I really like this video. I visited in 1987. This reminded me of my experiences but also enlightened me to things I’d either forgotten or never knew. Great filming. Soothing recording.
I went there in 1993. Standing on the actual Great Wall was BREATHTAKING even for a kid. I recently lost my sweet dad and I’m so glad he got to experience going to walk it in person with me ❤
The drone footage here in this documentary shows the incredible green colors of the landscape that I didnt expect to see, quite beautiful. Also it seems that there exists a lost art that most humans will never know the truth about, creating with stone.
Just recently on Bright Insights, the host had a friend who explored the broken down areas of the wall never shown... Plus discovered some of the Arrow ports were on the Inside of the Wall, not the outside...
Slave labor is a real good guess given the era they started building this marvel of human engineering. I wonder how many lives lost per mile compared to rail road construction. The later is surprisingly large.
When entire families were buried alive --- of civil servants working for an emperor, people who MUST continue to serve him AFTER DEATH --- when that emperor died, I doubt he gave much thoughts to tens of thousands to millions of strangers and peasants being worked to death and THEN buried within the Wall, as simply fillers...
There is an older film it had some older black & white footage that showed human bones all through the walls. As the slaves died from exhaustion & starvation they filled the positions of the dead with other workers and continued building the wall.
i think this doc is about 10 years old and we now know that the earliest parts of the walls were built as early as 3000 years ago, not 2400 years ago. that was another part as shown in the video tho
So true! It does not have to be that long either. But for real, the thing we need to do is to reform our welfare system. Those as....oles are coming for free money, medical, food, etc. Not to mention they are the consistent dwellers in our slammers.
The Chinese built the great wall to keep out Gog and Magog. Ancient documents said it was to keep out the scythe's. The documents calls it the ramparts of Gog and Magog..
@@helenbartoszek243 Don't forget the kangaroos ! Ome species can jump up to 65 ft !! They had to install 100 ft fences around Australian airports to keep them at bay. 😁
My comment was in reference to a 2005 Australian commercial for Telstra( telecommunication company) advertising broadband. A father was driving his son to school and the son had to do a talk on China. The son asks the father why the Great Wall was built. The father looks worried, ums and aah's and then says it was built during the Emporer Nasi Goreng's time to keep the rabbits out as there are a lot of rabbits in China. Meaning if they had broadband they could have had the correct information on their computer.
Not genghis Really named : cengiz Not khan Really surnamed : han Actually cengiz han : Turkish named and Turkish surnamed Han : Turkish named : leader and king. Example : 1-yavuz sultan selim han 2- kanuni sultan süleyman han 3- fatih sultan mehmet han
Parts of it are maintained, its not like the Chinese aren't proud of it, but apart from being over 1000 miles long & built in places nobody goes & on mountains barely accessible & no longer needed, why bother? It no doubt obstructs migration paths of animals & the $ needed to fix it is simply a waste. It aint rocket science is it?
Cause that’s not how resource planning works….in case you didn’t catch it taking several dynasties and thousands of lives. WHY would anyone support this massive waste of money (like Trumps border wall..) WHO would bankroll something like that, and for what purpose anymore? Another mongol horseback invasion? Key tourist portions are maintained and restored as needed. Having the whole thing is overhaul repaired would be unnecessary and way overkill.
Looking at the hills, how hifh and steep they are I am very glad not to have been an "infantry" dude in any of those armies who fought there. Anyways after eventually getting to the top who had energy left to fight on 1/2 sq m for every three guys😎
War is no fun. War is cruel! Imagine what the people in Gaza and Ukraine are feeling now? Gaza is worse because of the proximity of bombs exploding in a tiny living area. But Ukrainians are sure not having fun either.
Appreciate the documentary, but you should really get some help or get a native speaker when you try to pronounce any Chinese names or cities. Most westerners just can't get the tones right. It's as if someone is trying to pronounce Chick-fil-a but end up saying Cock-fat-a. Just sounds like nail on chalkboard every time.
No. The Great Wall was built to repel the Cam people who occupied all the land from Afghanistan to the wall. They were the masters of sound levitation. Dropping huge boulders onto their enemies was their preferred weapon of war. The wall had to be high & wide enough so that once they levitated the stones they could not lift poles long or strong enough to push them over the wall before they muted the sound waves to drop them! The producers should have consulted with members of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. The descendants of the Cam founded the country of Cambodia.
The wall looks more Roman built than it does Chinese. The doorways and windows are arched and the bridges look like Roman arch designed too. The way the the walls are on top both sides of the wall looks like you could shoot arrows at people coming from both sides of the wall. The way the wall started at the the ocean, it looks like all kinds of boats with goods have docked right there with all kinds of goods. And I’ve heard the road part of it on the top is like 13 feet wide and Roman roads were that wide. Plus didn’t the famous Silk Road go along it? So why wouldn’t the Silk Road be the same thing as the Great Wall? Ah, it probably is but they gotta lie about it for some dumb reason! If I was to guess, I betcha the wall and the Silk Road were the same thing. Probably cuz the major product of the Great Wall/Silk road was opium! Romans probably designed it and paid the Chinese workers in opium an it got built real fast! They lie about everything, I wouldn’t doubt they are lying about this. Thanks Max, Martin & Jason ✌🏼
@@edgarsnake2857Except it did. Was the wall impervious? No. But it allowed the Chinese to police their border and make quick nomad raids more difficult. It gave them time to react to invasions, too. The wall worked exactly as intended.
I actually prefer when they try pronouncing names and places the way they should be pronounced. Then they at least make an effort to keep the culture in it
@@killerregilio In Britain, "Khan" is pronounced "Caan", and saying "Hran" is not only incorrect, it's cringe; I'm fairly certain native Mongolians would agree. And I bet "Hran" is wrong in Mongolian too - it sounds suspiciously as if some clueless narrator reached for his half-arsed Arab pronunciation.
@ErikBramsen Pho is phonetically pronounced like "foe," but go ahead and order "foe" at a restaurant and watch your waiter go 🤨. It's pronounced "fuh", even by us westerners. Khan in Mongolian is pronounced more han. (Do you pronounce "knight" as "kuh-night"?) Genghis Khan should, then, if one was to stress authenticity, be pronounced as Chinggis Han. Romanization of foreign words and names isn't always phonetically accurate. Even in ENGLISH, silent letters are plentiful. It's respectful to put in a modicum of effort to speak people's names as they were meant to be said. Don't be an ignorant westerner and give the rest of us a bad rep.
@@birdiecote8075 "Pho" is not an English word, so that's neither here nor there. I obviously don't use English rules of pronunciation if I speak French or Italian. In Latin, "Cesar" is pronounced "Kesar" (like the German form "Kaiser") but in English it's still pronounced "Sesar", and if you say "Kesar" in English, you're not being educated or culturally sensitive, you're being cringe. I'm from Denmark, and if I saw a Chinese video, with a Chinese narrator, about the life of Hans Christian Andersen, would it be cringe or helpful if I lectured the guy on how to pronounce "København" - Copenhagen - in proper Danish? Would Chinese people be less ignorant Orientals if they put on some pokey, home-made Euro-accent when they talked to each other about Andersen or about Denmark's capital?
@@killerregiliorecently watched a short documentary on the Great Wall narrated by a perfect Mandarin and perfect English speaker who could pronounce both languages effortlessly! I can’t tell you what a breeze it was and unfortunate rarity. I’m fluent in both so I could see how accurate her pronunciation was.
I really like this video. I visited in 1987. This reminded me of my experiences but also enlightened me to things I’d either forgotten or never knew. Great filming. Soothing recording.
I went there in 1993. Standing on the actual Great Wall was BREATHTAKING even for a kid. I recently lost my sweet dad and I’m so glad he got to experience going to walk it in person with me ❤
The drone footage here in this documentary shows the incredible green colors of the landscape that I didnt expect to see, quite beautiful. Also it seems that there exists a lost art that most humans will never know the truth about, creating with stone.
Just recently on Bright Insights, the host had a friend who explored the broken down areas of the wall never shown... Plus discovered some of the Arrow ports were on the Inside of the Wall, not the outside...
one like for speaker. his speech is very nice to hear
Slave labor is a real good guess given the era they started building this marvel of human engineering. I wonder how many lives lost per mile compared to rail road construction. The later is surprisingly large.
When entire families were buried alive --- of civil servants working for an emperor, people who MUST continue to serve him AFTER DEATH --- when that emperor died, I doubt he gave much thoughts to tens of thousands to millions of strangers and peasants being worked to death and THEN buried within the Wall, as simply fillers...
Since the Han Dynasty, roughly 2200 years ago, the workers at the Great Wall were professionals. Han China was not built upon slaves.
There is an older film it had some older black & white footage that showed human bones all through the walls. As the slaves died from exhaustion & starvation they filled the positions of the dead with other workers and continued building the wall.
I remember that footage been forever since I seen it tho
They were given immortality for their sacrifice.
This was so incredibly interesting. Thank you for this
Thank you ❤for this Documentary. Loved watching it.
i think this doc is about 10 years old and we now know that the earliest parts of the walls were built as early as 3000 years ago, not 2400 years ago. that was another part as shown in the video tho
Thank you for stopping me from wasting my time! Really!
False
All drones shots in the beginning. Definitely new.
thanks for the video
Listening from Mackinac Island Michigan
Troll
@@hayd2am
Trolls live BELOW the bridge.
Mackinac Island is above the bridge.
@@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours lmao ty i didn’t actually know where it was I just know the name i just went to Michigan for the first time
It worked. America should build one too
wasnt trump supposed to do that? 🤣
So true! It does not have to be that long either.
But for real, the thing we need to do is to reform our welfare system. Those as....oles are coming for free money, medical, food, etc. Not to mention they are the consistent dwellers in our slammers.
The Great Wall was to protect against so-called monsters. Great beasts of the past
The Chinese built the great wall to keep out Gog and Magog. Ancient documents said it was to keep out the scythe's.
The documents calls it the ramparts of Gog and Magog..
Mat Damon helped defend it
It was built to keep the rabbits out! You'll only get this if you are Australian.
😁😅 rabbits !
The Emus could still get through though
@@helenbartoszek243
Don't forget the kangaroos ! Ome species can jump up to 65 ft !! They had to install 100 ft fences around Australian airports to keep them at bay.
😁
My comment was in reference to a 2005 Australian commercial for Telstra( telecommunication company) advertising broadband. A father was driving his son to school and the son had to do a talk on China. The son asks the father why the Great Wall was built. The father looks worried, ums and aah's and then says it was built during the Emporer Nasi Goreng's time to keep the rabbits out as there are a lot of rabbits in China. Meaning if they had broadband they could have had the correct information on their computer.
@@helenbartoszek243
Mate, don't forget the humongous, high jumping red kangaroos at Australia's airports ! 🤠
Not genghis
Really named : cengiz
Not khan
Really surnamed : han
Actually cengiz han : Turkish named and Turkish surnamed
Han : Turkish named : leader and king.
Example : 1-yavuz sultan selim han
2- kanuni sultan süleyman han
3- fatih sultan mehmet han
The wall of death.
They would understand popular, if not media-political opinion today, in North America today.
As we build a wall/fence here in the US, I'm curious to know what the damage to wildlife migration was after/as the Great Wall was built.
The wildlife were the bandits/rapists/arsonists/murderers.
I forgot the name of the commander its hard to say it and the name no one knows how yo say it many years 500 thats crazy love the story man
the wall was built to keep them out not in.
Did they effectively utilize their resource for the purpose?
Loved it❤
how did british become the first to measure great wall of china, and what about the builder's
Wow this is a long video
A long boring video not enough close-up shots and a redundant narrator ! 🤪 😅
There's a thin line between a spy and a scholar?
Don’t forget Allied build the Great Wall
Ooooh
Why doesn't the "richest country in the world" repair the marvel they pretend to hold in high esteem???
Parts of it are maintained, its not like the Chinese aren't proud of it, but apart from being over 1000 miles long & built in places nobody goes & on mountains barely accessible & no longer needed, why bother? It no doubt obstructs migration paths of animals & the $ needed to fix it is simply a waste. It aint rocket science is it?
@@paulmilsommusicyea, seriously. Why are ppl so bent outta shape? Bitter af
Cause that’s not how resource planning works….in case you didn’t catch it taking several dynasties and thousands of lives. WHY would anyone support this massive waste of money (like Trumps border wall..) WHO would bankroll something like that, and for what purpose anymore? Another mongol horseback invasion? Key tourist portions are maintained and restored as needed. Having the whole thing is overhaul repaired would be unnecessary and way overkill.
Looking at the hills, how hifh and steep they are I am very glad not to have been an "infantry" dude in any of those armies who fought there. Anyways after eventually getting to the top who had energy left to fight on 1/2 sq m for every three guys😎
War is no fun. War is cruel! Imagine what the people in Gaza and Ukraine are feeling now? Gaza is worse because of the proximity of bombs exploding in a tiny living area. But Ukrainians are sure not having fun either.
Some Chinese guys?
❤❤
The Chinese should repair their beautiful wall instead of building more empty cities.
All the Places to fire a Arrow were facing China!!!! Not to the hinterland PS The Chinese never built this !!! It's Tartarian History Look it up
Long story short, it didnt work
Appreciate the documentary, but you should really get some help or get a native speaker when you try to pronounce any Chinese names or cities. Most westerners just can't get the tones right. It's as if someone is trying to pronounce Chick-fil-a but end up saying Cock-fat-a. Just sounds like nail on chalkboard every time.
No. The Great Wall was built to repel the Cam people who occupied all the land from Afghanistan to the wall. They were the masters of sound levitation. Dropping huge boulders onto their enemies was their preferred weapon of war. The wall had to be high & wide enough so that once they levitated the stones they could not lift poles long or strong enough to push them over the wall before they muted the sound waves to drop them! The producers should have consulted with members of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. The descendants of the Cam founded the country of Cambodia.
The wall looks more Roman built than it does Chinese. The doorways and windows are arched and the bridges look like Roman arch designed too. The way the the walls are on top both sides of the wall looks like you could shoot arrows at people coming from both sides of the wall. The way the wall started at the the ocean, it looks like all kinds of boats with goods have docked right there with all kinds of goods. And I’ve heard the road part of it on the top is like 13 feet wide and Roman roads were that wide. Plus didn’t the famous Silk Road go along it? So why wouldn’t the Silk Road be the same thing as the Great Wall? Ah, it probably is but they gotta lie about it for some dumb reason! If I was to guess, I betcha the wall and the Silk Road were the same thing. Probably cuz the major product of the Great Wall/Silk road was opium! Romans probably designed it and paid the Chinese workers in opium an it got built real fast! They lie about everything, I wouldn’t doubt they are lying about this. Thanks Max, Martin & Jason ✌🏼
But I thought biden said walls don’t work?
They don't. And this one didn't either.
@@edgarsnake2857Except it did. Was the wall impervious? No. But it allowed the Chinese to police their border and make quick nomad raids more difficult. It gave them time to react to invasions, too. The wall worked exactly as intended.
Its build to keep the chinese out. Its the other way arround
The first three dynasty of China was a black civilization that's the truth of it
Huh? What you mean???
Bullshit. Took three thousand years to build it? What rubbish.
Is this supposed to be making fun of someone whom is unwell? Trying to mold a teenager to her whims? I'm lost on the humor or is this woman got real?
the chinese built it for defense....
Ah, you treasury of infinite knowledge
Most boring and redundant narration I have ever heard !! 🥶🤪
Wall of China 18 people of China Black people that migrated from Africa foreign you tell the truth ancient people of China Black
It was the black civilization that built Great wall of China
Great video, but in English he's called Genghis Khan, not Genghis Hran.
I actually prefer when they try pronouncing names and places the way they should be pronounced. Then they at least make an effort to keep the culture in it
@@killerregilio In Britain, "Khan" is pronounced "Caan", and saying "Hran" is not only incorrect, it's cringe; I'm fairly certain native Mongolians would agree.
And I bet "Hran" is wrong in Mongolian too - it sounds suspiciously as if some clueless narrator reached for his half-arsed Arab pronunciation.
@ErikBramsen Pho is phonetically pronounced like "foe," but go ahead and order "foe" at a restaurant and watch your waiter go 🤨. It's pronounced "fuh", even by us westerners. Khan in Mongolian is pronounced more han. (Do you pronounce "knight" as "kuh-night"?) Genghis Khan should, then, if one was to stress authenticity, be pronounced as Chinggis Han.
Romanization of foreign words and names isn't always phonetically accurate. Even in ENGLISH, silent letters are plentiful. It's respectful to put in a modicum of effort to speak people's names as they were meant to be said. Don't be an ignorant westerner and give the rest of us a bad rep.
@@birdiecote8075 "Pho" is not an English word, so that's neither here nor there. I obviously don't use English rules of pronunciation if I speak French or Italian.
In Latin, "Cesar" is pronounced "Kesar" (like the German form "Kaiser") but in English it's still pronounced "Sesar", and if you say "Kesar" in English, you're not being educated or culturally sensitive, you're being cringe.
I'm from Denmark, and if I saw a Chinese video, with a Chinese narrator, about the life of Hans Christian Andersen, would it be cringe or helpful if I lectured the guy on how to pronounce "København" - Copenhagen - in proper Danish?
Would Chinese people be less ignorant Orientals if they put on some pokey, home-made Euro-accent when they talked to each other about Andersen or about Denmark's capital?
@@killerregiliorecently watched a short documentary on the Great Wall narrated by a perfect Mandarin and perfect English speaker who could pronounce both languages effortlessly! I can’t tell you what a breeze it was and unfortunate rarity. I’m fluent in both so I could see how accurate her pronunciation was.
Tartar built it. Look at old maps and you will see Tartar or Tartaria. Look at old photos and you will see people cleaning up mud. (Mudflood)
The Tartar couldn't even build a simple house.