*_Below is a 100% accurate rendition of Wu Zetian seizing power:_* *Literally Everybody Else:* In the name of the Chinese Empire you are under arrest. *Wu Zetian:* Are you threatening me adviser/son/other political rival? *Literally Everybody Else:* The Emperor will decide you fate. *Wu Zetian:* I am the Emperor! *Literally Everybody Else:* Not yet! *Wu Zetian:* It's treason then. *Whips out a red lightsaber, does a 720 degree inverted spin, and proceeds to go ham on everybody in room.*
@Tam873 Did you really have to ruin the comment chain to complain about Journey to the West? That takes time! Lots of time! Red finishes one of those every few months because of quality over quantity, and to make even more videos like that would just make them take even longer.
Corruption is unavoidable for feudal system. proberly it is unavoidable by any type of system. There is always a ruling class which would be crrupted by its power. The only way to flaten the curve is to refresh the ruling class.
@@jessebai592 imo a open market libertarian republican system in which those in the top 25% of wealthy people would pay for 50% of taxes needed for roads security force's an education. Government shouldn't be in charge of anything else. That an as long as your actions and words don't harm or rob someone unwillingly it's legal to do as a adult. And education should be aimed at making free thinkers an the self employed.
Death:Welcome to the afterlife what killed you? Me:a truly terrible pun Death:yeah lots of people die from pun exposure. I mean the afterlife is just filled with pun-demonium as a result of them Me: AHHHHHHHHHHH
12:00 There are many versions of why her tablet describe her achievement was empty. And one of them was that the tablet was empty per Wu's request, as she believed that her achievements are too numerous to describe in a small tablet (literally indescribable). She also knew that her heinous acts can only be judged by the large scale of history, so by living an empty tablet, she "let the future historians judged her achievements for themselves."
People who are interested in Romance of the Three Kingdoms but daunted by the thick book should try watching the 2010 TV adaptation. It's really good, almost completely faithful to the novel, and even made reading it easier since I could put faces on all the names. (So many names!) You also learn how to pronounce them, so that's nice.
@@anantanni22 i've seen watched the whole series atleast 4 times by now and it is hands down the best adaptation of the novel i've seen and i seen almost all of them by the way have you seen the trailer for that dynasty warriors movie that looks like some silly fun
@Kains Legacy You're talking about Red Cliff, the 5 hour John Woo Epic about the battle of red cliffs. I watched a couple of times, it's a pretty great Dynasty Warriors-style action film. Here's the trailer: ruclips.net/video/pd0bqLQrtdE/видео.html Also, where can I watch this TV adaptation? I've heard of it and I am interested after playing Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends.
Anant Mishra I understand that. My only exposure to this history is Dynasty Warriors, so I don’t have more background info to draw from. I need to watch that TV series.
@@Wobble9000 no i'm talking about the 2010 series three kingdoms or war of the three kingdoms the red cliff movie has great action but butchered the story i have no idea why they thought it would be a good idea to have zhou yu and zhuge liang be friends when in actuality he tryed to have kong ming multiple times during their alliance he hate him and there would be no way the zhou yu i know would take an arrow for zhao yun also you could easily find the whole series on youtube by typing in three kingdoms and the episode number you want
I translated the Three Kingdoms after college, Reds right, it's DENSE, but honestly it's a side effect of how direct Chinese language can be. It's very to the point and meaning dense.
It is difficult for a person such as myself to comprehend how the language of the modern descendants of the Angals could, under a circumstance, be interpreted by a reasonable person or reasonable persons to contain a notable portion of "fluff" or otherwise excess language in the form of unnecessary words or phrases.
@@cpMetis While English is a compact language compared to most modern-day languages, especially other Western ones (like Spanish or Romanian for example), compared to most ancient languages it is very expansive. Latin and ancient Greek are both mind-blowingly dense compared to English, with entire sentences being able to be expressed in two or three words. While I don't know Mandarin, it's not a stretch to say ancient Mandarin was more compact than English.
@@cpMetis You're not wrong. Slang makes everything easier for English. Still, English slang is equally compact if not still less compact than proper Latin.
I’m mad that Blue didn’t go over how Emperor Chad of the Byzantine Empire sent his daughters to the Tang Emperor in order to get the famous Dragon amulet and then went to war against the Western Chinese territories Oh wait that’s my Crusader Kings 2 play through...nvm
Have a couple notes for historical purposes: 1) Would point out that every single unification of China has been effected along a North to South axis. There's been many historical arguments and analysis as to why, from examining crops (North grew wheat, south rice) and its effect on social structures (rice agriculture encouraged large public works and plantations, leading to aristocracy and weaker states, wheat agriculture was seasonal and encouraged smaller family farming) to nomad states in the north, etc. I believe it remains a major focus of historical analysis. 2) The Grand Canal was important as a unifying factor for future Chinese dynasties, uniting the Yellow River and Yangtze economies in a way they never had before. 3) Similarly, Medieval China is when the economic and demographic heart of China shifted from North, along the Yellow River Basin, southwards to the Yangtze (around the delta). This ties into questions of why unification was always achieved from a north-south axis, when the South along the Yangtze held significant demographic and economic advantages (and thus hard power) over Northern dynasties and states. Also, small correction, but ROTK was written from a SHU perspective, not the WU perspective.
@@ENDERSMAN123422 And the northern expedition by KMT (only partly successful though). I think part of the reason a south-to-north unification is so rare has to do with climate. i.e. It's much easier for troops from the frigid north to adjust to the warm south than the reverse.
That is stereotype: Qin conquers other warring states->West to East Fall of Qin->South to North Chu-Han Contention->West to East Tang conquers other warlords->West to East
Not true, but one factor could be long period of prosperity in the South especialy coastal regions. The North is Frigid and economic growth are hard to come by, the West has extreme condition as well, so building up a prosperous society is much harder, but that also lead to more desperate people overtime. The South after long period of prosperity can be succumbed by long period of attrition, it's not that they couldn't put up a good fight, as it usually take generations for Northern or Western region to subdue the South, but it's more often so that West to East and North changing of dynasties is more common than North to South. A few exception of South to North reunification comes from the Ming Dynasty, that was after the Mongol conquest, after a long period of prosperous time, under the Yuan where the North, West, and South region reached the same level of prosperity, this time it was the Southern region that started the rebellion and toppled the Yuan.
6 Principles for Cartography around after 600AD, the centre of China moved to the Yangtze river. Meaning that the state that had stable control over the area would become prosperous. Note that ANY rebellion after 1000 that over threw the government came from the south. If the dynasty had weak controls over the south then the most prosperous region would revolt.
While she does that, how about you do your own spin on the Japanese history? I mean, not just Sengoku Period (we already got that a lot, but you can add your own spin), maybe the Kamakura Period or the time of the Minamoto? We don't get that a lot.
Romance follows the Shu, not the Wu, as I'm sure someone as pointed out by now. Though it's idealization of the Shu was indeed built on top of Ming propaganda that even had its roots in the Southern Song Dynasty - all about villifying the northern invaders and equating the southern dynasty as the "rightful" one. Also, it bears mentioning that we have several good historical sources from this period, most notably the Records of the Three Kingdoms. The issue with them is finding English translations, as serious Chinese history scholarship tends to just read them in Chinese, and not much has been translated.
CORRECTION: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms follows the Shu kingdom. The majority of its characters are from the Shu kingdom including Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang. Source: Am Chinese
@@jasonfrancis9262 If we're going with how the story starts in the very beginning, then it actually starts with Wei and how Cao Cao the leader of Wei came to power. I took "follows" to mean "main focus", of which Liu Bei and his group of people are the main focus. Liu Bei and his people are clearly the protagonists.
@@AlexanderRJaruk I mean you don't even have to read it in the original Chinese to understand that the story mainly follows Liu Bei and the other people from Shu. The people from Shu are clearly the protagonists. Even a glance at the wikipedia page can confirm this.
Unfavourable accounts of Wu Zetian emerged mostly in the Song Dynasty, whereas histories written in the Tang Dynasty even after Wu Zetian's time were mostly favourable. While every Emperor tended to have committed terrible bloodshed, she likely wasn't any more tyrannical to others and was smeared later on. Patriarchy probably is a part of this historical interpretation - the Song Dynasty is more patriarchical and conservative than the Tang Dynasty.
Those Three Kingdoms need to chill out and just accept that none of them are the *_CHOSEN ONE!_* It was said that they would unite the kingdoms, not destroy them! Bring balance to China, not leave it in darkness!
wei kingdom had the heir to the throne under its thumb, the leader of shu was a royalty, the wu kingdom had the divine seal used by emperors to declare things. so it was not about which was the chosen one, it was about who had the right to claim the throne.
@@kushastea3961 Actually the divine seal was never in Wu's hands. Sun Ce sold the seal for his and his men's freedom before he conquered the territory that would become Wu.
I have seen a single episode, but not much more. Sorry kids, I just didn't have time. There's too much good content available in the world for me to watch every great show, and that's not a problem.
China will probably eventually collapse in ~200 years. That's around the average "life span" of a typical unified Chinese nation. But then again, Zhou lasted for ~800 years so we don't really have a pinpoint "death time" for PRC. Maybe it will be short like Sui Dynasty or average "life span." My prediction is that China could collapse in the year 2249, 200 years after the establishment of the PRC.
@@aussieboy4090 there's one thing your forgetting the PRC might as well be INSOC there social credit system must at the very least give them another 50 year's
And then Genghis Khan busts through the Great Wall of China, explosions happening behind him, and he's like, "Sup, nice empires you got here, would be a shame if somethin happened to em."
Funny enough genghis never got past the song. And lets just say that song might have used him to to fuck over the Jin at the time. Which was the true foundation which how the mongols shat on the rest of thr world. Song collapse because of corruption and traitorts. Of course the Yuan lasted about as long as the Qin before being overthrown by the second low born nobody.
The Great Wall, although not truly existed yet at the time, was fully capable of defending China from invasions. One reason the Song was so invulnerable against Northern invasions is that during the Five Dynasty and Ten Kingdom periods, the Emperor of Later Jin ceded the Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao Empire. The Sixteen Prefectures are a huge land which act as a natural barrier. Losing the Sixteen Prefectures basically rendered the defensive wall existed at that time useless. Despite how people might think, walls are pretty damn useful. That being said though, a single hole is what it takes to make the entire thing useless.
Just don't watch Korra. Even in season 1, Amon was interesting, but the love triangle between the heroes was nearly unbearably bad and took up way too much time.
@@IrishMappermapsmore Ugh; I dislike that excuse. "A love triangle is realistic because teenagers", that's not my issue with it. My issue with it is that it was badly written, terribly cliché, and took up way too much screen time. It's the same issues that almost every YA love triangle has, because they're all written almost identically. Also, I dislike the excuse of "We should have a love triangle because they're teenagers" as if that's the only way to write a YA romantic subplot, when that is far from the case. Avatar: the Last Airbender had no love triangles even though it had a lot of teenagers. Ed, Alphonse, Ling and their respective love-interests in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are teenagers, yet there isn't a single love triangle in that whole show. There are multiple ways to write a realistic teenage romantic subplot. Love triangles have gotten to the point where they seem stale and cliché rather than realistic.
China's history is like those cheesy off-brand legos that your parents bought you off the clearance shelf at walgreens. It just can't stay together, so you try to put it together a little differently, but eventually it falls apart again. Repeat over millenia.
I mean many dynasties lasted for two or three hundreds years. But again, China History is thousands years old. So, not that a long time, if you are thinking in a perspective of thousand year
I've been replaying AoM lately, and I was always expecting to hear Blue's voice while playing! I thought it might also appear in Age of Empires, and that is why I haven't commented on it yet XD Inwe
The First Primaris Cato Sicarius ummmm china has flour noodles, rice noodles, starch noodles, and even jellyfish noodles. so, only rice noodles is called chinese pasta?
2:20 correction. The Protagonist of the novel is the Shu kingdom, given its emperor is very remotely related to royalty and thus was considered the more legitimate heir to the Han throne, although he was the least powerful and capable of the three. But the book shed a lot more positive light on him, given it fits Ming dynasty's agenda at the time as Ming was the last ethnic Han dynasty in China.
To be frank, none of the three kingdoms were run by sane, reasonable people. Wu especially had a lot of incompetent leadership (though it actually lasted the longest of the three, as both Shu and Wei fell very quickly to the Wei splinter faction that founded the Jin, and that splinter faction was itself so corrupt and insane from the start that it took forever for it to briefly put aside its internal issues and conquer Wu).
Just wanted to say, love the videos. Especially the er... captions? Annotations? Text quotes. Anyway, they're great and simple to follow. Simple enough that I'm using Red's Norse mythology (more please?) and (later) Egyptian videos to help my mother understand the mythos for her playthroughs of the latest God of War and Assassins Origins. And probably Blue's on anything Peloponnesian war when she gets to odyssey in... A few years probably. Keep it up!
Sarah Cole when she actually named herself empress, I think she was in her late 50s (though, she had technically been ruling through her husband/son for way longer). She was a kickass innovative emperor, unfortunately historians didn’t like her since she was a woman (and probably also cuz she wasn’t from a noble family) :( She died at the ripe old age of 84, which was damn old at that time
You know my favorite history/ information RUclipsrs are you guys and crash course because you guys go into things where chrash course is great for if your just trying to learn the basics history . I wish they would show your guy's videos at school because even in a seventh grade social studies class you would would have explained all what we are missing from our curriculum this year because they essentially completely made us gloss over Egypt and I like Egypt . ❤️u guys
This recent focus on Asian history lately makes me wonder if you'll ever do an episode over the Toungoo Empire, or any of its predecessors/successors really. Burma needs more love.
It's an alright video overall, even if it's very ambitious to try to cover all of Chinese history from Diocletian to the Fourth Crusade. I'll focus on the Sixteen Kingdoms + Northern and Southern Dynasties and Five Dynasties Ten Kingdoms periods but there's a lot of weird stuff missing or misrepresented in the video. The simplest is misspelling "Nanjing" as "Nanjiang" at 4:10. Then the video says it *became* the capital of six successive southern dynasties following the division of the Jin Dynasty. Granted, Nanjing was the capital of Three Kingdoms Wu, Eastern Jin, Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang, and Chen Dynasties, who can be lumped into a six dynasties category, but Wu, of course, comes before the Jin split and saying that misleads the audience into thinking six southern dynasties existed between the Western Jin and the Sui The idea that the northern and southern dynasties didn't fight between each other is also incorrect. There were lots of fighting between the Eastern Jin, who famously recaptured the old capital of Luoyang, and the northern kingdoms, and also between its southern successors and the Northern Wei. The stalemate was less about incompatible militaries and more about chronic and persistent political instability within both states that provided opportunities to invade but also kneecapped most serious attempts to conquer and more importantly hold territory In the end, it was this instability that militarily ended the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. After the Liang tried to take advantage of a civil war among the Northern Wei that split the Wei in two, the general Huang Wen famously revolted (ish) and captured Nanjing, before he was eventually defeated by Chen Baxian who would found the Chen Dynasty. During this time though, Sichuan defected to the Northern Zhou (soon to be couped into the Sui), finally giving the northern states a base on the Yangtze where they could build a fleet. The Wei/Jin could only defeat the Wei after conquering Shu during the Three Kingdoms, after all. There's some more Sui strategizing about picking the optimum moment to attack but on a macro level the Chen had basically lost As for the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the biggest flaw IMO is not mentioning the Liao right then and there. They were a persistent threat to the northern dynasties, after all, and they sacked Kaifeng and toppled the Later Jin. There were also notably more than ten kingdoms during this time, and the official list of the Ten Kingdoms also usually includes Northern Han, located in the north. By not mentioning the Liao during the 5D10K or even Low Tang periods and also ignoring Western Xia entirely during the Song, skipping the part where Vietnam succeeded in breaking away until the Ming Dynasty during the 5D10K period, and not mentioning that most of the Sixteen Kingdoms were ruled by non-Han ethnic groups, this video unfortunately comes off as quite Han Chinese-centric
Can I recommend a podcast? Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast is not super brief, it has 154 episodes, plus a few extras, but it is significantly easier to get through and less dry than every other english translation of the novel. I just finished listening to it (and started on the other one the guy did on Water Margin) and it was excellent background noise for my embroidery
Whenever I hear something like 'Six successive southern dynasties' all I can think is 'Samson the Sadducee strangler, Silas the Syrian assassin, several seditious scribes from Cesarea..."
RotK is one of my favourite epics of all time. The amount of GoT worthy (if not more) shenanigans that occur during that one dynastic era is truly mind-blowing.
Jack Rackham's use of the consort Gaozong picked because she looked like Wu in the show to represent Wu in his videos about Wu is one of my favorite details
One thing, I would suggest that you put the names of people on the screen. I wasn't sure who the empress was that your guest was talking about and I had to rewind it like three times to tell what he was saying. Great video!
Ok, this topic is really interesting but, thanks for giving me flashbacks to Age of Mythology. Literally the entire time listening to the music, I’m thinking of Greek villagers going “Fritomos.” “Metalef.” Ajax collecting a relic, and Odysseus firing arrows at a Nord Giant. Great game, has nothing to do with China unless you count the expansion lol.
I can not wrap my head around the fact that you guys have not hit, like a billion subscribers. Your videos are both educational and funny. Breaking the laws of physics. Ps: eat a snicker bud
at 1:45 -> that's one of the artworks on the "Long Corridor", which is a pretty long walkway in the Summer Palace of Beijing. I went there last august and it has depictions from all of Chinas history and literature (it also has like twenty different "Journey to the West" depictions).
Wonder if the little girl in this video representing the consort will ever see it. That would be so weird to have posed for a stock photograph and find all the places where you pop up.
What are you talking about? There was no such thing called Tibet in this video. It totally never existed as a legitimate establishment that could fight against China.
3:00 *clap* THANK you. Though I confess in my case I have an equally bad bias against empires. I love me some city-states, warring states, and other sorts of divided up powers. They make for great stories and vibrant cultures, I feel.
One of the reasons why the Spring & Autumn period of China was such an interesting stretch of our history. Many Chinese idioms/proverbs were based off real or dramatized accounts from this period, and are still in common use in Modern Chinese.
It's not 16 separated kingdoms in a same time, but there had been 16 kingdoms from Jin's Fallen to the Found of Northern Wei. During this time the rest of Jin Dynasty remained in the south of China and those 16 Northern Kingdoms iterated in the north until the Northern Wei(北魏) unified the North.
It's rlly interesting seeing this as a Chinese person, since my memory of Chinese history is three children's series' on Chinese history, filtered through the memories of me as a 4-8 yo written and published in China lol
Filial piety is SUPPOSED to be mutual, but everyone understands and practices it as only flowing one way: up toward your elders. Children are treated as the property of those that raised them, in the Tang dynasty, just as they are now.
Poor Red... 3 days on a Table of Contents. Is that a Circle of College Hell? Like for those who just use Sparknotes instead of actually reading the books for College?
14:56 Is it really true that "no more than a quarter of Chinese history can be counted as unified"? Just going by the wikipedia chronology: 2.4 Spring and Autumn period (722-476 BC) = 246 2.5 Warring States period (476-221 BC) = 255 3.3 Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280) = 60 3.5 Northern and Southern dynasties (AD 420-589) = 169 3.8 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907-960) = 53 3.9 Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia dynasties (AD 960-1234) = 274 --- 246+255+60+169+53+274= 1,057 years of no unified empire, if we do not count the Song as a unified empire. 1057 years is not 75% of China's history.
Amazing video made even greater by the cooperation with Jack Rackam. Everyone go check his channel out if you haven't already! Seriously, he's pretty awesome with a sweet mix of sarcastic humor with facts. Plus he did mention the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth already a couple of times.
oh and about Gaozong/唐高宗, there was this whole thing where his dad Li Shimin- a famously good emperor - originally had a different heir that was described as a lot smarter than Gaozong, but he became too ambitious and not 'kind' - my memory's kinda hazy on that - so Li Shimin replaced the original heir with Gaozong, who wasn't as 'smart', but is a lot more 老实 - not quite sure how to translate Also, iirc, Wu Zetian's monument describing her accomplishments was described to me as a choice on her part in an act of self awareness, since she knew as she did as much bad as she did good, and that she knew her legacy was waay too complicated to summarise that simply. Idk if that's factually correct, but that's what I was taught
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*_Below is a 100% accurate rendition of Wu Zetian seizing power:_*
*Literally Everybody Else:* In the name of the Chinese Empire you are under arrest.
*Wu Zetian:* Are you threatening me adviser/son/other political rival?
*Literally Everybody Else:* The Emperor will decide you fate.
*Wu Zetian:* I am the Emperor!
*Literally Everybody Else:* Not yet!
*Wu Zetian:* It's treason then. *Whips out a red lightsaber, does a 720 degree inverted spin, and proceeds to go ham on everybody in room.*
She had such a knowledge of the dark side that she could even keep the ones she cared about from living.
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Is it possible to learn such -power- reckless filial piety?
@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi Not from a decent parent.
@Tam873 Did you really have to ruin the comment chain to complain about Journey to the West? That takes time! Lots of time! Red finishes one of those every few months because of quality over quantity, and to make even more videos like that would just make them take even longer.
@Tam873 Check the date when each episode released in the past, some episodes have taken 9 months this is nothing new.
Chinese Emperor: *Becomes Corrupt* The Heavens: "HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN!"
Corruption is unavoidable for feudal system.
proberly it is unavoidable by any type of system.
There is always a ruling class which would be crrupted by its power.
The only way to flaten the curve is to refresh the ruling class.
@@jessebai592 imo a open market libertarian republican system in which those in the top 25% of wealthy people would pay for 50% of taxes needed for roads security force's an education. Government shouldn't be in charge of anything else. That an as long as your actions and words don't harm or rob someone unwillingly it's legal to do as a adult. And education should be aimed at making free thinkers an the self employed.
@@jessebai592
Let's be honest, corruption is inevitable in ALL systems.
Also Heavens: THERE HE IS! GO GET HIM!
@@beareble-lion4446 there's still gonna be corruption just from the corporations instead of the state
That pun at the beginning killed me
RIP
apparently even blue can't handle his own pun.
Oh ashame you had to miss the rest of the video. They should put such killer puns at the end next time.
TheFalcon67 same
Death:Welcome to the afterlife what killed you?
Me:a truly terrible pun
Death:yeah lots of people die from pun exposure. I mean the afterlife is just filled with pun-demonium as a result of them
Me: AHHHHHHHHHHH
12:00 There are many versions of why her tablet describe her achievement was empty. And one of them was that the tablet was empty per Wu's request, as she believed that her achievements are too numerous to describe in a small tablet (literally indescribable). She also knew that her heinous acts can only be judged by the large scale of history, so by living an empty tablet, she "let the future historians judged her achievements for themselves."
Welp, someone casually mentioned Avatar in conversation. Guess I have to watch the whole series again. *sigh*
Let's go reunify the Earth Kingdom! Again!
Your acting like that's a bad thing.
THE EARTH KINDOM IS WHOLE AGAIN
THEN IT BROKE AGAIN
Sounds to me like the exact opposite of a problem
Ikr
**Hype for Three kingdom summarized**
People who are interested in Romance of the Three Kingdoms but daunted by the thick book should try watching the 2010 TV adaptation. It's really good, almost completely faithful to the novel, and even made reading it easier since I could put faces on all the names. (So many names!) You also learn how to pronounce them, so that's nice.
@@anantanni22 i've seen watched the whole series atleast 4 times by now and it is hands down the best adaptation of the novel i've seen and i seen almost all of them by the way have you seen the trailer for that dynasty warriors movie that looks like some silly fun
@Kains Legacy You're talking about Red Cliff, the 5 hour John Woo Epic about the battle of red cliffs. I watched a couple of times, it's a pretty great Dynasty Warriors-style action film. Here's the trailer: ruclips.net/video/pd0bqLQrtdE/видео.html
Also, where can I watch this TV adaptation? I've heard of it and I am interested after playing Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends.
Anant Mishra I understand that. My only exposure to this history is Dynasty Warriors, so I don’t have more background info to draw from.
I need to watch that TV series.
@@Wobble9000 no i'm talking about the 2010 series three kingdoms or war of the three kingdoms the red cliff movie has great action but butchered the story i have no idea why they thought it would be a good idea to have zhou yu and zhuge liang be friends when in actuality he tryed to have kong ming multiple times during their alliance he hate him and there would be no way the zhou yu i know would take an arrow for zhao yun also you could easily find the whole series on youtube by typing in three kingdoms and the episode number you want
I translated the Three Kingdoms after college, Reds right, it's DENSE, but honestly it's a side effect of how direct Chinese language can be. It's very to the point and meaning dense.
It is difficult for a person such as myself to comprehend how the language of the modern descendants of the Angals could, under a circumstance, be interpreted by a reasonable person or reasonable persons to contain a notable portion of "fluff" or otherwise excess language in the form of unnecessary words or phrases.
The irony
@@cpMetis While English is a compact language compared to most modern-day languages, especially other Western ones (like Spanish or Romanian for example), compared to most ancient languages it is very expansive. Latin and ancient Greek are both mind-blowingly dense compared to English, with entire sentences being able to be expressed in two or three words. While I don't know Mandarin, it's not a stretch to say ancient Mandarin was more compact than English.
@@teddyganea9990 Ye.
Ah, the wonders of slang.
@@cpMetis You're not wrong. Slang makes everything easier for English. Still, English slang is equally compact if not still less compact than proper Latin.
I’m mad that Blue didn’t go over how Emperor Chad of the Byzantine Empire sent his daughters to the Tang Emperor in order to get the famous Dragon amulet and then went to war against the Western Chinese territories
Oh wait that’s my Crusader Kings 2 play through...nvm
I was gonna ask if there was really an emperor named Chad, so now I'm disappointed.
Was Chad a Lunatic, One-eyed, Ambitious, Greedy, Diligent, Proud, Deceitful, Lustful man with Syphilis?
@@budakbaongsiah you forgot dwarf
@@budakbaongsiah you forgot inbred
@@peloncito_5987 inbred is just a given at this point
Have a couple notes for historical purposes:
1) Would point out that every single unification of China has been effected along a North to South axis. There's been many historical arguments and analysis as to why, from examining crops (North grew wheat, south rice) and its effect on social structures (rice agriculture encouraged large public works and plantations, leading to aristocracy and weaker states, wheat agriculture was seasonal and encouraged smaller family farming) to nomad states in the north, etc. I believe it remains a major focus of historical analysis.
2) The Grand Canal was important as a unifying factor for future Chinese dynasties, uniting the Yellow River and Yangtze economies in a way they never had before.
3) Similarly, Medieval China is when the economic and demographic heart of China shifted from North, along the Yellow River Basin, southwards to the Yangtze (around the delta). This ties into questions of why unification was always achieved from a north-south axis, when the South along the Yangtze held significant demographic and economic advantages (and thus hard power) over Northern dynasties and states.
Also, small correction, but ROTK was written from a SHU perspective, not the WU perspective.
There is exceptions to the north south axis, the rise of Ming dynasty comes mind
@@ENDERSMAN123422 And the northern expedition by KMT (only partly successful though). I think part of the reason a south-to-north unification is so rare has to do with climate. i.e. It's much easier for troops from the frigid north to adjust to the warm south than the reverse.
That is stereotype: Qin conquers other warring states->West to East
Fall of Qin->South to North
Chu-Han Contention->West to East
Tang conquers other warlords->West to East
Not true, but one factor could be long period of prosperity in the South especialy coastal regions. The North is Frigid and economic growth are hard to come by, the West has extreme condition as well, so building up a prosperous society is much harder, but that also lead to more desperate people overtime. The South after long period of prosperity can be succumbed by long period of attrition, it's not that they couldn't put up a good fight, as it usually take generations for Northern or Western region to subdue the South, but it's more often so that West to East and North changing of dynasties is more common than North to South. A few exception of South to North reunification comes from the Ming Dynasty, that was after the Mongol conquest, after a long period of prosperous time, under the Yuan where the North, West, and South region reached the same level of prosperity, this time it was the Southern region that started the rebellion and toppled the Yuan.
6 Principles for Cartography around after 600AD, the centre of China moved to the Yangtze river. Meaning that the state that had stable control over the area would become prosperous.
Note that ANY rebellion after 1000 that over threw the government came from the south.
If the dynasty had weak controls over the south then the most prosperous region would revolt.
There's an awful lot of _Empires_ in this part of history.
*flashbacks to Darth Sidious's swift takeover and brutal regime...*
Darth Sidious was a bad ruler.
I used to be a Jedi Knight, the same as your Father..,
The Dao will be with you… Always.
Khải Hoàng he United the empire gave trillions of people jobs and created real estate space
Did you hear about that brave disabled war veteran who took out those armed rebel terrorist thieves?
Oh man, I hope that means Red will do a Romance of Three Kingdoms series at some point!
Right after Journey to the West, maybe Mahabharata, too.
@@McJethroPovTee So never?
It might coincide with the release of Total War: Three Kingdoms, when that releases in May.
And the book is monstruous too !
While she does that, how about you do your own spin on the Japanese history? I mean, not just Sengoku Period (we already got that a lot, but you can add your own spin), maybe the Kamakura Period or the time of the Minamoto? We don't get that a lot.
Romance follows the Shu, not the Wu, as I'm sure someone as pointed out by now. Though it's idealization of the Shu was indeed built on top of Ming propaganda that even had its roots in the Southern Song Dynasty - all about villifying the northern invaders and equating the southern dynasty as the "rightful" one.
Also, it bears mentioning that we have several good historical sources from this period, most notably the Records of the Three Kingdoms. The issue with them is finding English translations, as serious Chinese history scholarship tends to just read them in Chinese, and not much has been translated.
Im pretty sure there were also records around this period in the Book of Later Han right?
CORRECTION: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms follows the Shu kingdom. The majority of its characters are from the Shu kingdom including Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang.
Source: Am Chinese
I enjoy your sourcing. 10/10
Personally, I think the sourcing would be slightly stronger if you added the words "so I can read it in the original", but what do I know?
I thought it started by following the Wu then jumps ship to the Shu presenting Liu Bei as some moral hero he likely was not
@@jasonfrancis9262 If we're going with how the story starts in the very beginning, then it actually starts with Wei and how Cao Cao the leader of Wei came to power. I took "follows" to mean "main focus", of which Liu Bei and his group of people are the main focus. Liu Bei and his people are clearly the protagonists.
@@AlexanderRJaruk I mean you don't even have to read it in the original Chinese to understand that the story mainly follows Liu Bei and the other people from Shu. The people from Shu are clearly the protagonists. Even a glance at the wikipedia page can confirm this.
Unfavourable accounts of Wu Zetian emerged mostly in the Song Dynasty, whereas histories written in the Tang Dynasty even after Wu Zetian's time were mostly favourable. While every Emperor tended to have committed terrible bloodshed, she likely wasn't any more tyrannical to others and was smeared later on. Patriarchy probably is a part of this historical interpretation - the Song Dynasty is more patriarchical and conservative than the Tang Dynasty.
Idk man she just sounded bad ass to me
Those Three Kingdoms need to chill out and just accept that none of them are the *_CHOSEN ONE!_* It was said that they would unite the kingdoms, not destroy them! Bring balance to China, not leave it in darkness!
Seriously man, I keep seeing you
wei kingdom had the heir to the throne under its thumb, the leader of shu was a royalty, the wu kingdom had the divine seal used by emperors to declare things. so it was not about which was the chosen one, it was about who had the right to claim the throne.
@@Kitkat_004 The Force often brings us together in the places where we least expect it...
Obi-Wan Kenobi true true
@@kushastea3961 Actually the divine seal was never in Wu's hands. Sun Ce sold the seal for his and his men's freedom before he conquered the territory that would become Wu.
Dang, that Empress must've been reeeeeeeeeeeealy good at Crusader Kings
How have you not seen the Avatar series until now?
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Now he has to regain his honorrrrr!
I believe he had seen it once when it came out but only recently watched it for the first time since then
I haven't seen a single episode
I have seen a single episode, but not much more. Sorry kids, I just didn't have time. There's too much good content available in the world for me to watch every great show, and that's not a problem.
Finishes Avatar, does a video on Medieval China. COINCIDENCE?!
I THINK NOT!
@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi General Kenobi, you *are* a bold one!
@@kaushallsenthilnathan4175 go i
*China finally forms in 1949
“And now we play the waiting game...”
Where's the lie tho
@@inkchip7351 HE HAS IRONY YOU MUST GO TO A REEDUCATION CAMP
ISLAM IS A MENTAL ILLNESS SO IS IRONY
China 2020
We got approximately 20 more years until it collapses again
China will probably eventually collapse in ~200 years. That's around the average "life span" of a typical unified Chinese nation. But then again, Zhou lasted for ~800 years so we don't really have a pinpoint "death time" for PRC. Maybe it will be short like Sui Dynasty or average "life span." My prediction is that China could collapse in the year 2249, 200 years after the establishment of the PRC.
@@aussieboy4090 there's one thing your forgetting the PRC might as well be INSOC there social credit system must at the very least give them another 50 year's
China: everything is fine
The Mongols: hold my beer
And then Genghis Khan busts through the Great Wall of China, explosions happening behind him, and he's like, "Sup, nice empires you got here, would be a shame if somethin happened to em."
Except the Great Wall you're probably thinking didn't exist yet. Not until the Ming drove out the Mongols.
Oh i know, but it was just a joke.
Funny enough genghis never got past the song. And lets just say that song might have used him to to fuck over the Jin at the time. Which was the true foundation which how the mongols shat on the rest of thr world.
Song collapse because of corruption and traitorts.
Of course the Yuan lasted about as long as the Qin before being overthrown by the second low born nobody.
The Nothing Nobody Actually, when Genghis invaded Song had already collapsed.
The Great Wall, although not truly existed yet at the time, was fully capable of defending China from invasions. One reason the Song was so invulnerable against Northern invasions is that during the Five Dynasty and Ten Kingdom periods, the Emperor of Later Jin ceded the Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao Empire. The Sixteen Prefectures are a huge land which act as a natural barrier. Losing the Sixteen Prefectures basically rendered the defensive wall existed at that time useless. Despite how people might think, walls are pretty damn useful. That being said though, a single hole is what it takes to make the entire thing useless.
Man, red would probably go nuts drawing and summing up ROTK. Probably would be about three times as intensive as Journey to the West.
You mean dragonball Kai right?
holy shit, I knew the Chinese power struggle was amazing, but the melodrama, holy shit. I need to read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
"...this (bad)boy is dense!"
please stop quoting my father, thank you!
No one could ever unify China after all this chaos.
Except for the Mongols!
We’re the exception
For a century, then they collapsed and were replaced by the Ming
Cue the Mongoltage!
@@ascendingfire8404 I remember the Mongoltage, which RUclipsr was it that used it?
@@lemax6865 It's from Crash Course, specifically their World History series hosted by John Green.
What I really appreciate is how you connect viewers to other good history channels -- thank you!
I've *just* finished binging Avatar yesterday, and today I hear this 1:26. That was perfect freaking timing.
Great job, now go watch it again. Or just read the follow up comics, that works too.
I will as soon as I get some free time!
Just don't watch Korra. Even in season 1, Amon was interesting, but the love triangle between the heroes was nearly unbearably bad and took up way too much time.
@@matthewmuir8884 17 year old teens, what do u really expect
Pretty realistic if u ask me
@@IrishMappermapsmore Ugh; I dislike that excuse. "A love triangle is realistic because teenagers", that's not my issue with it. My issue with it is that it was badly written, terribly cliché, and took up way too much screen time. It's the same issues that almost every YA love triangle has, because they're all written almost identically.
Also, I dislike the excuse of "We should have a love triangle because they're teenagers" as if that's the only way to write a YA romantic subplot, when that is far from the case. Avatar: the Last Airbender had no love triangles even though it had a lot of teenagers. Ed, Alphonse, Ling and their respective love-interests in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are teenagers, yet there isn't a single love triangle in that whole show. There are multiple ways to write a realistic teenage romantic subplot. Love triangles have gotten to the point where they seem stale and cliché rather than realistic.
China's history is like those cheesy off-brand legos that your parents bought you off the clearance shelf at walgreens. It just can't stay together, so you try to put it together a little differently, but eventually it falls apart again. Repeat over millenia.
There is no state that last forever.
I mean many dynasties lasted for two or three hundreds years. But again, China History is thousands years old. So, not that a long time, if you are thinking in a perspective of thousand year
中国的大部分的王朝拿出来一个都比美利坚的历史要长久
Oh my, Blue must be proud of his pun at the beginning
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that your little moments with Red in these videos is just pure delight :)
This isn't history. This is Dynasty Warriors.
Lol exactly!!
*sees a Being of true power riding a Red Demon horse*
"They said 'Do not Pursue Lu Bu', they never said anything about 'Lu Bu pursuing you!'"
Damn, you are using some correct pictures of architectures corresponding to each time period. 9:27 Foguang Temple! Nice
Is that the age of mythology soundtrack I hear? prostagma
I've been replaying AoM lately, and I was always expecting to hear Blue's voice while playing! I thought it might also appear in Age of Empires, and that is why I haven't commented on it yet XD Inwe
John Merces volumen
Esto
He uses it a lot.
Màlista
This was the video that introduced me to Jack Rackham's channel and I am eternally grateful.
You should do the history of pasta, where you also compare the parallel history between the Italian and the Chinese one.
What's Chinese Pasta???
@@rateeightx Chinese rice noodles. Which are also called pasta in Italy, and evolved parallerly to Italian pasta.
@@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 Hmm. Didn't Know Italians Called Chinese Noodles Pasta,
The First Primaris Cato Sicarius ummmm china has flour noodles, rice noodles, starch noodles, and even jellyfish noodles.
so, only rice noodles is called chinese pasta?
@@rickr9435 All of them are called pasta. It's just that I only know of the rice noodles.
That was a great, bad pun. Do more pls
2:20 correction. The Protagonist of the novel is the Shu kingdom, given its emperor is very remotely related to royalty and thus was considered the more legitimate heir to the Han throne, although he was the least powerful and capable of the three. But the book shed a lot more positive light on him, given it fits Ming dynasty's agenda at the time as Ming was the last ethnic Han dynasty in China.
To be frank, none of the three kingdoms were run by sane, reasonable people. Wu especially had a lot of incompetent leadership (though it actually lasted the longest of the three, as both Shu and Wei fell very quickly to the Wei splinter faction that founded the Jin, and that splinter faction was itself so corrupt and insane from the start that it took forever for it to briefly put aside its internal issues and conquer Wu).
Could you guys do a Legends summarised on Jason and the Argonauts?
Just wanted to say, love the videos. Especially the er... captions? Annotations? Text quotes. Anyway, they're great and simple to follow. Simple enough that I'm using Red's Norse mythology (more please?) and (later) Egyptian videos to help my mother understand the mythos for her playthroughs of the latest God of War and Assassins Origins. And probably Blue's on anything Peloponnesian war when she gets to odyssey in... A few years probably. Keep it up!
A) That pun was horrible. Good job.
B) I'm hyped for the inevitable Three Kingdoms (probably) crossover video.
C) Wu Zetian is best Emperor.
wu is a ck2 player
If I’m a tenth as clever as Empress Wu when I turn (however old she was at her ascension), I will be an exceedingly lucky woman.
Sarah Cole when she actually named herself empress, I think she was in her late 50s (though, she had technically been ruling through her husband/son for way longer). She was a kickass innovative emperor, unfortunately historians didn’t like her since she was a woman (and probably also cuz she wasn’t from a noble family) :( She died at the ripe old age of 84, which was damn old at that time
You know my favorite history/ information RUclipsrs are you guys and crash course because you guys go into things where chrash course is great for if your just trying to learn the basics history . I wish they would show your guy's videos at school because even in a seventh grade social studies class you would would have explained all what we are missing from our curriculum this year because they essentially completely made us gloss over Egypt and I like Egypt .
❤️u guys
"took me three days to get through the table of contents" lolol same I still have no idea who worked for who in that book
This recent focus on Asian history lately makes me wonder if you'll ever do an episode over the Toungoo Empire, or any of its predecessors/successors really. Burma needs more love.
hear hear
1:21 six seasons and a movie
I loved that pun! And your interaction with Red was adorable! Makes me wish I had a close friendship
It's an alright video overall, even if it's very ambitious to try to cover all of Chinese history from Diocletian to the Fourth Crusade. I'll focus on the Sixteen Kingdoms + Northern and Southern Dynasties and Five Dynasties Ten Kingdoms periods but there's a lot of weird stuff missing or misrepresented in the video. The simplest is misspelling "Nanjing" as "Nanjiang" at 4:10. Then the video says it *became* the capital of six successive southern dynasties following the division of the Jin Dynasty. Granted, Nanjing was the capital of Three Kingdoms Wu, Eastern Jin, Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang, and Chen Dynasties, who can be lumped into a six dynasties category, but Wu, of course, comes before the Jin split and saying that misleads the audience into thinking six southern dynasties existed between the Western Jin and the Sui
The idea that the northern and southern dynasties didn't fight between each other is also incorrect. There were lots of fighting between the Eastern Jin, who famously recaptured the old capital of Luoyang, and the northern kingdoms, and also between its southern successors and the Northern Wei. The stalemate was less about incompatible militaries and more about chronic and persistent political instability within both states that provided opportunities to invade but also kneecapped most serious attempts to conquer and more importantly hold territory
In the end, it was this instability that militarily ended the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. After the Liang tried to take advantage of a civil war among the Northern Wei that split the Wei in two, the general Huang Wen famously revolted (ish) and captured Nanjing, before he was eventually defeated by Chen Baxian who would found the Chen Dynasty. During this time though, Sichuan defected to the Northern Zhou (soon to be couped into the Sui), finally giving the northern states a base on the Yangtze where they could build a fleet. The Wei/Jin could only defeat the Wei after conquering Shu during the Three Kingdoms, after all. There's some more Sui strategizing about picking the optimum moment to attack but on a macro level the Chen had basically lost
As for the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the biggest flaw IMO is not mentioning the Liao right then and there. They were a persistent threat to the northern dynasties, after all, and they sacked Kaifeng and toppled the Later Jin. There were also notably more than ten kingdoms during this time, and the official list of the Ten Kingdoms also usually includes Northern Han, located in the north. By not mentioning the Liao during the 5D10K or even Low Tang periods and also ignoring Western Xia entirely during the Song, skipping the part where Vietnam succeeded in breaking away until the Ming Dynasty during the 5D10K period, and not mentioning that most of the Sixteen Kingdoms were ruled by non-Han ethnic groups, this video unfortunately comes off as quite Han Chinese-centric
Can I just say that Age Of Mythology soundtrack gave me serious nostalgia.
Coming here after reading Iron Widow is such a trip in the best way. Wu Zetian, meet Wu Zetian
Awesome video! Thanks for all your hard work!
Can I recommend a podcast? Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast is not super brief, it has 154 episodes, plus a few extras, but it is significantly easier to get through and less dry than every other english translation of the novel. I just finished listening to it (and started on the other one the guy did on Water Margin) and it was excellent background noise for my embroidery
Do I praise you, Blue, for your web-blind/web-site joke or nah?
Yes
Oh my god Blue why did I have to listen to this pun with my own two ears
Whenever I hear something like 'Six successive southern dynasties' all I can think is 'Samson the Sadducee strangler, Silas the Syrian assassin, several seditious scribes from Cesarea..."
Red Cliff:
Wu: We're the descents of Sun Tsu!
Wei: Prove it!
RotK is one of my favourite epics of all time. The amount of GoT worthy (if not more) shenanigans that occur during that one dynastic era is truly mind-blowing.
Jack Rackham's use of the consort Gaozong picked because she looked like Wu in the show to represent Wu in his videos about Wu is one of my favorite details
One thing, I would suggest that you put the names of people on the screen. I wasn't sure who the empress was that your guest was talking about and I had to rewind it like three times to tell what he was saying. Great video!
Love the Age of Mythology soundtrack
Two of my favorite creators on one video? What kind of dark magic is this?
Red is the one that does the magic, maybe ask her instead :p
There is no war in Ba Sing Se. Here we are safe. Here we are free.
Jack Rackam’s so underrated!
The entirety of medieval china is kinda like my grades in school, it gets better only for it to crash and burn repeatedly
Historia Civilis and Overly Sarcastic Productions upload on the same day... around the same time...
Ok, this topic is really interesting but, thanks for giving me flashbacks to Age of Mythology. Literally the entire time listening to the music, I’m thinking of Greek villagers going “Fritomos.” “Metalef.” Ajax collecting a relic, and Odysseus firing arrows at a Nord Giant. Great game, has nothing to do with China unless you count the expansion lol.
I can not wrap my head around the fact that you guys have not hit, like a billion subscribers. Your videos are both educational and funny. Breaking the laws of physics.
Ps: eat a snicker bud
Just want to say these videos are amazing and hilarious, couldn't stop laughing at the Wu Zetian segment.
Could you do a history of mideival Poland, or one of the Native American civilizations?
at 1:45 -> that's one of the artworks on the "Long Corridor", which is a pretty long walkway in the Summer Palace of Beijing. I went there last august and it has depictions from all of Chinas history and literature (it also has like twenty different "Journey to the West" depictions).
Love your videos, thank you and keep it up! 😁
Wonder if the little girl in this video representing the consort will ever see it.
That would be so weird to have posed for a stock photograph and find all the places where you pop up.
Better than greg Hefty being used for constipation
The Tibet part took me OUT man I shouldn’t have laughed that hard
What are you talking about? There was no such thing called Tibet in this video. It totally never existed as a legitimate establishment that could fight against China.
China: *united for a solid 50 years*
China: "BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN"
This is a collaboration I didn't know I wanted!
3:00 *clap* THANK you. Though I confess in my case I have an equally bad bias against empires. I love me some city-states, warring states, and other sorts of divided up powers. They make for great stories and vibrant cultures, I feel.
One of the reasons why the Spring & Autumn period of China was such an interesting stretch of our history. Many Chinese idioms/proverbs were based off real or dramatized accounts from this period, and are still in common use in Modern Chinese.
REally great sidebar by Jack Rackman, I love his newcaster style of presentation. I'm checking him out
I cheered when I heard Red was creating a summary of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, I love that time period from China's history.
It's not 16 separated kingdoms in a same time, but there had been 16 kingdoms from Jin's Fallen to the Found of Northern Wei. During this time the rest of Jin Dynasty remained in the south of China and those 16 Northern Kingdoms iterated in the north until the Northern Wei(北魏) unified the North.
Great work! Just a correction: at 2:21 you said the fictional work follows Wu Kingdom, but it should be largely following Shu Kingdom .
BEFORE I WAS WEB BLIND NOW I HAVE WEB SIGHT
I NEED THAT ON A SHIRT OH MY GOODNESS
I still love how you use Age of Mythology music for these. It's so good.
All the names on Blues wall are in a mobile game called Light in Chaos. That's funny. Cao Cao is a badass.
Blue: *finally posts medieval China video*
Me: Yes!!!
It's rlly interesting seeing this as a Chinese person, since my memory of Chinese history is three children's series' on Chinese history, filtered through the memories of me as a 4-8 yo written and published in China lol
12:17 Blue: "Following that hot mess"
It's funnier when you realize that anytime Blue was shown he was smiling
Joke's on all of you I psychologically thrive on historical chaos -B
Really blue
China in a nutshell
“Let’s split up gang!”
This video was very informative. Good job. I enjoyed it.
12:44 Throwing shade I see
I’m still confused
Filial piety is SUPPOSED to be mutual, but everyone understands and practices it as only flowing one way: up toward your elders.
Children are treated as the property of those that raised them, in the Tang dynasty, just as they are now.
Poor Red... 3 days on a Table of Contents. Is that a Circle of College Hell? Like for those who just use Sparknotes instead of actually reading the books for College?
ok that's nice
Excellent....and loved Jack Rackam's contribution!
i love the Age of Mythology music
Thank you OSP, for introducing me another great RUclips channel.
Here you go Jack, a new subscriber
@@elg6197 Much appreciated!
2:55 *Holy Mess Empire laughs in the distance*
Zuko has the greatest redemption arc of all time, no cap.
You and Red need to do a video on the world of Avatar,
14:56 Is it really true that "no more than a quarter of Chinese history can be counted as unified"? Just going by the wikipedia chronology:
2.4 Spring and Autumn period (722-476 BC) = 246
2.5 Warring States period (476-221 BC) = 255
3.3 Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280) = 60
3.5 Northern and Southern dynasties (AD 420-589) = 169
3.8 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907-960) = 53
3.9 Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia dynasties (AD 960-1234) = 274
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246+255+60+169+53+274= 1,057 years of no unified empire, if we do not count the Song as a unified empire. 1057 years is not 75% of China's history.
romance of the three kingdoms video confirmed
g e t h y p e
Promoting your book whilst promoting squarespace is a level of advertizing meta-ness that I was not ready for.
Amazing video made even greater by the cooperation with Jack Rackam. Everyone go check his channel out if you haven't already! Seriously, he's pretty awesome with a sweet mix of sarcastic humor with facts.
Plus he did mention the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth already a couple of times.
Hi, Artur! Thanks for the plug :D
oh and about Gaozong/唐高宗, there was this whole thing where his dad Li Shimin- a famously good emperor - originally had a different heir that was described as a lot smarter than Gaozong, but he became too ambitious and not 'kind' - my memory's kinda hazy on that - so Li Shimin replaced the original heir with Gaozong, who wasn't as 'smart', but is a lot more 老实 - not quite sure how to translate
Also, iirc, Wu Zetian's monument describing her accomplishments was described to me as a choice on her part in an act of self awareness, since she knew as she did as much bad as she did good, and that she knew her legacy was waay too complicated to summarise that simply. Idk if that's factually correct, but that's what I was taught