The Ancient Empire | Animated History of China | Part 1

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    The Yellow River Civilisation competes with Egypt and Mesopotamia for one of the oldest river valley civilisations in the world.
    Discover the folklore behind the rise of the Imperial Chinese Dynasties and how the Han people came to dominate the region of East Asia.
    Chinese culture is a titan on the world stage, fascinating westerners since the days of Marco Polo and Zheng He, bringing tales of the Orient to the rest of the world. Join us now in the first chapter in the History of China!
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  • @Suibhne
    @Suibhne  Před 6 lety +849

    Stay tuned for part 2!

    • @GojiGuru
      @GojiGuru Před 6 lety +7

      Suibhne looking forward to it! Please check out my post on Chinese pronunciation below. If you want any assistance I’m happy to help.

    • @khadirafarah1314
      @khadirafarah1314 Před 6 lety +8

      Suibhne Finally! You did a non-european country! :)

    • @DQUACK
      @DQUACK Před 6 lety +9

      see you in 5 months

    • @sherbertdashington2788
      @sherbertdashington2788 Před 6 lety +4

      Soon? Or like next month?

    • @mongolchiuud8931
      @mongolchiuud8931 Před 6 lety +3

      xiongnu were turks...donghu/xianbei were mongols. lol

  • @user-oe4wy2fg3e
    @user-oe4wy2fg3e Před 3 lety +1011

    Mongol: I have fought China the most!
    Japan: No, I have!
    Korea: Idiots, I have fought China the most!
    China: Amateurs.

    • @dangphucuong
      @dangphucuong Před 3 lety +54

      Vietnam: ...

    • @elvinbi1367
      @elvinbi1367 Před 3 lety +60

      Korea was allies of China not enemies
      Oh plus that was some times other wise they were just chill

    • @user-oe4wy2fg3e
      @user-oe4wy2fg3e Před 3 lety +7

      @@elvinbi1367 I slightly have to dissagree, because Japan had colonized Korea in the 1930's toward the late 1940's. Japan fought China, by also using Korea, But I can see your point.

    • @nucleardog6675
      @nucleardog6675 Před 3 lety +17

      This is so true. China really hates itself for some odd reason(Historically).

    • @---bm5bc
      @---bm5bc Před 3 lety

      путин путин umm
      I’m

  • @Designed1
    @Designed1 Před 5 lety +1968

    China's history in a nutshell
    *Collapse*
    *Reunite*
    *_Repeat_*

    • @jacklee-oc3tv
      @jacklee-oc3tv Před 5 lety +104

      thats what a big country do

    • @absboodoo
      @absboodoo Před 5 lety +63

      And after the course of 4000 years, we are now really good at screwing ourselves up.

    • @user-qv3rs5br1d
      @user-qv3rs5br1d Před 5 lety +157

      In Chinese, it is "分久必合,合久必分".

    • @handylingua
      @handylingua Před 4 lety +9

      The very abstract taijitu illustrates this cyclical reality very well.

    • @colinpeng4560
      @colinpeng4560 Před 4 lety +49

      True, the same word said by an ancient chinese philosopher: The empire, long united, must divide.Devided, must unite.

  • @TheBeatlesfan1991
    @TheBeatlesfan1991 Před 5 lety +546

    I took a Chinese history course in college it was really interesting and I loved it

    • @muhammaddzakyrafliansyah3587
      @muhammaddzakyrafliansyah3587 Před 3 lety +53

      Chinese history is very hard and complex that took much of my time to learn it. But yeah, i a bit fall in love with Chinese history... Pardon my English

    • @jorgeyipzhong5199
      @jorgeyipzhong5199 Před 3 lety +12

      My parents are Chinese..... the only one Chinese history class i took was called “a step into the past” 18 years ago....

    • @KhAn-ql5wp
      @KhAn-ql5wp Před 3 lety +10

      Chinese has revisionist history. Their history changes every few centruries.
      Another interesting thing about Chinese history is, whenever foreigners occupy their countries they call it Chinese dynasties. Yuan dynasty is actually a Mongolian occupation. Ching dynasty is Manchurian occupation.
      Why does Chinese cherish Ming dynasty? Only true ethnic Han dynasty since Xia dynasty among foreign occupations.

    • @cisi7220
      @cisi7220 Před 3 lety +12

      @@KhAn-ql5wp probably because the han culture is adaptable. Several emperors accepted the han culture and adapted it to their own culture and claimed themselves as the central empire. If you go to northern China you may find places which shows the process of mixture of those cultures.

    • @KhAn-ql5wp
      @KhAn-ql5wp Před 3 lety +5

      @@cisi7220 Northern China as in Inner Mongolia where ethnic Mongolians are not allowed to use their own language in their school? Perfect example of Chinese process of forced erasure other cultures after Chinese occupation.
      There is no such thing as an ethnic han. Where did people of han originate from?

  • @HoovyTube
    @HoovyTube Před 3 lety +297

    I've been finding myself interested with ancient history, thanks for a nice introduction

    • @livonianmapper2720
      @livonianmapper2720 Před 3 lety +3

      Alright, now GET BACK TO ANIMATING

    • @ruki4585
      @ruki4585 Před 3 lety +3

      Same 😍😍😍

    • @Draxler01k
      @Draxler01k Před 3 lety +2

      I’m surprised your not verified yet

    • @wokk9543
      @wokk9543 Před 2 lety +1

      Same, im only 12 but when i grow up i want to dress like how people did in alot of time periods not just ancient... but also like mid 20th century lol

    • @arddermoutcramer5695
      @arddermoutcramer5695 Před 2 lety

      Check the youtube channel History with Cy for more ancient history.

  • @unifieddynasty
    @unifieddynasty Před 5 lety +763

    "Yu the Engineer"
    Well of course Yu is Engineer. Yu must be engineer. Or doctor. Or scientist. Or Yu are disowned!

  • @kamou8499
    @kamou8499 Před 3 lety +138

    1:30 Xia Dynasty 夏朝
    2:10 Shang Dynasty 商朝
    2:29 Chou Dynasty 周朝
    3:05 The spring and the autumn 春秋戰國
    3:35 Qing Dynasty 秦朝
    4:49 Han Dynasty 漢朝
    6:00 Xin Dynasty (Xin Mang) 新朝(新莽)
    6:23 3 Kingdoms 三國
    6:27 YiJin South North Dynasty 魏晉南北朝
    6:47 Sui Dynasty 隋朝
    6:52 Tang Dynasty 唐朝
    7:30 5 Dynasty and 10 Kingdoms 五代十國

    • @Seinaru
      @Seinaru Před 2 lety

      But where is the Wang Dynasty (check my later comment lol I corrected)

    • @ghoast.9203
      @ghoast.9203 Před 2 lety

      Thanks

    • @haicdong5293
      @haicdong5293 Před rokem +8

      @@Seinaru In fact there’s no such a dynasty called “Wang Dynasty”
      I guess you've just misunderstood the meaning of “王朝”
      "dynasty" can be translated into “朝,朝代,王朝"
      that's to say,(Ming)dynasty=(明)朝,(明)王朝

    • @Seinaru
      @Seinaru Před rokem +2

      @@haicdong5293 no I actually misunderstood it as the leader being named Wang, turns out it was the Xin Dynasty

    • @raditiongaming2671
      @raditiongaming2671 Před rokem

      *Zou

  • @user-ld4jc9je3o
    @user-ld4jc9je3o Před 5 lety +79

    "Those long divided shall be united;
    those long united shall be divided:
    such is the way of the world."
    “天下大势,分久必合;合久必分。”

    • @mellowhead
      @mellowhead Před 3 lety +11

      @TyRaNno 你脑子是出了什么问题

    • @fabio7746
      @fabio7746 Před 3 lety +6

      elitisty81194 他们就是那种 打架打输了 逼到小破岛上 要面子那种

    • @shihaong2220
      @shihaong2220 Před 3 lety +3

      @@fabio7746 LMAO classic taiwanese bot. just call them a taiwanese bot.

    • @dwaynethewokjohnson6646
      @dwaynethewokjohnson6646 Před 2 lety

      @@shihaong2220 and you’re a ccp shill?

    • @thetheoryofhappiness229
      @thetheoryofhappiness229 Před 2 lety

      What a beautyful aforism. Where are you my friend im from mongolia.

  • @TTTTTTTTT853
    @TTTTTTTTT853 Před 4 lety +53

    As a person knowing Chinese and English, “Doesn’t translate well into English” makes me smile

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly8827 Před 6 lety +20

    That is a great book. I read it 10 years ago when my Chinese friend recommended it to me. I had asked him how I could learn more about China. He bought me that book. Very interesting

  • @jellyrolls2765
    @jellyrolls2765 Před 5 lety +19

    "Famous for inventing paper... which is apparently what people used to write things on." XD

  • @frankiehompson2746
    @frankiehompson2746 Před 3 lety +11

    The level of detail when a lake is shown only in a zoomed in view that lasts about 3 seconds when it’s an animation and isn’t necessary to the video at all is just very impressive

  • @lucasmuller819
    @lucasmuller819 Před 5 lety +6

    Hello from France !
    I really hope there will be subtitles in this channel !
    Good job btw

  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian Před 6 lety +482

    Awesome stuff as usual Suibhne. Your animations are really improving, keep it up!
    Griff

    • @theamazingjack1168
      @theamazingjack1168 Před 6 lety +10

      The Armchair Historian I love you’re videos keep up the great work

    • @alejandrokaplan7243
      @alejandrokaplan7243 Před 6 lety

      Also how were soldiers trained in the First World War, it is extremely hard to find information on it

    • @jamesscott3290
      @jamesscott3290 Před 6 lety

      WHERE YOUR DOMINOS AT?????

    • @alejandrokaplan7243
      @alejandrokaplan7243 Před 6 lety

      What?

    • @jamesscott3290
      @jamesscott3290 Před 6 lety

      Communist-Marxist Karl-Engels Because this man in one of his live streams was playing rainbow six siege (sucking ass really) And the entire time this man could not get his GODDAMN DOMINOS

  • @crosbychang
    @crosbychang Před 5 lety +259

    Wow, you only mentioned the brief 3 Kingdoms period for only a few seconds. Even though it's a mere small blip in history, it gave rise to one of the great classical literature, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Numerous opera shows, movies, tv serieses, and even video games were inspired by that period of history.

    • @elisabethsun7059
      @elisabethsun7059 Před 2 lety +4

      三國演義

    • @leijohnwang7627
      @leijohnwang7627 Před rokem +1

      Majority of events happened during spring and autumn months, hence called Spring and Autumn period.

    • @dragongamer5293
      @dragongamer5293 Před rokem +2

      @@leijohnwang7627 No. The 3 Kingdoms period happened almost a millenium later. He mentioned it at 6:23

    • @why-em2ig
      @why-em2ig Před rokem +1

      @@leijohnwang7627 三国时期和春秋时期是两个相差了将近六百年的不同历史时期,我纠正一下

  • @ajay4319
    @ajay4319 Před 3 lety

    Why am I finding this channel now?!
    It's so awesome!

  • @whatsmyname5202
    @whatsmyname5202 Před 5 lety +6

    This really helped with my school project

  • @mentalmen111
    @mentalmen111 Před 6 lety +20

    This was really fascinating. I love learning about the history of these nations in a condensed form for me to choose wha I want to expand upon. The next chapter is something I've wanted to learn about for years.
    I'd really love for you to cover Japan and then onto the Koreas at some point as, as far as I'm aware, they connect with this and each other really well.

    • @user-dr8vh2gz8d
      @user-dr8vh2gz8d Před rokem

      You will find that South Korea has always been a dependent country. Previously, South Korea was a subsidiary of China. In modern times, it was a subsidiary of Japan. Now it is a subsidiary of the United States! Japan has always been a bandit. From the past to the present

    • @user-wutong__________
      @user-wutong__________ Před 7 měsíci

      Japan and South Korea have completely different personalities. Japan respects ancient history but denies modern history, while South Korea likes to fabricate history. Most Koreans don't use history as evidence.

  • @linyang9536
    @linyang9536 Před 6 lety +14

    Great video! Wang Mang is a man said to be a time traveler :-).
    There is just a small error start from 7:32 to the introduction of Mongolian where it is “Song" and 宋 in Chinese, but it is translated as "西夏” on the map while there is "Xixia 西夏“ to the left of the middle of the map.
    Going to watch the next part.

  • @alexrosales4204
    @alexrosales4204 Před 4 lety +1

    I love this channel.. by using those cute drawings of people makes it more interesting. Straight 3 watching from diz channel!.. shout out for the new ep. Thanks!!!

  • @marisasagala5924
    @marisasagala5924 Před 2 lety +1

    The History is Very Important.
    Thanks❤

  • @varunkaushik2834
    @varunkaushik2834 Před 6 lety +14

    History would have been so interesting in my school days if they taught us with videos like these.

  • @lalanodga6249
    @lalanodga6249 Před 4 lety +4

    0:32 I love how they just floats

  • @wegehrkniggle4611
    @wegehrkniggle4611 Před 4 lety

    Great video man!

  • @duckvenom
    @duckvenom Před 4 lety

    powerful! thank for this.

  • @williamsledge3151
    @williamsledge3151 Před 6 lety +6

    Nice Crash course clip at 1:11

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory Před 6 lety +43

    Loved Part 1! Can't wait for Part 2!
    A quick note about the Tarim Basin as being referred to as Turkic during the Han dynasty. Actually they were not so, at least during the Han dynasty. Horse-borne Turkic people were still East Asian- and Mongoloid in appearance then, and had lived on the steppes of modern Mongolia. The Tarim Basin was then ruled by the Caucasian Tocharians and other Indo-European peoples who spoke Sakka in various oasis city-states. Many served as Han clients and governors. The Tarim Basin would not became Turkic until the 10th- 12th centuries where the migrating Uyghurs (who were East Asian in appearance) married with the native Tarim Basin inhabitants.
    Another minor quick note is the polity marked as "Thai" and 泰国- which translates to "Thailand" in the areas of Yunnan and northern Thailand- that area was called Nanzhao, and later the Dali Kingdom.
    Anyway, aside from those small points I just want to say great videos as usual man, and I look forward to see more coming out. Thanks again for making this

    • @Suibhne
      @Suibhne  Před 6 lety +4

      Ah. Thanks. Always a few mistakes

    • @rigaudmackson4167
      @rigaudmackson4167 Před rokem +1

      And you didn't explain the conficus period enough you didn't even say where he was Born

  • @watchstory2815
    @watchstory2815 Před 4 lety

    Brilliant works.....ur videos should be played in every kindergarten n elementary school, so educational

  • @samstock3531
    @samstock3531 Před 4 lety

    really good work!

  • @niallhamblin
    @niallhamblin Před 2 lety +3

    Obviously a great introduction, loved the video. These are a great way to just get started with things, and jump on in! That being said; how could they have hated books before paper was a thing? Were books made from other materials before that time? (I dont know much lol)

  • @theboyuan0jcfan
    @theboyuan0jcfan Před 6 lety +463

    As a Chinese, I compliment your effort to make this video as accurate as possible, but there are several errors. No mentions of Xiongnu dividing into northern and southern Xiongnu, no mention of the Tartar Confederacy who originally rivaled the Mongols, and why is Song written as 西夏? It is not Thai, but Nan Zhao南昭. It is called Spring and Autumn period because Confucius wrote a chronical book about this period called 'The Chronicles of Spring and Autumn'. No mention of the Han came to power by defeating Western Chu. Xiongnu are not direct ancestors of Mongols, but one of the nomadic tribe subjugated by them is(东胡). No mention of Gokturk being divided into Eastern and Western Gokturk, and no mention of the rivalry and wars between Tang and Umayyad, and Abassid Caliphates, which were pivotal to world history! No mention of other schools of thoughts outside Confucism, such as legalism which helped Qin defeat the other warring states. And most pronounciations are off, sorry to say because I know you are not a,native speaker and your mother tongue is of a non-tonal language.

    • @Junbug92
      @Junbug92 Před 5 lety +48

      Other than these points, it was a great video though. You can only cover so much under ten minutes o else it will be a documentary which often do a worst job of summarizing history

    • @mertomerbozlak6220
      @mertomerbozlak6220 Před 5 lety +5

      Xiongnu's rulers were Turkic but the folk was both proto mongol and Turkic

    • @cindyliao1893
      @cindyliao1893 Před 5 lety +8

      theboyuan0jcfan wow.. u are truly Chinese

    • @user-tw7kq5ti8y
      @user-tw7kq5ti8y Před 5 lety +12

      Mert Ömer Bozlak Donghu are more mongolic the three main nomadic groups in qin han era. Qiang (sino-tibetan), Xiongnu(Turkic), Donghu(proto mongolic) later develop into Wuhuan and Xianbei.

    • @mertomerbozlak6220
      @mertomerbozlak6220 Před 5 lety +2

      @@user-tw7kq5ti8y you are right

  • @irinashuma4865
    @irinashuma4865 Před 3 lety

    Interesting, thank you!))

  • @davidguindo7003
    @davidguindo7003 Před rokem +1

    Very nice

  • @GojiGuru
    @GojiGuru Před 6 lety +177

    Hey man, awesome video and great research! Glad to see a China video finally. However, one friendly critique: your pronunciation of many Chinese words/names is off. (Sorry, I can’t help it; I was a teacher in China.) I know it’s not easy if you’re not learning the language; pinyin is notoriously non-phonetic. Just a few examples: Zh is a hard J, so Zhou” is said “Joe”. X is an sh, so Xia is shya. Good job in catching that Q is a ch sound. Any word ending in “ng” is a long vowel, so Shang is said Shon. So Yan is, well, Yan lol, and Yang is said Yon; Tan is Tan but Tang is Tong. When Y precedes A or E you say the Y, but not if it precedes a U, as in Yue, in which case just say “üe” (yes, it’s the same sounds as the German ü). And J is a soft J sound, so Jin is said Gene, not Gin. It’s all a serious pain in the butt, I know, and honestly you did better than most, but just a heads up if you make future China videos. Heck, I’d be happy to coach your pronunciation if you want. All the same, keep up the great work!

    • @awesomedr6916
      @awesomedr6916 Před 5 lety +3

      Evan Sizemore quite a lot mistakes have been made in the video to be honest. Not just the pronounciation.

    • @enriquejaramillo4244
      @enriquejaramillo4244 Před 5 lety

      Hey man I need help with the special 7 or 9 any volunteers?

    • @masoncheung715
      @masoncheung715 Před 4 lety

      Evan Sizemore 哈哈,天才,good work ᐕ)⁾⁾

    • @user-hu5mr3qg5x
      @user-hu5mr3qg5x Před 4 lety

      ​@@awesomedr6916 yes yes they're really know nothing about china , they just wana guesses china

    • @tasty8186
      @tasty8186 Před 4 lety

      @@user-hu5mr3qg5x When can we expect your video to come out then?

  • @QuikVidGuy
    @QuikVidGuy Před 3 lety +36

    I don't know how to say it, but... "Spring and Autumn" makes a lot of sense

    • @julienpento3636
      @julienpento3636 Před 3 lety +1

      Because it's the end of an era but also the beginning of another.

  • @phineasemanuel2140
    @phineasemanuel2140 Před 4 lety +1

    I'm here because of the manga Kingdom!! Awesome manga based on reality between 770-220 BC. This is an amazing video! Thank you for the Quality and also you should read that manga, is THE GREATEST MANGA OF ALL TIME!

  • @SilentGuardian752
    @SilentGuardian752 Před 5 lety

    great work~

  • @vault34overseer
    @vault34overseer Před 6 lety +958

    2:20 It should be 鳴條instead of 名盜
    2:38 Wangcheng should be 雒邑
    3:59 It should be Xianyang instead of Wangcheng again
    5:31 It should be 喀什instead of 喀市
    The Border between Jin and the sixteen kingdom and Northern and Southern dynasty is not accurate both Chang'an and Luoyang should be included in the north rather than the south
    6:55 Thai? You got to be kidding me. It should be 南詔 Nanzhao instead of Thai; And also Goguryeo 高句麗instead of Goryeo 高麗
    7:33 宋 instead of 西夏
    Please check the Chinese translation before you release part 2. If you need any help, I would be happy to give you some. Your animation is great, but the mistake in translation are too obvious.

    • @dingloong2470
      @dingloong2470 Před 5 lety +90

      大佬,受我一拜。

    • @vault34overseer
      @vault34overseer Před 5 lety +24

      Bigbrother Chen 咁又唔駛,睇唔過眼啲錯處啫

    • @dingloong2470
      @dingloong2470 Před 5 lety +21

      你还是说中文吧

    • @vault34overseer
      @vault34overseer Před 5 lety +36

      Bigbrother Chen 這是粵語,我是說"不用客氣,只是看不過眼那些錯處而已."

    • @dingloong2470
      @dingloong2470 Před 5 lety +18

      不不不,小弟雖是工科專業,但是自認為對中國歷史和地理了解頗深。直到看了你的帖子,我才知道我的中國史知識只是您的皮毛

  • @ahmedtifardine2396
    @ahmedtifardine2396 Před 5 lety +4

    Can you do animated history of Morocco plz
    And thnak you for your great work keep going

  • @user-xz9bh5ps6j
    @user-xz9bh5ps6j Před 2 lety +1

    this very helped me

  • @whitefarmer
    @whitefarmer Před rokem

    This is the best video i have ever seen.

  • @eliasfrahat7074
    @eliasfrahat7074 Před 6 lety +21

    Long time no seen I missed you and your videos

  • @MrLolx2u
    @MrLolx2u Před 6 lety +306

    Oh no... This is not gonna be easy for one episode...
    1) Calling the period after the breakup of Shang "Spring and Autumn" is correct because there's no other way to put it when in Chinese it just means the same with "春秋时代" in Chinese just means "Spring & Autumn Period" in English.
    2) Qin Shihuang, China's actual 1st ruler and the emperor of unified China under Qin, was a maniac. The reason on why he ordered books to be burnt was not that he's fearful of books but he saw that books are the weapons of intellectuals and if the state has more intellectuals, his regime would be "corrupted" by these smartasses and his power would wane. So, he ordered books to be burnt and anyone who was caught keeping books to have their entire generation of family members be it close or in-laws to be executed. This led to massive unrest and many past generals that kept war manuals hid their bamboo books underground. He even ordered his own burial ground to be littered with thousands of terracota warriors and chariots to be buried with him when he died so that "These beings can follow him to the netherworld and still protect him" while laying his body around a makeshift river of mercury. In fact even after building his tomb, hundreds of workers were even locked inside and starved to death in order that the location of Qin's tomb won't be leaked. That's how maniacal Qin himself really was.
    3) The Great Wall isn't as great at Qin Shihuang's time to what we know today. In fact, the Wall has been just dirt moat all the time with only bits and pieces of the wall being reinforced. It only took almost 5 centuries during the Ming dynasty under a competent general, Qi Jiguang, that completed the wall to how we know it today taking a huge amounts of money and manpower. Due to the ridiculousness of the expenditure and loss of live during the entire construction, Qi himself was nearly executed but thank god his ambitious project came to life.
    4) Tang was really the golden age of China. Not only half of what we use in the modern world now were made from the Tang dynasty, they were also known to be the safest period in all of China's history where it is known that people don't even have to lock their doors when they sleep as everyone is rich enough that no one would even steal anything due to the immense wealth everyone had. In fact, when it comes to technologies, many were from the Tang like gunpower (It was popularized and spread by the Ming but it was actually invented by the Tang), compass, cold steel technology, nailless architecture (Japan and Goryeo (Present-day Korea both learnt their architecture skills from the Tang), mass printing and many others.

    • @sean668
      @sean668 Před 6 lety +10

      I thought Qin Sihuang was burning books because he wanted history to forget that other philosophies existed

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u Před 6 lety +21

      That's the point. Books were bringing old philosophers into people's lives and Qin did not even like one bit of it in fear that these people would learn the philosophies of the olden ways and topple his government. The most fearful book that he wanted to get rid of the most was Sun Tzu's Art of War. With that book gone and other scholars and books were either executed or totally eradicated, no one would be smart enough or competent enough to overthrow him and his regime. Apparently he never heard of how mere farmers or commoners can just gain power with absolutely just a small sword. *Cough* Liu Bang *Cough Cough*

    • @Suibhne
      @Suibhne  Před 6 lety +47

      After watching the video, viewers should read this comment for more information 😆

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u Před 6 lety +25

      Hey I had always liked your video. Being a Chinese and a part-time history lecturer in my local university while being a full time business owner, it's great to have videos like this teaching your students how the world in the ancient past really was and it's a pleasure to share my personal knowledge of my own personal culture's history to other people. We gotta absorb to improve and get better ain't we?
      Anyways, keep up the good work and I really like what you do. Keep on trucking mate.

    • @slein1055
      @slein1055 Před 6 lety +2

      Suibhne then pin it

  • @user-fg1np1ji6g
    @user-fg1np1ji6g Před 5 lety

    瑕不掩瑜,支持一下。 Good job!👍🏻

  • @tillallareone7299
    @tillallareone7299 Před 4 lety +2

    Wow,Over 5000 years of history!
    I’m blown away.

  • @tinchosabala
    @tinchosabala Před 6 lety +272

    YEEEEEEES, FINALLY A NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRY GETS IT’S HISTORY AIMATED BY SUIBHNE!!!!!!
    Also, I’m really excited for Genghis’ steamrolling, also, didn’t China meet a little bit with the Romans?

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u Před 6 lety +42

      They did and that was during the Han dynasty. The Silk Road opened and when the Romans vertured into the East, they somehow landed themselves at the gates of China which is present-day Tajikistan. They traded goods and stuff and that's how the Romans gained silk back into Rome and their ideas for their Scorpio which is a crossbow artillery piece (Crossbow was used by the Chinese 1st before anyone else) and how the Chinese got to know something called olives and grapes.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Před 6 lety +11

      They didn´t tough, no one went all the way up the silk road, (until Marco Polo, and that was centuries after when China was controlled by mongols) all merchants did was trade good from one outpost to the next one closer. and there were thousands of those outposts, they simply went a bit further away from their city, sold the goods and then return to their city to fetch more. Eventually the goods crossed the continent little by little and it took years. Romans had silk in Rome but they never actually went to china themselves, and viceversa, there was olive oil in China but no chinese person ever went to Rome. The contact was completely indirect. The farther a Roman expedition ever got was still far from a Chinese capital, they still didn´t venture into China but they reported to Rome that farther away was a great empire that was as big as Rome since they knew from traders and locals. (China was actually a much bigger empire than Rome ). Don´t remember the exact emperor it was but the anecdote stuck to me from when i studied it.

    • @marvelfannumber1
      @marvelfannumber1 Před 6 lety +21

      +Tincho Sabala
      They did have contact with Rome, but only indirectly. As far as we know no single trader travelled the entire silk road during antiquity, there would be intermediaries. The Persians also tried to prevent the two from gaining any formal contact as they benefited from being the middle man in traade between Rome and China. For example there were some Chinese emissaries that travelled west and apperantly got quite close to Mesopotamia, but when they asked the local rulers how far it would be to get to Da Qin, the Persians lied and said they were only half way there.
      Da Qin btw is the Chinese term for Rome (kind of). It's complicated, but in Chinese mythology they believed that at the opposite end of the world there was a mirror China or Da Qing (Great Qin), which they associated Rome with.
      However they did finally have formal contact in the form of emissaries supposedly in the 160's A.D, as Chinese sources state the Emperor was visited by emissaries from Da Qin who brought many exotic gifts. They may have been frauds, but it's difficult to prove or disprove.
      At some point the Chinese started calling Da Qin, Fu Lin, which they still believed was a continuation of Da Qin. Under Constans II (who the Chinese called King Boduoli of Fu Lin) they apperantly got even more Roman embassies.
      These latter contacts are actually believed to be pretty genuine because the Chinese record a pretty accurate history of what was going on in Rome at the time.
      Chinese sources state that Fu Lin had been attacked by Da Shi (the Arabs), led by their commander "Mo-Yi" (probably Muawiyah) and that Da Shi had tried to attack Fu Lin's capital (Constantinople). They also describe Constantinople in some detail, although the details may be completely bogus. Such as the city having massive granite walls, golden statues of men and some kind of water clock.
      Roman sources around the same time also talk about China to some extent and get quite alot of information right suprisingly. They identified China's capital as "Kubdan" (maybe a corrupton of Xi'an), that the current ruler was named "Taisson" (which referred to Emperor Taizong of Tang) and even correctly stated that China had been divided, but was briefly reunited under the reign of Roman Emperor Maurice (who was a contemporary of the Sui Dynasty that briefly reunited China).

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u Před 6 lety +5

      China did have contact with Rome but it was a mishmash of timeline be it the Western Roman or Eastern Roman empire because.. Well.. Both called themselves Roman but yes. Rome did have contact with China all along.

    • @eagle162
      @eagle162 Před 6 lety +1

      Jun Kitami they didn't get the idea for the Scorpio from China.

  • @shujiang2560
    @shujiang2560 Před 4 lety +4

    2:40 In the "Spring & Autumn"(春秋) era, they are actually just "lords" rather than "warlords". This is very important because it's the early form of Chinese feudalism which then transformed to different forms over the years, it's not just a cycle of "Collapse -> Reunite".

  • @TheBombayMasterTony
    @TheBombayMasterTony Před 3 lety

    Good explanation.

  • @PatrickAllenNL
    @PatrickAllenNL Před 5 lety +1

    The podcast of John & Hank Green brought me here. Amazing animation!

  • @ServitorSkull
    @ServitorSkull Před 5 lety +8

    I love how you can use flash to keep the same map in view, change the iconography and move forward in time all in one video. Great use of maps! More of these please.

  • @taimingli5719
    @taimingli5719 Před 6 lety +677

    The Japanese totally copied the Chinese culture in Tang dynasty. And the Chinese culture was popular, and affected Korea and Japanese culture in Tang dynasty. The Japanese Kimono, Buddhism, tea ceremony and architecture are copied Chinese Tang Dynasty culture.

    • @christiancristof491
      @christiancristof491 Před 6 lety +120

      Calm down.

    • @taimingli5719
      @taimingli5719 Před 6 lety +24

    • @christiancristof491
      @christiancristof491 Před 6 lety +44

      I have no idea what you wrote. I'm a westerner. Just calm down and stop.

    • @taimingli5719
      @taimingli5719 Před 6 lety +116

      Sorry, please forgive my crazy expression. Thank for your kind advice. I am calm down now. What I want to say is that China was prosperous in Tang dynasty, and I really admire Tang dynasty.

    • @taimingli5719
      @taimingli5719 Před 6 lety +93

      囧 means embarrassed, is a Chinese character. And this character looks like an embarrassed face.

  • @morningmusume6636
    @morningmusume6636 Před 5 lety +1

    great bro!

  • @eefe7161
    @eefe7161 Před rokem

    Even the audible advert was executed perfectly!

  • @iwatchthings1456
    @iwatchthings1456 Před 6 lety +4

    This helped me with my Chinese history exam, Thank you!

  • @jackyniu5194
    @jackyniu5194 Před 5 lety +17

    4:33 by the way, it’s due to this that gun powder is invented

  • @ramiribat
    @ramiribat Před 9 měsíci

    I love it!

  • @Momoko111
    @Momoko111 Před 3 lety

    nice video!

  • @Nostogi
    @Nostogi Před 4 lety +15

    There’s a mistake in the video at 5:15. At the time of the Han dynasty, the Tarim basin was inhabited by Indo European people, not Turkic people. Turkic peoples arrived a millennia later and conquered and displaced the original inhabitants.

  • @agot7fan855
    @agot7fan855 Před 3 lety

    I love this soundtrack soooooo much!!!

  • @user-sp9uy7yn1m
    @user-sp9uy7yn1m Před 5 lety +1

    I think your job is good!Although there are some errors, I like it.

  • @matthijsvanwijhe864
    @matthijsvanwijhe864 Před 5 lety +8

    Very nice vid! just a small point of correction: the Korean kingdom that was taken in the 7th century was goguryeo, not goryeo. Goryeo came in the beginning of the 10th century.

    • @bayueornmuhyeon
      @bayueornmuhyeon Před 2 lety +1

      goguryeo changes its name into goryeo while king jangsu's regime(413~491). we just call it goguryeo just not to confuse the two countries.

    • @user-pg2jh5hc7z
      @user-pg2jh5hc7z Před rokem

      @@bayueornmuhyeon 高句丽是扶余人的国家,而高丽是朝鲜人的国家,要区分的不仅是名字,两个族群的基因也是不同的,比如扶余人的父系基因是C2南支,朝鲜人的主要父系基因是O1b2。

    • @eric7473
      @eric7473 Před 11 měsíci

      @@bayueornmuhyeon 高丽和王氏高丽是两个国家,高句丽和高丽是中国少数民族建立的政权,王氏高丽才是新罗(韩国人)建立的朝代

  • @TheECSH
    @TheECSH Před 6 lety +33

    Good work! Though I feel everything after the Han Dynasty separated into the Three Kingdoms gets a bit rushed.
    Also, several others have already pointed out, you have a typo at 7:32, Song should be 宋 in Chinese, but instead you wrote Xixia 西夏 twice.

    • @nickl5998
      @nickl5998 Před 5 lety

      TheECSH I wouldn't say it is rushed considering it only lasted 60 some years.

    • @TheECSH
      @TheECSH Před 5 lety

      you misunderstood. I meant he spent the majority of the video talking about pre-Three Kingdoms eras, and everything after that was a bit rushed and crammed into about 2 minutes.

    • @andrewbuck171
      @andrewbuck171 Před 5 lety

      Agreed. The three kingdoms period is covered in one sentence and six seconds of video!

  • @mayydog8783
    @mayydog8783 Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much for helping me with my homework 😅☺️👌

  • @jargaldude3275
    @jargaldude3275 Před 3 lety

    Intro is epic as always

  • @kaziboy264
    @kaziboy264 Před 6 lety +3

    Lol bro, typo for the Song Dynasty, thats (西夏) XiXia at around 7:53, Song is written like this: 宋, although I think you knew that cos you wrote XiXia where it was supposed to be? Im confused too haha

  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal Před 4 lety +4

    1:30 it is impressive that they developed writing early, and I don't want to detract from that but being connected to others and learning from them is super important ... the mediterranean also had systems like the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians (I guess drawing things comes first) but then the Phoenicians made the leap of writing letters ... that was a big leap (Syro-Hittites made it and then Phoenicians spread it ... Greek Latin etc. all come from it). The Chinese in their isolation went in a different direction. They did not get that crucial input of switching to letters.

    • @randomcallum
      @randomcallum Před 3 lety

      pinying

    • @user-kt2bd1su7m
      @user-kt2bd1su7m Před rokem +1

      有收到输入,但由于中华民族的同化属性这些都没有真正传播

    • @andraslibal
      @andraslibal Před rokem

      @@user-kt2bd1su7m that is an interesting point yes I discussed it with a Chinese student once that anything invading China like the Mongols etc eventually because Chinese themselves.

  • @BuriUrLuve
    @BuriUrLuve Před 3 lety

    honest to god you helped me through my japanese degree and i just started my chinese degree and turns out you also have chinese history. i love you

  • @cynthiamacaringue5650
    @cynthiamacaringue5650 Před 5 lety

    i just found your channel and Im loving it, would like to know if you could do a video on Persian empire

  • @vinhny2406
    @vinhny2406 Před 6 lety +6

    I would love you to mention more about the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring state period and the Three Kingdoms period
    But I can’t blame you because the quality of this video is on point

  • @discipleinblack
    @discipleinblack Před 6 lety +59

    "Yu, an engineer"
    Wait, what do I have to do with Ancient- Ohhhhhhhh

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Před 9 měsíci

    Very very very blessed video. Bright and beautiful 2D arts and colors

  • @muddled811
    @muddled811 Před 2 lety

    tyyy!

  • @nickyang1703
    @nickyang1703 Před 5 lety +58

    one error with the Chinese word for "Song dynasty", should be “宋”

    • @dailydoseofspoilers8089
      @dailydoseofspoilers8089 Před 3 lety

      There are a billion Chinese words.😂

    • @YananLiAsura
      @YananLiAsura Před 3 lety +2

      @@dailydoseofspoilers8089 Most of the Chinese dictionaries (even used by Chinese population) usually includes from 48K - 85K characters, out of which most of them are almost 100%-exchangeable variations of other characters, while you only need to know approximately 8K-10K for daily communication including reading. But on the other hands, "words" are considered as combinations of various characters, so yeah, I guess a billion might be a close enough estimate.

    • @dailydoseofspoilers8089
      @dailydoseofspoilers8089 Před 3 lety

      @@YananLiAsura That’s still enough words to learn.

  • @nacosiren
    @nacosiren Před 5 lety +4

    @7:32 The map has a typo: "SONG" is labeled "西夏" (Xixia), but in fact should be labeled "宋" or "北宋". (Note that Xixia appear twice on the map). Also, after Jin's rebel and conquering Liao, Song should be labeled as “南宋”.
    @3:54 Confucianism became popular in Han dynasty because it was not until then that central government adopted it as the official ideology.

  • @chromonetsolutions498
    @chromonetsolutions498 Před rokem +1

    So fascinating and adorable!

  • @OhThatKwik
    @OhThatKwik Před 5 lety

    That opening earned you a sub.

  • @mohammadhusni99
    @mohammadhusni99 Před 6 lety +15

    Good job but can you do eygpt

  • @bhsdhmu
    @bhsdhmu Před 5 lety +178

    zhongguo means "center kingdom" not derived from zhou

    • @user-od9hs2yl2o
      @user-od9hs2yl2o Před 4 lety +4

      True

    • @kalinsapotato
      @kalinsapotato Před 4 lety +9

      I've just re-watched that part and he's definitely implying that the name was coined during that period, not that it has its origins in the word "Zhou".

    • @ShahanshahShahin
      @ShahanshahShahin Před 4 lety +1

      And we call India "Bharat" in our languages

    • @janetmissjacksonifyourenas2904
      @janetmissjacksonifyourenas2904 Před 3 lety

      middle land, yea

    • @UltramanII
      @UltramanII Před 3 lety +3

      You don't understand what the video maker meant. 中国(zhong guo) is not derived from the word "Zhou", but it's from how people call the capital of Zhou. 中国 at first only means "the central city". In Zhou dynasty, any city resident is referred to as 国人(guo ren) while people living outside of cities are referred to as 野人. So 中国 is the capital city, where the Zhou King lived. Only later did its meaning expand to mean all of China.

  • @naruhina1997
    @naruhina1997 Před 4 lety

    I own that book, can confirm, great read.

  • @koalapop4770
    @koalapop4770 Před 3 lety +2

    im so glad that you use traditional chinese!!

  • @alejandrator1
    @alejandrator1 Před 6 lety +21

    Gotta say, another guy corrected a lot of things but, as a East Asian History student as of today, I feel the need to add a couple things:
    First of all, the Xia Dinasty is recognized as such due to the discovery of the Erlitou archeological site, considered their capital. Also, there were some states (mainly Jinsha and Sangxidui) in the modern Sichuan during the Shang Dinasty period.
    Finally; Xia, Shang, Zhou (and the states of the Late Zhou periods) weren't empires; the first emperor was Qin Shi Huangdi (which name translated roughly if I recall to "First Qin Emperor") and that his dinasty name is the origin (probably) for the European words for "China".
    Nevertheless, it is a great video.

  • @naelie2288
    @naelie2288 Před 3 lety +4

    It’s kinda sad that I know nothing about China’s history even though I’m Chinese so this video is great!

  • @whitefarmer
    @whitefarmer Před rokem

    It really summons up everything.

  • @Floatian
    @Floatian Před 5 lety +2

    3:12
    Spring and autumn period can be understand as fast rising and falling of things, as to my personal opinion, Chinese is a very heavy metaphoric language, so spring represents growing and rising, autumn means harvest and time to farm or fall. Meanwhile, there are 4 seasons in a year, spring (1) and autumn (3) are the odd ones (meaning YANG in Yin & Yang concept) in order of numbers, so they are used to represent the year as well as for years passing by to represent "history".

  • @brandonbohr.7301
    @brandonbohr.7301 Před 6 lety +54

    The Animated History of Greece please !

  • @sterkar99
    @sterkar99 Před 6 lety +21

    Animated history of Greece!

    • @X-AEA-12
      @X-AEA-12 Před 4 lety +4

      Everyone knows this already

  • @anothrnoml
    @anothrnoml Před 5 lety

    thx for help for work

  • @panzerwafflez7228
    @panzerwafflez7228 Před 5 lety

    Lol that sneaky Mongoltage soundtrack at the very end. Someone's a big fan of Crash Course;).

  • @Trypod-uk3zl
    @Trypod-uk3zl Před 3 lety +17

    Chinese history: Fascinating
    Chinese culture: Ritch
    Chinese food: Incredible
    Chinese government: *[redacted]*

    • @JT-dd9fi
      @JT-dd9fi Před 3 lety +1

      As a Chinese this is so true hahahah

  • @youhengchen9675
    @youhengchen9675 Před 6 lety +350

    its 宋,not 西夏

  • @joecho1427
    @joecho1427 Před rokem

    It is very nice contents.

  • @cheeseburgermovies
    @cheeseburgermovies Před 5 lety +1

    PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE do a history of Belgium at some point! It's so weird and quirky I would love to see your guys' take on it

  • @biffadi1365
    @biffadi1365 Před 5 lety +3

    Make an animated history of Sweden video
    please

  • @sagisdoodleverse9696
    @sagisdoodleverse9696 Před 3 lety +5

    I’m Chinese and I’m just here to learn about my country since I only know the history through historical tv shows

  • @timothyrice1621
    @timothyrice1621 Před 4 lety

    I had to read that Genghis Khan book for AP World History. Good stuff

  • @littleredcurious5044
    @littleredcurious5044 Před 5 lety

    I missed these!!!!!!!!!

  • @plusleo1083
    @plusleo1083 Před 5 lety +5

    7:34 ,SONG should be matched to “宋”, not another “西夏”

  • @factorerivative
    @factorerivative Před 4 lety +8

    Chinese history is more amazing if u look closer,there r many reasons and potential hazard but fun or even epic important characters to every kindom

  • @michaelunicorn6494
    @michaelunicorn6494 Před 5 lety

    感谢作者,有点意思,interesting

  • @jessicaqu
    @jessicaqu Před 2 lety

    I literally LOL’d when Emperor Qin died from one of the alchemist poisons… I mean, potions. Amazing animation and narration