The Great Wall of China: History’s Biggest Barrier
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2020
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Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M.
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
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Source/Further reading:
In Our Time BBC podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s...
Britannica: www.britannica.com/topic/Grea...
Ancient History Encyclopedia: www.ancient.eu/Great_Wall_of_...
National Geographic on the Ming Wall: www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Smithsonian: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel...
Timeline of the Great Wall: www.globalsecurity.org/milita...
Map of the Great Wall over various periods: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Warring States Period with map: www.ancient.eu/Warring_States...
Han Dynasty explained: www.history.com/topics/ancien... #
Song Dynasty notes: www.khanacademy.org/humanitie...
The Great Wall’s name: discover.china.org.cn/idiscove...
Protecting the Wall: www.theguardian.com/world/200...
The Wall as a nationalist icon: books.google.cz/books?id=bYxl...
Useful timeline on all of China’s dynasties (in order): www.historyhit.com/the-dynast...
State of preservation today: www.npr.org/sections/parallel...
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Wait, the mongols took turns doing guard duty on the wall built to keep mongols out? 🤣🤣🤣
Ask any Aussie, and they will tell you that the reason they built the Great Wall of China, was to keep the rabbits out.
10% in good shape is honestly impressive. The sheer size of the wall is insane
This, not Melania, is what makes the president
I've been to the great wall, not the nice part of it. The local government let my group (in 2010, with 5 American college students and a Chinese born professor) camp out on it overnight. It was pretty neat, and I got to find out a couple people of my group were very afraid of the ghosts of the workers killed building the wall.
This wall was build on the backs of workers eating pickled cabbage.
Whenever Simon asks about how confident I am in what I know about a topic, I know I'm about to realize how little I actually know about it. I also loved the snark about masks during a pandemic.
History's biggest barrier is ignorance
I think Simon is getting his scripts mixed up I expect Geographics and get Megaprojects.
The use of ‘dickhead’ has been fantastically used in this video 👌
"You can blame the tang"
"WE WILL BUILD A WALL AND MONGOLIA WILL PAY FOR IT"
"The Great Wall of China is surrounded by more misconceptions than the use of face masks during a pandemic"
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Wow blowing my mind right off the bat. Totally thought it was just one long unbroken wall
love waking up and seeing a new geo/biographics, Today's gonna be a good day :)
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Simon, you and your staff didn't just have an "interesting story" you also gave your audience a wonderfully written, and very beautiful script. The writing on this one was phenomenal!! Truly a work of art unto itself.
Ancient china: Build that wall!!!! Build that wall!!!!!