I lived in China for almost ten years. I have walked the Eastern end of the Great Wall and the Western end. It is an incredible sight and feeling! I traveled along the Silk Road and the Great Wall around Yumen.
@Cjszila the thing is so called traditional Chinese is just a formal written language used for officials, while simplified Chinese has been around for hundreds of years used by the civilians. So that means in China mainland, any middle school graduates could basically read both.
This kind of storytelling not only educates but also captures the imagination, making history and archaeology accessible and engaging for a broad audience.
It is no wonder that Chinese around the world have this indomitable spirit to overcome all odds. The narratives of their forefathers' achievements are indeed inspiring.
Yeah, that's not it. Not even close. They are motivated to get their money outta China because they know the ccp is gonna collapse and the yuan will be worthless.
What a dumb question. He's the current president. No one "follows him", most Chinese don't care or think about politics in their daily lives, only care about improving their lives and the country.. It's like asking why every American follows Biden, the current US leader. You sound hurt by Xi Jinping. Did he make you cry?
But the fact is.. Great wall of china didnt stand to defend china. But for themself.. So it means china didnt built that wall.. Their enemies built that wall..
You mean they got bullied so hard they made the largest defensive structure known to man to hide behind? That they where basically one of very few countries in history to rage quit a war and go lock themselves in their house forever I dont really see how you got your thing from this but okay ?
There is nothing, NOTHING better than a documentary presented by someone who absolutely LOVES their subject...THIS is one of those documentaries. Another is Michael Woods on Homer's Illiad :)
I am extremely impressed with the language ability of the lady in red. Besides her fluency in English, her Chinese language ability is far beyond regular people in China. She is able to read the ancient Chinese text which is fairly rare in today's China. She must be a successful academic herself.
You misled the context. The Chinese symbols are almost similar to what they are using today (do more research about their symbols). It means the Chinese have continued their civilization for thousands of years, their civilization is nearly non-interrupted.
@@geromeney8379 You don't what he did to women and what he stands for. He can't compare himself to some other kung fu masters, Without Bruce Lee's blessing, he would still be a clown in a chinese opera or simply a bullish thug on the street.
Even at my age, 74 years young, never too old to learn and be in awe of past civilisations, cultures and their technology, very inspiring and riveting so much respect for the archeological teams and their findings.
Amazing! One of the best documentaries I've seen about the Great Wall of China. How fascinating is that they had meticulous instructions and literature for soldiers and commanders. This shows how highly educated they were over 2000 years ago! I'm just enchanted by this whole documentary. National Geographic, please give us more episodes of history to this high level. Thank you.
They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: ruclips.net/video/QamXrTW5z4Q/видео.html
Sorry for being ignorant… but why would you build the wall on the top these mountainous areas … as the mountains were already providing best protections against the would be enemies?
@@jasonuk6381 I don't know what you are talking about, most are still the original walls from Ming, only a small percentage of walls were renovated on the original foundation and open to the tourist, I don't know where "fake cheap modern architecture" come from, you are really ignorant for the lack of better words.
I went to the desert section of the wall with my father in 2019, we spent 3 hours walking around the wall 20:11 trying to find artifacts, eventually we found an arrow head made of stone, ( it has a very distinctive triangular shape around 1 inch long, a quarter inch wide). Imagining ancient Chinese and Mongolian had been fighting in the exact same wasteland thousands of years ago just makes you tremble and amazed by how human civilization has comes throughout the history.
عزيزي ، * الادعاء ان الصينيين قد بنو جدار الصين العظيم لصد الغزو المنغولي مجرد كذبه يتم تلقينها للوعي الجمعي كما هي كذبة الغزو المغولي للعالم . * فالواقع السكاني الحالي لكلى البلدين ينفي اي امكانيه في ذلك الزمن لان يفكر المنغولين حتى بالقتال فضلا عن محاربة الصين او غزو العالم ! ! ! . * فتعداد سكان منغوليا حاليا يبلغ قرابة 3ك2.5 مليون منغولي بينما الصين يبلغ سكانها قرابة 2 مليار انسان وتخيل كم كان عدد سكان كل بلد انذاك وفقا للنسبة والتناسب ! ! ! . * فبكل الاحوال ووفقا لقانون النسبة والتناسب فالفارق بينهما ليعادل تقريبا الف انسان صيني الى منغولي واحد في كل تاريخهما وهذا ماينفي اكاذيب حرب المنغوليين للصين او الغزو المنغولي للعالم جملة وتفصيلا . * هذا ناهيك عن عدم مقدرة الصين عن صد الغزو المنغولي المزعوم وبنائهم للجدار العظيم من اجل ذلك ! ! ! . * كما ان هذا يدعمه ان الجدار ينتهي عند تقريبا 50 مترا في الشاطي ء عتد احد نهايتيه والنهاية الاخرى ينتهي بالصحراء في ثلثي عرض مساحة الصين ! ! ! . * وهذا امر غير مبرر اذ ان جيوش المغول كان يمكنها ان تلتف عن طريق نهايته من البحر او تلتف من طريق نهايته في الصحراء سيما وانه يزعم ان جيوشها عبرت القارات ووصلت لاوربا وافريقيا ! ! ! . * مما يدل على زيف تلك الاكاذيب التي تلقن للوعي الجمعي حول غزو المغول ويثبت ان جدار الصين العظيم انما بني لصد عدو غير تقليدي لايمكنه الولوج للماء ومقيد بوقت لايمكنه تجاوزه ليلتف من نهاية الجدار في الصحراء . ……………… تحياتي .
The History of China reflects the determination to achieve their GOALS and can to this day only deserve the utmost respect. Truly a Nation of Valor not to be taken by its humbleness but rather its foresight in protecting its own. Respect from a South African Boer.
There is a Chinese saying story about "uncle Yu moves mountain" a children story about teaching determination can complete a task even if it takes generations to do it.
I am one of the lucky one... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit!
Did a Ming or a Mongol invite you to an Ice Cream Social, while you were there? I would. You seem to be a decent sort of Woman. Not worth fighting for.
If china was not taken over my MAO -SE -TUNG AND TURNED INTO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY then I would love to visit china, other than that, you couldn't pay me to vist COMMUNIST RED CHINA.
You could make a solid case that Qin She Huang Di is the most impressive figure in history based on his many accomplishments and the time when he lived. From producing the first unified China to the Great Wall to his monumental burial.
He was also the first emperor to standardize writing, measurements, and currency for all of China. Before him, there were many writing systems in place and the currency was madness since so many different countries had been formed and got abolished by other states(I think around 60 or 70 kings had ruled over different parts of China for over 100 years). He was one of the most important ancient figures for 1/5 of the population on earth. You can safely say he was one of the few people that truly change humanity before modern days.
Beyond the fact : Not even the recent technology does easily build this kind of masterpiece, forget the length, the wide, the tall etc but one thing is beyond our thoughts about building on the steep mountain terrain thousand years ago ... Totally speechless
Cheap, forced slave labor is a wonderful thing for making things such as these. No payroll, they wear out, you buy new ones. The way it happened. Same as Egypt's wonders. South America's wonders. Slave labor and the way of the old world. Too much Socialist Bureaucracy nowadays to make that project anything less than 100 million USD lol.
@@benoitbergeron8858 yes, they were actually the first ones to establish stable oceanic trade routes...their issue was that the later empires were extremely xenophobic, and thus decided to close the borders and cease any contact with anyone from outside china ( although they kept trading in african slaves, but unlike White people, they would demand that all black male slaves would be castrated, to prevent having any of them defile chinese women and taint their genes)...that slowed down their technological progress tremendously...if not for that, it might've been them, and not us whites, to create the most advanced society in history so far.
The Great Wall has been built and reinforced throughout various dynasties, and in recent years, China has constructed sections of it specifically for tourism purposes.
I have studied the Great Wall of China for many years. After watching this documentary video from National Geographic, I came to the conclusion that it is the most informative archaeological study on this topic that has been produced so far. Great Job!
...i am a history teacher in high school and this is the first time that i have heard this...as i am writing my thesis at the moment, it took me literary 2 days to listen to this fully...rewinding every so often...thank you for bringing this amazing discovery right at my doorstep...keep safe
@@Lemon83166 lots of things have been known for for decades and centuries, I’m sure you know just a fraction of them as well. be happy that someone learned something new instead of a negative and judgmental troll.
@@dickhitswater4836 no sane person would knowingly put themselves inside China's borders...it hasn't been safe for a long time .. edit: which makes me really sad but makes me want to explore my own country more
I have been to the Great Wall. When I truly stood on the wall, I just realized how tiny a person is in the long history. that's a very complicated feeling.
Qin Shi Huang didn’t just build the Great Wall and leave behind terracotta warriors, he standardised language, script, scales and currency. Edit: why are so many westerners in the comments blabbering about the great wall death toll in ancient china? every single chinese child knows about it and we even have stories and legends of the peasants who suffered and died building the great wall. we respect them. why are white people getting on their moral high horse again? maybe you'll have space to sound so condescending if the roman empire didn't use slaves AND if your dutch, belgium, british, american ancestors didn't just have slavery a few hundred years ago and are still downplaying it today.
The whole wall is bodies of those who lost their lives building it packed with dirt and whatever else they used to fill it. That’s a lot of bodies even if they are spread out, probably over 1k in total.
@@trying3650 they never mentioned that though because it's only acceptable to remember American people ever used slaves. The history of everyone else, they used "workers." 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
I have never seen the Pyramids or other seven wonders of the World, but ive been on the Great Wall at Mutianyu , where the Great Wall has been preserved since he was build...and I gotta say...its astonishing !.. you feel so small, but at the samevtime so big being there and thinking how many battles that wall witnessed!? I believe The Great Wall must be in everyones bucket list!
I am one of the lucky few... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit! Mutianyu is good but no comparison!
32:13 The sophistication of the “early warning system” has truly struck me with awe. The wisdom and resourcefulness of the ancient Chinese were just so astounding!
There exists today *very high levels* of animosity towards China, but watching this makes me feel a little bit less of it. They've been in the game a long time. Respect.
YUP. China is just an old player on this planet. and books from ancient are more important. such as 'the art of war' which is wrote 2000 years ago can be used to deal with global geopolitics today. and the 'the romance of three kingdom' could also be a guide for generals.
Can you pls tell me ...have this wall been ever used.....and I watched a video on utube about Mongols ...and they said that Mongols were able to invade China.
I went to JinShanLing and SiMaTai several times in the 90's, the last time being about 2002. It was not touristy way back then whereas Badaling near Beijing was just overcrowded with tourists. The views are definitely spectacular and the wall was broken in many places and also dangerous in others like one spot called "The Eagles Nest". Well worth a visit.
We rode our bikes there from Beida. We spent the night camping on the wall but not without first having to hide from the locals who were chasing us. This sort of behaviour was already suspicious back in the 90's.
Allan Maca, thanks so much for bringing the explanation of the Great walls to us. This has been so interesting to watch. NationalGeographic does an amazing job on all of the videos they produce. Thanks so much and maybe one day we will meet and talk.
Building a wall takes an architectural genius? 2200 years ago The Greeks were building beautiful temples and carving gorgeous statues that would be challenging to do today. Same with the Romans. So they must have been beyond genius.
they were,nt, they were taught, like all the ancient worlds remaining civilizations after the flood..by our creators, aliens. how did ancient man know about precession, 24,000 yrs long, or have maps of the whole world, accurate..do you know what rocks contain what minerals,,they did,,how..hers a fun fact,,b/foot,,was made,,genetically,,before man..we were first made as clones..workers.. you cant fathom anything, cos your meant to be d..mb..easier to control..
What an amazing video on the great wall. My wife and I walked on it a couple of years ago along with seeing the terracotta warriors and these two things were amazing to see. Thank you for this wonderful video.
if you were an archi,,you would be brainwashed..its all lies. this is why some do seminars, write books, because they go against mainstream bs there taught in uni.. did you get the jab, or threatened with job lose,,thats more bs propaganda.. all the cures were banned, i tried buying some.
Their lives did depend on it, both from their enemy the Mongols and the Chinese soldiers who made sure they worked as slaves their entire lives. The wall was built by peasants, slaves, criminals, and other people that the emperor decided to punish. Soldiers were involved in building the wall and in managing the workers as well. It is estimated that millions of people worked on the wall over the course of over 1000 years
Uh.. that is just an understatement. Lots of people lost their lives building it and many of them were part of the wall. Meaning they were just buried in the wall when they didn't make it while working on it.
It's interesting that while Asian learnt about all major world empires, westerners only know about Roman empire. I was surprised that a youtuber from Canada said he never knew ancient civilization Mohenjo Daro existed before as he never learn about it in school, and was surprised we Asian knew about it.
"It's not just an enduring symbol of ancient China, it's the story of China itself"... Hats off to the ingenuity of human minds, we can either unearth past or create future...
China's history is really cool. Modern China is actually only 75 to 80 years old. Spent 3 yrs there and got to learn so much about it. Really intriguing.
It's all like a journey to unknown destination and mysterious world I heartily appreciate the team for the valuable information and facts rendered by them it's really a painstaking job we have seen only the edited part ,indeed a great job and worthwhile.
I am totally blown away. What a great documentary with so much unknow facts being brought to the surface now. Incredibly fantastic work indeed by the whole team and crew.
Welcome to humanity. We are a complex beast indeed, capable of incredible joy, love, injinuity, engineering, compassion and yet the cruelest and more adapt at war than anything on the planet. Its a dichotomy.
The mountain section of the Wall must be the greatest engineering feat humans ever built. It is truly astounding how humans back then could build something like that, when with todays technology and calculations it would still be an amazing accomplishment
Many civilizations of old were far better in such endeavors than we are. Same goes for many types of simple machines and wood work. And it shouldn't be a suprise since they relied on such technology for their very survival and professions were life long affairs where incompetence meant starvation. Now imagine your motivation level to excel at what you do under those circumstances.
@@kiwibob223 I specifically referred the mountain section of the Wall, to build something like that in that kind of terrain is nothing short of amazing, especially considering the time it was built
Thank you so much for sharing this. I've lived in Cambodia for 27 years. I have such great respect for the Chinese but they are glossed over and all we Americans get is the history of Western Civilization
Most of British people don’t even know they invaded China in 1840 , some of them make money in China but use the money to travel to japan and say how good japan is . They don’t know japan destroyed china during world war 2
It's amazing, imagine what is inside the emperor's tomb. It was never opened. I think it would put Egypt to shame. Omg the perils and gold and universe map. God knows what elce. I'd say the emperor is preserved also. Did you see the 10.000years ago mummy in China. A woman. Totally preserved. They had the knowledge.
Increíble vídeo and información. I had the privilege of visiting China and the wonders of this country including the Chinese wall. I still feeling the emoción I had when I climbed the wall and learned about its history!!!!! Thank you so much for this presentation
The three sided arrows they referenced they found, is a very old technique to arrows. It is used in bayonets (equipped to rifles.) It completely prevents any healing or attempts to stop bleeding because of the three sides.
@@Zorro1993 it helped a lot in battle. however, the war is political and economy struggle between two country. the dynasty eventually end doesn't mean the great wall has no effect. actually such as ming dynasty, it is wusangui open the great wall door to let the qing army in
This is a great new way to analyze the Great Wall-- there's still so much to learn about it. About the Terra Cotta Warriors of Qin, I was thinking that perhaps the reason each warrior is unique is because they took impressions of the faces of his actual warriors, to immortalize them, as well. To honor them. ??
Its just extraordinary to think that a modern person can just read out a text written 2000 years ago without having to decode or change into the present text or language That is a big advantage when researching
Gotta shout out to camera and director on the wide shot of the terra cotta warriors scene: Have read about them and seen stills-but that wide establishing shot blew my mind. Knew they were unique and the site was “epic”. But holy Toledo and WOW! They ARE a whole freaking army…! Goosebumps. Go, Nat Geo.
I had the same feeling - thought I had an idea of the site from pictures, and I've even seen a few of them in a museum exhibit that traveled to the US (including life sized horses and chariots), but that wide shot was AMAZING. The living people circling the site were like ants...
Actually, the terra-cotta warriors were made based on real people, horses, and chariots, and even the size is almost the same. And what he said is that the expressions of each warrior are different, if you understand the details of this period of history, you will understand that this should be the earliest single-line accountability system in the world. It is possible to trace the person who made it according to the corresponding symbols on each pottery figure. If there is a production error, it will be either redone, or the person may face punishment or even death.
WOW! Just WOW! Absolutely incredible. I had no idea of the scope of the Great Wall Of China. As usual, thanks National Geographic for expanding my horizons! 😁
If they really wanted to, they could make a three hour long video packed with facts and interesting insights. That’s the way good production companies 40 to 50 years ago would do things. Better and more intelligently analyzed information was there for the small numbers of people who wanted to absorb it. Now it’s all about getting the most viewers by not stressing their attention spans too much. Maybe my take is “elitist”?? I don’t care. Profit motive degenerates everything.
I've been to the great wall before and it's something you must put on your bucket list. You wonder how any enemies can get up that high and over this tall structure. It's so high up, specifically stopping the horsemen.
We can views all the wounders of the world ! By todays modern technology . thanks for bring us like this videos . Excellent videography..Excellent explanations...
@@CarlosG2288 Just because something is on video on RUclips doesn't mean it has to be over excited, or absurd garbage. And no offense, but it isn't just RUclips. t's National Geographic - pretty much the authority on historical geography (thus their name), except the Asia part.
Thanks National Geographic Asia for making documentary.So many persons working for this especially chinese disclosing secrets of wall are worth y of praises. Lady reading chinese scriptures engraved on woods has done too hardwork.I thank that lovely lady.Any secrets of foreign require hardwork and difficult to assemble.Marvellous wall was heard as wall only.O.K.
"We've used modern mapping technology to reveal these amazing, mysterious structures, discovering never-before-seen parts of this ancient wall!" (walks right past the information sign standing in front of the tower put there for the tourists)
i was going to comment about that but you beat me to it. I understand the hype they want to create but that was just hilarious. You can see all that wire fences built along the wall with signs. The documentary was getting interesting until that..i dont even know if i can believe what he is saying.
That was hilarious, but it got seriously annoying when he pretends his team has just discovered something new...right before walking over to the archeologists already studying it and asking them questions. No irony whatsoever.
Really you have to give respect to the Chinese and there history, an ancient people who's rich warrior culture goes back thousands of years even before christ, an amazing achievement that culture has left. They should and must be proud of there history regardless of politics what an impressive culture hats off to China......
Some "warriors" hiding behind a wall... they wherent good warriors at all bunch of scared people hiding from the Mongolians 😂 if they where such good warriors they could have built city's with the bricks instead of the largest defensive structure in human history , I mean I'll give them this: they must have been scared shitless to want to waste that much time building a wall
I wish National Geographic would do shows without a western host at all and just interview the local researchers. Clearly the Chinese archeologists are very very knowledgeable about the subject, that one dude has literally seen half of the entire great wall of China. The host doesn't really give all that much information, at least everything he says can be found on wikipedia....
@Tom Barrett Ah yes, let’s just never ever express our wishes to any TV producer and instead just stay completely silent and let them guess what the viewers are interested in seeing. I’m sure that would result in great shows!
Amazing and impressive ... wonderful documentary. Thank you. Certainly gives you more insight into history and what people were able to accomplish working together.
It was a complete, savage struggle. I don't know what you mean. In fact, they built this wall over 400 years just to feel safe from the Mongols. Thats insane !
Totally impressed by this interesting informative and educational documentary I have ever have the pleasure of watching. The thing I appreciated over all else is the fact that the focus is on historic evidences of the Great Wall. And I am even more impressed by the neutral nature of the narratives. Too often one comes across so called documentaries on China which under the cover is nothing but a read of anti-China rhetoric.
Fascinating! I am SO jealous, this guy does what I was dreamed off all my life, it just didn't happened , but I can see who can. Incredible! Thank you!
@@kurbatska life is short, do/enjoy what ever you like.... I am one of the lucky few... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit!
My Mainland Chinese friends say, if you haven't visited The Great Wall, you've never been to China. I have visited three parts of the Wall. One touristy (renovated), one semi-touristy (they fixed only the areas that can be dangerous but retained most), and the last one, untouched (they left it in its original state). I forgot the names of these areas though. The touristy ones were easy hikes. But when I got to the unfixed one, I only lasted hiking 6 watch towers. I don't even know how people back then can climb very high steps like about 600mm, even more. They just followed the slopes of the mountain so there will be areas where the slope might be too steep. The last one I visited (the unfixed one) was the most memorable regardless of the rubble because I saw the wall in its raw state and I am simply amazed how after hundreds of years, the wood in those stations are still intact. I thought they would have rotted by now.
They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: ruclips.net/video/QamXrTW5z4Q/видео.html
the beacon tower also has an interesting story, they exist back during the zhou dynasty. one of the zhou king wanted to make his lady laugh so he lit the beacon, all the lord rush to the field like rohan only to discover it was a "joke", the lady did laugh, but when the raider really attack and the beacon was lit again, the powerful lord didn't came and the king had to flee, escorted only by the horse keeper who still came to the signal. as reward for escorting the king to safety, the horse keeper were given the land that was raided, this became what would be the Qin Dynasty that would eventually end Zhou and unified China... this is also partly why the other states tend to look down in Qin as they are not seen as particularly noble having descended from people that breed and care for horses for a living... of course they ain't laughing no more when they got conquered.
@@SpoolyT different people have different eyes. I went there it was snowing with no tourist. It was awesome. I went there 3 times and the last time I tried their mini roller coaster build for tourists who don’t wanna walk down the wall.
I went to Mutianyu near Beijing 6 years ago and it was some kind of unusual time. It was not hot but very warm, the sky was strikingly blue, a big difference for typical Beijing air quality. There was no one on the wall, no one. After a long while two young school girls dressed in uniforms came up, but no one else. After sometime passed and endless gazing, I turned and almost smashed into one of the girls. In a wall completely empty of people that goes on for thousands of miles, I found this odd. I then learned they were using me as a back drop for photo's. They may not have even seen a lao wai (foreigner) in person before, to get photographic evidence especially with themselves in it was likely special. Visiting other Beijing tourist area's, Chinese also there but from outside Beijing doing the same thing would even ask for a photo but most tried to covertly take them.
I'd be in awe. To walk on one of mankind's greatest feats, to touch a monumental object that has been placed there and touched by other humans long ago... It is right in front of me, bearing history, culture and expriences but forever silent. I wish I could ask the wall about its history lmao.
Been fascinated with the great wall since I was young. 40 years later these discoveries plus my learning of the vast fortress, has fired my fascination again.
It was an amazing story . Finally revealed the actual length of the " great Wall of China " it's really twice it's length than actually known . The expertise knowledge of the two parties was astonishing . The head of the crew well is a genius in the business . Working along without the unesco in of the " in depth " looks like for sure could handle it well . For sure credit goes to both parties ......
Do you know who rescued "The Art of War" for the Emperor. Who translated it, then lost the original in a fire, by accident. A Jesuit Priest in China about 500 yrs ago.
I have a question ....actually I don't know much about the history of China ...but had this been ever used by anyone ....I watched a video on utube about Mongols ...and they said that Mongols were able to invade China....so at the end this massive human made structure is useless....which may have took millions of lives .
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I lived in China for almost ten years. I have walked the Eastern end of the Great Wall and the Western end. It is an incredible sight and feeling! I traveled along the Silk Road and the Great Wall around Yumen.
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I think the most astonishing part is that any Chinese today, who can read could still read those 2000 years old wooden chips.
@Cjszila the thing is so called traditional Chinese is just a formal written language used for officials, while simplified Chinese has been around for hundreds of years used by the civilians. So that means in China mainland, any middle school graduates could basically read both.
What I meant is in ancient times. Now mainland China use simplified Chinese, officials or not.
It’s sucks we live in such a young country .
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@Repent! Why?
This kind of storytelling not only educates but also captures the imagination, making history and archaeology accessible and engaging for a broad audience.
I could do without the iPad/computer models
It is no wonder that Chinese around the world have this indomitable spirit to overcome all odds. The narratives of their forefathers' achievements are indeed inspiring.
Yeah, that's not it. Not even close. They are motivated to get their money outta China because they know the ccp is gonna collapse and the yuan will be worthless.
If they can overcome all odds why so they follow Winnie the pooh?
What a dumb question. He's the current president. No one "follows him", most Chinese don't care or think about politics in their daily lives, only care about improving their lives and the country.. It's like asking why every American follows Biden, the current US leader.
You sound hurt by Xi Jinping. Did he make you cry?
But the fact is.. Great wall of china didnt stand to defend china. But for themself.. So it means china didnt built that wall.. Their enemies built that wall..
You mean they got bullied so hard they made the largest defensive structure known to man to hide behind? That they where basically one of very few countries in history to rage quit a war and go lock themselves in their house forever
I dont really see how you got your thing from this but okay ?
There is nothing, NOTHING better than a documentary presented by someone who absolutely LOVES their subject...THIS is one of those documentaries.
Another is Michael Woods on Homer's Illiad :)
I can think of one thing better.
I am extremely impressed with the language ability of the lady in red. Besides her fluency in English, her Chinese language ability is far beyond regular people in China. She is able to read the ancient Chinese text which is fairly rare in today's China. She must be a successful academic herself.
now, any educated Chinese can read our acient book, so we call we are continous civilaztion, non- interrupted.
You misled the context. The Chinese symbols are almost similar to what they are using today (do more research about their symbols). It means the Chinese have continued their civilization for thousands of years, their civilization is nearly non-interrupted.
匈奴（Huns） is easy to read. The rest, not so straight forward.
She is a Chinese American historian, therefore her English should be good.
Yes her vocabulary skills are impressive 👍🏻
Based on the quality of these walls i can imagine how good their soldiers were back then.. maybe like thousands of Jackie Chan
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A little better than that. Jackie Chan is just a crown and a jerk. He does not represent any Chinese with high moral characters.
@@chiuchan4432 you just tell everyone you`re a joke
@@geromeney8379 You don't what he did to women and what he stands for. He can't compare himself to some other kung fu masters, Without Bruce Lee's blessing, he would still be a clown in a chinese opera or simply a bullish thug on the street.
Good. Back then jackie chan was the measurement unit of power
Even at my age, 74 years young, never too old to learn and be in awe of past civilisations, cultures and their technology, very inspiring and riveting so much respect for the archeological teams and their findings.
Pity we lost this.
Amazing! One of the best documentaries I've seen about the Great Wall of China. How fascinating is that they had meticulous instructions and literature for soldiers and commanders. This shows how highly educated they were over 2000 years ago! I'm just enchanted by this whole documentary.
National Geographic, please give us more episodes of history to this high level. Thank you.
absolutely fascinating is it not
They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: ruclips.net/video/QamXrTW5z4Q/видео.html
They have been and will be where they flowed. The globe belongs to China
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citation?
was it claimed or accused upon? We have families living in China for more than 2 decades. Never heard such claim.
Sorry for being ignorant… but why would you build the wall on the top these mountainous areas … as the mountains were already providing best protections against the would be enemies?
This is one of the best programs about China and the great wall that I've ever seen it's absolutely outstanding
Check out fall of civilisations by Paul m m Cooper, the Han dynasty , it’s amazing, if you’ve not already watched it ,enjoy
Exactly my sentiment.
Most of them are fake cheap modern architecture，rebuilt by local authority ,I could easily point out at a glance .Japanese’s video are much better.
@@jasonuk6381 I don't know what you are talking about, most are still the original walls from Ming, only a small percentage of walls were renovated on the original foundation and open to the tourist, I don't know where "fake cheap modern architecture" come from, you are really ignorant for the lack of better words.
I remember going to China and walking part of the Great Wall, It is mind blowing to see it stretch endlessly across the ridgeline of the mountains.
I went to the desert section of the wall with my father in 2019, we spent 3 hours walking around the wall 20:11 trying to find artifacts, eventually we found an arrow head made of stone, ( it has a very distinctive triangular shape around 1 inch long, a quarter inch wide). Imagining ancient Chinese and Mongolian had been fighting in the exact same wasteland thousands of years ago just makes you tremble and amazed by how human civilization has comes throughout the history.
It's probably going be used again in the future 🥺
History is so fascinating. Especially with thousands of years of recorded history.
I am Chinese, but the history of the war between the Chinese and the Mongols in ancient times did not exceed 900 years.
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الادعاء ان الصينيين قد بنو جدار الصين العظيم لصد الغزو المنغولي مجرد كذبه يتم تلقينها للوعي الجمعي كما هي كذبة الغزو المغولي للعالم .
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فالواقع السكاني الحالي لكلى البلدين ينفي اي امكانيه في ذلك الزمن لان يفكر المنغولين حتى بالقتال فضلا عن محاربة الصين او غزو العالم ! ! ! .
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فتعداد سكان منغوليا حاليا يبلغ قرابة 3ك2.5 مليون منغولي بينما الصين يبلغ سكانها قرابة 2 مليار انسان وتخيل كم كان عدد سكان كل بلد انذاك وفقا للنسبة والتناسب ! ! ! .
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فبكل الاحوال ووفقا لقانون النسبة والتناسب فالفارق بينهما ليعادل تقريبا الف انسان صيني الى منغولي واحد في كل تاريخهما وهذا ماينفي اكاذيب حرب المنغوليين للصين او الغزو المنغولي للعالم جملة وتفصيلا .
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هذا ناهيك عن عدم مقدرة الصين عن صد الغزو المنغولي المزعوم وبنائهم للجدار العظيم من اجل ذلك ! ! ! .
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وهذا امر غير مبرر اذ ان جيوش المغول كان يمكنها ان تلتف عن طريق نهايته من البحر او تلتف من طريق نهايته في الصحراء سيما وانه يزعم ان جيوشها عبرت القارات ووصلت لاوربا وافريقيا ! ! ! .
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مما يدل على زيف تلك الاكاذيب التي تلقن للوعي الجمعي حول غزو المغول ويثبت ان جدار الصين العظيم انما بني لصد عدو غير تقليدي لايمكنه الولوج للماء ومقيد بوقت لايمكنه تجاوزه ليلتف من نهاية الجدار في الصحراء .
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What did you do with the arrowhead?
The History of China reflects the determination to achieve their GOALS and can to this day only deserve the utmost respect.
Truly a Nation of Valor not to be taken by its humbleness but rather its foresight in protecting its own.
Respect from a South African Boer.
There is a Chinese saying story about "uncle Yu moves mountain" a children story about teaching determination can complete a task even if it takes generations to do it.
I am one of the lucky one... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit!
Good for you, I’m ex-military and I look at things in a different way 🤷♂️
Did a Ming or a Mongol invite you to an Ice Cream Social, while you were there? I would. You seem to be a decent sort of Woman. Not worth fighting for.
If china was not taken over my MAO -SE -TUNG AND TURNED INTO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY then I would love to visit china, other than that, you couldn't pay me to vist COMMUNIST RED CHINA.
Wow!
Did you post it to RUclips? If not it never happned!
It's so good to see Nat Geo actually creating some decent content. Unlike "the History Channel", they (so far) have not slipped into reality TV hell.
history channel: it must be the ancient aliens who built those walls!
Its all about the 💰
Don't want Forged in Fire reruns? What about American Pickers? LOL
The fake shows like Drugs Inc don’t count?
You could make a solid case that Qin She Huang Di is the most impressive figure in history based on his many accomplishments and the time when he lived. From producing the first unified China to the Great Wall to his monumental burial.
Yes, he is the one who made the written language that last to today in china and used through out china (traditional Chinese).
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He was also the first emperor to standardize writing, measurements, and currency for all of China. Before him, there were many writing systems in place and the currency was madness since so many different countries had been formed and got abolished by other states(I think around 60 or 70 kings had ruled over different parts of China for over 100 years). He was one of the most important ancient figures for 1/5 of the population on earth. You can safely say he was one of the few people that truly change humanity before modern days.
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That's why he is the ling hing dong ding.
Beyond the fact : Not even the recent technology does easily build this kind of masterpiece, forget the length, the wide, the tall etc but one thing is beyond our thoughts about building on the steep mountain terrain thousand years ago ... Totally speechless
Hundreds, Not thousend
@@brick72thousands ... plus
Speechless is right!
Cheap, forced slave labor is a wonderful thing for making things such as these. No payroll, they wear out, you buy new ones. The way it happened. Same as Egypt's wonders. South America's wonders. Slave labor and the way of the old world. Too much Socialist Bureaucracy nowadays to make that project anything less than 100 million USD lol.
Fabulous so clever
Excellent documentary about one of the most interesting countries , with long history , empires , wars , trading ,arts and fascinating architecture !
Food!!!!!
Nowadays we call them an emerging power, but in reality they have almost always been at the forefront of progress
@@benoitbergeron8858 yes, they were actually the first ones to establish stable oceanic trade routes...their issue was that the later empires were extremely xenophobic, and thus decided to close the borders and cease any contact with anyone from outside china ( although they kept trading in african slaves, but unlike White people, they would demand that all black male slaves would be castrated, to prevent having any of them defile chinese women and taint their genes)...that slowed down their technological progress tremendously...if not for that, it might've been them, and not us whites, to create the most advanced society in history so far.
Wel said. Unfortunately, US and China are starting to close themselves.
@@marsenstudio2208 . Especially the street-foods are tasty and excellent . Much better than those in the famous tea-houses and restaurants.
What a truly breath taking piece of engineering and more than 2000 years old.
Blood, sweat and tears. Lives too.
The Great Wall has been built and reinforced throughout various dynasties, and in recent years, China has constructed sections of it specifically for tourism purposes.
I have studied the Great Wall of China for many years. After watching this documentary video from National Geographic, I came to the conclusion that it is the most informative archaeological study on this topic that has been produced so far. Great Job!
...i am a history teacher in high school and this is the first time that i have heard this...as i am writing my thesis at the moment, it took me literary 2 days to listen to this fully...rewinding every so often...thank you for bringing this amazing discovery right at my doorstep...keep safe
You might wanna properly educate yourself then cause this stuff has been known for decades and centuries lol
@@Lemon83166 lots of things have been known for for decades and centuries, I’m sure you know just a fraction of them as well. be happy that someone learned something new instead of a negative and judgmental troll.
@suzannedeb181 did you know USA is a Constitutional Republic? The president of the USA has zero authority over us FYI
Do you mean it literally took you 2 days?
You didn't know about the wall???!!! Do you live in a box or something?🙃
I lived in China for 6 years and I always marvel at the Great Wall whenever I visit it.. It is just magical and mind blowing!!
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I so wish I had gone in the 90's when I was younger !
@@alrightyru it’s never too late as long as you’re physically able!
@@dickhitswater4836 no sane person would knowingly put themselves inside China's borders...it hasn't been safe for a long time ..
edit: which makes me really sad but makes me want to explore my own country more
A villager asked by the historian if he ever visited the Wall near Beijing. He answered "never"!
I have been to the Great Wall. When I truly stood on the wall, I just realized how tiny a person is in the long history. that's a very complicated feeling.
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That, and the smell of urine.
totally agreed. and it represents human civilization for ever.
寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟，哀吾生之须臾，羡长江之无穷--苏东坡《赤壁赋》
China 🇨🇳 is so vast and so beautiful what a amazing country 😍
same I think
Qin Shi Huang didn’t just build the Great Wall and leave behind terracotta warriors, he standardised language, script, scales and currency.
Edit: why are so many westerners in the comments blabbering about the great wall death toll in ancient china? every single chinese child knows about it and we even have stories and legends of the peasants who suffered and died building the great wall. we respect them. why are white people getting on their moral high horse again? maybe you'll have space to sound so condescending if the roman empire didn't use slaves AND if your dutch, belgium, british, american ancestors didn't just have slavery a few hundred years ago and are still downplaying it today.
great wall predate Qin, Qin only had the wall standardized like much of his empire...
37:55 Forced 300K soldiers and 500K laborers to work on its construction. In other words slaves. But National Geographic couldn’t use that word?
@@chrisb9960 and so were most other kingdoms and empires in the world. Well, that's the way in those days
@@nanetha13 I agree.
@@chrisb9960 nat geo is owned by Disney I’m pretty sure. Disney wouldn’t want to annoy China and lose their market there.
I've never had an interest in the great wall of China until watching this amazingly impressive and thoroughly entertaining presentation. Thanks NG.
Magnificent structure. One can only imagine how many lives were lost building these walls. Thanks for sharing
The whole wall is bodies of those who lost their lives building it packed with dirt and whatever else they used to fill it. That’s a lot of bodies even if they are spread out, probably over 1k in total.
@@noahjohns7954 its Slave, Criminals, or Rebellion. So its cheap workers 👍.
At least 5
@@trying3650 they never mentioned that though because it's only acceptable to remember American people ever used slaves. The history of everyone else, they used "workers." 👩🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
@@trying3650 But I thought only whites had slaves according to narrative nowadays?
I have been to the Great Wall three times and I have tears in my eyes every time. It’s truly magnificent.
did u go the filled tourist part of the great wall or the odd areas instead
@@thogusdonatus4607 both in different times.
I have never seen the Pyramids or other seven wonders of the World, but ive been on the Great Wall at Mutianyu , where the Great Wall has been preserved since he was build...and I gotta say...its astonishing !.. you feel so small, but at the samevtime so big being there and thinking how many battles that wall witnessed!? I believe The Great Wall must be in everyones bucket list!
"preserved" you mean re-built for tourism.
they carved the wall out the mountain everybody knows this now
I am one of the lucky few... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit! Mutianyu is good but no comparison!
@@justme6275 course you have
We respect any word interpretation a commentator have. Everybody is entitled to one.
32:13 The sophistication of the “early warning system” has truly struck me with awe. The wisdom and resourcefulness of the ancient Chinese were just so astounding!
sad to say but they aint, they had an alternative better but it was a hundred years forward
There exists today *very high levels* of animosity towards China, but watching this makes me feel a little bit less of it. They've been in the game a long time. Respect.
YUP. China is just an old player on this planet. and books from ancient are more important.
such as 'the art of war' which is wrote 2000 years ago can be used to deal with global geopolitics today.
and the 'the romance of three kingdom' could also be a guide for generals.
Terracotta Warriors of Emperor Qin, Sanxingdui
Can visit, worth looking forward to
Beautiful documentary! Worth all 44 mins!
The narrator isnt pronuncing the two words very clearly：Han is the dynasty, Hun are the invaders.
You mean sentences? And why would you be bothered about it so much, tibet is invaded and occupied, good job you!
@Aytekin Sökmen huns are mongols
different country man chill everyone speak differently but u understood right? yeah. just leave it
Can you pls tell me ...have this wall been ever used.....and I watched a video on utube about Mongols ...and they said that Mongols were able to invade China.
@aytekin sokmen huns was described with black hair black eyes and dark yellow skin, if that is not how you look, then huns has nothing to do with you
I went to JinShanLing and SiMaTai several times in the 90's, the last time being about 2002. It was not touristy way back then whereas Badaling near Beijing was just overcrowded with tourists. The views are definitely spectacular and the wall was broken in many places and also dangerous in others like one spot called "The Eagles Nest". Well worth a visit.
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don't go if you acrophobia my lages shake badlly when i climbed wild walls
We rode our bikes there from Beida. We spent the night camping on the wall but not without first having to hide from the locals who were chasing us. This sort of behaviour was already suspicious back in the 90's.
Allan Maca, thanks so much for bringing the explanation of the Great walls to us.
This has been so interesting to watch. NationalGeographic does an amazing job on all of the videos they produce. Thanks so much and maybe one day we will meet and talk.
The Great Wall of China is a symbol of peace, civilization, and determination.
Especially for people that died building it.
Make a series based on this, it shall be so long. Amazing engineering and architectural designs. GENIUS!!!
they already have but not by National Geographic
@@i444-b9w what's the series called?
@@renforest ancient marvels History TV18
People have been building walls forever. It doesn't take a genius to build one.
Building a wall takes an architectural genius? 2200 years ago The Greeks were building beautiful temples and carving gorgeous statues that would be challenging to do today. Same with the Romans. So they must have been beyond genius.
This whole thing is so mind blowing. I can't begin to fathom how intelligent the ancient Chinese were.
they were,nt, they were taught, like all the ancient worlds remaining civilizations after the flood..by our creators, aliens. how did ancient man know about precession, 24,000 yrs long, or have maps of the whole world, accurate..do you know what rocks contain what minerals,,they did,,how..hers a fun fact,,b/foot,,was made,,genetically,,before man..we were first made as clones..workers.. you cant fathom anything, cos your meant to be d..mb..easier to control..
I cannot fathom how many workers died to build those walls. 😅
@@HM-cn5sz 肯定比被别人侵略牺牲的人少
lol they scared shit out of from mongols. imagine building wall in 400 years just to be feel safe. damn
Intelligent? No... scared , they where scared of the Mongolians lol
What an amazing video on the great wall. My wife and I walked on it a couple of years ago along with seeing the terracotta warriors and these two things were amazing to see. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Agreed .... excellent educational video.
The Great Wall is made because of the Türks-mogol, they destroy the wall you don’t see that in the video
cenghiz Han . Kürsat Han
Loved this documentary! Thank you! I always wished I’d become an archeologist but ended up being an RN! But I love watching all these discoveries!
if you were an archi,,you would be brainwashed..its all lies. this is why some do seminars, write books, because they go against mainstream bs there taught in uni.. did you get the jab, or threatened with job lose,,thats more bs propaganda.. all the cures were banned, i tried buying some.
Looking at how solid the walls were, we can say that the builders built it like their lives depends on it.
Their lives did depend on it, both from their enemy the Mongols and the Chinese soldiers who made sure they worked as slaves their entire lives. The wall was built by peasants, slaves, criminals, and other people that the emperor decided to punish. Soldiers were involved in building the wall and in managing the workers as well. It is estimated that millions of people worked on the wall over the course of over 1000 years
They did.
Uh.. that is just an understatement. Lots of people lost their lives building it and many of them were part of the wall. Meaning they were just buried in the wall when they didn't make it while working on it.
it's gave me goosebumps, how majestic china dynasty before
@ランデルさん now and in the future china will lead in economy, science and technology we will see....
@@addifrans240 humanity?
@@aubreysong Believe me , there is no champion behind humanity.
1:42 wait this guy has a horse in the desert...is he slow
It's interesting that while Asian learnt about all major world empires, westerners only know about Roman empire. I was surprised that a youtuber from Canada said he never knew ancient civilization Mohenjo Daro existed before as he never learn about it in school, and was surprised we Asian knew about it.
"It's not just an enduring symbol of ancient China, it's the story of China itself"... Hats off to the ingenuity of human minds, we can either unearth past or create future...
Better to LIVE in the present!
@@VitomirMilosevic You are absolutely right but my point doesn't relate to living in the past or future... Read the comment again.. ✌
civilization.
I don't think I've ever seen such detail in an archeological show. Fantastic details, and shows what it would've looked like in it's own time.
China's history is really cool. Modern China is actually only 75 to 80 years old. Spent 3 yrs there and got to learn so much about it. Really intriguing.
Its really pain in ass for us to learn our history
It's all like a journey to unknown destination and mysterious world I heartily appreciate the team for the valuable information and facts rendered by them it's really a painstaking job we have seen only the edited part ,indeed a great job and worthwhile.
Are you a Muslim? That's why you hate Russians. This is clearly a religious war.
I am totally blown away. What a great documentary with so much unknow facts being brought to the surface now. Incredibly fantastic work indeed by the whole team and crew.
Does biro rhyme with giro’s?
This was pretty common knowledge in East Asia.
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Can anyone explainthat someone had this ysblet before me
War, slavery, brutality, tyrants,... archeology proves mankind hasn't changed much.
Welcome to humanity. We are a complex beast indeed, capable of incredible joy, love, injinuity, engineering, compassion and yet the cruelest and more adapt at war than anything on the planet. Its a dichotomy.
The mountain section of the Wall must be the greatest engineering feat humans ever built. It is truly astounding how humans back then could build something like that, when with todays technology and calculations it would still be an amazing accomplishment
Many civilizations of old were far better in such endeavors than we are. Same goes for many types of simple machines and wood work. And it shouldn't be a suprise since they relied on such technology for their very survival and professions were life long affairs where incompetence meant starvation. Now imagine your motivation level to excel at what you do under those circumstances.
It's scale is amazing but it's just a wall in the end.
I've built walls of stone, really not that complicated.
@@kiwibob223 I specifically referred the mountain section of the Wall, to build something like that in that kind of terrain is nothing short of amazing, especially considering the time it was built
@@evilTaker90V2it's just a short wall. The pyramids are far more impressive. The rest of the wall is its length.
How hard for every person who carry the rocks above the mountains maybe they used horses to carry the rocks above the mountains
Thank you so much for sharing this. I've lived in Cambodia for 27 years. I have such great respect for the Chinese but they are glossed over and all we Americans get is the history of Western Civilization
Most of British people don’t even know they invaded China in 1840 , some of them make money in China but use the money to travel to japan and say how good japan is . They don’t know japan destroyed china during world war 2
...been here in 2019...and it was a dream come true...great Wall...great ancient architecture that has a great impact on history...
It's amazing, imagine what is inside the emperor's tomb. It was never opened. I think it would put Egypt to shame. Omg the perils and gold and universe map. God knows what elce. I'd say the emperor is preserved also. Did you see the 10.000years ago mummy in China. A woman. Totally preserved. They had the knowledge.
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Did you bring back covid?
Increíble vídeo and información. I had the privilege of visiting China and the wonders of this country including the Chinese wall. I still feeling the emoción I had when I climbed the wall and learned about its history!!!!! Thank you so much for this presentation
The three sided arrows they referenced they found, is a very old technique to arrows. It is used in bayonets (equipped to rifles.) It completely prevents any healing or attempts to stop bleeding because of the three sides.
Look at the tolerance of the construction. Truly a wonder of the world. amazing.
So ameging. They are the best contractor !!! In the world.
As a Chinese, I knew very little about the great wall before. Thanks for showing us the full story!
I remember history course teach that, did you forget.at first qin shihuang connected the walls built by the seven war states
Learn more! If you think you are Chinese.
@@亲爱的爸爸 The destroyer of the wall cenghiz Han and Kürsat Han your wall have not safe you it’s in the history books 🇹🇷🐺🇲🇳
@@Zorro1993 it helped a lot in battle. however, the war is political and economy struggle between two country. the dynasty eventually end doesn't mean the great wall has no effect. actually such as ming dynasty, it is wusangui open the great wall door to let the qing army in
@@Zorro1993 your thinking is too simple, either all right or all wrong? i can do some critical thinking
This is a great new way to analyze the Great Wall-- there's still so much to learn about it. About the Terra Cotta Warriors of Qin, I was thinking that perhaps the reason each warrior is unique is because they took impressions of the faces of his actual warriors, to immortalize them, as well. To honor them. ??
Its just extraordinary to think that a modern person can just read out a text written 2000 years ago without having to decode or change into the present text or language That is a big advantage when researching
That's because Chinese civilization has never been extinct, and even an ordinary Chinese can read part of the ancient writing
@@上官竹喧 That is something to brag about
@@WhyDark2000 Yes, each world has its own style of doing things, we do not go to say others, that others please do not say us
Despite that it's insane how much of their research and culture was lost. Though communism will do that to a country.
Gotta shout out to camera and director on the wide shot of the terra cotta warriors scene: Have read about them and seen stills-but that wide establishing shot blew my mind. Knew they were unique and the site was “epic”. But holy Toledo and WOW! They ARE a whole freaking army…! Goosebumps. Go, Nat Geo.
I had the same feeling - thought I had an idea of the site from pictures, and I've even seen a few of them in a museum exhibit that traveled to the US (including life sized horses and chariots), but that wide shot was AMAZING. The living people circling the site were like ants...
Visited xian in 2018. It was 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Actually, the terra-cotta warriors were made based on real people, horses, and chariots, and even the size is almost the same. And what he said is that the expressions of each warrior are different, if you understand the details of this period of history, you will understand that this should be the earliest single-line accountability system in the world. It is possible to trace the person who made it according to the corresponding symbols on each pottery figure. If there is a production error, it will be either redone, or the person may face punishment or even death.
What's been excavated thus far is only fraction of what's still unexcavated!!
What a waste of money and time the egotistical king used to make the terra cotta warriors! And what's more perplexing is he buried them!
WOW! Just WOW! Absolutely incredible. I had no idea of the scope of the Great Wall Of China. As usual, thanks National Geographic for expanding my horizons! 😁
I'm thankful that this video was created because I've always wanted to learn about it and I love China people there so smart and are very hard workers
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honestly i like watching documentaries like this and to see some beautiful places in other countries..
If National Geographic would edit out all the hype and fluff, this would be a 5 minute video.
If they really wanted to, they could make a three hour long video packed with facts and interesting insights. That’s the way good production companies 40 to 50 years ago would do things. Better and more intelligently analyzed information was there for the small numbers of people who wanted to absorb it. Now it’s all about getting the most viewers by not stressing their attention spans too much. Maybe my take is “elitist”?? I don’t care. Profit motive degenerates everything.
You could make it 5 minutes as well, by easily skipping through.
SPACE. SCIENCE. DETAILS. REALLY COOL.
Ah the age of the short attention span. 😂
It's "Entertainment" if you want just the facts...read about it. That would be hard for people this day in age. I'm here for the Fluff.
I've been to the great wall before and it's something you must put on your bucket list. You wonder how any enemies can get up that high and over this tall structure. It's so high up, specifically stopping the horsemen.
Lol the horsemen just went around it
Do you know cengihiz Han kürsat Han
🇹🇷🐺🇲🇳 look history
I congratulate the horsemen. They've crossed it. Lol
We can views all the wounders of the world ! By todays modern technology .
thanks for bring us like this videos .
Excellent videography..Excellent explanations...
Mr beast: BREAKING THE Great Wall AND SURPRISING CHINA WITH A BIGGER AND BETTER ONE!
Hahahaha
Walls don't work.... Except this one for 6000 years....
China :-nuke him asap
India :- agreed
UNESCO :- drop nuke
I was there. One of the most eyes opening achievements of my life.
It looks like it was a waste of time and energy and a lot of fear.
@@mikevic9366 you should see what the Mongolians did to villages they wanted to pillage
@@mikevic9366 your history teacher may crying right now lol
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So it's really that narrow? At 0:38?
Interesting topic but unwatchable because of the over excited script.
That's always the problem with american documentaries
And the fantasy legends being proven true on camera. Lol
@Mary Clawson Do you even know what that means? You obviously have the brain power of an ant.
Read a historical book instead 🤷♂️ or even audio book. No offense but you’re on youtube...
@@CarlosG2288 Just because something is on video on RUclips doesn't mean it has to be over excited, or absurd garbage. And no offense, but it isn't just RUclips. t's National Geographic - pretty much the authority on historical geography (thus their name), except the Asia part.
Thanks National Geographic Asia for making documentary.So many persons working for this especially chinese disclosing secrets of wall are worth y of praises. Lady reading chinese scriptures engraved on woods has done too hardwork.I thank that lovely lady.Any secrets of foreign require hardwork and difficult to assemble.Marvellous wall was heard as wall only.O.K.
"We've used modern mapping technology to reveal these amazing, mysterious structures, discovering never-before-seen parts of this ancient wall!"
(walks right past the information sign standing in front of the tower put there for the tourists)
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lol....
i was going to comment about that but you beat me to it. I understand the hype they want to create but that was just hilarious. You can see all that wire fences built along the wall with signs. The documentary was getting interesting until that..i dont even know if i can believe what he is saying.
That was hilarious, but it got seriously annoying when he pretends his team has just discovered something new...right before walking over to the archeologists already studying it and asking them questions. No irony whatsoever.
I have animals look🐱😅
this is one of the place everyone should go before getting old.
U will be monitored by CCP
@@ddizon666 Go cry.
@@imchink lol
You won't be able to climb, don't wait till your old
corona is waving
Really you have to give respect to the Chinese and there history, an ancient people who's rich warrior culture goes back thousands of years even before christ, an amazing achievement that culture has left. They should and must be proud of there history regardless of politics what an impressive culture hats off to China......
Chinese came from Africa
@@collinsoconnor5843 you too
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Some "warriors" hiding behind a wall...
they wherent good warriors at all bunch of scared people hiding from the Mongolians 😂 if they where such good warriors they could have built city's with the bricks instead of the largest defensive structure in human history , I mean I'll give them this: they must have been scared shitless to want to waste that much time building a wall
China #1
The labor involved to construct this is unimaginable ! Mind blowing !
I have had the privilege of visiting and walking along the Great Wall - and it truly is GREAT!
President Trump's wall is better.
"to investigate what seems to be a mysterious tower..." Information sign for tourist right next to it....
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It's a TV show, they have to make it dramatic I guess?!? Geez
Wow how astounding! Thank you for bringing this great history and human endeavor to the front of our eyes!
The Great Wall is amazing, which shows China is also amazing
I wish National Geographic would do shows without a western host at all and just interview the local researchers. Clearly the Chinese archeologists are very very knowledgeable about the subject, that one dude has literally seen half of the entire great wall of China. The host doesn't really give all that much information, at least everything he says can be found on wikipedia....
Tom Barrett what to ignorant to acknowledge truth? How about we foreigners do a doc about the west? Ha🤡
@Tom Barrett Ah yes, let’s just never ever express our wishes to any TV producer and instead just stay completely silent and let them guess what the viewers are interested in seeing. I’m sure that would result in great shows!
@@SameLif3 word lol
Why are you so racist? If this was full of all local researchers, I wouldn't watch at all.
@@makralecturer LMAO why is it racist to want to hear the local archeologists speak more?? I’m interested in what they have to say.
Amazing and impressive ... wonderful documentary. Thank you. Certainly gives you more insight into history and what people were able to accomplish working together.
the workers were treated as slaves, not as part of the "team"...
It was a complete, savage struggle. I don't know what you mean. In fact, they built this wall over 400 years just to feel safe from the Mongols. Thats insane !
Totally impressed by this interesting informative and educational documentary I have ever have the pleasure of watching. The thing I appreciated over all else is the fact that the focus is on historic evidences of the Great Wall. And I am even more impressed by the neutral nature of the narratives. Too often one comes across so called documentaries on China which under the cover is nothing but a read of anti-China rhetoric.
So enlightening and great storytelling. Thank you National Geography
Fascinating! I am SO jealous, this guy does what I was dreamed off all my life, it just didn't happened , but I can see who can. Incredible! Thank you!
Then just go, what's stopping you? Go to China and explore the wall!
@@Shepard-1 I have been in China :) just didn't have enough time :(
Dreams come true 🗣️YOU CAN DO ANYTHING TO PUT YOUR MIND TOO! Don't give up🥺🙏🏿you never know who is watching, who you can inspire
You mean envious, not jealous
@@kurbatska life is short, do/enjoy what ever you like.... I am one of the lucky few... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit!
My Mainland Chinese friends say, if you haven't visited The Great Wall, you've never been to China. I have visited three parts of the Wall. One touristy (renovated), one semi-touristy (they fixed only the areas that can be dangerous but retained most), and the last one, untouched (they left it in its original state). I forgot the names of these areas though. The touristy ones were easy hikes. But when I got to the unfixed one, I only lasted hiking 6 watch towers. I don't even know how people back then can climb very high steps like about 600mm, even more. They just followed the slopes of the mountain so there will be areas where the slope might be too steep. The last one I visited (the unfixed one) was the most memorable regardless of the rubble because I saw the wall in its raw state and I am simply amazed how after hundreds of years, the wood in those stations are still intact. I thought they would have rotted by now.
A good hat (roof) & good boots (stone foundation) are the key to a house lasting nearly forever.
i couldn't imagine the workers who built that huge structure...
a very impressive architectural achievements to the people who built this
This wasn't an achievement.... this was slavery. All great artifacts beyond the realm of regular structures are built that way.
@@AikawaMartialArts长城建设之前，奴隶已被解放，原因是自由人工作效率更高。中国的平民愿意为国家付出更多，尽管那很悲惨。
they used tons of slaves and when the slaves died they threw the bodies and build the wall with those bodies in them
nope the pyramids had well paid workers in Egypt @@AikawaMartialArts
我是中国人🇨🇳，Welcome to know and share our history. Welcome to visit China and enjoy the traditional culture and great mountains and rivers of China!
I love china.. I rather be chinese than american. Your country is really great.. look this marvelous structures far way better what west have.
@@radmotoph1496朋友，换护照吗？
@@radmotoph1496朋友，换身份吗？我正在申请美国id
@@低能儿You have the freedom to live where you want. The neighbor's meal seems better.
@@chromecastchu7685 没钱没自由，不是人人都可以去美国的，签证很严格
I would love to visit china one day. It is such a beautiful country with rich diverse culture!
All of Chinas culture now resides in Taiwan. The CCP systematically, and deliberately destroyed all its ancient culture. For the good of its people?
always few delusional nut cases no matter what it is...
They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: ruclips.net/video/QamXrTW5z4Q/видео.html
@@renadog1 funny joke
@@szelun74 Not so funny if you were there
ruclips.net/video/GAGgXz_N98U/видео.html
How the farmers built such a large project at that time is really great. The tomb of King Qin Shi has not been dug up until now.
" The beacons are lit!, Gondor calls for aid! ....'' And Rohan will answer! " very exciting history btw.
the beacon tower also has an interesting story, they exist back during the zhou dynasty. one of the zhou king wanted to make his lady laugh so he lit the beacon, all the lord rush to the field like rohan only to discover it was a "joke", the lady did laugh, but when the raider really attack and the beacon was lit again, the powerful lord didn't came and the king had to flee, escorted only by the horse keeper who still came to the signal. as reward for escorting the king to safety, the horse keeper were given the land that was raided, this became what would be the Qin Dynasty that would eventually end Zhou and unified China... this is also partly why the other states tend to look down in Qin as they are not seen as particularly noble having descended from people that breed and care for horses for a living... of course they ain't laughing no more when they got conquered.
Lol
The lighting of the beacons is my favourite LOTR scene.
Loved every minute. So educational
Let's all stop picking apart every detail of the documentary and just enjoy the views and old history of China.
Yeah, but, Holy Smokes?? He actually said, HOLY SMOKES? Hahahaha! Come on.... lol
@@kstrauss100 😂
@@kstrauss100 lol, should be the defence fireworks of communication
Why not simply advise or suggest people to turn off the audio?
True. I'd like to see the complainers make a perfect informational video on anything. I'm guessing they can't and wouldn't even try.
I remember the first time I visited the Great Wall. It was the best year of my life.
When I went it was full tourists, littered w more trash and smell of urine.
Just trash everywhere.
OMG, bathrooms were so nasty...
@@SpoolyT different people have different eyes. I went there it was snowing with no tourist. It was awesome. I went there 3 times and the last time I tried their mini roller coaster build for tourists who don’t wanna walk down the wall.
@@SpoolyT I’ve been there multiple times and I’ve never seen what you’re stating....so
@@SpoolyT I think I've mistaken india wd china 😁 when I visited it was very clean but no smell of urine or anything .
I went to Mutianyu near Beijing 6 years ago and it was some kind of unusual time. It was not hot but very warm, the sky was strikingly blue, a big difference for typical Beijing air quality. There was no one on the wall, no one. After a long while two young school girls dressed in uniforms came up, but no one else. After sometime passed and endless gazing, I turned and almost smashed into one of the girls. In a wall completely empty of people that goes on for thousands of miles, I found this odd. I then learned they were using me as a back drop for photo's. They may not have even seen a lao wai (foreigner) in person before, to get photographic evidence especially with themselves in it was likely special. Visiting other Beijing tourist area's, Chinese also there but from outside Beijing doing the same thing would even ask for a photo but most tried to covertly take them.
Great documentary. So many new things to learn. Thanks to the whole team. Bravo♥️
12:11 Passion is when someone hugs ancient walls and gush over it.
Amazing. Documentary.
I'd be in awe. To walk on one of mankind's greatest feats, to touch a monumental object that has been placed there and touched by other humans long ago... It is right in front of me, bearing history, culture and expriences but forever silent. I wish I could ask the wall about its history lmao.
Yes. Look up the 7 wonders of the world. The great pyramids are also another mankind's greatest feat.
Been fascinated with the great wall since I was young. 40 years later these discoveries plus my learning of the vast fortress, has fired my fascination again.
just go !!
It was an amazing story . Finally revealed the actual length of the " great Wall of China " it's really twice it's length than actually known . The expertise knowledge of the two parties was astonishing . The head of the crew well is a genius in the business . Working along without the unesco in of the " in depth " looks like for sure could handle it well . For sure credit goes to both parties ......
This is very enjoyable. It is a great documentary
I would expect nothing less from the country that gave us The Art of War!
Do you know who rescued "The Art of War" for the Emperor.
Who translated it, then lost the original in a fire, by accident. A Jesuit Priest in China about 500 yrs ago.
I have a question ....actually I don't know much about the history of China ...but had this been ever used by anyone ....I watched a video on utube about Mongols ...and they said that Mongols were able to invade China....so at the end this massive human made structure is useless....which may have took millions of lives .
@@SinghGya I might recommend you look up some videos about said wall on a channel called "Newearth."
@Frash Cao thanks 👍
@Frash Cao ohh ...no u really wrote well 😁....even I am not a native speaker of english...english is my second language.☺️
Your enthusiasm and wonder comes bounding across to us in this video - it's wonderful.
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Amazing. I have always wondered and yet never imagined the details and history behind the Great Wall. Thank you very much.
This should be one of my bucket list. Incredible documentary.