0:10 The first ruler of state of Qin is Feizi 0:26 Qin is small state 1:43 Qin is expanded 2:06 Duke is changed to King 2:12 Qin conquisted the Shu and Ba states 2:44 Qin is the biggest state 3:23 Qin is dynasty 3:36 Qin invade Xiongnu (215 BCE - 214 BCE) 3:38 Qin conquisted the Nanyue and Minyue. 3:47 The Yan state is independent 3:48 The Qin dynasty is disintegrated in 18 kingdoms.
@Aviation1 What you have stated is only partially true. Drought, loss of jobs yeah, brutal punishment yeah, not so much with the great wall. In fact, what Qin did with the great wall was simply connecting the old ones that were built by former Warring States kingdoms. The only part they actually added was the part located in today's Inner Mongolia, in the region known as Hetao河套. What really harmed the peasants was the compulsory migration to the northern frontier. Not so many people were willing to leave their homeland and settle in a region which had not yet been cultivated and exploited. Killing philosophers? This couldn`t be further from the truth. I believe the incident you are referring to is the burying of scholars in 212BCE. However the 460 people executed were not philosophers but alchemists. They tricked the emperor into believing eternal life and one of them ran away with money granted by the court. It was a stand-alone incident that was very political instead of ideological. the mass murder of civilians? true but nothing to be surprised as it was a common practice back then. The only two incidents of massacre under the emperor`s rule that we know of today is the massacre of Daliang, the capital of Wei state after the conquest, and a massacre of local villagers in Dongjun in 211 BC when a meteorite with cursing words was discovered. On the other hand, during the succession war, the massacre of entire cities became a norm and was practiced by both Chu and Han armies. The direct result was that after the succession war when Han rose into power, they only controlled 20-30% of the population that used to be controlled by Qin. Even 40 years later in 162 BC, the population was still significantly lower than Qin period. This already shows that Qin absolutely did not massacre 2/3 of the population, that is unless you can give me your source of information, I would be glad to check if it is a reliable source.
@Aviation1 by the way, the book of Shangyang was written in the late 4 century BC, approximately 100 years before the unification of China under Qin. Qin state had been practiced the same ideology and law for around 150 years when it collapsed. So that was also not to be blamed to the emperor himself. Of course he was a strong supporter of legalism ideology but so were his ancestors. surprisingly, so were the Han emperors. this has been confirmed by the archaeological findings of legal documents from early Han dynasty in the recent 50 years. Their law was almost exactly the same as the Qin law. In fact, Qin law was referred to by early Han law as "the old law"故律, showing that the later one directly emerged from the first one. So yeah, basically another urban myth to believe that Qin was the only country that employed the cruel legal system. It was actually a common situation for warring states countries to heavily punish their own citizens for minor crimes. The myth that Qin was the only "bad guy" was constructed in a much later period by literates.
@ooO ccC that`s not a problem. The majority of information was taken from Shi Ji AKA the Grand History by Sima Qian, while some other sources were also used such as Qin-era bamboo slips excavated from Hubei and Hunan. If you want to know the exact source of any specific statement, just tell me and I will provide you with the original quote and context.
@ooO ccC the thing is that we don`t really know much about the Qin governors or their popularity in the regions where they governed. Keep in mind that what we learned about Qin all came from the historical record written by later Han era scholars who were already quite biased. Most of the original documents from Qin did not survive the succession war. That being said, I think it is perfectly reasonable for you to speculate that some Qin officials did not follow Legalism tightly. It is true. Not everyone agreed with the emperor`s iron fist ruling style, including his oldest son and some of his generals. It is also very true that the Qin bureaucracy can be very flexible, and embraced Confucianism ethics on a certain level. For instance, 為吏之道 was a chapter in the legal documents excavated from Hubei known as 睡虎地秦简. It is a piece of admonishing work written by the Qin governor of Nanyang. If you read the original script, it is quite clear that the guy believed in Confucianism, and warned his officials to behave well and treat the peasants with respect. None of these values were anyhow "legalism", so Qin`s political system must had been more complex than the stereotypical interpretation provided by later historical accounts.
China was also a feudal state in the earliest days, just like the federal governments of Western countries today. But later the central government gradually lost control of the kingdoms, and the kingdoms became powerful and fought against each other. At first there were dozens of kingdoms on the Chinese mainland, but later they gradually merged to form seven large kingdoms. Qin was one of these kingdoms at that time. After six generations of Qin kings, Qin Shi Huang eventually conquered the other six kingdoms and unified all of China in 221 BC. The unification war lasted for 150 years and the Qin Dynasty fought other countries, sacrificing over 10 million people in total. The Qin dynasty was the first unified dynasty in China, and the country was rich, powerful and militarily very strong. Then Qin Shi Huang unified writing, language, and established the county system, and from that time on the Chinese mainland was united. For more than 2000 years, the county system was used by every emperor. So unlike Europe, Europe is a parliamentary federal system. Both systems have their merits, but the Chinese have always opted for a unified central government. I guess in the future China will not change to a parliamentary federal government either.
King Wu, brother of great-grandfather of qinshihuang, king Wu pissed off his own talented father to death. King wu is a brain less guy that likes to bully people, one time he see his servants couldn't lift a heavy metal, did it himself and died under the metal. Then his stepmom ming yue controlled the state for 31 years, conquering vast land. King Was brother was a also a great king, made all the vassal states weak. that old man eventually died, his son been a price for 51 years, became king, after 3 days bumped his head and died. Lu bu Wei at the time brought back that guys son, which is ying zhengs father to be emperor, and then later brought back ying Zheng. Too bad they had to wait 700 years to have a descendant ambitious enough to unify china. Liu Bang from King of Han to unified emperor of Han only used 5 years. The average length to conquer china is about 10 -50 years. Sima Yi, from strategist til his grandson sima yan unify china, about 56 years. Li Yuan, ordered his son to unify china, did it in 5 years. And that became emperor taizong of tang Emperor Hong Wu from Rebel to unified china in 16 years. Sui Empire also about 15 years conquest. Mongol empire took 60 + years to fully conquer china because they were distracted, mongol had the largest territory. Qing Empire under Huangtaiji to his son having a unified china... 33 years. Liu Bang was able to do it in 5 because he was exceptional at reading people. He got Angel of War Han Xin to fight. He got Xiao He as prime minister. He got the most cunning politician Chen ping to help him. Chen Ping played a huge role in helping lie bang defeat his enemies quickly. Li Yuans son Li Shi Min was also very fast, because besides him being talented, he had a general named Li Jin. a pretty cunning general that likes to show up and surprise enemies when they least expect and defeat them in 3 years.
The current Great Wall was built during the Ming dynasty, Qin and Han Great Wall was built between modern day southern and northern Mongolia, and there’s a section in Korea.
Liu Bang should have ordered Han Xin to finish the job of wiping out Xiong Nu before stripping his power. But if he did that, there would be no Hungary today
I love observing Qin in this way I just wonder why Zhou Dynasty has been counted for 800 years While Qin Dynasty only 15 years I always think Qin Dynasty should also include her time in ChunChou and ZhanGuo Eastern Zhou only a tiny point of area
Qin was just a vassal of Zhou. The latter was considered as the son of the universe(although the king of Zhou had lost his dignity actually for a long time) Qin was not the strongest state in ChunQiu.
@@Lagozto13Gallopienta Indeed. But she fell so soon after she conquered the other dukes' land. Can it be regarded as "strong"? I hardly agree. She was just like an athlete taking drug, would win for a while and lose at last. When she was small, war could bring land and trophy which hid most of the society danger. But when there was little place to conquer, she collapsed. The next Dynasty, Han was much longer and stronger.
Can't remember did the first emperor of china deify himself? Or did he just want to be immortal. In other words did he claim divinity and have people worship him or did he just want to live forever.
Well, actually , although china had a central government ZHOU and the highest rank is king of zhou, but different places are quite different. He did three very important things. 车同轨 Unify and stipulate the wheelbase of vehicle, diameter and width of wheel. 书同文 Provided for a uniform script 统一度量衡Uniform weights and measures The central goverment control the local directly and many breakthrough 秦始皇 the first emperor of qing EMPIRE , he wants his EMPIRE live forever. But his emperor ended at.his son. People do remember after 2000+ YEARS, not because He was the first emperor but he united the china .
The First Emperor wants Immortality.. It turned out,that his Foundation,to be the only that is Immortal,that keep China intact whatever the War and Chaos,the China will not Die like Rome..
@先生奶 i know what's up with the Communist Party...i watched many Documentary from CountryBall History.. China as CCP saw the Fall of Soviet Union, CCP are in state of Survival,they want their Old Confucian/Legalist Tradition back,to Bring back the Former Glory of China,once a Unmatched Superpower in Asia throughout Thousand Years.. I can suggest the videos i watched,it say CCP after the death of Mao Zedong,came to Extreme Reform.. One of these policies are Sinicization...
@先生奶 ua-cam.com/video/7c4uO9ZGfbc/v-deo.html "China is a Civilization, Disguising as a Nation" China Built the first know State "Sinocratic State" millennia before Greece did.. India has a Strong Society but a weak State China has a Strong State but a Weak Society
0:10 The first ruler of state of Qin is Feizi
0:26 Qin is small state
1:43 Qin is expanded
2:06 Duke is changed to King
2:12 Qin conquisted the Shu and Ba states
2:44 Qin is the biggest state
3:23 Qin is dynasty
3:36 Qin invade Xiongnu (215 BCE - 214 BCE)
3:38 Qin conquisted the Nanyue and Minyue.
3:47 The Yan state is independent
3:48 The Qin dynasty is disintegrated in 18 kingdoms.
They could survive 600 years of war but only 15 of peace..
@Aviation1 no they didn't. Where exactly did you read that they killed 2/3 of the population? this couldn't be further from the truth
@Aviation1 What you have stated is only partially true. Drought, loss of jobs yeah, brutal punishment yeah, not so much with the great wall. In fact, what Qin did with the great wall was simply connecting the old ones that were built by former Warring States kingdoms. The only part they actually added was the part located in today's Inner Mongolia, in the region known as Hetao河套. What really harmed the peasants was the compulsory migration to the northern frontier. Not so many people were willing to leave their homeland and settle in a region which had not yet been cultivated and exploited.
Killing philosophers? This couldn`t be further from the truth. I believe the incident you are referring to is the burying of scholars in 212BCE. However the 460 people executed were not philosophers but alchemists. They tricked the emperor into believing eternal life and one of them ran away with money granted by the court. It was a stand-alone incident that was very political instead of ideological.
the mass murder of civilians? true but nothing to be surprised as it was a common practice back then. The only two incidents of massacre under the emperor`s rule that we know of today is the massacre of Daliang, the capital of Wei state after the conquest, and a massacre of local villagers in Dongjun in 211 BC when a meteorite with cursing words was discovered. On the other hand, during the succession war, the massacre of entire cities became a norm and was practiced by both Chu and Han armies. The direct result was that after the succession war when Han rose into power, they only controlled 20-30% of the population that used to be controlled by Qin. Even 40 years later in 162 BC, the population was still significantly lower than Qin period. This already shows that Qin absolutely did not massacre 2/3 of the population, that is unless you can give me your source of information, I would be glad to check if it is a reliable source.
@Aviation1 by the way, the book of Shangyang was written in the late 4 century BC, approximately 100 years before the unification of China under Qin. Qin state had been practiced the same ideology and law for around 150 years when it collapsed. So that was also not to be blamed to the emperor himself. Of course he was a strong supporter of legalism ideology but so were his ancestors. surprisingly, so were the Han emperors. this has been confirmed by the archaeological findings of legal documents from early Han dynasty in the recent 50 years. Their law was almost exactly the same as the Qin law. In fact, Qin law was referred to by early Han law as "the old law"故律, showing that the later one directly emerged from the first one.
So yeah, basically another urban myth to believe that Qin was the only country that employed the cruel legal system. It was actually a common situation for warring states countries to heavily punish their own citizens for minor crimes. The myth that Qin was the only "bad guy" was constructed in a much later period by literates.
@ooO ccC that`s not a problem. The majority of information was taken from Shi Ji AKA the Grand History by Sima Qian, while some other sources were also used such as Qin-era bamboo slips excavated from Hubei and Hunan. If you want to know the exact source of any specific statement, just tell me and I will provide you with the original quote and context.
@ooO ccC the thing is that we don`t really know much about the Qin governors or their popularity in the regions where they governed. Keep in mind that what we learned about Qin all came from the historical record written by later Han era scholars who were already quite biased. Most of the original documents from Qin did not survive the succession war. That being said, I think it is perfectly reasonable for you to speculate that some Qin officials did not follow Legalism tightly. It is true. Not everyone agreed with the emperor`s iron fist ruling style, including his oldest son and some of his generals. It is also very true that the Qin bureaucracy can be very flexible, and embraced Confucianism ethics on a certain level. For instance, 為吏之道 was a chapter in the legal documents excavated from Hubei known as 睡虎地秦简. It is a piece of admonishing work written by the Qin governor of Nanyang. If you read the original script, it is quite clear that the guy believed in Confucianism, and warned his officials to behave well and treat the peasants with respect. None of these values were anyhow "legalism", so Qin`s political system must had been more complex than the stereotypical interpretation provided by later historical accounts.
China was also a feudal state in the earliest days, just like the federal governments of Western countries today. But later the central government gradually lost control of the kingdoms, and the kingdoms became powerful and fought against each other. At first there were dozens of kingdoms on the Chinese mainland, but later they gradually merged to form seven large kingdoms. Qin was one of these kingdoms at that time. After six generations of Qin kings, Qin Shi Huang eventually conquered the other six kingdoms and unified all of China in 221 BC. The unification war lasted for 150 years and the Qin Dynasty fought other countries, sacrificing over 10 million people in total. The Qin dynasty was the first unified dynasty in China, and the country was rich, powerful and militarily very strong. Then Qin Shi Huang unified writing, language, and established the county system, and from that time on the Chinese mainland was united. For more than 2000 years, the county system was used by every emperor. So unlike Europe, Europe is a parliamentary federal system. Both systems have their merits, but the Chinese have always opted for a unified central government. I guess in the future China will not change to a parliamentary federal government either.
China is bigger than US+Europe+Russia combined.
King Wu, brother of great-grandfather of qinshihuang, king Wu pissed off his own talented father to death. King wu is a brain less guy that likes to bully people, one time he see his servants couldn't lift a heavy metal, did it himself and died under the metal. Then his stepmom ming yue controlled the state for 31 years, conquering vast land. King Was brother was a also a great king, made all the vassal states weak. that old man eventually died, his son been a price for 51 years, became king, after 3 days bumped his head and died. Lu bu Wei at the time brought back that guys son, which is ying zhengs father to be emperor, and then later brought back ying Zheng. Too bad they had to wait 700 years to have a descendant ambitious enough to unify china.
Liu Bang from King of Han to unified emperor of Han only used 5 years.
The average length to conquer china is about 10 -50 years.
Sima Yi, from strategist til his grandson sima yan unify china, about 56 years.
Li Yuan, ordered his son to unify china, did it in 5 years. And that became emperor taizong of tang
Emperor Hong Wu from Rebel to unified china in 16 years.
Sui Empire also about 15 years conquest.
Mongol empire took 60 + years to fully conquer china because they were distracted, mongol had the largest territory.
Qing Empire under Huangtaiji to his son having a unified china... 33 years.
Liu Bang was able to do it in 5 because he was exceptional at reading people. He got Angel of War Han Xin to fight. He got Xiao He as prime minister. He got the most cunning politician Chen ping to help him. Chen Ping played a huge role in helping lie bang defeat his enemies quickly.
Li Yuans son Li Shi Min was also very fast, because besides him being talented, he had a general named Li Jin. a pretty cunning general that likes to show up and surprise enemies when they least expect and defeat them in 3 years.
Amazing Video dude!
The current Great Wall was built during the Ming dynasty, Qin and Han Great Wall was built between modern day southern and northern Mongolia, and there’s a section in Korea.
Liu Bang should have ordered Han Xin to finish the job of wiping out Xiong Nu before stripping his power. But if he did that, there would be no Hungary today
Great job! I subscribed right now!
How was this masterpiece made without being insane!
Great job !
the official color of Qin is black would have made sense to color the state in it.
I love observing Qin in this way
I just wonder why Zhou Dynasty has been counted for 800 years
While Qin Dynasty only 15 years
I always think Qin Dynasty should also include her time in ChunChou and ZhanGuo
Eastern Zhou only a tiny point of area
Qin was just a vassal of Zhou. The latter was considered as the son of the universe(although the king of Zhou had lost his dignity actually for a long time)
Qin was not the strongest state in ChunQiu.
@@Q乙己 spring and autumn period
@@Q乙己 Qin began to grow and become strong during the Warring State Period and the reign of the Duke Xiao of Qin.
@@Lagozto13Gallopienta Indeed. But she fell so soon after she conquered the other dukes' land. Can it be regarded as "strong"? I hardly agree. She was just like an athlete taking drug, would win for a while and lose at last. When she was small, war could bring land and trophy which hid most of the society danger. But when there was little place to conquer, she collapsed.
The next Dynasty, Han was much longer and stronger.
In my opinion Qin Hui Wen is the key to start expansion after shang yang and his dad (duke xiao) got success to reform for Qin.
👍🏻 great job
秦武王的全稱是秦倬武王哦~
800年诸侯，15年帝国，秦国的历史也是悲催
有800年嗎?
秦襄公时期才成为诸侯
秦国统一时间那么短，而且迅速灭亡秦始皇功不可没，成也萧何败也萧何
Pls tell me why lord hui wen got low profile as his ability and power.😢
还差一个秦王子婴
Duke(公爵)?? not Count(伯爵)??
You can check the description or turn on the subtitles to see some corrections to the video.
bgm是大秦帝国裂变…
What's next after this video?
大大下次整變個朝代啊😊
which dynasty will you make next time?
(盲猜 商朝
(guess shang dynasty
商朝太遠了，史料不足，很難制作，下次我只是想着做一個宋朝的新版本。
@@edgarcheng5410 哦~等等，是要暗示史圖館疆域史要出第十三版的嗎?還是大大只是修改錯誤?😂
@@kaistantin6345 只是修改錯誤而已🤭
@@edgarcheng5410 😂😂😂😂
@@edgarcheng5410 你應該差不多了😂
漏了在位三天的秦孝文王
Can't remember did the first emperor of china deify himself?
Or did he just want to be immortal. In other words did he claim divinity and have people worship him or did he just want to live forever.
Well, actually , although china had a central government ZHOU and the highest rank is king of zhou, but different places are quite different. He did three very important things. 车同轨 Unify and stipulate the wheelbase of vehicle, diameter and width of wheel. 书同文 Provided for a uniform script
统一度量衡Uniform weights and measures The central goverment control the local directly and many breakthrough 秦始皇 the first emperor of qing EMPIRE , he wants his EMPIRE live forever. But his emperor ended at.his son. People do remember after 2000+ YEARS, not because He was the first emperor but he united the china .
The First Emperor wants Immortality..
It turned out,that his Foundation,to be the only that is Immortal,that keep China intact whatever the War and Chaos,the China will not Die like Rome..
@先生奶 i know what's up with the Communist Party...i watched many Documentary from CountryBall History..
China as CCP saw the Fall of Soviet Union, CCP are in state of Survival,they want their Old Confucian/Legalist Tradition back,to Bring back the Former Glory of China,once a Unmatched Superpower in Asia throughout Thousand Years..
I can suggest the videos i watched,it say CCP after the death of Mao Zedong,came to Extreme Reform..
One of these policies are Sinicization...
@先生奶 ua-cam.com/video/7c4uO9ZGfbc/v-deo.html
"China is a Civilization,
Disguising as a Nation"
China Built the first know State "Sinocratic State" millennia before Greece did..
India has a Strong Society but a weak State
China has a Strong State but a Weak Society
@先生奶 ua-cam.com/video/hhMAt3BluAU/v-deo.html
What next?
Maybe a remake of the Song Dynasty.
@@edgarcheng5410 Wow , I will wait.
@@edgarcheng5410
What will be change in remake song dynasty.
There will some changes on the pictures and the accuracy of the borders.
@@edgarcheng5410 WHY?
*Please make Northern Yuan!!!*
Do what China was like in the 1920s, 1930s, and the 1940s.
X1 Gen KaneshiroX they were in a civil War in the 20s and stayed like that until the 50s so it isn’t really good it’s just a civil war
1.48 like a crocodile
国祚八百载
It is like watching a tumor grow.
那么大，一下就没了
小才能長久 你看人家聖馬利諾從羅馬帝國時代延續到今天一千七百年 靠的就不管旁邊的各種大帝國的鳥事 專心數自己的石頭 看自己的海
其兴也勃焉，其亡也忽焉。六百年奋斗史，昙花一现的大一统王朝。
@@無糖阿綠 当了800年诸侯国，只换来15年帝国，秦国的历史也是悲催啊
精秦震怒💢
@@無糖阿綠 哪裡有海? LLoLL
秦 Qin
武 Wu
言 Yan
其 Qi
金 Jin
2 weis
er shi fucked up it seams . . .
yes I'm early
And upload history of Soviet Union
You forgot the part where they owned India and the Arab countries and The Stan countries and part of Sudan and part Egypt and Israel
Are you joking
Qin never got that far. Other Chinese Dynasties never reached that far into Asia and even Africa either.
@@linhlam1456 Yuan did. Is Yuan counted as Chinese?
@@welike4278Yuan is Mongol