that Goguryeo only belongs to Korean history.

[@anjiexox2711]

@@wcchudds1840 Goguryeo is neither Korean nor a Kingdom

[@wcchudds1840]

@@anjiexox2711 Well, please tell me the reason for you opinion :) And.. you're right, Goguryo started its history by ancient tribal society at first, but it was changed into a kingdom by centralization of its political power under the king with acceptance of buddhism which they learned from Central Chinese empire. Goguryeo was not an empire like ancient Chinese empires, yet it was a kingdom though.

[@wcchudds1840]

@@anjiexox2711 And yeah. I have different opinion compared to other Koreans in the point that it is hard to say 'Goguryeo people were Koreans', because at that time, there was no unified country named Korea (Goryeo which is different country from Goguryeo), yet they are the ancestors of some Koreans (on the Northern area of Korean peninsula) and some Manchurians (On the Southern area of Manchuria of China which is located in the north of Korean peninsula). Even the first capital city of Goguryeo is located in Southern part of Southern Manchuria which is just nearby Korean Peninsula, and the last capital city of Goguryeo is located in Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

익명할래 modern political identity didn’t exist back then so you are correct. The same reason that the idea of a single Chinese Han ethnic group is a modern concept. Throughout Chinese and Vietnamese and Korean history shows that various groups of people that lived within what is China proper now fled to what is now Korea and Vietnam having been driving there by war or due change in dynasties or other reasons. That doesnt mean Vietnam and China are descendants of Han Chinese but shows our concept of national identity is a modern creation. Because even our own histories show that there wasnt a clean and clear separation between our different peoples. Very few people know that the Hmong migrated from near the Yellow River in northern China over a period of 3,000 years, always escaping subjugation by Chinese dynasties. Or that the ancestors of the Thai people occupied what is now Yunnan province before fleeing from Chinese dynasties as well.

[@mohammadhusni99]

Good job but can you do eygpt

[@Ampersanderp]

I love your channel, but it bothers me that you treated The burning of books and burying of scholars as a weird little quirk. It was a deliberate, Fahrenheit 451 style attempt to wipe the historical slate clean and create a new mythos of the FIRST emperor.

[@Ampersanderp]

Kinda like posting "First!" except with more murder and arson.

[@Ampersanderp]

Also, his title Huáng dì literally means "God-emperor of mankind" which he made up himself, because apparently the old title of wáng (king) simply wasn't impressive enough.

[@Ampersanderp]

Plus, we refer to him today as Qín Shǐ huáng, "First Emperor of Qin" so I guess you could say it worked.

[@Ampersanderp]

Yes, I am replying to myself. I may have a raging hard-on for Chinese history.

[@Ampersanderp]

I felt the additional comments deserved to be separated from the initial comment.

[@duckvenom]

powerful! thank for this.

[@stevenjames5874]

Asia is such a beautiful and rich place! I began my study of the continent when I stumbled across "Abroad in Japan". I quickly fell in-love with Japanese culture and all of Nihon's natural inclinations. I then began studying at a T-25 university that welcomes several thousand international students each year. I recently began dating a young-woman from Northern China; since meeting her I've come to know much about the Chinese and their storied history. I'm afraid I still know so little. I greatly look forward to learning so much more about China and can't wait to visit some day in the near future! By the way; she was right. As an American, I couldn't fully fathom the implications of having several thousand years worth of history at my back. It is no surprise she should be so proud of her people.

[@elkingoh4543]

If you want more unique Asian history, you should learn Southeast Asian history

[@panzerwafflez7228]

Lol that sneaky Mongoltage soundtrack at the very end. Someone's a big fan of Crash Course;).