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Hi, I really like your channel, especially that you can explain how and why a location is important. Would you suggest some book on this topic, many thank

Double surnames in Chinese are rare anyway.

Voting should get rid of warlordism

Great content. I've often wondered how effective the walls actually were. Mind blown at how simple their intention actually was.

That was fantastic, really informative. I love the simple use of maps. One thing that is very apparent is that English spelling of Chinese places doesn't quite capture the Chinese sounds!

So interesting. A thing in my mind is that the "Zhong Yuan" should really translates to "Middle Earth". It's the similar concept in European, or at least in recent fiction literature/movies, as I see that this concept is well understood by almost everyone without further explanation. North to the "Middle Earth" is cold and where barbarians lives, they want to hunt down so there has to be a wall to stop it. Down south is rich as the agriculture is well developed from the warmth and water. You should exchange west/east in this mental model as the where the dessert/sea is at the opposite direction. To the west (east mirror) of "Middle Earth" China live the desert people resemble the central-Asia, they are... well, different. To the east (west mirror) is the sea where it's rich port cities and trade. Now you have the mentality model of China geography just as the "7 Kingdoms in the Game of the Thrones".

Excellent and very informative video, thank you!

Apolgy for bad english Where were u wen Wu betrai Shu I was at house eating dorito when phone ring “Wu kingdom is betrai” “No”

If the Romans didnt bribe the hispanic soldiers to Kill Viriato while sleeping colonization in the north would take longer or would never happened like in scotland. Those two cowards were killed after going to collect the reward.

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According to what I've read, rain-based agriculture wasn't actually possible in North China due to the flooding season of the Yellow River not matching the growing season of the crops in the north well. As such, deep wells were required to be dug to get access to groundwater or otherwise irrigation projects were necessary. You couldn't just pick a spot of fertile land south of the rainfall line and start a farm, you needed access to water not just rainwater. The controllers of wells were often wealthy noble families, and as over time they needed to get dug deeper and deeper, which meant that nobles who already controlled the wealth were able to build them and could afford doing so to deeper and deeper depths.

Spanish are italians that speak Spanish in truth. Hence why a lot of Latinos and italians look similar. Roman italic genes

Amazing video.

I have a request: please PLEASE do a video on the reasons why every Chinese dynasty collapsed

Eastern Zhou Dynasty

Is it true that Xianyang previous name was Fengjing or Haojing? Like Luo Yang previous name was Chengzhou

Very good video. Although i sugest not using the term "reconquista". It's still technically valid, but because it's a term coined with a very christian-conservative bias, many modern historians prefer to ditch it, since it sugests a united continuation between the visigoths and the much later christian kingdoms as the "true spaniards", and leving the caliphate as "forein". It's a very misleading white supremacist conception. In reality, the caliphate left a much more important and extended cultural imprint in Spain than the visigoths. As much as the romans. The muslims at the time were rhe ones who translated and conserved all the previous culture legacy of romans and greeks and persians, brought many foods, infraextructure, consumes, sciences... The caliphate is often left aside when in actuality is as important as romans to understand how spain came to be what it is now

Since the ancient time, Middle Kingdom had always been facing the attack from North, the Xingnu, the Mongols, the Jin and Manchu, not much from the South. For some reason, most of the time, it’s often the North that defeated the South. There are many examples. For example, during the Ming dynasty, the prince stationed in Beijing eventually defeated the sitting emperor his nephew capitols at Nanjing then he moved Ming capital from Nanjing in the south to Beijing in the north. The dynasty then lasted 200+ years until Manchu came down from the even north. A more recent example is the civil war between PRC and ROC. ROC whose capital was at Nanjing was eventually defeated by PRC which later selected Beijing as its capital.

😢I heard Chinglish accent

Hi Boss 13:45 you stated Vietnam was under rulings By China wasn't that also Carried by The French colony As well ???

Please keep making videos like this that promote knowledge and information that does not solely revolve on a Western lens.

Please let me know who does your maps.

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One of the coolest things going on in the world right now is GPR, ground-penetrating radar, and LiDAR, and now muon technologies, archaeologists are finding more and more ways to know what is underground before digging. A research paper recently showed incredible promise using a new muon technology, muography is the study of these muons that can penetrate most things and so can work sort-of similar to x-rays, anyway a new use of it allowed the research team to see inside several of the pyramids of Giza in a brand new way, and a Chinese team is already trying to do the same. Though...I don't know if the CCP will allow that, they are very protective of Qin, Han, Tang, Song archaeology. Far more so than with the other states of the Warring States, or the periods of disunity, or the Yuan or Liao or Jurchen Jin. Opening the tomb safely is next to impossible. If opened, and the amount of mercury detected is accurate, it would emit a massive toxic plume, endangering many, many thousands of lives. So, muons it is! Hopefully. If not, more ground-penetrating techniques in specific places.

One of the best history videos I have ever seen. Brilliant pace and attention to important detail. Honestly, having read A Brief History of Spain (Jeremy Black) I was not left with any real impression of the Carthaginian presence in Iberia - and as someone who is not usually interested in Rome I had not realized the sheer significance of the Second Punic war in turning Rome into THE Mediterranean superpower. I did not realize Lusitanians dated back as far as they did (I assumed the Portuguese were essentially similar to the rest of Hispania in this period and then diverged from them in many later centuries). Extremely interesting to see the administration and economy of RomanIberia too. The video was on exactly what the title described and exceeded all my expectations for CZcams documentary video. Liked, subscribed, and rang the notification bell!

Awesome really enjoyed this, my family come from the Peloponnese elis region

Great video! Surprised this topic hasn't been answered this frankly before/I hadn't even thought about how useful it really was. Definitiely susbcribing, keep it up! :)

As a history buff, there is no other resource like this available in English. Most Chinese history channels just cruise through the politics with random kings and generals sprinkled in. This geographical, cultural, and political hybrid is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks so much. Please keep doing it.

It's very rare to find any good videos on ancient/classical Chinese history on any specific topic. No only have you presented a great deal of information on an interesting topic, I simply love the approach you take in making these videos by researching the geography, historical facts, and contemporary social contexts. No cheesy oriental animation and music. No glorified Chinese drama footage. No bull. Just. Good. Stuff.

Bai Qi, Cao Cao etc has read background whild liu bei has blue. You are good :P

To say for most of Chinese history the north was richer than the south is historic nonsense. At the time you're referring to there was no such thing as China and what is now south China was a completely different culture having no connection to the Yellow River people. Taking China as it is now and projecting that political entity onto the past is historically ridiculous in the extreme. China, please stop doing this.

1. Wang Yangming apprehended a thief and instructed him to remove all of his clothing. The thief refused to remove the last remaining undergarments, to which Wang Yangming remarked, "You still have a sense of shame."

Murong Chui more like Murong CHAD amirite bros

39:07 Wait, isn’t this basically Nobara’s move from Jujutsu Kaisen?

Very hard to understand ur English. Take some pronunciation classes please. Can't watch so bad

I love how clear your explanations are, really helping me understand Chinese history

A amazing series of videos. I never got to see the history of China other than those of the major dynasties in any detail and you outdid yourself to fill that gap. Thumbs up and thank you for all the hard work.

Prior to watching this video, I always thought the great Mongol general Mongke died at the Xiang Yang battle but he actually died on the other side of the mountain ranges. Thank you for your clarification.

Loves that you mentioned how the Romans subjugated native Iberians forcing them to work the mines to death and how in turn the descendants of all these people would do the same in the Americas to the Natives there. It’s important to see the role Rome played in Iberia is very similar to the role Spain and Portugal played in the Americas. In many ways it was a continuation of the same initial thrust.

The only battleground which the great Khan of Mongol Empire was perished in fight.

I made a mode for a game, Oriental Empires (tons of Chinese history in it) that was sort of a combo of the Warring States period rather than historical, but I worked really hard to make the Qin, Han, Zheng, Zhou controlling Luoyang, areas and all of the passes very realistic. It was hard to do on the small scale I was using, but it really got the point across to me just how difficult, and incredibly important, the terrain is. Those gate passes especially. Hangu and Wu, and Jianmen in particular. Playing my mod, if the Qin hold those three, the only real option is to do exactly what Wei did. Their south, southeast and eastern approaches were almost impenetrable. I think the best comparison is to the passes of the Alps, and the Pyrenees in northern Spain, during the Roman Empire in this or that of its civil wars. Those Alpine passes, and the Po crossings especially, due to Rome, Milan and Ravenna then Venice. Unlike those, however, there is no nearby sea, and so shipping is only in one direction through a lot of those gorges, and only very small-scale. That isn't the case with the Pyrenees or the Alpine passes, even the central ones that lead into Bavaria.

I like that you call it northwest China, because I think of it that way too...but it isn't at all anymore. It is like dead center of modern China, in fact east of the center. Qinghai and Xinjiang are just ENORMOUS and mostly empty. But that is...pretty much like where I come from in the United States, too. Massive and mostly empty. It is interesting how the study of history changes our perspectives of geography. When I hear people talk about "the Middle East" I think of Iraq through to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but most Americans would include the Levant, probably Egypt, maybe even Turkey. But that is the Near East to me, a completely different world than the Middle. Or another example, to most people "Northern Europe" would mean England, Scandinavia, maybe Germany, Poland, probably the Baltic States. But because I am a Roman historian, to me Northern Europe means any of those pant-wearing barbarians north of the Alps!

I assume it wouldn't be so ambiguous in the Chinese, but in English the broken pikes and hammers almost sounds like making stakes? Maybe placing stakes between the wagons where the cavalry are forced to go?

This video may be a lot of info to the stomach, but boy, did I enjoy the feast!

Never thought you'd make me emotional with the 兴，百姓苦；亡，百姓苦

You could read half a dozen books and it wouldn't be as helpful as this video.

Love your channel, deep dive history is my jam, and especially deep dives of neglected periods.

For some reason, early Eastern & especially Chinese history is so much more interesting to me as a Westerner than that which is closer-to-home. Loved this video, and I'll be sharing a link to it in a little presentation I'm doing for a World Civ class.

Awesome as always, though you failed to mention 黄蓉 and 郭靖, how dare you.

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