Mongols: Rise of the Empire - Battle of Yehuling 1211 DOCUMENTARY
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Thanks to our generous sponsors from the Great Courses Plus and our patrons at Patreon, we are finally releasing the first episode in our 6 part series on the Rise of the Mongol Empire. This episode will describe the history of the Mongols, the birth and childhood of the first leader who united them - Temujin, who would be later called Genghis Khan. Temujin's struggle for the supremacy with his blood brother Jamukha, his reform of the Mongol army and the society are featured and the video is concluded with the battle of Yehuling of 1211 and the conquest of the Northern China by the Mongols.
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We are all human and sometimes mistakes are made. In this video, we made a few of them. As there is no excuse, we are not asking for forgiveness, but promise to be better in future.
1. The Jin logo was a mistake. We asked a person who knows Chinese to show us the hieroglyph, but didn't give enough context, so he, probably, sent us the most common one which symbolizes the province of Jingzhou and the Jin dynasty that ruled between 3rd and 5th centuries AD. We also called the Jin that fought against Mongols "Chinese dynasty", obviously their origin was not Han, but Jurchen, so that is a mistake.
2. The Western Liao (Qara Khitai) dynasty rebuilt the state in Central Asia, and not in the modern day Western China.The territory that we "gave" to the Liao belonged to the Western Xia. So, in 1209 Genghis forced to submit Xia and not Liao, the second will happen later. We conflated 2 maps, the one for the next episode and the one for this one.
3. We called the Mongols the biggest empire in history. Should have made a few distinctions, the biggest empire in history was the British, however, the Mongols were a. the biggest up to this point. b. the biggest contiguous land empire.
Once again, we will be better, hope you will not lose your trust in us. Thank you for your support.
Kings and Generals at 1:28 in your video you said nomadaized ? What does that mean?
I agree with all your corrections. Just hope more people read them. Good effort though!
To migrate as the nomads: www.dictionary.com/browse/nomadize
Thank you, interesting as always.
Technically, calling "Jin' a Chinese destiny is not a mistake. Jin and Khitai or even Mongols(Yuan) are all treated to be ones among the many Chinese destinies. This is due to the fact that the history of China is not bound with a certain ethnic group of people, but rather to all those who contribute to form what the culture and peoples in current China are. In fact, most of the decedents of Jurchen are Chinese citizens who literately have no difference with most other Chinese.
To Westerners, Chinese might be well understood as an ethnic concept but actually it is much bigger than that.
Imagine living your whole life just to be used as a meat shield. That must have sucked.
I don't think that such life was particularly long, to be honest.
@Vlodec im glad i dont have to
@@KingsandGenerals pure cruelty
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I didn’t realize genghis khan had so many setbacks early in his life before he found success
I believe he was almost, if not already in his 50s before he united the tribes of Mongolia.
dennis caprak I think he got enslaved only once and some woman freed him. I don’t really remember much
He was living with only with his family.2 half brothers and 3 full brothers and one sister.His mother and his father's second wife ,and one old woman.Eldest male being there he was feeding his family by hunting and fishing.Food was so scarce and in the dark age of "Strong will Survive" ,he managed to avoid raids of other nomadic tribes always moving around or didn't starve his family.The guy who forcefully took his father's chieftain position after his father poisoned ,heard about how capable this Temujin is ,he hunted him constantly and captured him once.In captive he endured so much of painful experiences where everyone looks at him with disdain.You like Cinderella story that poor one became rich and strong? He was male Cinderella.Except Cinderella had help of magic ,Temujin clawed everything by his own hands.He was fair ,he was just ,he was smart and he was loyal to those who loyal to him.That's why so many normal non aristocratic but very capable guys befriended with him during his hard times ..and many of them became his greatest generals ..that world has ever seen.
Genghis Khan was greatest man ever that existed. He was betrayed numerous times he was enslaved numerous times he suffered a lot when he was still a child. He defeated his enemies and gave the world one last chance to see whether it deserves to exist or not. Khwarezmians made it clear that he would have to fight until the end and so he did. He destroyed Khwarezmians and made his sons continue fighting. In order to avoid civil war over throne (which was something that happened almost always among Turks and Mongols) he split the empire among his sons. He was wise, strong and by no means evil
Maybe you can say that about his sons but every war Genghis Khan waged had solid reasons.
You see those warriors from Mongol? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.
@Amirul Asyraf I used to be an adventuer like you but then the Dovahkiin shot me in the knee
Overall a very good presentation, though you did get some crucial details wrong: first, it's the Jurchen Jin dynasty 金朝 that pushed away the Khitans, not the Jin dynasty 晋朝 (which was a Chinese dynasty that existed some 800 years earlier). 金 and 晋 are pronounced with different tones. The Jurchen people were a Tungusic people related to the Manchus. And also, the Kara Khitai or Western Liao empire that the descendants of Khitan founded was further to the west in modern day Xinjiang and Central Asia, while the empire that you mistakenly identified as the Western Liao was actually the Tangut Western Xia empire. The Tangut people were a Tibeto-Burmese people related to the Tibetans and to the Han Chinese.
TheXanian Thanks for the info 👍
I didn't know much about that period of history but read a few novels by JinYong based around that era and I thought there were a few mistakes made, good job for the clarification and further info
Urban Student Prepper yes... tangut is tibet&han&burmese...is not call xia... is xi xia kingdom...wipe out by mongol in late cengis...xi xia ppl they escape to himalaya...
The tangut book now in russia muzeum and few tangut book in china...
About '晉’（simplified 晋) and '金‘ , I'd like to point out. They are not merely differed in tones, they have totally different pronunciations in the middle and old Chinese, consider 'tsinh' for the former and 'kim' for the latter - that's some approximation of the real sound. Just like any other language, as time passes, pronunciation corrupts, totally different sounds may become homophones.(cf. English 'wright' vs 'rite'). Pinyin is very bad for transliterating Chinese, whenever you're reading some historical accounts related to China, you'd better pay some good attention to the Chinese characters residing in the parentheses lest you get so confused that you would make some so-called 'documentary' like this one.
Ken Harls' lecture series on Steppe empires is my absolute favourite. I look forward to seeing more on the Mongols in this series.
Yes, his series is basically the ultimate depiction of the history of the Nomads.
If hard places breed hard people I'm glad the Penguins never decided to invade....
Jon Harper ........ that is the reason why no one has ever invaded Antarctica......
penguin is an animal....
I gather that sarcasm/humour can be lost in translation. To say a penguin is JUST an animal is to grossly underestimate their offensive capabilities, I'll be prepared, will you be?....
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A Random Penguin
Come at us if you dare. xD
Ohh yes. Been waiting for this series. Incredible stuff.
I have been enjoying yours lately
Hi! This is well done but you made a number of errors here...
1) some Khitans of the Liao Dynasty fled west to the modern Xjinjiang/Kazakhstan area to form the Kara-Khitai Khanate, not the Western Xia/ Xi Xia/ Tangut Kingdom in Gansu/Ningxia. Both states were conquered by the Mongols, but years apart and under very different circumstances.
2) the Jin Dynasty's ruling ethnic group were Jurchens from Manchuria, ancestors of the Manchus. This led to a significant three way ethnic devide in the Jin Empire which Chinggis Khan took advantage: between the ruling Jurchen, the remaining Khitan who hated the Jurchen and made up a large part of the military and a Han Chinese peasant base. The latter two groups defected continually to Chinggis throughout the war (some Khitans actually before the war even starts join Chinggis!) While Chinggis also supported a puppet "Liao" state in northeast China of Khitans who revolted against the Jurchen during his Invasion. Hence, many of the non-Mongols in his army were there voluntarily (but as you accurately note, not all of them were volunteers...)
3) Tenujin didn't put himself forward after Yesugei's death as he was only about 9 years old at the time (all dates pre-1200 are largely conjectural for his life so lots of estimates). You also left out how Tenujin killed his older half brother Behkter shortly after Yesugei's death, but granted you only have so much time in a video.
4) the Mongol Empire was not founded until 1206, which was likely the time he took the title Chinggis Khan, not 1201 as you have here. Chinggis Khan (not Genghis) is now more commonly thought to mean "strong/fierce/ stern ruler" but they're always debating it.
5) you seemed to have condensed some events of the Invasion against the Jin here (there seem to be features from both battles of Juyong Pass here) and you don't actually talk about the battle of Yehuling or Badger's Mouth Pass
6) the Mongol warfare you describe as guerilla warfare is not guerilla warfare. Just... War? Hit and run, envelopment, feigned retreat and siege but not guerilla warfare.
But still very well done and I look forward to more in the series!
Good, it mistaken Jin dynasty rule by the Jurchens to a previous Han ruled dynasty. It confuses Western Liao(located in Kyrgyzstan) with Western Xia of the Tanguts. Makes Yesugei Bataar die during temujin marriage is an error. It was only after having an engagement for Temujin, while going back to Khamag mongolian territory Yesugei was poisoned. Wrongly depicted the Khongirat(Borte's Clan) being located in western mongolia actually east of Tartar Territory that's why vulnerable to being poison by tartars. The peace treaty was also wrongly depicted actually the Jin counterattack. The campaign against Jin wasn't quite bloody, The commoners Han and Khitans weren't massacre but spared as they help the mongols. They were not use as meatshields the Balu Garrison was as a repayment for their sins.
good
What do u mean by Guerrilla warfare??? It's fighting like what Timujin did
Yes! This could possibly be my favorite of the upcoming series!
Imagine being the one who exiled Temujin when he came back with with massive horde as a complete chad
2023...coming back to this series...never tired of this.
I don't know how you do it but this video is amazingly well edited... the music alone sets the tone so well and the visuals just fit perfectly...
Well, good video. In general, the campaigns of the Mongols changed the fundamental configuration of this huge region and many empires and states fell under the blows of the Mongol cavalry. I will wait for new videos about the Mongol conquests. For example, their campaigns against Khorezmshahs, etc. Congrats, K&G!!!
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One correction: the Jin dynasty were Jurchen, not Chinese, in the sense of that time.
for some reason, the animation of a unit getting destroyed is very soothing
Correction: The chinese character for "Jin" should be “金” ，not "晋"...
You must continue this series ! This was so great
What I really like about this channel's videos is the sheer amount of research that is done just for the background. Really appreciate it. Keep it up :)
Thank you very much!
Amazing job! I was waiting for mongol expansion videos for quite a while. Keep doing what you're doing, you have full support from me and a lot of other people!😀
Keep up the amazing work you have been doing
A video on Mongolia! Thanks I’ve been wanting one for quite a while. I love your guys work
It would be downright awesome if we get an entire documentary about the Mongols!
Your content improves day by day .. I hope more and more companies support you :)
Just watching this after finishing (at least until its current end) your Conquest of the mongols series for th n-th time. Being able to watch what you are talking about as well is just perfect. Thank you!
Great video as always. Keep up the great work guys.
Kings and Generals The Mongols once almost ruled the World. It's very good to see that you guys have given a video on this brutal conqueror. LOVED IT!
Hi, need to point out an error. 金and晋both have the same pinyin as "jin" but are two entirely different dynasties/countries at different times. Here, it should 金
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(1115%E2%80%931234), not 晋en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(265%E2%80%93420).
Keep the Asia/Chinese history coming!
This channel deserves way more subs!
Great work, as always!
Thanks guys for the awesome videos. They really help me in my current state of life
Thank you for watching :)
Thanks for all these Mongol videos. Very fascinating history!
Thanks for watching! There will be one more season.
We need more. These videos are life.
You are number one. Thanks for such a great job.
man, this was one of your greates videos!!
Thanks for watching!
If you enjoy reading about Genghis Khan I suggest the Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden. It spans from Genghis as a child to Kublai Khan in the southern Song ruled china but it is more of a factual fiction so it's not some boring biography but a detailed story. By far one of the best series I have ever read, seeming that I've read the whole thing 4 times.
Keep up the good work. Great video as always. Thank you for starting a series on my country’s rich history. For the horde!!!
Best channel ever. Keep pumping out these videos and you will soon blow up.
amazing pls continue these mongolian campaigns
ty so much
Bayarlalaa Brother
One prominent mistake you made in the video. The small nation west of Jin you called "Western Liao" is actually Tangut Empire, known as "Western Xia". The real Western Liao, or Kara-Khitan Khanate was located even further west, and was conquered by the Mongols in 1218.
Amazing 😍 please make more!!
Thank you kings and generals u did a great job. Looking forward for more mongols videos about my great ancestors. I will share this on all my social profiles. Thank you again :)
You got the Chinese character of “Jin” dynasty wrong. It is 金 not 晋
Means gold
Great video. It would of been cool to hear a bit about jebe, one of Mongols best generals. Since battle of thirteen sides was mentioned seemed like a missing golden opportunity to tell his backstory . Very interesting story for anyone interested
I was waiting for this one !
Excellent video, again keep up the good work and content. This one was very well done. Very informative on the military structure of the Mongol army under Genghis khan.
More mongol conquests videos please :D
PLEASE do the siege of vienna, maybe first and second one together?
Really been wishing for a talented channel to cover this. Since i´m from vienna myself, this is an important piece of history for me.^^
Greeting from Austria!
Greetings from Canada! Yes, we are planning to cover both of the sieges of Vienna.
Excellent work as always 😍
Marvelous, you're getting better with editing per video! Nice!
This commentator is my favorite, his voice is awesom!
He has a RUclips channel!
ruclips.net/channel/UCXm9SBe5GM46NLFkubLqjGw
At 1:02 the Chinese character that represents Jin destroying the Liao should be 金 not 晋，which is a different dynasty of different era and different location.
Exactly! I was really confused when I saw the title of this video, and I must say this is quite a critical mistake they made
Wow what Great video, its really curious to see what will happen in the next year of the Mongolian Empire. Hope you make part 2 : D
What a quality work! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! Can you do video about Mongols fighting Khwarezmian dinasty and their progress conquering western lands
Awesome video, I wish more channels did videos about the mongols.
James K my channel is about the only one I know of that focuses entirely on the Mongol Empire and the conquests, although Orgil Batzorig is a Mongolisn RUclipsr who talks about modern Mongolia. sadly it's difficult to find much on RUclips relating to them that is actually intended to be educational. Hopefully Kings and Generals inspires more people to be interested in this period!
Awesome, subbed!
Awesome video again, thank you 😃
This is really good thanks
Just discovered your channel, I love videos like this. You did a great job. I also like BazBattles and Military History Visualized’s channel for the same reason. You earned a sub!
+John Wick's pencil welcome aboard!
Pretty cool learning about the eastern wars of the Mongols. Cant wait to see them move west.
WE NEED MORE! DON'T STOP
Thank you for creating such great Videos!
Thanks for watching!
great video
How were they communicating so effectively during a battle like when to feign retreat and stuff like that? Impressive.
I think they grew up seeing it was a typical thing in steppe warfare or nomadic warfare anyway. The Parthiaians famously used in against the Romans in the exact same style I think
They had a system of flags and smoke signals for use on the battlefeild, and a courier system for use on the strategic map.
All the previous comments are true, but something that is missing is Temujin. He organized a huge winter hunt EVERY YEAR, where pretty much every male participated. It was a chance for the army to practice. Being a great hunter doesn't automatically make you great at teamwork in a team of tens of thousands, practice does. A LOT OF practice. There were even laws, prohibiting hunting in certain areas months before the great hunt took place. The Mongols did their homework, on their tactics and on knowing their enemies. EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
they had iphones duh
There horse had a lot to do with it and how fair both rider and horse could go fair to they were born for war
Great Content Man!
Never stop making videos 💙👍👌
Well narrated as always! Thanks!
Thank you!
Great video again. Beside confusion of 晋 & 金, it would be good to show more city names or battlefield names when illustrating maps, by this way, more references are given and can help people understand the narrative. Thanks a lot for good job.
Thank you very much!
The Mongolian empire was not the biggest empire in human history, it was the largest continuous empire in human history as in connected by land unlike the British whose empire was all over the place on different continents.
Edit just read your comment good job addressing that.
Thanks. :-)
That statistics was from British, not reliable, because they calculated uninhabited northern Canada while didn't calculate northern Siberia into mongol empire.
@@jtshek8217 even without northern canada it's bigger
Love it!keep up the good work!
really like what you do on this channel - interesting stuff
“Hard places breed hard people”
Canadians: …
Canadian are soft snow flakes
you've clearly never watched an ice hockey game
they've literally never lost a war.
Well Canadians marched into DC and burnt the White House...
One thing is very, very interesting: "Fall Gelb" ( The German's plan of attack in France in 1940 made by Erich von Manstein) was pretty similar to plan of attack in China of Genghis Khan! Germans, as Mongols divided their troops on three parts and gave them the very similar destinations: The first (Army Group "C") by attacking the Maginot Line were bounding the forces of the defenders, the second (The Army Group "B") - by attacking the Netherlands and Belgium drew the main forces of the Allies into a trap in the North of France and Belgium. And finally, the third (Army Group "A") crossed the "impassable" for the modern army the Ardennes Mountain, and had a decisive blow. Like the Mongols troops - one army led by Ogedei attacked one of the fortresses. The second, led by Dżebe and Mukalem, attacked and captured the strategic city of Liaoyang. The third, under Chan, attacked Beijing directly. By the way, by the "impassable" for the cavalry, the Gobi desert.
Something too many of these similarities!
The strategies that the Mongols employed were closely studied by both the Germans and the Soviet
_The strategies that the Mongols employed were closely studied by both the Germans and the Soviet_
I am curious: sources on that?
I for instance do not need source. The best is effect. "Fall Gelb" is too identical to the Mongols invasion on China to ignore the idea of any influence of Mongols strategy on Wehrmacht strategy.
While it might be tempting to assume so (and you certainly made a convincing case), correlation doesn´t mean causality. I will remain skeptical until further evidence is made available.
No, you need a source. You yourself are not a credible person, therefore you need a source, it wouldnt probably be that difficult to find out whether manstein had studied mongol strategy anyways.
You guys are doing great job.
Great idea for a series
super awsome, i was waiting for Mongol series :D:D:D
fun fact: after Mongol horde appeared from mists of Asia first european travelers to central asia, to Mongol Khan were emissaries of pope Innocent IV- he sent four delegations but 3 of them failed (emisaries were killed or enslaved by mongols)... but one made it to Khan Guyuk himself
Jan Di Piano Carpini was joined in Wrocław by Benedict of Poland called that because he had only name - they made it to Karakorum to learn geography, culture, customs, army numbers, tactics... everything they saw
they tried to persuade Mongols to cooperate and try to convert their Khan
presence of Benedtict was very important to this mission, because Ruthenia was conquered by Mongols and some of envoys/representatives of Ruthenia were present in Karakorum and they spoke very simmilar (slavic) language to Polish AND going through Poland they went to Kraków, to speak with Duke Bolesław - on Wawel castle they accidentally met Ruthenian duke Wasylko who gave them crucial advices on dealing with Mongols (bribing their commanders XDXD) etc.
their journey is literally scenario for awsome movie and it preceded that of Marco Polo
VforArt didnt the video just say that gengis belived guest where a blessing or something..ANd that they should not be harmed?
Gengis could belive whatever he wanted to... but i think you have no clue on how brutal murderes were his soldiers .... after horde invasion Kievian Rus seased to exist, people were MASSACRED and taken as slaves... southern Ruthenia literally became empty, without inhabitants - cities burned to the ground
(this is one of reasons why Grand Dutchy of Lithuania was able to take so much of space, and why later villages were either polish or ukrainian and things like Volhyn massacre happened)
and land was ruled by military commanders of mongol horde who could order to kill anyone they liked - thats why advice taken in Kraków was so important... they learned WHO is to be bribed, in what circumstances (in what moment) and with what kind of goodies
when Mongols were conquering piles of heads were hiiiiigh, they did same thing in Bagdad - Muslims to this day remember what Mongols did there, and it was unimaginable even for muslims
here is a painting of Mongols invading Rus
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see the piles of bodies?
this captured one is prince Mstislav of Kiev
this was one of the most devastating historical events to slavic people, to modern day Ukraine, to Ruthenians
Holodomor (great hunger) made by stalin was awfull, but comparable
It's simple, for all these talk about mongol inventing meritocracy, tolerant and opening silk road, all the bring is more and more destruction. Hell, even the black death itself were caused by mongol liberal use of throwing infected corpse in siege.
I have no doubt that the opening of silk road brought many boon and curse to the europe, though i sceptical if mongols brought invention to the europe since i believe the orient world have knowldge like gunpowder, siegecraft way before mongol invasion. The black death were started to spread after the a siege somewhere in crimea, during the golden horde occupation.
this is the magic of geography - Asia is vast and going from europe to asia you could bring bacteria, dieseae specific for asians to europe and vice versa - but allso you could bring food types and they would be usefull in climate of europe or asia.....
look at american indians ... they didnt have huge west-east continenets - their civilisations were oriented north-south, and they were cut off from rest of world... thats why simple bacteria brought from europe (that europeans and asians vere immune to.... simply killed whole civilisations
IF mongols brought bacteria unknown to europeans, then plague must have happened somehow some time later when asian and european people met... but like i said - lands invided by mongols were LAST to have black death, if even had at all
gunpowder was basicly useless at that time, other 'classic' wooden weapons had bigger impact on battlefield... yeeeeears later gunpowder started to have any significant impact on battlefield
like firearms, how do you think? when pistols and rifles appeared they changed warfare in instant?
ofc. no.... simple bow had much bigger range, did more damage, was cheaper, shot much faster, etc.
More Genghis Khan videos would be great
Great video. Been waiting for someone to cover the mongols.
There will be more!
nice video again please continue this genghis series
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Please consider the accounts of Temujin's life with a grain of salt as they can all be traced to book written in 1908 by a Mongolian nationalist named Baavuday Tsend Gun. How can a book written in 1908 accurately describe events in the 1200s without sources to earlier writings? There are NO other books on Genghis Khan's life written before the 1908 publishing of "The Secret history of the Mongols." Temujin or Genghis Khan is hardly mentioned in earlier Chinese manuscripts. Nothing is known of Temujin's early life outside of that one book published in 1908.
The secret history of the Mongols is little more than Nationalist fiction. It is very like author Baavuday Tsend Gun made it all up. It is one of history's great con jobs.
The "Secret History of the Mongols" is not our only work on Mongol history, and there were scholars in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century publishing translations, paraphrases, and commentary about it, so the material is definitely older than 1908. Apart from that, there are several other works about Genghis Khan, most notably the Jami' at-Tawarikh.
Sure, we should take all accounts of his early life with a huge grain of salt - we can't divide history from legend there. But no, it's not all made up in the 1900s.
+Novusod You can check Iranian version you know it was something like compendium of history of world or some shit just check Il'khanate.
There's a mistake : the Jurchen people's Empire in Chinese was written as "金" , not "晋". In China there was 3 symbolic "晉" empire and a ducatus as : Western Jin Empire (西晉帝國) built by SiMa Yan （司馬炎）and destroyed by Hunnic Han Empire (匈奴漢帝國，which called by historians as “漢趙帝國”) in Dec 11, 316 AD.Then a survived imperial clansman SiMa Rui（司馬睿）rebuilt a rump state called Eastern Jin Empire（東晉帝國）and ended in 420 AD.Just in case, Khitan people‘s Liao Empire（遼帝國）destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty (“後晉帝國”,936-947) which built by Shi Jingtang（石敬瑭）, he was a Shatuo warlord who makes loyal to the Later Tang Dynasty (“後唐帝國”) but he betrayed because of the last Later Tang's emperor Li Congke（李從珂）wanted to kill him and failed. Shi Jingtang made him a elder blood son to Liao‘s second emperor Yelv Deguang（耶律德光）, but his son Shi Chonggui（石重貴）didn't want to be a protectorate any more, then Yelv Deguang conquered his government and captured him.But Liao‘ cannot control Central China so he retreated. Jin ducatus（晉公國） from 11th century BC TO 376 BC was the most powerful state in Eastern Zhou United States （東周王國）then.By the way, in 1616, a Jurchen chieftain Nurhaci （愛新覺羅·努爾哈赤）who rose to prominence in the late 16th century in Manchuria built the Later Jin Khanate （後金漢國） and his son Hong Taiji （愛新覺羅·皇太極）reformed the government in 1636 then called it Qing Empire（清帝國）, the last empire in Chinese history (it lasted to 1912).
+祝旭鹏 Hunnic Han Empire, as in the same Huns that later invaded Europe?
There's no evidence of the question that Hun and Hunnic Khanate are the same people~ And the founder of Hunnic Han Empire (Guangwen Emperor) Liu Yuan is a pure Hunnic noble who's grandfather is Chief Chizhishizhuhou (持至尸逐侯單于), and his Chinese name is Yufuro (於夫罗).In 48 AD, a civil war happened in the Hunnic Khanate, as the end the Khanate was divided into two parts : Northern Hunnic secession and Southern Hunnic Khanate which is admitted by its metropolitan state Eastern Han Empire (東漢帝國).And Yufuro was also Hunnic Chief and noble of Eastern Han Empire.Northern Hunnic secession was defeated by Eastern Han and Southern Hunnic in 91 AD -118 AD.Then they ran to Eastern Kazakhstan.After 160 AD, they begun to migrate again.All we know is only that they had arrived in the east border of Parthia Empire.And it seemed that in 3-5 century AD, they often became mercenaries and fighted for Persian Sassanid Empire.Huns might not be descendant of Northern Hunnic because their civilizatio was too primitive.After Southern Hunnic Khanate or Hunnic Han Empire destroyed Western Jin, a palace coup happened in 318 AD. Then this empire soon splited into 2 pieces: Hunnic Zhao Empire (前趙帝國)and Jie Zhao Empire (後趙帝國), then in 328 AD, Hunnic Zhao was destroyed by Jie Zhao.The last East Asian Hunnic country was Hunnix Xia, which built by Tiefu factions in 407 AD, and it was destroyed by Xianbei Wei Empire, in 431 AD.
+祝旭鹏 Oh, OK. Well, according to the Wikipedia article:
_"...modern historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the 4th century AD with the Xiongnu ("howling slaves") who had invaded China from the territory of present-day Mongolia between the 3rd century BC and the 2nd century AD.[20][21] Due to the devastating defeat by the Chinese Han dynasty, the northern branch of the Xiongnu had retreated north-westward; their descendants may have migrated through Eurasia and consequently they may have some degree of cultural and genetic continuity with the Huns."_
I swore I remember hearing in school the Huns migrated west from the Kazakhstan region, but were believed to have originated in Mongolia (or around that area). Thanks for the reply! :) As you can probably guess, they don't teach much Chinese or East Asian history here in the US. Lol.
[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns - Under "Origin". ]
This viewpoint just likes another: somebody said that Rouran Khaganate in Mongolian Plateau was the ancestry of Avars Khaganate. But all theories have the same problem: No Evidence~
+祝旭鹏 I've never heard of the Rouran Khaganate either, though I know who the Avars were. It's a shame there isn't more evidence. It'd be nice to know who came from where, and why.
Absolutely fantastic
Thank you thank thank you for this video. Yehuling was one of favourite battles to study and it was masterpiece of Ghengis Khan.
Thanks. There will be more.
I can not wait :)
No one escapes the mongols, great video as always
...and heavy cavalry, armed with lances and *CURVED SWORDS*
Love all ur videos!!!
FINALLY!! THANKS YOU SOO MUCH !
Thanks for watching!
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People tend to think of Temujin as the only great Mongol conqueror, but his offspring were fantastic generals in their own right. After all, the empire reached its greatest extent after Temujin had already died, and the conquest of China was also only completed by Kublai Khan. Had his family not fallen to internal squabbles, we might've seen the Mongol Empire survive a couple generations more. I doubt it would last more than a few centuries however, decadence for an Empire that includes tribes and borders other tribes would spell downfall eventually, as it had for many other empires.
Nomadic empires never last, they usually break up as fast as they rise. Exact same thing happened to the huns and the seljuqs
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393 correct, wish more people knew this
The Khan's children were competent soldiers but were sadly lacking the knowledge and passion that a good general MUST have.
However, his grandchildren were amazing ass kickers, and superb generals.
nomadic empires lose territories or settle there and became the people they conquered. nomadic people were squandered the wealth and they spend it all on luxury and womens
The music at the end is so awesome
Devin, you are the outstanding narrator for Kings and Generals. You should do every narration. I wish my voice came over as authoritative as yours.
As someone below me has pointed out, two errors in the video: The Chinese character for the Jin you’re looking for is Jīn (金), not Jìn (晋). Also, the Jīn Dynasty/Empire, although indeed Sinicized to a certain extent, were not originally a “Chinese Chinese” (ethnic Han Chinese) empire that most Chinese dynasties were.
Curved... Swords...!!!
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The art is amazing
A great start to what will hopefully be a more extensive series. The Mongol conquest of China took 50 years but along the way so many other Mongol conquests took place that had a greater impact on the world. The destruction of the Khwarezmian Empire, The Battle of Ain Jalut, The Fall of Kievan Russia etc., Keep it up!
Awesome video! I have been waiting for the Mongols, please continue?!? When Genghis was defeated by his blood brother, was that his only defeat while personally leading the army?
Luke Zuzga it was an ambush
Fathel Guweda ok thx but I'm wondering if Kings and General know about any other defeats.
He is actually undefeated.That loss was actually inconclusive battle which Ghengis made tactical retreat.And Jamukha needed his propaganda victory because so many enemies of Temujin joined under his banner.And they probably leave Jamukha when they learn if they are losing.Jamukha did not chase Temujin which gave us doubt that Temujin still had intact army with strong rearguard while retreating.
Batsaikhan Tsetsenbat better tell tomoesong. The dude above.
Batsaikhan Tsetsenbat Which page ? Which Chapter of Secret History of Mongols? Where and When did To'oril defeated Temujin? When Temujin moved against Khereids ,he utterly defeated them. First time when they battle ,Khuildar Setsen ,leader of Manguts defeated several tribes of Khereid confederation even before Temujin's another vanguard Ur'uds led by Old Jarchiudai came into battle scene.If you're talking about battle that Nyalkha Sengum ,son of To'oril wounded ,then in that battle Khereids circled their leader and retreated. Temujin did show mercy to his father's old "anda" To'oril (Toghrul) and didn't chase him down to death. But next time when they meet ,Temujin will not show mercy!
Western Liao is actually Kara khitai, they are located in modern day Xinjiang. The western liao in the video is actually western Xia, another state of barbarian origin
Another brilliant video.
Thank you!
Verry intersting Video aboit a not common topic. Thank you for the great Video 👍🏼👍🏼
Please increase the font size on maps. On my phone it's a bit hard to read.
*wait for it*
Beautiful production.
Very cool stuff again! Keep it up!
+Christian Haimet will do!
Most accurate and non-sensationalised medieval and ancient history videos on youtube!
+Christian Haimet history itself is sensational enough. :-)
Haha absolutely!