Correction. Qin Shi Huang according to many historians did NOT burn book because of revisionary history. Instead he burned books because of ideological conflict between Confuciusism vs Legalism. During the Warring States era, Confucius teaching was popular because it preached the value that benefits nobility. And you can guess why Qin people hated it. Also, they didn’t burn all the books, nor kill all the scholars. They confiscated books and burned copies. And killed those scholars who pushed hard for Confucianism. The books that Qin Shi Huang didn’t burn, got burned by the rebel leader Xiangyu after Qin fell. Because Shi Huang put them all in one place in a palace. And btw although Qin eventually fell because of those fed up nobles(almost all of the rebel factions were led by toppled feudal lords, and the rest were mere opportunists who tried to capitalize on the chaos). The successor of Qin, Han dynasty was also largely a legalist state. It was KNOWN that Liu Bang, the founder of Han, took a lot of Qin government documents and books when he conquered the capital. And most of Han policies were just milder version of what Qin had. And BTW Liu Bang, a fugitive who eventually founded Han dynasty, joined the rebels only because his mates in the hometown wanted a scapegoat. The mayor of the town was worried that rebels would come for him, so his adviser came up with the idea to fake rebel so the rebels wouldn’t kill them. And they needed someone other than themselves in case Qin won, so they thought of Liu Bang. Upon the return of Liu Bang to the town, the mayor got cold feet, the adviser sought to kill the mayor and pushed to elect Liu as their leader. I mean, think about it. Of all the prominent local families, everyone agreed to elect a fugitive who’s been running in a mountain for years to be a leader… and the death of the mayor was definitely an inside job because Liu Bang was locked out of the city gate atm.
I'm pinning this comment because I think it's a very good critique. I had to cut down the section on book burning quite a lot. I think we'll cover some of this in a future video if we do a full series.
@@HistoryScopebooks and records prior to Qin were partially correct. Lots of history and records were indeed lost in Qin. There were attempts and creation to recreate these history later in Han dynasty and the prominent one was by shina qin. He was described as having a photographic memory and wrote everything from hwangti and every bit up to the take over of qin dynasty. He started a method in which he based his writing subjectively in moral assessment based on Confucius writing rather than objective records. This has been very bad for later assessments that ruined lots of Chinese history up to modern era. Besides his memories were too perfect when looked into deeply. However modern archeologists often found new evidence to contradict many things he wrote. Even worse the pre zhou era were written in mythological and supernatural ways and ignored cultures absorbed or conquered. that makes pre zhou history unstable and always updating when new things were found. The few hundred years in Han dynasty progressed basically wrote more about the past which were more progressive imaginative than anyone or any fact would support.
even burning books of other ideology r just a myth thats not fully proven. since following dynasty usually condemn previous one to justify their "mandate of haven" when they overthrown it.
The much more interesting story about Liu Bang was that he was a low official (he was basically a peasant and his father bribed someone to get him the officials job) who had the task to bring prisoners and able young man to work on some large construction sites and Qin had harsh punishment for failing tasks. When Liu Bang escorted the prisoners and men, a heavy rain made it impossible for them to arrive on time. As the punishment was a death penalty, they decided to hide in the mountains and quickly decided to rebel if death was the alternative. Liu Bang was a rather charismatic person and gained peoples trust easily. When they returned to their home town the mayor tried to keep them out. But because Liu Bang is a known popular personality within the town, the rebellion being on a positive momentum and him being close to the regular folk and somewhat the story you mentioned the town decided to side with Liu Bang. Because the laws and the punishment were so harsh, many decided to rebel instead of submitting to the inevitable death penalty. Though Han Dynasty did use legalist ideas and reimplemented a lot of Qin Dynasty laws they did also implement confucian ideas. Han Dynasty was a rather pragmatic dynasty and set the tone for all dynasties after them
Not only Confucius, Shang Yang is definitely one of the most important figure in Chinese history. With his legalism policies, he with Qin monarchs had made Qin from a backwater country into the strongest warring state and then finally united China. And Qin Shi Huang is no doubt the greatest emperor in Chinese history because his work had laid a sturdy foundation for Chinese civilization
In fact, from the map, Qin is not the most isolated kingdom. In terms of geographical location, Qin's location is quite ideal. First of all, Qin only needs to guard against Wei in the east. The west and north of Qin are relatively backward. Tribal residents, the south of Qin State is separated from the powerful Chu State by the ancient and neutral Shu State and Ba State. Shu State, Ba State and Qin State have long-term trade cooperation relations, but due to changes in Qin State's economic policy , refused to obtain the rice produced by Shu through purchase, and attempted to control Shu through military power to obtain lower-cost rice, thus opening up the route for Chu to attack Qin. The excessive desire of the king of Qin made Qin Citizens were under great threat and had to embark on a militaristic plan of aggression.
He did but he made two fatal mistakes that ruined all that his clan built. 1. He didn't pick a proper successor. This means the empire will guarantee turmoil when he's dead or temporarily out of power. And that's happening. (He's very paranoid and fears his eldest son because from the record...His eldest son was from the state of chu linage and had many political views that contrasted with his) 2. Use over used his authority. His unification creates a concept of divine authority which during that time no one knew how exactly it worked and what the terrifical outcome it could bring. I mean...Well, labour for one month wasn't bad but the work that guarantees your death before you reach the destination is much more terrifying. In ancient time, people usually died from starvation and sickness when outside that climate. Qin forced relocation of the population to prevent rebellion causing massive casualties among the population, then forcing entire male in the village to travel to some desolate area to die was a big no. And Qin Shi Huang was drunk on his power and did a lot of unreasonable things. Those who can's do it will die but if you can get the emperor favour, you can survive. That's a problem for sure
@@hidefreek6905u miss the thing is Qin Shi Huang was the FIRST Emperor of united China. And he was undoubtedly making mistakes along the way because there was nothing he could rely on from history. Qin Shi Huang and his court almost built everything from scratches for the united China. But no doubt majority of his policies had worked because China today was built based on his foundation.
That's why caution and patience come in handy. The first yes. But no one dare to challenge him during his reign but what about after that? Build an empire must do step by step. (Like many people said Rome wasn't build in a day) Same as Qin conquest. Qin Shihuang nearly unleashed what his ancestors built upon his enemy. So his role in the conquest was low. Then, what about his administration? Indeed, effective but also not at the same time. In history, Qin Shihuang had very bad upbringing and he himself had mental illness. Born among carnibals, his mother intended to kill him and ruin Qin's destint. His only friend wanted to kill him and his father-in-law betrayed him at the peak of Qin unification of China. All of these affect his mental state during his reign. And he no longer listen to anyone. When the time the people can't talk directly to the leader and must see his face and emotion before anything else. That nation is halfway to its doom already.
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Hey! Thanks for your amazing videos!!! I hope you can create a new video about the current situation in Argentina and its past history... cause you already gave us the Taiwanese video. I'm Argentinean with Taiwanese roots. 😂😁
@@ouss Considering how bad inflation is in Argentina, that's probably a lot more money to them than it is to us in the west. So let's not judge other people for their donations.
I love that your videos cover the most important aspect of history that lots of high school history skips on - the WHY things happened. I wish these videos were available when I was in high school.
I love your videos, been watching for about 2 years. Chinese history is complicated as heck so well done on making this. I hope to see more just like your aztec series
i love that history youtube isn’t afraid to make content about a subject that has been covered (specifically china) because all of them tell the story in a different way/perspective. also i want to hear all of this info again without watching the same video. (this sounds so back handed but being sincere and i love this video)
okay a slight little (i hope) constructive criticism that came to my mind, the 1st few minutes seem to suggest that the Han ethnic identity was universal to all peoples of the yellow river valley from the get go, which as far as i know was not the case. Han being so dominant is only a later development of politics within the region. I think saying "(...)they started to develop their own ethnicities, chineese ethnicities one of which is (some flowery sentence if u will) Han(...)" and later the video could go on as it does. Imo it would save people that little bit of confusion... but it could just be me. aside from that little thing great video!
Hell, a lot of people now called Han wouldn't have been considered so even as recently as the Qing Dynasty. The very idea of an ethnic Han identity as opposed to a cultural one based on language, education, religion, and lifestyle is largely a late-19th-century nationalist retcon rather than long-established reality.
@@johnlacey3857 Retroactive continuity. A re-explaining of something at a later date. It's a commonly-used word in fandoms for when a franchise changes or clarifies something after the fact in later seasons or movies, especially as a way of smoothing out plot inconsistencies. Nationalists around the world do this when they create narratives of their nations, since no nation period existed before the age of mass literacy and mass transportation. Nations are not the same as cultures or societies or states in general, but rather a specific arrangement of standardised (hence national) institutions across the whole of a state's territory, including a standardisation of language and religion and so on. Saying that one's nation has a proud history extending back thousands of years is a recasting of events in ways that the people who lived through those events would not necessarily understand or agree with.
@@alexv3357 except this is just wrong? han as an ethnicity started to exist after han dynasty cuz during wuhuluanhua the huns and mongols and 3 other nomadic tribes invaded the started to kill chinese people based on their ethnicity aka han ethnicity. it's like how black is created as a race because white people needed a reason to enslave them aka a social construct.
19k likes! Almost at the 20k benchmark to start making the whole china series! I'm sure the Han, the Tang, the Ming the Qing will be HUGELY POPULAR Episodes. I love History Scopes deep analysis on historical topic and the events that made them unfold. Please keep doing what you're doing but also start this new series, a lot of fans, ;like myself, would love it very much!
I youtubers people would simply use Google translate for foreign names we wouldn't have to repeatedly have to call this out. Pinyin words get pronunciations get so tortured.
@@zhubajie6940 Unfortunately, I can't write in Mandarin. I instead google 'how to pronounce' followed by the word I want to pronounce. In the case of Zhou, it gave me the same as Zhao. As for google translate: it sounds like a badly put-together audio clip. Considering how terrible it's with English, Dutch, and German pronunciations, I don't trust it with anything else either.
Very interesting video I was waiting for someone to upload a comprehensive yet simple video diving into chinese history. Thank you and hope you get the necessary likes 👍
This was a quality video, from the script, the narration, and the animation. You have a new subscriber, and I shall watch your career with great interest.
This is a great video which touches upon very important but often overlooked factors which were critical to how China evolved from one dynasty to the next.
Great and very thorough video. We learn very little about the history of China here in Holland, so a series about the entire history of China would be very nice!
Really great explanations of history and the effects of socio-economic pressures. Repeated references to map(s) really helped me understand how different dynasties overtook each other. Yes to Han video, please! 🙏
Qin in the last stage against other seven kingdoms were using the tactics by rewarding the merits in battles. They were treated by the numbers of enemies they killed. And peasants and commoners were rewarded by counting the actual human heads at the end of each battle. If they could provide 20 or thirty heads then they would move a rank up with rewards of acres of land for farming. Since families is still a unit of life- even if they die their families would still pass the land the front soldiers earned. There were several strange patterns happening: you see soldiers fought between them for human heads and corpses for counting, young men dressed light without armours and kills enemies aggressively without taking care of their own safety but their best mobility, soldiers in the front line writing letters back for shoes and equipment back home as provision because families now seen them human as investments for rewards to a family. Even nowadays these reward system, although it’s meritocracy based, are still seen as weird and inhuman and haven’t been used afterwards in two thousand years of china.
People still despise this Qin emperor even today. Back then Qin kingdom was seen to be backwards, uncultured, and barbaric. Their ancestors helped and protected the Zhou kingdom to move its capital from west to east. They were the last one in the seven kingdoms to set up and they were of foreign tribes compared to the middle people when they set up there and for a while there were always foreign invasion on uncultivated land and took them 400 years to become stronger.
In fact, rice cultivation did not exist in the Yellow River Basin until very late in history, because rice required large amounts of paddy fields and northern China was on average arid. From prehistory until 2,000 years ago, the crops used as food in the Yellow River Basin were soybeans, millet, and sorghum.
I dropped a "like" (becaused I actually liked your presentation of the topic), and I'm sure you'll get 20k, but don't oblige yourself to make a follow-up video for this reason. Do it only if you deem the topic worthy. As on "Whose line is it anyway" - the likes don't matter. Geweldig, hoe je moeilijke onderwerpen in behapbare brokjes opdeelt. Kudos!
This video was so cool! More people should know about why china is the way it is today by studying their history, i personally never studied this topic in school MORE CHINA
Really want that complete chinese history series but to be fair I'd take anything you produce keep up the good work 👍🏿 Maar ja alsnog maak die china serie gewoon 😜
Good video but be careful with the repetitive background music/sounds. For 5 minutes starting at 16:40 there's a bell going off every 2 seconds in the background and I eventually stopped because of it :(
This is super accessible, its perfect if you're coming in from more casual videos or intros. I've read about Romance of the Three Kingdoms and saw the Oversimplified video so alot of this clicka
Thanks for this amazing video! I've been following you for a few years and these videos are always a treat. Many more thanks for uploading them so often now :)! I'd love to see a next one. Maybe an idea: it might be interesting to create a similar video on the history of the Indian subcontinent. I think there is a lot of history there that most people in the west have no clue about.
A bit weirded out with the background music used around 18:10 mark. The tune is from 帝女花， a play inspired by the fall of the Ming dynasty circa 1643/44. Will be more relevant used when covering the fall of the Ming instead. Hong Kong's TVB has a rather enjoyable TV series on this play (though it has tons of historical inaccuracies). Apart from this, I've greatly enjoyed this video and I look forward to seeing more Chinese history!
I think the part about the fall of the Qin Dynasty needs more details. The next emperor designated by Qin Shihuang was Fusu, but Zhao Gao and Li Si wanted to keep their positions, so they killed Fusu and made Hu Hai the second emperor. (Fusu advocated Confucianism, but the Qin Dynasty adopted Legalism to govern the country. Li Si was the leader of Legalism, and Zhao Gao was Hu Hai’s teacher. Li Si wanted to maintain the status of Legalism. Zhao Gao also wanted to support his students so that he could gain Greater power) Hu Hai was a more cruel person than Qin Shihuang. Not only did he kill all his brothers and sisters, but he also knew nothing about governing the country. The power was hollowed out by Zhao Gao (interestingly, Li Si was also killed by Zhao Gao), which was also one of the reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty. If Fusu had been the second emperor, I think the Qin Dynasty would not have perished so quickly. Fusu advocated Confucianism. If he had been the emperor, he would have tended to use Confucianism to govern the country. The main reason for the Qin Dynasty's demise was also the use of Legalist thought to govern the country, because Legalist laws were very strict, which was also the main reason for the people's uprising. (Before the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, it was very effective to use Legalist thought to govern the country, because it was in a state of war at that time. But after the Qin Dynasty unified, Legalist thought was no longer suitable for the Qin Dynasty, and a more moderate policy should be adopted. Confucianism was obviously more suitable)
love your channel, you cover aspect of history I love to learn more about, but also cover history I haven't learn much about. definitely cover all of Chinese history!
Would you, could you ever do a video on all the pacific people's, from indigenous taiwan japan n phillipines to Madagascar and the pacific peoples of pacific ocean P.s. just joined your patreon, love how ya do vids n research (love your team)
The funny thing is that China the state is named after the Qin dynasty, rhetorical Han the ethnic group is named after the Han dynasty which is the dynasty immediately following Qin. It is clear, where the Qin replaced the idea of having kingdoms with the idea of having an empire, the subjects still identified with the conquered kingdoms. This can be seen from the names of the rebellion armies at the end of Qin Dynasty. This only changed after the very long and stable rule of the Han dynasty
i only recently learned that, before qin's wars of unification and especially han dynasty, each chinese state used a slightly different writing system, but closely related to each other. even today, many various dialects across china are mutually unintelligible, making them almost like different languages but with the same written language, thanks to this guy qin shi huang. thanks for explaining how it all began
yep, china unified the writing system in 221 bc, so 2244 years ago, but before that, there was no unified writing system, in fact there was no china, but a collection of various warring chinese states. similar to classical ancient greeks in my mind
One minor criticism: Yellow River pre-history was based on millet, NOT rice. The Yang Tze folks were planting rice -- a warm weather crop. Eventually, ofc, the Chinese developed a stronger type of rice -- which could then be grown in the Yellow River Valley. Besides that minor thing, this is an excellent overview of the period. I'm very much looking forward to the "Complete History of China" series!
A video like this, about the transition from rome to medieval states. Looking at government structure, agricultural technology and changing population patterns would be fascinating. I really want to know why the center of population moved, from the mediterranean to the north european plain. Why natural barriers like the alps didn't limit clasical states, but rivers did. It seems like natural barriers, became more effective deterants with, either higher medieval populations, or millitary technologies, I have no idea which. Why china often unifies, but europe mostly does not, is something I can only guess at.
I’ve tried watching Chinese history YT videos before and failed. All the names and changes and details were hard to follow without serious focus. Your video of the same complexity is clear and fascinating that kept me captive to learn and be entertained. Have given the Like for yes to the series of the dynasties please!
Also the two minor general mentioned in your story were actually moving cartloads of prisoners who were punished by probably minor or trivial crimes. The route delayed because of rain falls. They would become punishable themselves because of the delay. Thanks to the prisoners now they had a small man power to start a rebellion. Otherwise they couldn’t have the confidence to do that. And we could also see the lower ranks of the administrators weren’t that harsh on the actual prisoners on treatment.
Correction.
Qin Shi Huang according to many historians did NOT burn book because of revisionary history. Instead he burned books because of ideological conflict between Confuciusism vs Legalism.
During the Warring States era, Confucius teaching was popular because it preached the value that benefits nobility.
And you can guess why Qin people hated it.
Also, they didn’t burn all the books, nor kill all the scholars. They confiscated books and burned copies. And killed those scholars who pushed hard for Confucianism.
The books that Qin Shi Huang didn’t burn, got burned by the rebel leader Xiangyu after Qin fell. Because Shi Huang put them all in one place in a palace.
And btw although Qin eventually fell because of those fed up nobles(almost all of the rebel factions were led by toppled feudal lords, and the rest were mere opportunists who tried to capitalize on the chaos). The successor of Qin, Han dynasty was also largely a legalist state.
It was KNOWN that Liu Bang, the founder of Han, took a lot of Qin government documents and books when he conquered the capital. And most of Han policies were just milder version of what Qin had.
And BTW Liu Bang, a fugitive who eventually founded Han dynasty, joined the rebels only because his mates in the hometown wanted a scapegoat. The mayor of the town was worried that rebels would come for him, so his adviser came up with the idea to fake rebel so the rebels wouldn’t kill them. And they needed someone other than themselves in case Qin won, so they thought of Liu Bang. Upon the return of Liu Bang to the town, the mayor got cold feet, the adviser sought to kill the mayor and pushed to elect Liu as their leader.
I mean, think about it. Of all the prominent local families, everyone agreed to elect a fugitive who’s been running in a mountain for years to be a leader… and the death of the mayor was definitely an inside job because Liu Bang was locked out of the city gate atm.
I'm pinning this comment because I think it's a very good critique. I had to cut down the section on book burning quite a lot. I think we'll cover some of this in a future video if we do a full series.
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@@HistoryScopebooks and records prior to Qin were partially correct. Lots of history and records were indeed lost in Qin. There were attempts and creation to recreate these history later in Han dynasty and the prominent one was by shina qin. He was described as having a photographic memory and wrote everything from hwangti and every bit up to the take over of qin dynasty. He started a method in which he based his writing subjectively in moral assessment based on Confucius writing rather than objective records. This has been very bad for later assessments that ruined lots of Chinese history up to modern era. Besides his memories were too perfect when looked into deeply. However modern archeologists often found new evidence to contradict many things he wrote. Even worse the pre zhou era were written in mythological and supernatural ways and ignored cultures absorbed or conquered. that makes pre zhou history unstable and always updating when new things were found. The few hundred years in Han dynasty progressed basically wrote more about the past which were more progressive imaginative than anyone or any fact would support.
even burning books of other ideology r just a myth thats not fully proven. since following dynasty usually condemn previous one to justify their "mandate of haven" when they overthrown it.
The much more interesting story about Liu Bang was that he was a low official (he was basically a peasant and his father bribed someone to get him the officials job) who had the task to bring prisoners and able young man to work on some large construction sites and Qin had harsh punishment for failing tasks. When Liu Bang escorted the prisoners and men, a heavy rain made it impossible for them to arrive on time. As the punishment was a death penalty, they decided to hide in the mountains and quickly decided to rebel if death was the alternative. Liu Bang was a rather charismatic person and gained peoples trust easily. When they returned to their home town the mayor tried to keep them out. But because Liu Bang is a known popular personality within the town, the rebellion being on a positive momentum and him being close to the regular folk and somewhat the story you mentioned the town decided to side with Liu Bang. Because the laws and the punishment were so harsh, many decided to rebel instead of submitting to the inevitable death penalty.
Though Han Dynasty did use legalist ideas and reimplemented a lot of Qin Dynasty laws they did also implement confucian ideas. Han Dynasty was a rather pragmatic dynasty and set the tone for all dynasties after them
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Not only Confucius, Shang Yang is definitely one of the most important figure in Chinese history. With his legalism policies, he with Qin monarchs had made Qin from a backwater country into the strongest warring state and then finally united China. And Qin Shi Huang is no doubt the greatest emperor in Chinese history because his work had laid a sturdy foundation for Chinese civilization
In fact, from the map, Qin is not the most isolated kingdom. In terms of geographical location, Qin's location is quite ideal. First of all, Qin only needs to guard against Wei in the east. The west and north of Qin are relatively backward. Tribal residents, the south of Qin State is separated from the powerful Chu State by the ancient and neutral Shu State and Ba State. Shu State, Ba State and Qin State have long-term trade cooperation relations, but due to changes in Qin State's economic policy , refused to obtain the rice produced by Shu through purchase, and attempted to control Shu through military power to obtain lower-cost rice, thus opening up the route for Chu to attack Qin. The excessive desire of the king of Qin made Qin Citizens were under great threat and had to embark on a militaristic plan of aggression.
He did but he made two fatal mistakes that ruined all that his clan built.
1. He didn't pick a proper successor.
This means the empire will guarantee turmoil when he's dead or temporarily out of power.
And that's happening. (He's very paranoid and fears his eldest son because from the record...His eldest son was from the state of chu linage and had many political views that contrasted with his)
2. Use over used his authority.
His unification creates a concept of divine authority which during that time no one knew how exactly it worked and what the terrifical outcome it could bring.
I mean...Well, labour for one month wasn't bad but the work that guarantees your death before you reach the destination is much more terrifying.
In ancient time, people usually died from starvation and sickness when outside that climate.
Qin forced relocation of the population to prevent rebellion causing massive casualties among the population, then forcing entire male in the village to travel to some desolate area to die was a big no.
And Qin Shi Huang was drunk on his power and did a lot of unreasonable things. Those who can's do it will die but if you can get the emperor favour, you can survive.
That's a problem for sure
@@hidefreek6905u miss the thing is Qin Shi Huang was the FIRST Emperor of united China. And he was undoubtedly making mistakes along the way because there was nothing he could rely on from history. Qin Shi Huang and his court almost built everything from scratches for the united China. But no doubt majority of his policies had worked because China today was built based on his foundation.
That's why caution and patience come in handy.
The first yes.
But no one dare to challenge him during his reign but what about after that?
Build an empire must do step by step. (Like many people said Rome wasn't build in a day)
Same as Qin conquest.
Qin Shihuang nearly unleashed what his ancestors built upon his enemy.
So his role in the conquest was low.
Then, what about his administration?
Indeed, effective but also not at the same time.
In history, Qin Shihuang had very bad upbringing and he himself had mental illness.
Born among carnibals, his mother intended to kill him and ruin Qin's destint.
His only friend wanted to kill him and his father-in-law betrayed him at the peak of Qin unification of China.
All of these affect his mental state during his reign. And he no longer listen to anyone.
When the time the people can't talk directly to the leader and must see his face and emotion before anything else.
That nation is halfway to its doom already.
Not civilization, but the foundation as ine unified and centralized kindom
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Hey! Thanks for your amazing videos!!!
I hope you can create a new video about the current situation in Argentina and its past history... cause you already gave us the Taiwanese video.
I'm Argentinean with Taiwanese roots. 😂😁
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I love that your videos cover the most important aspect of history that lots of high school history skips on - the WHY things happened. I wish these videos were available when I was in high school.
@@pixelpuppy The same. This could be called History Logic.
This is officially my favorite history channel. I have far too many of these in my "watch later" and hiatory folders.
I love your videos, been watching for about 2 years. Chinese history is complicated as heck so well done on making this. I hope to see more just like your aztec series
A full series would be incredible cool
i love that history youtube isn’t afraid to make content about a subject that has been covered (specifically china) because all of them tell the story in a different way/perspective. also i want to hear all of this info again without watching the same video. (this sounds so back handed but being sincere and i love this video)
A Western perspective on China as always. Demonize China's unification, then divide and rule
Slight correction. Rice farming occurred around the Yangtze. Around the yellow river they farmed wheat
A series of top tier juicy history videos on Chinese dynasties sounds amazing.
okay a slight little (i hope) constructive criticism that came to my mind,
the 1st few minutes seem to suggest that the Han ethnic identity was universal to all peoples of the yellow river valley from the get go,
which as far as i know was not the case. Han being so dominant is only a later development of politics within the region.
I think saying "(...)they started to develop their own ethnicities, chineese ethnicities one of which is (some flowery sentence if u will) Han(...)" and later the video could go on as it does.
Imo it would save people that little bit of confusion... but it could just be me. aside from that little thing great video!
Hell, a lot of people now called Han wouldn't have been considered so even as recently as the Qing Dynasty. The very idea of an ethnic Han identity as opposed to a cultural one based on language, education, religion, and lifestyle is largely a late-19th-century nationalist retcon rather than long-established reality.
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@@alexv3357What is a retcon?
@@johnlacey3857 Retroactive continuity. A re-explaining of something at a later date. It's a commonly-used word in fandoms for when a franchise changes or clarifies something after the fact in later seasons or movies, especially as a way of smoothing out plot inconsistencies.
Nationalists around the world do this when they create narratives of their nations, since no nation period existed before the age of mass literacy and mass transportation. Nations are not the same as cultures or societies or states in general, but rather a specific arrangement of standardised (hence national) institutions across the whole of a state's territory, including a standardisation of language and religion and so on. Saying that one's nation has a proud history extending back thousands of years is a recasting of events in ways that the people who lived through those events would not necessarily understand or agree with.
@@alexv3357 except this is just wrong? han as an ethnicity started to exist after han dynasty cuz during wuhuluanhua the huns and mongols and 3 other nomadic tribes invaded the started to kill chinese people based on their ethnicity aka han ethnicity. it's like how black is created as a race because white people needed a reason to enslave them aka a social construct.
As always, GREAT STUFF! Thanks for all the effort, liked & subscribed!
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19k likes! Almost at the 20k benchmark to start making the whole china series! I'm sure the Han, the Tang, the Ming the Qing will be HUGELY POPULAR Episodes. I love History Scopes deep analysis on historical topic and the events that made them unfold. Please keep doing what you're doing but also start this new series, a lot of fans, ;like myself, would love it very much!
You pronounced “Zhao” more or less correctly in this video, but the vowel in “Zhou” is pronounced more like “oh” like the name “Joe”
Oh that's interesting! I couldn't find good pronunciations of Zhou and just used the one used in Avatar the last Airbender (for Admiral Zhao).
I youtubers people would simply use Google translate for foreign names we wouldn't have to repeatedly have to call this out. Pinyin words get pronunciations get so tortured.
@@HistoryScopeGoogle translate?
@@zhubajie6940 Unfortunately, I can't write in Mandarin.
I instead google 'how to pronounce' followed by the word I want to pronounce. In the case of Zhou, it gave me the same as Zhao.
As for google translate: it sounds like a badly put-together audio clip. Considering how terrible it's with English, Dutch, and German pronunciations, I don't trust it with anything else either.
@@comradeofthebalance3147 see my previous comment, please :)
I would definitely love to see a china series. Even as a history nerd, i know so little about china considering their importance
Danke!
Very interesting video I was waiting for someone to upload a comprehensive yet simple video diving into chinese history.
Thank you and hope you get the necessary likes 👍
Always dropping videos on my birthday, that's hype.
Thanks! 🍫
Of course, anything for sushi!
I am obsessed with your channel now.
You haven’t come up on my feed in months! I was wondering where you went but you were uploading this whole time!
This was a quality video, from the script, the narration, and the animation. You have a new subscriber, and I shall watch your career with great interest.
HELL YEAH FOR THE CHINA SERIES!! ❤
You've been my go-to history channel over the past few weeks. Please make a follow up video to this one 🙏
This is a great video which touches upon very important but often overlooked factors which were critical to how China evolved from one dynasty to the next.
Incredible video
Would love to see more of the series!
Great and very thorough video. We learn very little about the history of China here in Holland, so a series about the entire history of China would be very nice!
We need the full series!! Thank you for making this video
I only seen 2 videos but thus far this has been the best history channel to date. Keep up the good work
Plz do this as a series!! ❤
Really great explanations of history and the effects of socio-economic pressures. Repeated references to map(s) really helped me understand how different dynasties overtook each other. Yes to Han video, please! 🙏
Greatly appreciate your presentations - making history interesting and enjoyable to learn.
4:17, it has 20k likes now 🥳
@@gauranshbansal I think we already got more China 🤔
@@swedishfish2357 which video are you talking about? There hasn't been any new long form content on ancient China as of 1st Nov.
Looking forward to seeing the continuation of chinese history. Thanks for this informative history sesh)
Yeah, make this a series👏🏾✊🏾
Bravo, great work Avery!
Qin in the last stage against other seven kingdoms were using the tactics by rewarding the merits in battles. They were treated by the numbers of enemies they killed. And peasants and commoners were rewarded by counting the actual human heads at the end of each battle. If they could provide 20 or thirty heads then they would move a rank up with rewards of acres of land for farming. Since families is still a unit of life- even if they die their families would still pass the land the front soldiers earned. There were several strange patterns happening: you see soldiers fought between them for human heads and corpses for counting, young men dressed light without armours and kills enemies aggressively without taking care of their own safety but their best mobility, soldiers in the front line writing letters back for shoes and equipment back home as provision because families now seen them human as investments for rewards to a family. Even nowadays these reward system, although it’s meritocracy based, are still seen as weird and inhuman and haven’t been used afterwards in two thousand years of china.
COMPLETE CHINESE SERIES! PLEASE! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
People still despise this Qin emperor even today. Back then Qin kingdom was seen to be backwards, uncultured, and barbaric. Their ancestors helped and protected the Zhou kingdom to move its capital from west to east. They were the last one in the seven kingdoms to set up and they were of foreign tribes compared to the middle people when they set up there and for a while there were always foreign invasion on uncultivated land and took them 400 years to become stronger.
In fact, rice cultivation did not exist in the Yellow River Basin until very late in history, because rice required large amounts of paddy fields and northern China was on average arid. From prehistory until 2,000 years ago, the crops used as food in the Yellow River Basin were soybeans, millet, and sorghum.
Great job!
Please give us more!
18:00 BGM:帝女花(Perish in the Name of Love, Princess Cheung Ping, or The Flower Princess)
Please make this a series!
Once again, your animators are talented.
@@pquummand? 🤨
@@pquummDude, i was just complimenting the talent of the animator, not the historical accuracy, but sure, I’ll take your word on it.
What?… Look, I’m done debating. And if I didn’t start a debate, then I’m definitely not going to start one.
@@pquumm yeh, I can see that now. I’m someone who often don’t know how to respond to comments, so I really don’t understand why I do so.
Thanks for the detail on the Zhou. Rarely ever covered.
I dropped a "like" (becaused I actually liked your presentation of the topic), and I'm sure you'll get 20k, but don't oblige yourself to make a follow-up video for this reason. Do it only if you deem the topic worthy. As on "Whose line is it anyway" - the likes don't matter.
Geweldig, hoe je moeilijke onderwerpen in behapbare brokjes opdeelt. Kudos!
This video was so cool! More people should know about why china is the way it is today by studying their history, i personally never studied this topic in school
MORE CHINA
I really like your content so much continue ❤ your brother from morocco
Really want that complete chinese history series but to be fair I'd take anything you produce keep up the good work 👍🏿
Maar ja alsnog maak die china serie gewoon 😜
PLS COVER THE HISTORY OF EVERY COUNTRY YOUR SO GOOD
CHINA. WILL. BE. UNITED - you saying it never gets old!
Well done !! Amazing amount of research, from The Netherlands !! Thank you for making such great effort.
Good video but be careful with the repetitive background music/sounds. For 5 minutes starting at 16:40 there's a bell going off every 2 seconds in the background and I eventually stopped because of it :(
This is super accessible, its perfect if you're coming in from more casual videos or intros. I've read about Romance of the Three Kingdoms and saw the Oversimplified video so alot of this clicka
Like and subbed just cause of the way you put it lol if only more UA-camrs would put it like that lmao
We reached 20k likes!!!
Thanks for this amazing video! I've been following you for a few years and these videos are always a treat. Many more thanks for uploading them so often now :)! I'd love to see a next one.
Maybe an idea: it might be interesting to create a similar video on the history of the Indian subcontinent. I think there is a lot of history there that most people in the west have no clue about.
Watching whole China series would be awesome!
I'm definitely very interested in a full Chinese series!!!!!
A bit weirded out with the background music used around 18:10 mark. The tune is from 帝女花， a play inspired by the fall of the Ming dynasty circa 1643/44. Will be more relevant used when covering the fall of the Ming instead. Hong Kong's TVB has a rather enjoyable TV series on this play (though it has tons of historical inaccuracies). Apart from this, I've greatly enjoyed this video and I look forward to seeing more Chinese history!
PLEASE make a complete series!!!
Chinese history is extremely interesting and this video is of the highest quality. Thank you !
Thanks so much scope, Chinese history can get very confusing when researching so I really love this video!
Please make the whole series! Even a 40min video felt so short 💔
Thank u lord history scopes for dropping new heat again
I think the part about the fall of the Qin Dynasty needs more details.
The next emperor designated by Qin Shihuang was Fusu, but Zhao Gao and Li Si wanted to keep their positions, so they killed Fusu and made Hu Hai the second emperor. (Fusu advocated Confucianism, but the Qin Dynasty adopted Legalism to govern the country. Li Si was the leader of Legalism, and Zhao Gao was Hu Hai’s teacher. Li Si wanted to maintain the status of Legalism. Zhao Gao also wanted to support his students so that he could gain Greater power)
Hu Hai was a more cruel person than Qin Shihuang. Not only did he kill all his brothers and sisters, but he also knew nothing about governing the country. The power was hollowed out by Zhao Gao (interestingly, Li Si was also killed by Zhao Gao), which was also one of the reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
If Fusu had been the second emperor, I think the Qin Dynasty would not have perished so quickly. Fusu advocated Confucianism. If he had been the emperor, he would have tended to use Confucianism to govern the country.
The main reason for the Qin Dynasty's demise was also the use of Legalist thought to govern the country, because Legalist laws were very strict, which was also the main reason for the people's uprising.
(Before the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, it was very effective to use Legalist thought to govern the country, because it was in a state of war at that time. But after the Qin Dynasty unified, Legalist thought was no longer suitable for the Qin Dynasty, and a more moderate policy should be adopted. Confucianism was obviously more suitable)
I am especially interested in the Song and Qing dynasties. Thanks, an excellent lesson of the history and evolving government of the Qin dynasty
Yes!!! We need china series!!!!
20K likes passed mate, time for this series! ❤
Fantastic video! Looking forward to the Han dynasty video!
Those army numbers are crazy, especially for the time period.
Yes make a series
What a nice surprise to wake up to. Always put out great videos, my guy.
absolutely loved this !! please make more china related content
love your channel, you cover aspect of history I love to learn more about, but also cover history I haven't learn much about. definitely cover all of Chinese history!
Would you, could you ever do a video on all the pacific people's, from indigenous taiwan japan n phillipines to Madagascar and the pacific peoples of pacific ocean
P.s. just joined your patreon, love how ya do vids n research (love your team)
Please make full series!!
The funny thing is that China the state is named after the Qin dynasty, rhetorical Han the ethnic group is named after the Han dynasty which is the dynasty immediately following Qin.
It is clear, where the Qin replaced the idea of having kingdoms with the idea of having an empire, the subjects still identified with the conquered kingdoms. This can be seen from the names of the rebellion armies at the end of Qin Dynasty. This only changed after the very long and stable rule of the Han dynasty
New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming
Awesome video, I always look forward to watching them!
Great video, thanks Avery.
i only recently learned that, before qin's wars of unification and especially han dynasty, each chinese state used a slightly different writing system, but closely related to each other. even today, many various dialects across china are mutually unintelligible, making them almost like different languages but with the same written language, thanks to this guy qin shi huang. thanks for explaining how it all began
中国在几千年前统一了文字所以中国不管怎么分裂最终都会再次统一
yep, china unified the writing system in 221 bc, so 2244 years ago, but before that, there was no unified writing system, in fact there was no china, but a collection of various warring chinese states. similar to classical ancient greeks in my mind
@@alanw1775 错误的地方是，秦朝统一之前的周朝，其实就已经在使用一种官方文字“金字”，它们其实传承于夏朝和商朝的甲骨文和青铜铭文，这些文字的考古证据来自公元前3000年。 而在周朝时期刻在青铜器上面的“金字”已经是非常规范的官方文字样本，而且各个地区都有相关文物发现。 但是字体的书写仍然会有区别，类似于今天英文字母中的无衬线字体 和 衬线字体。而秦朝做的统一，其实是规范了原来各个王国的文字书写方式，并且统一官方的文字书写系统。 所以在中国的博物馆，就算是一个小学生也能轻松的读懂3000年前周朝青铜器上的文字。稍微研究过文字的大学生，也可以读懂4000年前的甲骨文。
Great vid!! Really interesting and detailed!
Pls carry this series on
pls. we are at 19k likes, almost 20k :D
This video is so awesome!!!! Ancient Chinese history is truly fascinating
20k! please make this a series :D pleeeease
One minor criticism: Yellow River pre-history was based on millet, NOT rice.
The Yang Tze folks were planting rice -- a warm weather crop.
Eventually, ofc, the Chinese developed a stronger type of rice -- which could then be grown in the Yellow River Valley.
Besides that minor thing, this is an excellent overview of the period. I'm very much looking forward to the "Complete History of China" series!
Make it a series ❤️❤️❤️
Fantastic video! I really enjoy your history content. And I absolutely would love a Chinese Dynasty series.
A video like this, about the transition from rome to medieval states. Looking at government structure, agricultural technology and changing population patterns would be fascinating. I really want to know why the center of population moved, from the mediterranean to the north european plain. Why natural barriers like the alps didn't limit clasical states, but rivers did. It seems like natural barriers, became more effective deterants with, either higher medieval populations, or millitary technologies, I have no idea which.
Why china often unifies, but europe mostly does not, is something I can only guess at.
Liked and subbed, MORE CHINA!!!
The GOAT of animated youtube creators. I love coming on youtube to find a new upload from you, even after all these years. All the best man!
Chinese history is fascinating. I would love a complete history.
I’ve tried watching Chinese history YT videos before and failed. All the names and changes and details were hard to follow without serious focus. Your video of the same complexity is clear and fascinating that kept me captive to learn and be entertained. Have given the Like for yes to the series of the dynasties please!
Probably should have Googled how to pronounce the single word names though...
Also the two minor general mentioned in your story were actually moving cartloads of prisoners who were punished by probably minor or trivial crimes. The route delayed because of rain falls. They would become punishable themselves because of the delay. Thanks to the prisoners now they had a small man power to start a rebellion. Otherwise they couldn’t have the confidence to do that. And we could also see the lower ranks of the administrators weren’t that harsh on the actual prisoners on treatment.
This was great please make more!!
Lets go! I would love more china content
I vote for full series as well