The Adventurer Zhang Qian and the Creation of the Silk Road
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2019
- In this episode we look at the life of one of the bravest and greatest adventurers of ancient times. Zhang Qian was selected by the Han Dynasty Emperor Wu to make a political alliance with a distant central Asian people, the Yuezhi. Zhang Qian’s thirteen year journey to the west between 138 BC and 126 BC brought back massive amounts of intelligence and understanding about those distant lands beyond Han China’s frontiers. This great adventurer and national hero of China paved the way for the explosion of two way trade that followed in his footsteps and led to the development of the Silk Road.
In this episode the wonderful voice of The China History Podcast presented by Laszlo Montgomery guides you through the story of one of the greatest explorers in world history. I could easily call Zhang Qian the Chinese Herodotus and in this epic overview of his rise and fall shows the hardships and danger that a Chinese National Hero endured in order to unite his world with a much larger one.
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Laszlo made the podcast that this CZcams was based on. The creator is a different person.
@European Awakening Probably a few hundred years ago....But as far as I know, my parents just liked the name
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Amazing video. I am reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan....your has helped me to understand things in more detail.
Always got time for Laszlo
Thanks Rich!
And Silk is still of value today in many parts of the globe
Amazing video to understand the Silk Road and this happened BC amazing contacting Alexander Greek influence in Bactria
These China presentations are great. He knows his history. Fantastic! Thanks
The "Silk Road" the Great Wall and Mongolians were briefly mentioned in history class. The Xiongnu and Han Dynasty were never mentioned.. Thanks for your great video full of information kids in the US were not taught.
They should make a movie about this guy.
Hi Amazing video!!
I was wondering if you had a literature list for background and history relating to Zhang qian? I'm currently writing a paper on him but I feel like finding solid sources is difficult.
I'm always weary of praise to the grandior of ancient china, specially with regards to any connection to the mediterranean (sino-roman embassies, the lost legion which supposedly ended up colonizing Dunhuang...). Reading up on Central Asia, one will notice the shift in historiography from eurocentrism to sinofilia. There is an excellent article, entitled The Road that never was, which gives a comprehensive history of the Silk Road(s) and makes a persuasive argument for the Great Han many want ti identify as Rome was in fact Persia. A whole vast empire, uncountabke city-states and landmarks and peoples existed between Chang'an and Constantinople, and still there are people eager to trample all that history for the mysterious eurasian link between chinese and mediterranean peoples. I'll first view this presentation befire commenting on it - this is a foreword I felt necessary in similar discussions. If there's someone to credit for the Silk Roads is definitely the Sogdians - nearly forgotten people, for they easily blended with the locals in all neighbouring nations (Sogdians were even admited into chinese imperial administration offices, something quite rare for any foreigner)
Hi Laszlo, very interesting and I appreciate all of your work. I notice that you refer to the Xiongnu as "Hun"...I have rarely found them referred to as "Hun" and I believe in the video you once use "Hun" and then "Xiongnu". This creates confusion to those who might not be familiar with this period of Cathay history. (assuming I am not confused). Also during the display of the maps or photos, you might give them a scan and zoom effect to make them more appealing. I am hoping to move to Nanjing within the next few months. Perhaps you might help me with some advise. Thanks, have a nice day
Indo-European really translates into ice people from the steppes Russia.
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Estimate you avoiding too much. First you should give the origins of the Chinese and Japanese. Which was Africa. Then they were invaded by the ice people. The ice people was coming from the caves of the ice age all the way across Asia to North Africa