The Silk Road: The Incredible Trading Pathway

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Su-47 berkut

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Please make a video about Su-47

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Logo looks like 'crossbut'

[@fredred8371]

Video starts at 1:38

[@damiensadventure]

Just a guy and his laptop getting straight Comey'd like a boss.

[@twocvbloke]

Fun part about the "Punishment by death" is the same was applied to tea, as they had monopolised it too, until someone went in under cover and stole the plants to grow in India, and now we have PG Tips, Tetley and Yorkshire Tea because of that person nicking their plants... :P

[@Byronic19134]

China, an entire civilization with Aspergers

[@danielreuben1058]

For some reason, I always envisioned something like a highway of dirt going from China to the West. Thank you for correcting my imagination with the myriad of routes, both on land, and water.

[@TAGGARTPSN]

It really does help with understanding the actuality of the network.

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

I misunderstood too, in the same way. Glad I found this video!

[@615TNwilson]

I’m not going to lie. I thought the same. Picturing men in turbans riding camels passing by men on horses wearing east asian garb each with their own supply wagon like something you see from a movie or video game. 😅

[@megaprojects9649]

:)

[@NightMotorcyclist]

highway of dirt, a la Mad Max =P

[@lyleslaton3086]

Well done Simon, boiling down an entire semester of dry information into 16 minutes of useful knowledge.

[@nomoneyglobal]

Several minutes of ad so more like 10 minutes of info

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[@AldrickExGladius]

yeah, I'd watch that for sure

[@megaprojects9649]

Yeah, but then I'd have to think about Pink fucking Floyd

[@RolandDenzel]

Harsh

[@firstmkb]

@@megaprojects9649 what, we don’t need no education?

[@johnscanlon2598]

Shit slipknot is still touring like that till this day just way better

[@deplorablekunt]

I would enjoy seeing a video about the history and cultivation of marijuana from discovery to today. That seems like at least a “SideProjects” subject.

[@acrazedtanker1550]

Seems too risqué, sadly.

[@deplorablekunt]

@@acrazedtanker1550 Though, I think they’ve done things about The Opium Wars and other things that could be considered “drug related.”

[@quintontomalin1828]

Fucking do it whistle boy

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Who cares about a story that culminates in, say, Los Angeles and San Francisco: where everyone is so stoned all the time driving there is a nightmare of people staring at traffic lights when they turn green, making right turns at the pace of a granny with a walker, and half the population passed out and $hitting themselves on the sidewalks with the wealthier ones in rehab like its a ClubMed timeshare, and a population so pot-stupid that they eagerly vote for politicians who swing open their prisons, take the average person's guns, make the police an impotent on nonexistent force, and cheer! "Justice!" as they themselves are raped and murdered at an astonishing rate? Unless it is entitled: "How Marijuana Brought Down A Civilization and Made Everyone Fuc$ing Stupid"- themed Mega Project.

[@deplorablekunt]

…of course, including hemp.

[@HeyMJ.]

Ghengis Khan’s daughters established governance in the regions that their father conquered along the Silk Road. They established a stable, secure route with toll stations to fund gov.

[@christycullen2355]

Ghengis Khan did that by making the King's he didn't kill in said territory marry his daughters and then become generals in his army and more often than not they would get killed handing all control of territory to the Queen (apparently I should say, I read it somewhere)

[@bobfg3130]

The Silk Road existed for over 1000 years before Genghis Khan's time.

[@miketurner4173]

Genghis Khan upon entering Tibet stated "Dalai Lama" Mongolian (The Ocean of Wisdom) & never occupied Xanadu (Shangrila, Lasha) ✌️

[@miketurner4173]

@@christycullen2355 Genghis Khan stated upon seeing (Xanadu Shangrila Lasha) Dalai Lama (the ocean of wisdom) and never occupied Tibet ✌️ Free Tibet 💛

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

9:55 Fun Fact: Ferdinand von Richthofen was the uncle of Manfred von Richthofen, also known as The Red Baron (WW1 Flying Ace). Simon made a Tifo video on it.

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

I became fascinated with the Inner Asian nomad cultures as a university student. It's intriguing how the sedentary agricultural civilizations of East Asia and Europe reacted to hordes of small fierce warriors on small fast horses showing up out of nowhere and wrecking everyone's shit. Over and over again.

[@arnepianocanada]

"Paving the way" for the Silk Road ... nice bit of wordplay!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:30 - Chapter 1 - Heavenly horses 5:30 - Chapter 2 - Top secret worms 8:50 - Chapter 3 - Holy camels 13:00 - Chapter 4 - Deadly fleas 14:30 - Chapter 5 - An eternal legacy

[@StarScapesOG]

Simon, you should look at some of the modern non-military mega projects, such as Bagger 288/293 or Bingham Canyon Copper mine.

[@brianwilson3458]

Hoover dam wod be great!

[@megaprojects9649]

Just filmed that copper mine the other day!!

[@ehs1452]

Most relevant to the Silk Road would be the Belt and Road Initiative.

[@willardSpirit]

So this is the Amazon prime of its day? Next year shipping?! Incredible

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[@benjaminrees6665]

A culmination of so many channels and videos! Not just silk road directly but Justinian, and so many empires, to the Black Plague, great wall, Kublai Khan, etc. Loved it

[@Adventure.AS.25]

Just an FYI, the map at 10:48 incorrectly labels the Red Sea as the Persian Gulf.

[@b.b.3495]

It might be more manpower than the Australian Forces, but the Weapons are completly outclassed. Australia will still win unless those troops start riding Emus.

[@trj1442]

That was an excellent episode. Thankyou Mega Team.

[@boriss.861]

Si and Elves:- The Chinese Belt and Road project!

[@Pakiza-Ali]

At 10;10 the map showing Taxila is wrong. Taxila is marked Charasada whereas and Taxila is shown as Charasada. Today Taxila is just a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan.

[@notmenotme614]

They must have been nice horses.

[@bluefluteman]

I really enjoy your videos. They are very interesting and well presented. Thank you Sir.

[@TheMrLuiiis]

Vasco da Gama was the one who in fact found an alternative to silk road. I don't know why you talked about Columbus, but it seems an example far too stretch

[@chickendog3042]

It's weird I used to play crossout years ago. Me and my friend just started playing it again. It's weird to see an ad for an older reality dead game.

[@bluefluteman]

Excellent video! Thank you Sir.

[@beachboy0505]

Excellent video 📹 A megaproject

[@jasondemont2582]

Operation chrome dome would be a good one.

[@spddiesel]

Is that the code name of Simon's plan to take over KZbin?

[@getgaijoobed6219]

Damn first War Thunder, now Crossout? Looks like Gaijin’s been sponsoring Simon as of late 😂

[@megaprojects9649]

Damn skippy.

[@KairuinKorea]

What is the music playing at 1:42? I've heard this before and looked for it but had NO IDEA where it was actually from x-x (Thanks so much in advance if anyone knows)

[@JustanOlGuy]

Thank you for this! My inner Logistician has always wondered how.

[@shupbender5487]

10:49 the Red Sea is mislabeled as Persian Gulf.

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

Recently I bought something from China, thru eBay. I'm in California, but when I receive the parcel, It went thru the Swiss Post. I was expecting a "slow boat from China", over the Pacific ocean. I wasn't expecting it going thru Europe, implying it followed the old path of the Silk Road.

[@johnwedow2117]

Thank you for your work

[@nl38383]

Rolled a paper on fine China. Thanks silk road 🥰

[@Bubbaist]

Uzbekistan is a wonderful country with it’s Silk Road culture, welcoming people, and ancient cities and monuments. I went there in 2015 and loved it. Samarkand and Bukhara are among my favorite cities in the world.

[@MK-vc7uf]

1:47 to avoid information you probably don't care about

[@matthewnield3085]

Big fan of all the channels, following for awhile now. Would love e a video on the F-104 thinderchief if one hadn't been done already

[@professorsogol5824]

Zanzibar (in modern Tanzania) grew due to trade on the Silk Road? According to Wikipedia ". . . limited evidence of limited engagement in long-distance trade [has been found in Zanzibar]: a small amount of imported pottery has been found, less than 1% of total pottery finds, mostly from the Gulf and dated to the 5th to 8th century."

[@RR-ri4vn]

Nope the Horn of Africa and Sudan only

[@Darkcrowman]

I caught the Might be giants reference. heh.

[@scheimong]

2:10 small mistake. Shanghai didn't exist as a city until the British established a colony after the opium wars in the 19th century. Back at the times of the silk road, it was nothing more than an unnamed fishing village.

[@relaxwhc]

No harm done. City names are not important because it changed so many times throughout the history. Beijing has changed name 20+ times. It's called Beijing the first time in Ming dynasty 💥

[@scheimong]

@@relaxwhc with Shanghai It's not just a case of simple rename. The city as we know it today was literally built entirely within the last 200 years. In fact if we go back more than a millennia, it's widely speculated that the land Shanghai is on was still mostly underwater. It was only due to the sediment deposited by the Yangtze River that this land exists at all. The trade routes going in the direction of Shanghai were probably heading for Suzhou or Nanjing - both cities actually existed back then and are pretty close to modern Shanghai (100km&300km respectively). They also both used to be capitals during various dynasties so there were pretty good reasons to go there as well.

[@FortuneZer0]

@@relaxwhc Well Peking. Beijing is only since the occupation by the Gong Fei.

[@omni5640]

A quick google search showed Shanghai was already a major trading city by the 1700s, which predates the Opium Wars by over a century.

[@kcbarbo78]

@@scheimong Millennium = singular Millennia = plural

[@relaxwhc]

The Italians learned how to make pasta from the Chinese ❤️

[@owenshebbeare2999]

That's actually a common myth, but it is just a myth, and certainly the idea that Marco Polo was involved just adds another layer to the false narrative.

[@markduffy5773]

Anyone else notice the map used named the Red Sea as the Persian Gulf?

[@jacknicholson4220]

Simon could you do a video on the North Coast 500 (Route 500) in Scotland?

[@SlykeThePhoxenix]

Video starts at 1:40

[@matthewgrant6336]

Thank you for my little thumbs up on my message it's much appreciated......x

[@miketurner4173]

The magic carpets from Tibet 🤫✌️

[@kkitzhaber]

Great info. Thanks.

[@adifferentpointofview105]

There are a lot of questions over what Marco Polo did or didn't do.

[@mrpilkington9710]

You left out that the Romans traded Glass with the Chinese

[@supremelore_1533]

Europe would not be what it is if not for the silk road...

[@vaynehowlett3091]

Always excited to see a new video from you

[@deutschesmaedchen]

How many channels does this guy run?

[@MrSlickback2]

Aye bro. I'm big fan of your channels and your podcast. I hope you and your family have made it out safely. Considering the troubles in Ukraine.

[@andyyang3029]

He's not from Ukraine..?

[@brandonmathews9197]

When I was a kid, someone once told me the native Americans had their own Silk Road from New England to St. Louis. I never actually looked into it never really thought about it until I saw this video

[@ajc-293]

Please can we get a video on Hitler’s Siegfried line

[@manuelgonzalezmiguel6148]

Please, do an episode about the SR-N4 hocercrafts

[@norickreineke8349]

Please make a video about Su-47 berkut

[@7-ten]

1:37 to skip raid shadows ad

[@t95kush27]

a great megaproject would be the dome they put over the chernobyl plant! would probably get alot of views due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

[@firstmkb]

He already did that one, I’m pretty sure.

[@johnlshilling1446]

Why nothing about Nathan Drake when discussing Marco Polo?

[@kenshix7902]

Found another channel of his

[@johnthomson6507]

I like symbiosis. So they invented gun powder but toilet paper too. One goes very useful with the other. Especially in large part's of Ukraine today.

[@TheBooban]

Even back then, they had a trade surplus.

[@firstmkb]

Until opium imports, at a guess.

[@dwchen1]

Han dynasty territory in 60BC reached out to half of modern Kazakhstan, today that territory shrink down to what it has established today as a modern China border but the west said it belongs to Uyghurs. What the west didn't know is when Han dynasty territory at it's heights in 60BC further west to half of modern Kazakhstan the Turkic speaking Uyghur people didn't exist yet around there because they migrated much later from central Asia to today's Xinjiang attracted by the economic opportunity along the ancient Silk Road.

[@markivrimusic5610]

I'm curious to know why isn't the time Of the Asian expansion from Africa called the early African aspenson. As it always seems to be implied of other ancestors who come from Europe possibly as An ancestry it's never implied that these early Asian were actually African

[@jeffersonott4357]

Free Ross Ulbricht!

[@saeedbarkhordar5244]

Good video but you left out the main traders who handled the business : Iranians and Eastern Iranians , Sogdians.

[@Anamnesia]

Oh... I thought this Video was going to be about the Darknet site, not the Ancient historical trading route...

[@mikegrazick1795]

The old is new!

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So how bad is the monetization on Crossout?

[@jamesengland7461]

Oh look- trade with China is important once again.

[@KairuinKorea]

why does this sponsored game look EXACTLY like robocraft lol?

[@عبدالله-ن6ه2ص]

Have you heard about the way of incense, which was a passage for trade caravans from the Arabian Peninsula to the Levant, Iraq, Egypt, India, etc.

[@jarvis911]

This guys bald head, glasses and hipster beard follow me around KZbin like a stalker who won't quit. I've unsubscribed from 42 of his channels but he keeps coming back.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Free to play but if you wanna win that's gonna cost ya.

[@annettepayne822]

Ads are brutal

[@MostDeviantAsiedu]

biographics kwame nkrumah

[@syzygyygyzys5856]

What is a Kontar?

[@christianbakker1991]

1.33

[@JiaruiChen_]

To think China would want to trade with little Italy

[@flintweathers7]

It worked because of money. That’s the simple answer.

[@derekgardiner3583]

I jus follow Simon on the internet 🖖😁

[@angelitabecerra]

In Rome silk was seen as immodest for women but effeminate for men; ironic much?

[@Optimus-Prime-Rib]

Starts at 1:40

[@rockadon1977]

ffs who wrote that. Might as well watch Marco Polo and take it as fact.

[@alkatiawri3741]

Can you make a video about the germania. Hitlers wild dream of a world capital?

[@1TrueGem]

Video starts - you could have got connected to China for all your goods in the past via the silk road still. Me - and it would have taken just as long for those supplies to arrive. 😂 Interesting video. Thanks to the gang.

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What? No tanks in Crossout?

[@adub1300]

LA to NYC is not 3,000 miles considering the whole of the US is only 2,800 miles at its widest… I guess facts don’t matter when you need views.

[@relaxwhc]

Welcome to the Chinese century ❤️ we're now in Pax Sinica 💥

[@StarlahMutiny]

Wooooo!!

[@joshts00]

Ok fine you were first but I was second!

[@jonlamontagne]

Megaprojects brought to you by RAGE SHADOW LEGENDS!!!!

[@Bubbaist]

You should do an episode on the fortune cookie. Spoiler alert: it came from Japan, not China.

[@firstmkb]

A friend of mine from Wuhan said he had never heard of fortune cookies when he arrived in the US. By the time he was able to return to China, he found fortune cookies in the restaurants there. The label on the package said “Made in New York!”

[@CygnusEight]

Who's this guy, and what's up with accent?

[@ScottCarroll]

Disappointed, was hoping to learn how to get black market goods off the dark web... :)

[@michaelfilippi3276]

possibly greek? they were greek.

[@matthewgrant6336]

We support you Ukraine God bless you all fight till the end x x

[@badluck5647]

How is this supposed to be used to trade bitcoins for drugs?

[@miketurner4173]

Xanadu ala Shangrila, ala Lhasa Tibet ✌️ Free Tibet 🤘🇦🇺

[@BeatNCancer]

you put dogs before food for some reason, we are talking about china....