The Rise & Fall of China's Han Dynasty Empire…and it’s Rise & Fall Again

The Han Dynasty Empire, it's Rise & Fall…and it’s Rise & Fall Again (Chinese History Documentary)
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Sources:
Ancient China by Edward Schafer
Larousse encyclopedia of ancient and medieval history
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors By Ann Paludan

[@someguy4405]

When you buy immortality potions and they shorten your life. *stonks*

[@ShahjahanMasood]

Bajur taught you well

[@gerloke914]

That's the old American west

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Well, at least he built himself an army of terracotta warriors to serve him in the afterlife

[@19Ledor]

The beautiful irony of drinking a potion to live for ever and instead it kills you.

[@steve5123456789]

To be clear to anyone who didn't know. The potion contained mercury.

[@thedirty530]

I'm glad people are starting to make china's awesome history into more presentable videos...Rarely can you get all this information with out an hour long documentary...Well done!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Thank you glad you liked it :)

[@nagi-springfield93]

go watch nathan rich china documentary

[@taistingtheair1368]

AND it is in English

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@Stella Hoenheim congratulations

[@noctis129]

I actually want a hour long documentary…

[@adantigus]

The answer is quite simple: "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been."

[@princekrazie]

逢酒必喝喝酒必疯

[@brethartaquino3976]

As we speak China is still divided

[@annihilateyutube2365]

Bretthart Aquino, peenoise how? While u peenoise was never found... Just like ur own fvcking self-label named after ur BREITBASTARD WHITE SUPREMACIST MASTER.. Philippines... Filipinos an Anglo name when u have ur own TAGALOG language ffs! Now That is truly divided. Split personality.

[@annihilateyutube2365]

That's why it's MuriKKKa's turn, COZ it has been splitting countries since its satanic inception but was never itself divided when it was a stolen N annexed land.

[@bibolalipbai]

@@princekrazie Epic :)

[@augustc6121]

One common mistake made by Western historian is to claim the “temple title” of the Chinese emperor after his death was a title he made for himself. In reality, the temple title such as “Gaozhu” was a title the ministers of the next emperor gave to the past emperor. This Confucian tradition gives ministers a chance to evaluate the past emperor. In a way, it gave the emperor some worries that if he is not performing well, he will get a bad “temple title”. When the emperor was alive, he was often referred to as “superior” (in Chinese words, “Shang” or “Huang Shang”). He would not know what Temple Title he will get. Some emperors we later think deserving a better appraisal was not given a good temple title immediately after his death. For example, Wudi of Han defeated the Huns and expanded Chinese territory greatly. He was also the person made Confucianism the official ideology of China. Despite his great impact and all the praises he got in modern China, his temple title Wudi was not a good one. Wu had the meaning of too aggressive in using military forces, and thus not liked that much by the Confucians. Only 200 years later, realizing how much a beneficial impact he did in conquering the Hun empire, the Confucians added another better temple title to him. But too late, Wudi’s title lives forever in history....

[@BlackFlashDrive]

Thank you for the insight. What’s a temple title?

[@A56743C]

@@BlackFlashDrive temple title is one of the emperor title for the descendants to worship in the temple. Normal start the "dynasty name" and end with "Di" (Emperor). the middle name is for the evaluation. For example Hau Wu Di means "Emperor of Great Forces of the Han Dynasty"

[@arles1124]

@@BlackFlashDrive Think of it as a title like “Mother of dragons” “the breaker of chains” or something, but only given to the emperor by scholars who judge him after his death

[@lucifergames9936]

Was Chin Shi Huang the same way?

[@user-tg6hs4yt9n]

​@@lucifergames9936 chin shi huang is a bit different tho, he gave himself the title because after conquering the other warring states, he proclaim himself to be the 秦Qin (The name of his State), 始Shi (Means Beginning in Chinese), 皇帝Huang Di. Also the first king to use the title Huang Di, in the past they only use 王Wang (King) , but since Qin Shi Huang conquered all the other Kings, he decided that the King title is beneath him, and uses 皇帝HuangDi (Emperor) instead

[@Jumpoable]

Wow. I'm Chinese, & I'm very impressed by your succinct summary of the Han Dynasty. Truly one of the more detailed lectures of the Han than any middle or high school teacher of Chinese history. I'm sure you did hours upon hours of research. Thank you for teaching the world. 9 kowtows.

[@ReviveHF]

This video made me time to play Three Kingdoms Total War again.

[@xavierapples1405]

Grand Moff Tarkin, I still the ROTK series by Koei. Fan for life.

[@XuerLi]

@@xavierapples1405 the 14th is coming

[@xavierapples1405]

Xue Li , nice! I love this series and have been a fan of it since its inception. I don’t own a PS4 but still play up until ROTK 11 on PS2. The game itself inspired me to read the novel as well. So good.

[@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926]

But sir Tarkin aren't you supposed to be dead.

[@ReviveHF]

@@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 Revived through CGI

[@perseuswong6864]

The meritocracy of the imperial exam is an interesting alternative to the Roman Republican system of elected representative rule. In practice, the sons of peasants could not afford to devote to years of study when they were needed to manage the farm. The imperial exam eventually recruited its candidates mostly from the nobility and merchant class. It's interesting to see how the early successes of the Han Dynasty and it's Roman counterpart were undermined by the same class of corrupt, power-hungry nobles.

[@gcrecords1731]

Perseus Wong the romans empires was most corupted empires the han empires was most beatiful empires comercial with orient damasc and orient india and iran . Roman empires crash economy of others.

[@shorewall]

@@gcrecords1731 Found the 50 cent army! :D CCP is gonna self destruct by 2047. Hong Kong will outlast the CCP.

[@ibnyahud]

@@gcrecords1731 turn your nationalistic dial down 10 notches please...

[@cyrilchui2811]

Imperial exam (科舉) was introduced during Sui / Tang era. During Han era, candidates were endorsed by local & regional officials, who were then recruited and assigned for entry level jobs. Public civil exam would have to wait for few more centuries.

[@marlarki5280]

The Imperial exam doesn't exist during the Han dynasty.

[@1roanstephen]

Thank you for making history available in easily digestible amounts. Keep up the great work.

[@godessworshipper4663]

The exam started by Liu Bang has lasted till today. Despite unavoidable corruption and family connection like anywhere else in the world, any ordinary citizen still stand a great chance to become an official in China by passing the exam. Actually many leaders of China today were once peasants or ordinary civilians.

[@godessworshipper4663]

And funny thing is that both the most politically ambitious guys and the least ambitious people want to pass this exam, because the govt treat their own employees really well, although usually the salary is not as high as in most private companies, the welfare is extraordinary, and much less stressful. A job within the governmental system is what we call "Iron rice bowl".

[@emmasbooknook4576]

Wow...learning history is interning... And your art keeps getting more amazing! Good job!

[@Dragons_Armory]

The Han dynasty was one of the more stable of the Chinese dynasties. A lot of what defined a Chinese dynasty (seen in the last 2000 years of the dynastic cycle) all crystalized around it. Arguably it's the 1st true imperial dynasty bc Qin collapsed so rapidly. But what the Qin figured out- the Han excelled and made more humane. I also am rather fond of the motion that the Han and the Roman Empire were nearly contemporaneous with each other.

[@cudanmang_theog]

Make america great again (loot)

[@hanliu3707]

what about Tang?

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@joi_is _love333 compared to the Tang, the Chinese still prefer the Han. The Han was essentially China's first golden era with a pretty long history of China didn't broke apart in pieces. That's why Chinese people calls themselves "Han people" and Chinese characters as "Han characters". In southern China, ethnic Han people there called themselves "Tang people", referencing the Tang dynasty. This is the Cantonese, Hakka, and Minnan people. They're the people group who later emigrated and formed diasporas in Southeast Asia, where they carry the name "Tang people" as well. At least that was the case in my homeland Indonesia.

[@hch1414]

@joi_is _love333 all han still price their heritage as han. In fact we don't even care about the new defination and pretty much still think Chinese = han. Go figure.

[@mr.notsonice]

The successor states of Han and Qin managed to unify everything again which Eastern Rome was not able to achieve. If the Eastern Romans succeeded at the Renovatio Impirii then we could've seen a western counterpart to the Chinese dynasties.

[@siraceshow]

Thank you for another impressive video.

[@user-xo9xs2mu3f]

형이 거기서 왜 나와? ㅋㅋㅋ

[@6principlesforcartography61]

One mistake: Red Eyebrows were not the only rebel army against Wang Mang. They did not crown Liu Xuan as the emperor. Instead, Liu Xuan was supported by another uprising army called Green Forest, who overthrew Wang Mang and planned to restore Han Dynasty. However, they broke due to internal conflicts and were defeated by Red Eyebrows. Emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu) used to be a member of Green Forest but became independent when the regime lost control of the empire.

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

China's top five enemies: 1. China 2. China 3. China 4. China 5. China

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

Latest one hongkong chinese

[@delideli8577]

@Mantap Djiwa nohope.about200-300years later

[@sonics500603]

@@benthekeeshond545 On contrary, big portion of Hong Kong ppl don't consider themselves as Chinese. They are proud once to be rulled by the British. It doesn't mean British had have done any better job. Just look back in the 60s and 70s. It's all politics. In business world, british supported consortium transported most of the fortune back to British. Before the transition of administrations, financial war occured and almost broke down HK economy. The reason why some businesses failed the investiment is that they still think the Chinese are ignorant and underdevelopment as before. Many businesses successed big time as well. Time to wake up and give up the hatred.

[@user-zs3mp4ef4o]

贫富分化大的时候就会推翻政权。谁当皇帝都不重要

[@rayray6490]

James Wang ....you say this as someone who lived in HK long-term? Because your last name is Wang, which in Cantonese will be Wong if you were a local HK’er.

[@behrangkhosravi3157]

As always great and informative. Keep at it. I always enjoy your work.

[@vertigq5126]

Great video man! Thanks for uploading. God bless you!

[@richhartnell6233]

Hell of a thing covering one of the greatest nations in human history this quickly, well done!

[@wyleong4326]

Thank you for this video. I’m ethnically Chinese and born in Malaysia. I’d love to know more about the Minyue and Nanyue section of this video if you ever find time to venture into it. ;) Thanks again!

[@andrewbatist6355]

i was waiting for this one. love this channel

[@tanz4286]

one very notable features of hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing) is that people wore the left side OVER the right side, as left signifies yang and covers the right yin because live people are yang, only dead people wore their clothings with the right side up (so yes, inverting a Chinese clothing means that the dude is wearing burial clothings).

[@ronjayrose9706]

Well I learned something new everyday

[@denglinzhiniao]

yes！！

[@sinoroman]

is that even true?

[@denglinzhiniao]

Romanke it’s true you can see the traditional costume of Japan and Korea,they still keep the habit

[@sinoroman]

idk, i think chinese people, perhaps only han chinese, are kinda confused on what to wear traditionally.. most will prob say qing clothing, but a handful want to bring back hanfu.. europeans see manchu clothing as traditional chinese, and the ccp fully supports manchu-qing outfits, so I don't see hanfu making a major comeback..

[@thedoruk6324]

China : *Exists* Foreigner : *wHiCH oNE?!*

[@ronjayrose9706]

Of course non other than yuan dynasty

[@XuerLi]

@HANLARHAKANI PADİŞAHLARPADİŞAHI Actually anlushan rebellion was mixed of Turks and Chinese, many competent generals and soldiers under An Lushan were ethnic Chinese, included Xue Rengui's grandson Xue Song. On the other side the Tang empire also threw in high rank turkish generals to battle An Lushan, one of them was Geshu Han. So basically it was not really an ethnically state contlict, they were just fighting over the control of the empire.

[@anasevi9456]

it's funny because during the rise of Han, it shows how strong the cultural legacies of the long conquered States still were. Many such as Chu had operated as distinct nations for almost a millennia. Xiang Yu and many liked him felt alienated by a unified China, and wanted to restore their nations and cultures the same way as an occupied European nation did. It took centuries for the former identities to fully fade away.

[@XuerLi]

@@anasevi9456 If without Qinshihuang, or if Xiang Yu wins the Chu_Han contention, China now would probably be like Europe with many cultural independent states.

[@hwasiaqhan8923]

ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN 2 “Great Yan” is seen as a illegitimate foreign rebel dynasty by the Chinese, so there’s nothing to be proud of here.

[@bidyutchatterjee7195]

Very well explained. I personally learnt a lot from this video. Thank you very much Sir !!

[@simonpeter5032]

Your maps are always so impressive dude, literally. Good shit, most people wouldn’t even try to do the level of cartography you do for videos.

[@JudgeRhadamanthys]

One main contributor was the increasing concentration of land ownership, which led to the impoverishment of the peasant class and the weakening of imperial control over local land owners. Then natural disasters exposed the weakness of the imperial government, which had to rely on private armies organized by local land owners to suppress the peasant rebellions.

[@user-pt9zx5un6s]

You are an expert!

[@svenkorlos5146]

You know History!

[@gerloke914]

You got my admiration

[@micahistory]

I had never heard of the Red Eyebrows. Sounds pretty badass

[@daniellxia]

Actually there were two major branches of the uprising at that time, the Red Eyebrows and the Green Woods. The later is more famous, since till nowadays, morden Chinese still refer those large scale anti-government bandits as 'the Green Woods'. Something like Robin Hood, who happened to live in green woods as well.

[@micahistory]

@@daniellxia oh cool

[@thegoodwin]

@@daniellxia , Robin "Green" Wood.

[@rayray6490]

And then of course there’s the Yellow Turbans at the end of the dynasty. The Han made gang colors cool way before the Bloods and the Crips ever did

[@micahistory]

@@rayray6490 yeah

[@TerillaArtoria]

I love how Er Shi is just the art of Qin Shi Huang with his beard removed

[@EpimetheusHistory]

:)

[@daniellxia]

These are just titles. There family name was Yin. Qin Shi Huang means the first emperor of Qin, his real name was Yin Zheng. Er Shi means the 2nd emperor, his name was Yin HuHai.

[@user-pv6ik6zs1e]

like father, like son = )

[@antonc108]

@@user-pv6ik6zs1e Nonsense, HuHai was no where the capability of Yin Zheng.

[@user-pv6ik6zs1e]

antonc108 aren’t we talking about the beard??

[@nyabl7324]

Thank you very much for sharing such an informative video! I learned a lot.

[@gingerkrieg9062]

Thank you Epimetheus!

[@CCPJAYLPHAN1994]

And if you include Three Kingdoms period, Shu Han was ACTUALLY known as Ji-Han, a third period of the Han Dyansty, as Liu Bei never proclaim another dynasty, but rather a continuation of the former.

[@GeorgeTSiy]

Congratulations for bringing together many scholarly commenters, this is a feat in itself apart from a concise video with notes in pictures. Thank you also commenters for sharing researches and insights. The contention of ideas with references to actual history and frameworks of analysis, rather than just pure opinions, this part of the scholarly culture that advances civilizations in the world everywhere ,that maybe China was the first to institutionalize on a large scale. Beyond whether it equalized or favored some sectors, perfect or not , it is a way of recognizing , utilizing , and rewarding merit. There is much to learn today from achievements of all peoples in the past, which we should try apply to the present in the future.

[@MrIcenice44]

The intro to the map syncing with the music was really nice

[@gabrielplaza7505]

Thanks for making this video. It had given me a lot of help. THANKS

[@rustyshackelford3590]

I wonder how there fall impacted the Roman empires economy since a lot of money came from trade with the east.

[@tommy-er6hh]

I think troubles with Parthia and Kushans had more effect, along with the Roman inflation/lowering gold in money.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Weren't the rise and fall of the han and the rise and fall of pax romana around surprisingly similar times?

[@tommy-er6hh]

There was the Roman Crisis of the Third Cent which may have been influenced by Han collapse, but Western Rome lasted another Cent and a half, and the East till 1450s.

[@ibnyahud]

trade with india, depleting gold and silver, affected their economy adversely a lot more...the chinese and romans were too far removed, and the chinese had little use for roman gold and silver; rather they were more interested in glassware and textiles

[@bangscutter]

I heard somewhere that the rich and elite of Rome loved Chinese silk so much that they eventually had to ban it, because of too much outflow of money from Rome.

[@madderhat5852]

For the fall of both empires I refer to 09:50 I blame the gigantic panda. At this scale it must be 200 km +. It would have scared the sh!t out of me.

[@lukezuzga6460]

Great video EP, thanks

[@noahlogue]

I love your channel dude!

[@honantong]

This is more informative then the history classes I had in China. I want to watch what follows.

[@micahistory]

It basically ended when the nobles were given independence in exchange for fighting the yellow turbans

[@wesleyhsu6659]

Not really independence. Just less power to the central government to control those warlords. I say it's the eunuchs that contributed most to the fall of the Han and the fact there were child emperors who didn't know how to control the warlords.

[@micahistory]

@@wesleyhsu6659 true

[@danmaertens7872]

This has been very informative and entertaining.

[@fury.2000]

I really am impressed that i didnt sleep off through this lecture your visual effects is what really kept me awake!!!!

[@humanlim]

很棒的影片！！

[@mututyo8418]

Er Shi is not a name, it means Emperor II

[@benthekeeshond545]

Second generation.

[@stephenleong7373]

就是啊

[@JerryExploresHistory]

His name is Huhai, but very few people call him dad. He's commonly known as Er Shi (Second Generation), much like Yingzheng was known as Shihuangdi (Starting Emperor).

[@ibnyahud]

​@@JerryExploresHistoryanecdotally, in Hasidic Jewish rabbinic dynasties, it is also extremely common to refer to past "leading Rebbe"s by chronology rather than name

[@seansteryu7398]

ERSHI is ear wax

[@Country.History]

Great summary. You earned my like and my subscribe.

[@willowrowley7830]

Great video!

[@flyingfish2461]

Interesting, this is the first time I have watched Chinese history in English, thanks.

[@EpimetheusHistory]

Hope you enjoyed it flying fish会飞的鱼!

[@CC-sj8ez]

@@EpimetheusHistory Thank you for making Chinese history in YT. Most of the videos about China are so full of political prejudices that they forget to learn 5,000 years of cultural history.

[@iraqimapper8625]

Great work Request: can you do a video about ancient Europe Gaul Germania Britainia Illiryia pre Roman Iberia etc ?

[@noided5599]

are you hamza ?

[@iraqimapper8625]

@@noided5599 no

[@tckchannel4435]

So well done n easily understandable video...👍👍👍👍👍

[@Figgy5119]

I'm sure they were a powerful force, but I can't help cracking up picturing the scene... "What's that racket??" "They're here!" "Who!?" "It's... It's...the red eyebrows." **Dun dun duuuuun**

[@kristinamickwitz3542]

it has been found with greatest frequency among indigenous peoples of Russia, including Finnic peoples, Mari, Udmurt, Komi, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Nganasans, Turkic peoples (Yakuts, Dolgans, Khakasses, Tuvans, Tatars, Chuvashes, ), Buryats, Tungusic peoples (Evenks, Evens, Negidals, Nanais, ), Yukaghirs, Luoravetlans (Chukchis, Koryaks), and Siberian Eskimos, but certain subclades are very common in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and other subclades are found at low frequency in China (Yi, Naxi, Lhoba, Han Chinese,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N-M231

[@SuperSayajim]

Thank you for indulging my childhood by keeping each kingdoms color the same as the Dynasty Warrior games. Maybe that's historically accurate, maybe not, it made me happy

[@Shadi810]

Same man!

[@geraldinegaynor1360]

Very clear and concise. Thank you.

[@TheDarkRobloxian]

Great writing and art overall, mainly undercut by mumbling and a lack of cursory pronunciation research. Tying some ideas together more and drilling home a main theme in the video could've been done to a greater extent, but it worked nonetheless and I enjoyed it overall. Hope to see more.

[@tyuspatterson8829]

Alright that pig got me, here's a like!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

:)

[@Binary84]

Damn, I hope we get to see a red eyebrows chapter pack DLC for Total War Three Kingdoms.

[@kendonl.taylor5111]

@Epimetheus I'm pleased that you put correct flag color for the Three Kingdoms.

[@Suite_annamite]

*@**3:04**: A great comfort to know that Toshiro Mifune reincarnated from upstart Chinese nobility! ;)*

[@barbiquearea]

Technically the Han Empire continued on for several more decades in Shu as Liu Bei considered himself the legitimate heir of the dynasty after his kin Emperor Xian abdicated. In fact until centuries later the Shu still referred to themselves as the Han, similar to the way the Byzantines kept being acknowledged as the Roman Empire long after the western half of the empire's collapse and was only referred to as Byzantium by modern historians.

[@229masterchief]

History: How many time do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

[@gerloke914]

It's because they got a secret enemy who was just watching the whole show for centuries.

[@zaidkhan857]

Please upload frequently

[@stephenschroeder6567]

Great work! Wish I had seen this a few weeks ago when my World Civ to 1500 class was covering China's history.

[@agniroyai1230]

The early Han, one of my favourites

[@anasevi9456]

ancient chinese history is a great topic. thanks again!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

:)

[@sinoroman]

from the sculptures and tablets, it doesn't show farmers from that era wearing a conical hat. at the very least, they were wearing regular straw hats, the ones with the brim. whether it is rounded or pointed at the top varies, but there is always a brim.

[@forlornfool221]

right vid right time.. ty

[@Rocinante2300]

Love the intro music

[@leipen7125]

Liu Bang was a hooligan when he was young.

[@zheqingzhang6136]

He was so even if he became the emperor.

[@ZhangLee.]

that what kick up the trent " long united must divide " because a hooligan success so cheers

[@jamesgabriel7132]

he was destine to be emperor. but not a good emperor. most administration and policy was determined by xiao he and zhang liang

[@mistahillshistory1916]

Excellent good sir!

[@swoozyduzzytgottaloveit2966]

My first rap name was Epimetheus. It was as nerdy as this channel, lol. I love it.

[@hanchiman]

in layman terms "Blame the influential Imperial Eunuchs"

[@jonathanresurreccion2995]

To add to that the incompetent and corrupt monarchs of the han empire.

[@theuglykwan]

Chinese historians always blame women and ennuchs. However, they are always present. So if they are so dangerous then why do some dynasties last a long time or some reigns of certain emperors so stable? The answer must be that some emperors were not very competent and thus let them run wild. We basically saw this in the kingdom of Shu Han which was supposed to restore the Han after it collapsed. The succeeding ruler was told to avoid evil people and surround himself with good. Instead he was such a crap ruler he listened to corrupt ennuchs and even loyal ministers before ended up corrupt or just staying silent as they knew it would be no use. He literally had the lessons of the previous dynasty ending because of this and he still repeated it. That said, that women and ennuchs can so easily subvert a dynasty shows the weakness of the system. If it relies so heavily on one person being so competent then that system won't last too long since it is based in lineal succession so the chances are there will be shitty emperors at some point unless they have some system to weed out the crap ones and elevate the best.

[@hanchiman]

@@theuglykwan usually the first to second generation have a dislike to court Eunuchs since they basically fought tooth and nail for their empire. After the 4th or 5th then the Emperor become lazy and let his minister take over daily office task while listening to Eunuchs sweet talk

[@vx6952]

@@jonathanresurreccion2995 You mean the 6-year-old emperor?

[@camrendavis6650]

Could you do a video on General Yue Fei and on Empress Wu Zetian

[@XuerLi]

Yue Fei was a true gentleman, his sibling Yue Fan was killed by gangster Yang Zaixing but Yue Fei didn't execute Yang after capturing him, instead he recognized Yang's martial prowess and asked him to join his army and even promoted him to be a high ranking general.

[@camrendavis6650]

@@XuerLi I know right? Isn't that awesome?

[@BloodnSteel]

Another awesome and thorough episode!

[@ingold1470]

Liu Bang sounds like the player character in Mount and Blade.

[@herberzh]

Thank you for making this educational video about China. The information you present here is equivalent to ask America who is George Washington; or its like to ask a British who is Williams I. It feels hopeless how little the people from Western countries know about other culture and history.

[@barbiebarbie1813]

In ancient China. Due to the escape or expansion of territorial reasons. There were many records of the Han people moved to the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese islands (including Okinawa). Establishing small countries and regimes on these islands (representing Chinese senior officials rather than emperor). In addition to the later period of Japan (because of the ocean). The Han regime on the Korean Peninsula has always been the ancient Chinese territory and the scope of direct jurisdiction (but sometimes it is similar to the different phenomenon of political opinions from the central government. It is similar to the situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. When the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong and the central government is bad. Sometimes they think they are independent countries or claim to be non -Chinese). The history of the establishment of a regime on the Korean Peninsula (Goguryeo, Baiji, Silla, Goryeo early). It is not the history of the Korean people. Instead, it is the history of the local regime of the Han people in northern China.These royal family and nobles are Chinese and descendants who move to the peninsula. They are wearing Han nationality clothing and using Chinese characters. They also claim to be the Han family. Only some civilians and slaves are indigenous people from the south of the peninsula (Koreans). This is very certain. (A large number of ancient Chinese tombs were unearthed on the 2/3 Korean Peninsula today. Han murals (depicting the lives of the Han people in the north), the fairy and god beast of the Han nationality.Han religion. Chinese character stone monument. Han Dynasty coins. ........... The southernmost part of the peninsula is unearthed in the original and backward Korean national life tools. It can be seen that the extremes of two different ethnic groups( Chinese VS Korean ) and different civilizations exist at the same time in the same period of the peninsula history. ----------------------------- that is, from the pre -Qin dynasty, there have been 4 times large -scale immigrants from Chinese Han people to enter the Japanese islands and Korean Peninsula, which have a profound impact on the historical trends of China and Japan and ( Korean Peninsula ). Focus on reference materials : Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD) 日本飛鳥時代 Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history ) 日本奈良時代 The Chinese carefully taught the primitives of Japan (and korea) at the time to teach the knowledge of rice, cutting wells, manufacturing agricultural tools, spreading medicine, textiles and other knowledge. They pushed Japan from the brutal primitive society to a slave society. Chinese Han people's four large -scale immigrants enter the Japanese islands record : 1. Qin and Han Dynasty Qin Shihuang (秦始皇 259-210 BC) swept the six regions. In order to escape the war, the Chinese people fled to Japan in two ways: Some Chinese people crossed the sea from the Northeast to the Korean Peninsula to Japan. Japan. 2. During the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 -589 BC) During the period of "Upheaval of the Five Barbarians 五胡亂華", in order to avoid the war, the Chinese people began a wave of migration to a large -scale migration around. Most of the fleeing Chinese finally went to Japan, forming the climax of immigration to Japan. The representative is Liu Azhi (劉阿知), the descendant of Emperor Han Xian(漢獻帝). 3. The Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 BC) Japan sent a large -scale Tang ambassador to China to visit China, while China sent a large number of people to spread advanced technology and culture to Japan. Most of these people are monks or cultural scholars. They are left as required by the Japanese because of the difficult sailing and welcomed by Japan. They often stay and "domestication" into the Japanese. The representative is the monk Jianzhen(監真). 4. The Song (960-1279)and Ming dynasties(1368-1644) In the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people in the southern Song Dynasty broke their families. In order to avoid the war and kill, they moved to Japan one after another. The representative of this period was scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty - Lanxi Daolong(蘭溪道隆).

[@c.kainoabugado7935]

Mahalo for the information.

[@brokenbridge6316]

I liked this video a lot. I knew very little about the rise of the Han. But now I know more. So thanks a lot.

[@massaosaito4084]

3:06 Wait, Yojimbo? What the heck are you doing in old china? XD

[@kristinamickwitz3542]

it has been found with greatest frequency among indigenous peoples of Russia, including Finnic peoples, Mari, Udmurt, Komi, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Nganasans, Turkic peoples (Yakuts, Dolgans, Khakasses, Tuvans, Tatars, Chuvashes, ), Buryats, Tungusic peoples (Evenks, Evens, Negidals, Nanais, ), Yukaghirs, Luoravetlans (Chukchis, Koryaks), and Siberian Eskimos, but certain subclades are very common in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and other subclades are found at low frequency in China (Yi, Naxi, Lhoba, Han Chinese,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N-M231

[@micahistory]

Lol Qin Shi Huangdi died trying to become immortal

[@peterblood50]

If I remember correctly, he died while making some sort of tour of the provinces and his rotting corpse had to be transported all the way back to the capital. I think he was drinking a "mixture of immortality" that included Mercury in the reagents.

[@micahistory]

@@peterblood50 yeah

[@kikin310]

his right hand probably was poisoning slowly, in those times never trust eunuch, they cut their own weenies for a chance in power what else will they do for it i wonder

[@coleball6001]

kikin310 Eunuch were forced to cut off their weenies, then they went into Imperial service. It was meant to avoid the possibility that one of the concubines would be impregnated by someone other than the Emperor.

[@micahistory]

@@coleball6001 true

[@myndwork]

Fascinating stuff

[@sizex1966]

I did enjoy ur video, have u seen 'Red Cliff' ? A Student of life I'm just passing through! ✌🏾☝🏾🖤

[@ShinMaruku]

I loved the chaos undivided sigil flashing in the screen. 40k the best!

[@tringapore9820]

Do a vid on the Rise and Fall of the Tang Dynasty

[@Owen420247]

Do you have a video that goes further than this time? I would like to find out more about what happened after the three kingdoms period!

[@firedog235]

As time goes on there is an accumulation of something like capital in these empires: the number of bureaucrats grows and their is an accumulation of methods for extracting surplus until eventually the rulers grow overweening in their power (both because they haven't failed in a long time and because they have many vassals and sons to placate) and then the regular people revolt and that's the end of the empire for a minute.

[@camrendavis6650]

Could you do a video on the Ming and Tang Dynasties? By far my favorites

[@gcrecords1731]

Camren Davis my to aym roma china empires is my favorites my to

[@camrendavis6650]

@@gcrecords1731 👍

[@gcrecords1731]

Camren Davis china han empires was most beatifull comercials they make busines from antiks time with india iran damascus izrael orient middle east .those roman empires destroyed middle east izrael and middle east . But there in carthages was phoenicians berbers the touareg . Canaanites .hannibal the lions of the meditarneans coast ..to punish roman empires

[@camrendavis6650]

@@gcrecords1731 sometimes I like to wonder what would happen if the Han dynasty and the Roman republic were to ever meet up in person.

[@gcrecords1731]

Camren Davis if the roman empires wanted to conkers tarim basin .and han . The roman empires cannot past by khusan saka from scitians and xiongu never. Han chinese wil destroyed roman empires for sure.han empires is beat the huns and huns sacked roman empires with attila from kazakstan

[@GKS225]

12:16 The Chinese character for Shu Han should be 蜀 instead, though 汉 is part of the name.

[@eroribbit]

At that time, Shu Han called themselves Han (or Ji Han 季汉 sometime) as the legal successor of Han so he's correct here actually. Although Wei and Jin only called Shu Han as Shu to deny their claim. Shu Han is used by later historians just like western historians use Byzantine Empire for Eastern Roman Empire.

[@lialv1605]

就是汉，蜀汉带贬义，后人方便区别才这样称呼的

[@jauyun847]

Also the narrator uses a non standard pronunciation for 劉邦, sounds like "Lee oo bei ng" (same vowels in "see two games"), standard would sound like "Liou Bah ng" (chinese "you", ex. 有, should soung approx like english yoyo, as in the toy named yoyo; would be like "Yo, Ma"). So ... he obviously doesn't know or study Putonghua. Maybe he's American? That would account for raised quality of the open front vowel in "bang", Americans often say words like "bank" with a raised open front vowel, such that it sounds similar to "bane".

[@rojetsmith2759]

Thank you very much.

[@michaelwoo4123]

Awesome!

[@nguyenthangtien5255]

Hello from Vietnam 🇻🇳

[@nguyenthangtien5255]

@Hoàng Nguyên haha 😜😜,lol Vietnam

[@williamkartatar4759]

First time I saw snake wine in Vietnam.

[@nguyenthangtien5255]

@@williamkartatar4759 are you from germany Is solid wine good for your health?

[@williamkartatar4759]

@Hoàng Nguyên Beer invented in Germany and when I drink I prefer vodka or whiskey.I don't drink alcohol usually.

[@rayray6490]

Peace be with you, sir

[@DarkMagicianMan20]

Liu Bang was so lucky that people when mention him they usually say that he destin to be Son of Heaven

[@jamesgabriel7132]

that was his destiny after all.

[@EricScheid]

Epimetheus, do you draw those maps? They are great.

[@lilazndrgnboi]

Dank stuff

[@Harryjay6]

Nice work. My only inquiry is what role, if any, did religion play in these rises and falls?

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Well, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was motivated by an apocalyptic interpretation of Taoism. Many of the King’s of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms era (mostly Liu Bei and Sun Jian) justified their rule by saying that they were guided by Heaven. I know that the early Han had a government based in Confucianism, but other than that I don’t know about any other religious influence on the Han’s rise.

[@Harryjay6]

@@dylanchouinard6141 rad, thanks!

[@Harryjay6]

@The Martial Lord of Loyalty rad, thanks!

[@xiaoliu3397]

Zhou dynasty rulers started to remove religious and only worshipped ancestors

[@CN_SFY_General]

Rebelion plays a role in Chinese History, not religion. Buddhism and Taoism are not a religion, they are a way of life people to choose to have less trouble in a society without fairness.

[@dallasdelay3468]

I watched the T.v. show from china. 100+ episodes. It was awesomeness

[@kristencotty4439]

What show?

[@dallasdelay3468]

@@kristencotty4439 the one on Netflix The chin Something aliance? War? Anyhoo it was about this And 80 episode?

[@kristencotty4439]

@@dallasdelay3468 qin empire alliance?

[@dallasdelay3468]

@@kristencotty4439 i think so

[@shalwayluo340]

I like it too:).

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

They made a video game about the topic of this video. It is called Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dynasty Warriors.

[@Bigfoot350]

Romance of the 3 Kingdoms is a Classic. 👀💯👍

[@kesharkhadkapunwar2029]

Thanks! 👏🌹🙏 Greeting from Nepal ! 🇳🇵Hail Nepal !!!

[@yuenhai]

See, the thing is, China's dynastic system more or less doomed every single dynasty to the same ignoble end To understand this, you have to look further back into China's history Back in the Zhou dynasty, China was a feudal state Everyone acknowledged that the Zhou king was the Zhou king simply by birth right and no one can replace him but his heir, the next Zhou king The same goes for the nobles that he enfeoffed, and so on While it sounds like a very unfair system, it removed the incentive to gain power via conquest If we were both Dukes, it doesn't matter if you were stronger than me, because we were only Dukes because the Zhou king made us Dukes - in other words, you cannot easily conquer my land on a whim, not unless you were strong enough to not only take me on, but also everyone else who were benefiting from the system In other words, this feudal system heavily incentived people who have power to maintain the status quo and not rock the boat And it worked too - the status quo was maintained for about 300 years, before conquest started becoming a thing - even then, people still paid nominal respect to the Zhou king It took another 300 years or so, and China went through what is called the Spring and Autumn period, before people finally decided to pay no heed to the Zhou king Even then, the Zhou king was still at least a figurehead, and this last for another 250 years or so, and this period is called the Warring States period It was only when Qin conquered the whole of China and the Qin Emperor declared himself the Emperor of all of China that the Zhou dynasty was finally disposed of So what the Qin did was not just merely unifying China - it was overthrowing an entire social system that had lasted for more than 800 years until then You can see how this didn't sit well with many people Still, ruling as a business was still largely the prerogative of the nobility It was why the rebels led by Xiang Yu found a figure head to act as the Chu king, and it was also why Liu Bang went through the trouble to encourage myths about himself and styled himself a Duke - people were still conditioned to think that only the nobles had the right to rule by this point Now of course this all changed when Liu Bang won the civil war and decided to style himself an Emperor For the time in China's history, they had a King/Emperor of common birth This effectively opened the floodgates to ANYONE to claim the throne as long as they were able to - Chinese Kings or Emperors were no longer protected by their lineage So yes, when Liu Bang claimed the throne and established the Han dynasty, he also sowed the seeds for his dynasty's downfall, for it was inevitable that the day will come when anyone who was stronger would claim the throne from his line And that essentially set in motion the dynastic cycle of China for the next 2000 years or so - the ruling dynasty invariably weakens and someone stronger invariably stepped in to claim the throne for themselves

[@floris.927]

Perfectly put, which is also why it was so revolutionary when Chen Sheng exclaimed, “Is there a linear age to the kings and generals?!” ... Well, in his time, there was.

[@taelongx]

Wow that was a great explanation. New Dynasty brought something new to the nation, like Buddhism, Imperial exams, etc. Without Dynasties, do you think China would have stayed the same like same laws, rituals, etc?

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

No rest for the Traitors! No retreat for the Han!

[@k.c1126]

Is where you have the Chu state depicted at 3:22 correct? I thought it was further south than that ....

[@HieuLe-gs6mc]

great video as usual. But what is the role of the pandat at 9:51 ? :))

[@WSOJ3]

Major stable Chinese dynasties: Xia Shang Zhou Han Tang Song Yuan Ming Qing PRC In between those big dynasties are mini unstable dynasties and non-unified warring periods.

[@WSOJ3]

Now let’s try to fit the “in-between” periods too: -pre-Xia 5 Kings tribal era Xia Shang Zhou - Spring-autumn & warring period - Qin - Chu-Han war Han -Three Kingdoms -Jin -5 Hus & 16 Kingdoms -South-North dual dynasties -Sui dynasty Tang -5 generations & 10 kingdoms -Liao-Jin-Song warring period. Song Yuan Ming -peasant rebellion Qing -Taiping Heavenly Kindom -ROC PRC

[@MuraliM-oo9ri]

​@@WSOJ3Post Jin dynasty period has to be the only period where china was divided for a long time (300 years)

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

"Stable" is a bit of a stretch for the whole duration of a dynasty, for example, the Anlushan rebellion happened halfway through the Tang dynasty