THE YUAN DYNASTY AFTER KUBLAI - THE MID YUAN ERA DOCUMENTARY

After Kublai's Khan's death, the Yuan dynasty would be ruled by his descendants. Starting the Mid-Yuan era, his grandson Temür Khan would take the reigns of the state, followed by his nephews Khayishan (Külüg Khan) and Ayurbarwada (Buyantu Khan). They would encounter interior and external conflicts, financial difficulties, corruption, and factional struggles.
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= MUSIC =
Civilization VI - Mongolia Industrial Theme
Mongol Court Music of the Khans
Civilization VI - Mongolia Medieval Theme
Civilization VI - Khmer Ambient Kolon Kolkret
Civilization V - Genghis Khan war theme
Lost in the Forest
Total War Shogun 2 - Resolve
Civilization VI - Mongolia Ambient Tovshuur
Civilization VI - China Ambient Guzheng improv 2
Civilization V - Wu Zetian peace theme
Restless Natives
Total War Attila - Fiddler of the Plains
Civilization VI - China Ambient Rain
The Loyalist - Lotus Lane
= VIDEO CREDITS =
Marco Polo (2014)
再生緣 Eternal Happiness (2002)
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion (1958)
Lost Worlds: City of the God Kings (2002)
= MAIN SOURCES =
The Cambridge History of China - Volume 6 (1994), Denis Twitchett & John King Fairbank
A Short History of the Mongols (2018) George Lane
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 (2015), Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Y. Andaya
The Early Syam in Burma's History (1959), Gordon Hannington Luce
The Myth of the "Three Shan Brothers" and the Ava Period in Burmese History (1996) Michael Aung-Thwin
From Military Leaders to Administrative Experts: The Biography of the “Treacherous Minister” Temüder and his Ancestors (2017) Wonhee Cho
= TAGS =
Yuan dynasty documentary
rise of the Yuan dynasty
mid yuan era
mid-yuan dynasty
Temur Khan documentary
history of China
mongol conquest of China
Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty
mongol invasions of japan
Zhou Daguan
Introduction: (0:00)
Context: (00:41)
Temür's enthronement: (03:06)
Temür's early reign: (04:10)
War in Temür's reign: (06:57)
Internal problems: (12:11)
Succession crisis: (14:30)
The return to tradition: (17:40)
A smooth transition: (21:33)
Financial difficulties: (24:24)
Factional struggles: (27:05)
The Esen Buqa-Ayurbarwada war: (28:23)
Ayurbarwada's end: (29:42)

[@History_of_China]

Correction : the picture I used for Temür at 02:16 actually depicts Öljei Temür (1379-1412) leader of the Northern Yuan. The ones I used as from 03:38 are however correct. Apologies!

[@medanbike41]

Need this continuity

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Öljei Temür and Temür Khan: Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture. my fast mind: they're the same picture

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[@History_of_China]

Thank you so much! Absolutely. At this stage, I more or less intend to continually cover the history of China in chronological order until I link up with Nurhaci (late 16th to early 17th century) and the Qing dynasty, which I have already mostly covered. I will however also cover subjects that span throughout history such as the Imperial examination system, from time to time :)

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[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Fantastic video as always! Would love to see a video on the Red Turban Rebellion that overthrew the Yuan dynasty

[@History_of_China]

Thank you! It'll come up soon! Next video will be about the decline of the Yuan, and after that I'll cover Toghon Temur and the dynasty's collpase :)

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[@History_of_China]

Cheers! Next video to come will cover the decline of the Yuan dynasty (from 1320 to 1332)

[@melissalisaandrean6803]

Thank you for this very informative video about Yuan Dynasty. As someone who are very invested in Mongol and Chinese History, it is hard to find a good english documentary about Yuan Period of China. It will be fantastic if you make a video about Yuan dynasty fashion and the influence of mongol fashion on Han chinese at that era. Thank you

[@Darth_Enigma]

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[@History_of_China]

I'm glad you enjoy! I migth do so in a video covering society in the Yuan dynasty. For the time being, I want to finish covering historical events of the Great Yuan :)

[@Blorgus.]

Small mistake: in 2:16 you used the picture of Öljei Temür Khan, who was the Khan of the Northern Yuan a hundred years later. An easy mistake though because his portrait makes him look exactly like Temür, they even share a name :D

[@History_of_China]

You are absolutely right, thank you! Sorry about that

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[@Darth_Enigma]

Fantastic video, I've been using your content to better help my pronunciation of Mongolian and Chinese, so I'm really glad I found this channel. It seems problems plagued the Great Yuan since day one, from it's inability to stabilize it's finances to the conflicts between Mongols who adopted Ruism and the more conservative Mongol nobility, who rejected Chinese culture. I wonder how different things would be if the Mongols managed to do what the Manchus would centuries later, assuming it was possible. Could the Great Yuan have become a longer lasting Chinese dynasty, or was it doomed to fail from the start I wonder.

[@History_of_China]

Glad you enjoyed! Please take my Mongolian pronunciation with a grain of salt, though ; it is definitely not as precise as my Chinese :) That's a good question! I think even if it had had a more harmonious system, the ethnic differences between rulers and subjects, and great natural disasters/terrible weather (snowfalls in the north, and droughts and floods in the south) of the late Yuan dynasty would have inevitably led to rebellions. It probably would have laster a few more years, if not decades, though!

[@ElBandito]

Natural disasters, including a mini-Ice Age really hammered the nail in the coffin.

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[@ElBandito]

The Yuan dynasty is one of history's biggest what-ifs. What if it managed to successfully intergrate all cultures and religions under its rule and sorted out its financial difficulties? What if its conquest of Japan, Khmer, and Java were successful? Would it still shut itself off from the world like later Ming and Qing dynasties did? Or would it be more open thanks to its contacts to the rest of the world through other Mongol khanates?

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[@History_of_China]

Hi! I plan to finish the Yuan dynasty first, but I'll keep that in mind :)

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I definitely will eventually! Pivital dynasty of China's history :)

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[@CARL_093]

can you make a video about how yuan dynasty treat its tributary country's and its subjects

[@History_of_China]

I might cover society in the Yuan dynasty in a dedicated video, but for the time being, I'd like to finish covering its chronological history :)

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I plan to eventually! But not gonna lie I have many projects planned first, like the Ming dynasty :)

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Shangdu, otherwise known in the West as Xanadu.

[@stump4522]

In Hmong we call it Saum Ntuj

[@markusforsberg6741]

how does it go with the two episodes and when will they be relesed.?:D

[@History_of_China]

Next video tomorrow at the latest! The following one is written, and I'll start editting pretty soon :)

[@markusforsberg6741]

@@History_of_China do you think the second episode will be relesed mid late next week.?:) im sorry if i am annoying im just a autistic swedish guy🇸🇪 who loves history very very veeery much and speciely vikings and mongols and I see the mongols as the chinese siberian vikings just as brutal hard but also sometime soft peacefull and kind.:)

[@History_of_China]

@@markusforsberg6741 Not likely I'm afraid... The editing is what takes the longest. But no worries Markus, I share your passion for history and really appreciate your support :) Interesting comparison between the Vikings and Mongols!

[@markusforsberg6741]

@@History_of_China okey I understand.:) then it mayby will take two weeks for second episode of the yuan dynasty.:)

[@amirulaminaliasgar6627]

FINALY AFTER 10 MONTHS!!!!

[@History_of_China]

I made two videos about Rabban Bar Sauma (in February and May), which took some time away from the Yuan strictly speaking, but I'll resume until the dynasty's end now :)

[@ryannguyen7466]

Genghis Khan: I just want to make friend but those guy keep killing my emmisaries hence I keep destroy them.

[@durdana.cingizxan.4826]

Aydaaa ne gözel evlerimiz olub...Dedem Al-i Çingizhan ne gözel evler tikdirmiş...Kubilay kağanımız sağ olsaydı İmparatorlugumuz bitmeyeceydi...Allahdan böyük kimse olmayıb olmayacakda...Ne ise ben böyle düşünüyorum.Bizim böyuklerimizi zeherlemiş ola bilirler...Çünkü ağil dengeleri yerinde olanlar çoook iyiii....Hasta olmuşlar ....

[@manduul.bakhdal]

Bribery economy still exists in Mongolia today. You can’t get anything done without bribing the local authorities.

[@shinsenshogun900]

Corruption is contemporary status quo

[@krollpeter]

You must be an absolute expert for more than 1000 years of Chinese history by now. It is a confusing history at times. It is full of intrigues, family affairs, tribal wars and complicated internal affairs. I wish you had given some form of time indication on the respective thumbnails.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks! I wouldn't know about being an absolute expert, but I certainly have accumulated a bit of knowledge :) I agree with you, it is so incredibly dense that a lot has to be covered, even in short intervals of history. I'll take your remark about time indications on thumbnails into consideration, thanks!

[@bokonoo77]

Ultimately it was the tradition that failed Yuan

[@emersonbouillon]

Was zhongdu ever finished?

[@History_of_China]

From my understanding, although it did become a functionnal town during the Yuan dynasty, it always remained small and more of an imperial retreat than anything else in terms of the imperial court

[@emersonbouillon]

@@History_of_China I meant like is it a modern city now

[@History_of_China]

@@emersonbouillon No, it was destroyed after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty, though I think it is an archelogical site today

[@emersonbouillon]

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[@jarmel4339]

My father listened to throat singing, and he hated it.

[@sharhu]

이집트신으로가득채워요

[@siroyiryuu]

I always think it is necessary to clarify one point: Outer Mongolia, that is, Karka Mongolia, comes from the captured and surrendered non-Mongolian tribes. So it is called Outer Mongolia, which is a non-core vassal. Inner Mongolia is the core tribe of the Mongolian nation.

[@ElBandito]

It is called Outer Mongolia because it is outside the PRC. That's all there is to it. The Mongolian Republic is an independent country led by Mongolians. Inner Mongolia is a province of China, its people are a mix of Mongolians and Chinese. I dare say that Inner Mongolians have become more Chinese than true Mongolian, following each generation.

[@siroyiryuu]

@@ElBandito Another troll who sees his fantasies as history. Outer Mongolia was a slave tribe conquered by the Luo tribe led by the Golden Family. After the alliance between the core twelve tribes and the Qing Empire moved south to Inner Mongolia, these slaves occupied the Outer Mongolia region we abandoned. When handed over to them, the Outer Mongolia region was still a land of abundant water and grass, and now it has been turned into a desert by them. The reason why they became slaves is because of the despicable personality in their humble blood. In the past, these despicable people defected to the barbarian Ross and even gave up their language and history. Now they have the delusion of defecting to N*zi Germany and seizing land that does not belong to them.

[@siroyiryuu]

@@ElBandito Go to the barbarian Ross, and then kill all the bloodlines of the Golden Family, abandon Mongolian, switch to Ross script, and let the Ross people create a new set of history for themselves. This is the memory left by the barbaric tribes of Outer Mongolia. This hatred will never be forgotten.

[@ElBandito]

​@@siroyiryuu Bro, first, fix your English. Second, you are being incredibly rude. Third, Outer Mongolians are at least free to watch KZbin. In China you can't watch KZbin legally, which is pathetic. Living in China sucks for the freedom loving true Mongolians. You cannot even type any of these in social media without getting arrested. 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

[@siroyiryuu]

@@ElBandito Interestingly, your speech indicates that you are an uneducated person who has not received a good education and only repeats machine nonsense. If you don't even understand the true Mongolian language and can't distinguish between the Mongolian and Han ethnic groups, don't talk nonsense here.

[@nathanpas6743]

Mais nan ?!

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[@MrBoliao98]

I notice the Mongols all have very very short lifespan. I mean people back in the day live at least into their 50s.

[@History_of_China]

It is an important detail! This was in part due to unhealthy lifestyles. The Yuan emperors were infamous for drinking much too much alcohol

[@MrBoliao98]

@@History_of_China btw I think a lot of us are very excited, and really looking forward to the Southern Song Dynasty videos. no pressure, and I wish you all the best.

[@History_of_China]

Noted, thanks!

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[@remimk]

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This is A different platform.

[@oxvendivil442]

I still consider the Yuan a true Chinese dynasty even in the form of the northern Yuan during the Ming, even if they were not Han they were sinified enough in my eyes, now time for some Outer Mongolia-PRC reunification!

[@durdana.cingizxan.4826]

Canım Dedem Al-i Çingizhan ne güzel evler yaptırmışdın bizlere...Caaan sen bize bir Cahanın imparatorlugunu buraktın .Malesef gismet degimiş.Amma neden bu gadar ileride oldugumuz halde neden kayb etdik?O zoruma gediyor.Öteki dünyada bunun hesabını soracağından çoook endişeliyim...Allah muhafıza...

[@purevjavterbish33]

I am mongol,writing from Mongolia.Mongol empire was the most strong military power in all human history.It was much more powerful than -romans,British empire,Soviet Union and USA.Such strong power will never again.

[@sinisadabic5371]

might is constant, only genghis was great , so basically you are mostly weak, you are at the mercy of other nations now and most of history, be thankful that chinese or russians or koreans or japanese are not like genghis, otherwise you wouldnt exist anymore as people ,pray the god you dont see greatness of your khan on you

[@frankfleming1103]

today Mongolia is Khalkha tribe, one tribe from 30-40 mongolia tribes, possibly the poorest one. Now the Mongol system is inherited by Russia

[@calvinsuu1949]

There are countless mongolic people still living all over central asian countries, russia and china....the strenght of their ancestors are still there

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And what happened now??

[@shinsenshogun900]

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[@markusforsberg6741]

HALLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHERE ARE YOU have you died or gone down in a bunker this getting very tiresome can you please anwser its been almost 4 months 4 MONTHS its about time now and explain where you have been where are you. How does it go with toghon temur khan episode and the complete fall of the yuan dynasty are you soon done or halfway there.???:D will it be relesed next week i really hoping its going to be relesed tomorrow that would have been so awsome i really hopeit will be relesedthis week or on monday next week PLEEEEASSEE cant wait any longer its about time to relesed a new video now.! Can you please relesed it this week its been taking tooooooo long.