Fun fact: The first African Ambassador to China Came from Mogadishu. It's bizarre how city like Mogadishu was overlooked in term of history even though they used to be the metropolis where people all around the world used to come to Mogadishu for trade since it was one of the Indian ocean trade road and one of the greatest city in Africa during medieval times. The fact that you can find ruined castles and Ports dating back to that period just shows how Prosperous the city was
@@miguelservetus9534 it's not that well known in our time. The fact is I learn about this information when I did history search in this city. You can find this mostly in Wikipedia but it's rare to find videos in RUclips talking about this city comparing to other African city
@@kappa3399 It is my understanding that ancient Somali and Egypt were of an older ethnicity that is not around or known anymore. They built the spice trade in ancient Somali. But most of what exists of Somalia today is the result of the Arabic/Muslim slave and ivory trade. Correct me if I'm wrong.
In medieval cities of Somalia like Mogadishu, archaeologists have recovered coins dating back to the Song and Ming Dynasties, as well as coins from medieval Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Venice, while Somali coins have been discovered in modern Turkey, Dubai and Iraq.
I love this fact. The Horn of Africa and The eastern coast had a vibrant and prosperous relationship with Asia for centuries before the Portuguese landed ships in the Malaccas. Ethiopia specifically had relations with India and China for a long time before they shacked up with the Europeans
@@tnm1697 the Horn of Africa had a strong ancient link with the Greco-Roman world too, starting with Opone's trade with Mycenaean Greece and lasting as late as the Axumite-Byzantine Alliance against the Persian Empire.
Your channel acts as a portal into another time. One of the few places where I actually feel like I am looking into the past. Thank you for reigniting my passion in history!
The Arabs, Persians, Africans, Chinese all had contact, the silk road. They had huge respect for each other not only exhanging goods but also knowledge and ideas at libraries and universities like Timbuktu.
China back then was the world's superpower. Everyone traded and was influenced by Chinese culture. Much like now with American culture and the United States as the modern world superpower.
They are the human spirit in its essence , to unify man under our passions and beauty. East and West is merely where our hearts lie , their stuff and wonder is synonymous throughout. All speaking in different languages yet the exact tone .
I wouldn't say hes overlooked. the anglosphere is typically ignorant of chinese culture and history but you'll find tons of RUclips channels with videos about him. I'd argue hes one of the more well known Chinese historical figures and his treasure fleet is one of the more well known parts of imperial chinese history outside of wars or dealings with Europe.
@@josephjoestar995 That's a different person. Zhang He (Dynasty Warriors) was active during the three kingdoms period 3rd century AD. And this Zheng He is from 14-15th century AD. And although their names look similar, they use different characters altogether.
Imagine being the first Somali to set foot in Imperial China, all the stories, trading, & shock of the era must’ve been amazing to witness. The art direction in this narration beautiful.
I live in Mogadishu and would love to dive extensively on these shores. Due to recent instability, not a whole lot of archeological work has been done and I can only imagine the relics on the beds of these waters.
Fun fact: Sa'id of Mogadishu is said to be the first African to ever translate Mandarin into a native African language such as Somali. Both languages influence on each other can still be seen today. The Mandarin word for Giraffe is the same as the Somali word for it since Giraffes are native to Africa and the Chinees would've first been introduced to them by the Somalis.
@@ibizawavey8630 all types of things colonialism, foreign intervention, civil war, becoming the children refugees, identity crisis, traitors etc. being born in a foreign place In destitute poverty is enough to push anyone to crime. If you get hungry enough you will do what is necessary to survive, when it comes to self preservation and all that morality goes out the window. Besides a lot of children of those first gen are angry at the cards they were dealt knowing full well how their great grandparents lived, also having your nation of origin constantly slandered in the media doesn’t exactly help u feel “British” or whatever that is so you reject that label “British” and maintain your culture I remember I use to hate speaking English felt like I was whitewashing myself, I’d be in top set English speaking fluent Somali to my friends my teacher would get so irritated because she couldn’t understand us lol. Most Somalis in the west are now 2nd gen entering adulthood raised by their parents raised in Somalia while growing up in Britain. You are stereotyping a bit most Somalis don’t engage in “criminal behaviour” even though some do. But I feel if you compare statistically to other first gen migrants communities criminality levels are equal or less then for example south Asians in the 20s or Caribbeans in the 50-60s or west Africans in the 80s. Criminality usually peaks in the second gen of immigrants as they usually have it the worse time. First gen are to scared to break the laws as they don’t understand the system second gen understand the system but have nothing to lose and third gen chill out because they have shit to lose.
@@The_Art_of_AI_888 ”Long nec deer“ actually is its modern name. In the history, it was called "Qilin" in Madarin or "kirin" in Japanese. I guess it might sound similar to the word in Somali.
I used to work in a museum in Mombasa (Fort Jesus). Chinese porcelain is there in mostly perfect condition. Thanks for the video! Amazing job. Keep it up.
The visuals and audio of this channel are absolutely awesome. Just to say, I'm a Baba Nyonya Chinese from Malaysia, meaning my ancestors came to the Malaccan Empire during this time and stayed. 600 years later, we're still here with a mixed culture of Chinese and local Malays. My Hokkien language is also mixed more than half with Malay words. A tradition and culture I'm absolutely proud of.
Not many history channels do much on Ming China, so this was pretty great :D Hope you guys do something on medieval India and Ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and Assyria as well Btw what is the music that starts at 13:00?
@@HistoryDose Is there any chance you could post a link to this version of the song? It sounds far more somber and beautiful the way you edited it. Edit: The song is in C Sharp Minor, slowed down to 63 bpm
There is also a Chinese bloodline in Lamu Island when a team of 20 Chinese sailors survived a shipwreck in the Indian occean, washing up on the shores of Lamu Island in 1415 CE which was one of the Swahili City States and married the local woman. Lamu Island is Kenya's 2nd oldest town (Mombasa being the first which Zheng He visited) and has been continuously inhabitted since the 12th century and is also the best preserved of the Swahili City States and continues to be an important center in Eastern Africa.
Watched this story in a Doc. There was a girl whose dna from thèse sailors, was offered Chinese purse to study Chinese médecine in China. Great how past and present are linked ❤
This fascinates me. In the early 1400s was when my people/ancestors, the Shona, were finishing building the Great Zimbabwe, which was the new capital of the Zimbabwe Kingdom then, while the Chinese were building the forbidden city, their new capital in Beijing, both world Heritage sites today, both States reached arguably their respective highest historical achievements at this time. At the time were Trading gold, copper, very likely Ivory or Rhino horn (and apparently maybe animals?) with China (and others, mostly Arabs) from the Great Zimbabwe Empire (later known as the Mwenemutapa Empire) through the Swahili city of Sofala who traded Chinese porcelain, as well as Both Chinese and Arabic cloth, glass beads and other goods with Great Zimbabwe (and it's satellite towns/centres).
The story of Zheng He and his fleet will never ceased to amaze me. It signals the renewal of Han Chinese on the Dragon throne, the reopening of mercantile by the sea, and strength through diplomacy. But it also illustrated a lost opportunity for further maritime exploration beyond Africa and the Southern Pacific. As conservative opinion shifted away from foreign affairs. The CCP would raised Zheng He as a heroic Chinese who restored Han Chinese image abroad and brought the world closer through trade and diplomacy by naval power.
In South Africa we have an ethnic group called the Basotho people, they splintered off from the larger Tswana people who came from modern day Botswana, they have this traditional attire where they wear these grass coned shaped hats called Mokorotlo that look very similar to the grass hats found throughout Asia and especially in China, I wonder if maybe either the Basotho or Tswana people got the inspiration from the Chinese, or if they maybe had contact with China in medieval times
@@admiralkaede ccp have done a lot for its people, atleast better than most of governments. Only westerners and their slave countries consider them to be their enemy , because they are trying to challenge western dominance.
Can we just appreciate how incredible these artworks are in the video? So detailed and realistic, brings the whole atmosphere of this video to a whole new level.
This was really good! I speak some Mandarin and nothing pisses me off more than lazy documentaries that don't try to learn how to pronounce names correctly. I can appreciate that you made the effort to learn them and they were very good! I remember watching a professional documentary (I think it was History Channel actually) and they completely butchered Wu Xetian, made me cringe every time they said it lol Thank you for all your hard work on the fine details like pronunciation. Beautiful paintings as always, I'm gonna see if my wife wants one up on the walls since she loves Chinese art :)
@@Darkcamera45 Yeah man I watch everything these guys put out :) I tried to replicate some of their editing in my Amir Timur episode 1 intro, but holy crap did it take a long time! A couple minute intro literally took me 2 full days of work to complete lol I'll let these professionals do their thing and I'll stick to my numbers! Great to see you on their channel as well!
This was an absolutely beautiful video. I learned so much from this. I visited China for a few months years ago, and was blown away by the hospitality of the people, and the beauty of their artwork. Many good times I had in China.
Man this was strangely relaxing. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to be one of the sailors and see all those lands for the first time. It must have been truly magical.
I remember this rapper poet artist named Akala saying they once found Chinese artifacts in Nigeria (&Nigerian artefacts in Asia if I'm not mistaken) there is sooo much history lost to war &colonialism I'd love to see epic movies on the level of The Last Samurai/The Kingdom Of Heaven etc based on ancient African kingdoms &Africa's interactions with the far east
A show on it might work. A lot of untold history can work as shows. The immortal Chinese monk traveling with an Arab guide to meet with the Khan as trails of the dead are left, in an attempt to convice Ghenghis that taking a life is wrong. The ancient cities of Africa and it's connections plus growth, and so much more.
@@samuraijackoff5354 honestly there are SOOO many untapped angles.. we have the talent &the budgets.. just need the goodwill & impetus.. once a couple movies or shows like that takes off.. it'll be hard to stop the snowball rolling.
This channel is an absolute masterpiece. The writing and preparation done for these are second-to-none. I don’t know if the RUclips algorithm will ever allow it, but these two guys deserve so many more subscribers. I will be liking and sharing to as many people as I can to spread the good word. Thank you for giving us the ability to view this for free.
@tom suleman Europe and Asia had different environments. The whole reason for the European colonization was so that they didn't have to pay a high price for Eastern goods. The Chinese already had these goods. Hating Europeans incessantly is pathetic
@@BR0984 there wouldn't be a hatred of Europeans if the Europeans where like the Chinese and came to Africa and the far Eastern lands to trade and learn and explore ...but history has shown us the European came to loot , kill, enslave and colonise that is why Europeans are hated ....
@@BR0984 Defending Europe is even worse, that was a dumb example u used in defense of Western Colonialism, what makes Europe think they have right to said goods, and also chinese can justify the same for western goods and do evil, but they didnt do said acts, as compared. European colonialsim is the worse collection of acts in history, filled with much EXTREME EVIL more than anyone has commited before
I am grateful for the studious presentation of information that doesn't exist in our memory in the West for Africans. I thirst for accurate history and that is without bias. I have a rare collection of books on Asia, however, there are always those who cannot imagine a word with the man from Europe.
This video has to be one of my favorite just with the art alone. Everything from the depiction of Mogadishu with Zheng He's massive ship in the background, to the city scapes of ancient china, and the terrifying depictions of battles is so amazingly beautiful that I can hardly put it in words. The music selection is also incredible at capturing the mood and scale of the events happening. Everything about this channel is perfect.
I watch all of the big history channels here on RUclips. Your narration and artwork and just the order in which you present the information is top notch. In my opinion you have the best history channel on RUclips. I look forward to your next upload, keep up the phenomenal work.
Sound design and tone!!! I love the atmosphere. Honestly have wet eyes whenever your videos turn toward the purple tone of nostalgia, when the highs of history turn low I feel the inevitability and it’s excellently executed. Great work!
how you mix commentary with the music/sound fx are amazing ... legit could just listen to this on a podcast but would be absolutely ROBBED of the stunning visuals ya'll create. this is crazy good content
He talking about china Africa slavary it's bullshit , there is not one person in china with black slave ancestor , Africa was not always slaves lies , The Arab trade MOSTLY MAJORITY/80% included Europeans as slaves
The way you easily navigate the English language, the beautiful artwork accompanied by the amazing sounds, genuinely transports me into the past. Amazing work as always.
This is one of the least violent History Dose episodes! Yet it manages to be goosebump-inducing. It's super cool to see Africa portrayed as this fantastical, idealistic, and content land. Imagine seeing a giraffe for the first time after never knowing that something like it is even anotomically possible! I rarely buy it when people claim that any civilization before 1970 was happier than today's version; I'm big on modern comforts and medicine. But after watching this video, I think some areas of the 15th century Somalia region were likely happier than the country today.
The Western Europeans will storm this comment section to say “It Wuz A DIfFEreNt TiMe. eVEryONe rApEd AnD MurDeREd.” Yet here is Zhang He and the Chinese showing that you don’t need to brutalise people to get the trade goods you need out of them. Europeans did it because they loved blood and war not because it was necessary.
The story of Zheng He‘s imperial voyage is not even taught properly and thoroughly here in China, history class from middle school to college, got so many to tell, teaching each individual story happened in ancient China like this, is simply mission impossible.😭
Your channel is the only one I can think of on RUclips that weaves facts with storytelling so well. Your videos really manage to capture the atmosphere of the times and places they depict.
One slightly off topic but interesting tidbit regarding the nephew emperor whom Emperor Yongle overthrew. Legend is that he survived and escaped overseas, and his descendants gradually settled in France. One of the reasons Yongle sent Zheng He overseas was to look for this nephew, as was rumored at that time. Former France footballer Frank Ribery claims that his ancestry is from this usurped emperor.
the narratives, dresses, ships and details in the background paintings totally reflect the history of Ming Dynesty China. Someone did very thorough research in the making this documentary, which is very rare by a non-Chinese production team
As always, I find myself amazed at the quality of your videos. From the images and paintings, sound and music, narration and pacing, everything is perfect! I would love to see a video about the portuguese discoveries such as the arrival to Brazil and to India, as well as the conquest of Ceuta and sailing around Africa! Thank you!
Wow! I am getting more and more impressed by your stories. The music makes it even more powerfull. It makes me want to see a whole movie, or a series about it. Thank you History Dose!
One thong that made me appreciate history so much more is realising how many things happened simultaneously. Not specific to this video it just reminded me of that Thank you for these great videos
Indonesian here, Admiral Zheng He is highly admired in Indonesia even until right now. I bet there's no Indonesian that doesn't know about him (Indonesian peoples know him as "Cheng Ho"). He brought at least 27.000 army with 307 fleet to Southeast Asia not to attack but to established a peace between two major races. He came with many gifts to Indonesian rajas(kings) in return of tributes but the biggest remnant of him is Islam. Now he is a legend, a symbol of tolerance between races in Indonesia. May his soul rest in peace in the afterlife.
That's the difference between chinese explores,traders and navigators compared to euroassholes who's bringing nothing but a curse,hate and prejudice to whatever land they set foot on medieval era
Yet Indonesian massacred so many innocent Chinese people living in Indonesia and never felt sorry or apologized for that. I wonder what Zheng He would've thought if he knew, in 500 hundred years later, his people got treated by the Indonesians like that.
LOL, he is not even a legend although some places in java established by the chinese during this period. My point is he is no one to our soceity. Islam must be erased, the return of buddhism in our land.
Nonsense many majority of indonesians have no clue who Zheng He is, even in java the place Zheng He most visited in the entire southeast asia the people here are clueless about him.
Nice video! Just a quick reminder. Please distinguish the Somali coast and Swahili coast. Both coasts had different demographics and political structure. The Swahili coast were divided into city-states with significant presences of Arab, Persian and other African tribes from the interior. The Somali coast were under two central Somali governments. The Ajuran and Adal sultanates. The demographics of the coast were predominantly Somali with insignificant foreign presence.
Thanks! We mentioned a Swahili-speaking and Arab-descended presence in Mogadishu not because those would have been native to the Somali coast, but because Mogadishu was a metropolis filled with traders from the Swahili coast.
@@HistoryDose That's very true Mogadishu was a metropolis hub in the medieval period. It was the largest and richest city in East Africa and one of the most important commerce and religious centers in the Indian ocean. It was known as the white pearls of the Indian ocean. What amazes me is that its rival was Zeila which was the second largest city in East Africa located in northern Somalia and was the capital of Adal Sultanate.
@@mohaahmed3162 Zeila is an ancient port city in the Awdal region in the extreme northwest of Somaliland. Ethiopia is a country cut off from the sea, so Zelia does not belong to Ethiopia. You have to be quiet and learn world geography.
I'd like to say, as a chinese, your masterpiece of image and music are amazing. Especially 7:19 , although the shape of the palace and clothing is vague, it can be seen that it is correct. Same as 9:20, the shape of Ming Dynasty general's armor is very correct as well. I think it even most game companies in China can't recover better than you guys.
Fascinating history, great content (love all of your drawings). But many would put Ming China in the Early Modern period. In fact, Zheng He's sails were just decades before Portugal and Spain's maritime adventures.
I love that we are talking about other cultures in history more. I've been to Beijing, definitely interesting culture super deep history, too many dynasties. Africa will someday be next
This is the only history channel that transports you into the subject of the video. I hope you work on some sort of VR history videos that immerse you into the story
Use your head, with all people have to learn why would schools in the west spend time on a specific Chinese admirals voyages during the 15th century? This is what history courses in college are for or videos like this one in the age of the internet we live in.
@@RedTurtle710_ You act as though anyone is stopping you from learning about it, or like you didn’t just watch a video about it from a western individual and not eastern one from the East.
I loved this episode. Very fascinating seeing two worlds collide! Could we perhaps see one on China and the Philippines and how they interacted with one another?
This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -C L “Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything, instead he just got lost” -Tasia Grzenia
The west was motivated by competition at home as well as the threat from the ottomans with their blockading of trade routes to india. China thought they were the strongest in the world and thought they would get more profit by trade. Neither are relatively "good". Just ask the vietnamese, tibetans, mongolians and koreans. See what THEY think of the chinese.
@@goodstuff1126 Regarding Tibet. "History clearly reveals that the old Tibet was not the Shangri-La that many imagine", he wrote "but a society under a system of feudal serfdom." Until 1959, when China cracked down on Tibetan rebels and the Dalai Lama fled to northern India, around 98% of the population was enslaved in serfdom. Drepung monastery, on the outskirts of Lhasa, was one of the world's largest landowners with 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. High-ranking lamas and secular landowners imposed crippling taxes, forced boys into monastic slavery and pilfered most of the country's wealth - torturing disobedient serfs by gouging out their eyes or severing their hamstrings. Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama is smiling in all those photos has something to do with the six-figure salary he pulled down from the U.S. government during the 1960s. According to declassified intelligence documents, he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA's funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year. The idea was to disrupt and hamper China's infrastructure.
@@goodstuff1126 During the First Indochina War. In the early 1950s, the Vietnamese Communists confronted formidable enemies and Ho Chi Minh avidly sought advice and weapons from China. The PRC began to send their advisors and later form the Chinese Military Advisory Group (CMAG) to assist the Viet Minh forces led by Wei Guoqing and Chen Geng. CMAG and Viet Minh began training for their first campaign. In September 1950, the Border Campaigns were launched. And between April and September 1950, China sent to the Viet Minh 14,000 rifles and pistols, 1,700 machine guns and recoilless rifles, 150 mortars, 60 artillery pieces and 300 bazookas, as well as ammunition, medicine, communications materials, clothes and 2,800 tons of food. In addition, a “political advisory group” was also sent from China to northern Vietnam in 1950, led by Luo Guibo. Luo went to Tonkin to “pass on China’s experience in financial and economic work, the rectification of cadres’ ideology and working style, government work and mobilization of the masses.” Between 1951 to 1954, the Chinese helped the Vietnamese in training their military commanders; reorganizing their defense and financial systems. They also helped the Vietnamese to mobilize the peasants to support the war through land reform campaigns. Overall, there was a massive transfer of the Chinese experience of making a revolution to the Vietnamese. After the Geneva Conference In the years following the conclusion of the 1954 Geneva Conference, China desired a peaceful international environment in order to focus on domestic reconstruction while Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) faced two fundamental tasks: to reconstruct the north and to unify the south. To rebuild the north, the CPV immediately got assistance from China after the Geneva Conference. To help the DRV “relieve famine, rebuild the transportation systems, revive agriculture, reconstruct the urban economy, and improve the armed forces,” Beijing agreed to provide rice, sent a team of economic advisers and experts to North Vietnam. In December 1954, China sent more than 2000 railroad workers to the DRV to repair railway lines, roads, and bridges. During Ho Chi Minh’s official visit to China in 1955, Beijing agreed to provide a grant of $200 million to be used to build various projects. After that, they also established a manpower exchange program. Between 1955 and 1957, in addition to assistance from China, the Soviet Union also played an important role in helping DRV reconstruct and develop its economy. When the 15th Plenum of the VWP Central Committee in 1959 authorized the use of armed struggle in the south, Hanoi kept asking Beijing for military aid. Under these circumstances and in response to Hanoi's requests, China offered substantial military aid to Vietnam before 1963. According to Chinese sources, “during the 1956-63 period, China military aid to Vietnam totaled 320 million yuan. China's arms shipments to Vietnam included 270,000 guns, over 10,000 pieces of artillery, 200 million bullets of different types, 2.02 million artillery shells, 15,00 wire transmitters, 5,000 radio transmitters, over 1,000 trucks, 15 planes 28 naval vessels, and 1.18 million sets of military uniforms." It was China’s aid to North Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 that effectively gave the North the resources needed to begin the insurgency in the South. Confronting U.S. escalation The catalyst for the Vietnam War would be the controversial Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964. “To confront the increasing U.S. pressure in Indochina, Beijing stepped up its coordination with the Vietnamese and Laotian parties.” To counter these U.S. overwhelming airstrikes, Ho requested Chinese Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units in a meeting with Mao in May 1965. In response, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces began flowing into North Vietnam in July 1965 to help defend Hanoi and its major transportation systems. The total number of Chinese troops in North Vietnam between June 1965 and March 1968 amounted to over 320,000. “The peak year was 1967 when 170,000 Chinese soldiers were present.” In the same year the PLA and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) & Viet Cong (VC) made an agreement under which the PLA provided the PAVN/VC with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes. In total, the agreement included 687 different items, covering such goods as table tennis balls, volleyballs, harmonicas, playing cards, pins, fountain pen ink, sewing needle, and vegetable seeds. Such allowed Hanoi to use its own manpower for participating in battles in the South and maintaining the transport and communication lines between the North and the South and played a role in deterring further American expansion of the war into the North. Source China in the Vietnam War
@@condorX2 and yet china feels the need to migrate han chinese into those lands to outpopulate the native tibetans. And still yet they feel the need to kidnap the next dalai lama because the tibetans refuse to accept them as their legitimate rulers. Serfdom. So what? Is it any worse than the surveillance big brother state the chinese empire has become? Does it change the fact that the tibetans were annexed by force and that they obviously very much hate it to this day?
I like how this comment went from simple appreciation of Chinese history and culture to straight CCP pandering. There’s a reason why the majority of the worlds population doesn’t like an authoritarian government in general and it isn’t as simple as “western propaganda” as you think. People distrust government that actively tells you not to criticise it, censoring any critical topics/criticisms and actively encouraging their own people to view their ideology as righteous and that anyone who disagree with this is against your people. I’ve never met a single person who has said that they dislike Chinese people or their culture. It’s like ever since the mid 20th century the concept of the Chinese identity has to be tied in with the CCP. No it does not. Chinese identity was appreciated back when they stayed true to themselves, not watered down to be told on what they are told to be now. It’s this reason why people like Taiwan and not so much China. It’s not about being “democratic” that buys us alliances but cooperations does. Your comment exactly proves the main gripe that people have with the government. Use the CCP as a shield against the “hate of China” and deflect it as “the west is bad”. This active antagonisation is the reason why China is very unpopular of not just the west but it’s Asian neighbours as well. So this logic of “people don’t like CCP cause they don’t want China to be prosperous” is nonsense. Even if you’re looking at a financial standpoint, how would chinas collapse for the sake of “western pride” would in anyway be worth compared to the Repercussions? In a connected world as the 21st century, an event where a major power like China disappears our need for export would be hit with a disaster. If western powers want more dominance then I guess it’s better to keep China afloat than to loath in self pride and see it crumble. On the regards to the Uighur “genocide” I’d say both east and west claims are neck and neck. The wests term of genocide doesn’t have to mean outright holocaust but a cultural cleansing . The Chinese government claims that such a claim is false but then again how can you believe everything the government says if they actively discourage critical analysis by not allowing anyone to document what’s going on in the province? If you’re so confident about your innocence why hide? It’s suspicions like these that people find troubling. That’s like me pleading not guilty to robbery and my evidence be, trust me bro! I find it funny how you also mention the government has no option but to “re educate” the mass from terrorism. As if the concept of re education in itself isn’t a violation of individual rights. That’s like neighbour Joe who happens to Christian has committed mass shooting and now my entire family and neighbours have to be forced into a camp like prison of barbed wires, isolated from society to be “educated” that I’m an extremist and that my religion is evil and solely responsible for killing people.
If they keep this up, they will get there eventually my dude. Might take a year or two. But it can happen. Also youtube sometimes takes peoples old videos and starts shoving it in peoples recommendations.
they tells stories equally, especially for the Chinese part, nowadays lots of ppl like to see bad sides of China, or the ancient China, dictatorships, evil dragons, etc.😂 guess that’s why.
There have always been Black people in North Africa. For instance, Taharqa (690-664 BCE) a Kushite king and pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty was engaged in regular warfare with the Assyrian empire for geopolitical supremacy in North Africa and The Levant. Black people were common players in occidental history. To be sure, their numbers declined with the continued immigration of asiatic peoples to North Africa, eventual mixture with these peoples, and the decline of Black civilizations but there were still a few strong Black civilizations in what is now known as southern Egypt and northern Sudan. For instance the Christian kingdom of Makuria was powerful enough to give the Muslim Arabs one of their only defeats after the latter had overrun Byzantine Egypt. This defeat led to the signing of the treaty of Baqt. Makuria was strong enough to invade the Umayyad Caliphate in Egypt (up to Alexandria, some say) in order to force the Umayyad Caliphate to honor the terms of the Baqt treaty (which lasted approximately 900 years). So their certainly would have been Black people in North Africa at this time. In terms of an organized powerful Black state, it is likely Makuria that the Chinese traveler Du Huan visited in the 700s. Excellent video! Awesome channel!
Based video bro - you guys are killing it. The worlds of China and Africa in medieval times were like alien planets meeting. God this is epic please keep it up!
Chinese porcelain and coins have also been found in the coastal cities and towns of Kenya.... Mombasa, Lamu... There is even an island in the Lamu archipelago that has Africans of Chinese decent 🔥🔥
Thank you for sparking a passion for ancient history🙏🏽I’ve always enjoyed history mostly world war’s and the Vietnam war buh recently been doing a lot of research into ancient history thanks to ur videos
You two are my favorite channel for history. Vivid story telling paired with beautiful animation and editing. Not to mention the sounds intensifying it all. You are a blessing!
It’s quite poetic that Chinese and African relations evolved to that of today. Infrastructure being built by Chinese engineers and resources being traded by African traders. I hope both peoples continue to enrich and mutually benefit each other from their continued partnership and friendship.
I had no knowledge of this fascinating part of history, I appreciate your dedication to research and commitment to make this video possible for us all.
Muqdisho is uniquely Somali. Swahili speakers were only as common as Arabs. Africa isn’t a monolith, and conflating the unique peoples does them a disservice.
I have been a subscriber for a while now and these videos do not disappoint. It would be nice if you did a video on maybe the Aztecs or Incas? As a lifelong history nerd these videos are everything. Keep up the solid work.
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Any chance yall could make a video on the korean dynasties?
I can't believe it's just two of you. From the writing, voiceover, & the one-of-a-kind artistry, I would imagine a whole team
Another great job 👍💯
Hey can you also do mythology or more Haitian histories
This stuff is even more impressive when you realize its a team of just 2 making it.
Fun fact: The first African Ambassador to China Came from Mogadishu.
It's bizarre how city like Mogadishu was overlooked in term of history even though they used to be the metropolis where people all around the world used to come to Mogadishu for trade since it was one of the Indian ocean trade road and one of the greatest city in Africa during medieval times. The fact that you can find ruined castles and Ports dating back to that period just shows how Prosperous the city was
Why do you say that the city is ignored? It is well known throughout the world.
The Arabs did a lot of great works in the area.
@@miguelservetus9534 it's not that well known in our time. The fact is I learn about this information when I did history search in this city. You can find this mostly in Wikipedia but it's rare to find videos in RUclips talking about this city comparing to other African city
@@TheBushrangianOrder what arabs lol somalis built that city and madenit what it was
@@kappa3399 It is my understanding that ancient Somali and Egypt were of an older ethnicity that is not around or known anymore. They built the spice trade in ancient Somali.
But most of what exists of Somalia today is the result of the Arabic/Muslim slave and ivory trade.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
In medieval cities of Somalia like Mogadishu, archaeologists have recovered coins dating back to the Song and Ming Dynasties, as well as coins from medieval Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Venice, while Somali coins have been discovered in modern Turkey, Dubai and Iraq.
Interesante! Where can I read more on this?
@@jeze8346 COINS FROM MOGADISHU, c. 1300 TO c. 1700 - by GSP FREEMAN-GRENVILLE · 1963
I love this fact. The Horn of Africa and The eastern coast had a vibrant and prosperous relationship with Asia for centuries before the Portuguese landed ships in the Malaccas.
Ethiopia specifically had relations with India and China for a long time before they shacked up with the Europeans
@@tnm1697 the Horn of Africa had a strong ancient link with the Greco-Roman world too, starting with Opone's trade with Mycenaean Greece and lasting as late as the Axumite-Byzantine Alliance against the Persian Empire.
Nice
Your channel acts as a portal into another time. One of the few places where I actually feel like I am looking into the past. Thank you for reigniting my passion in history!
Thanks! That’s something we strive to do.
this is what the history channel was suppose to be. thank you.
@@balazamon Nah History channel is still good. Ya'll just bunch of casuals wanna complain about stuff
@vipr
Chill we ain’t trying to
Hear none of that…….
SMFH
@@HistoryDose Can we have the isolated soundtrack for all the videos, please?
The Arabs, Persians, Africans, Chinese all had contact, the silk road. They had huge respect for each other not only exhanging goods but also knowledge and ideas at libraries and universities like Timbuktu.
And then the Europeans came.
中国人并没有像虚伪的欧洲白人那样，到处搞殖民地。
@@The_Art_of_AI_888 Goddamnit😆
Chinese and perisan designs influenced each other porcelain
China back then was the world's superpower. Everyone traded and was influenced by Chinese culture. Much like now with American culture and the United States as the modern world superpower.
These interactions between worlds is so fascinating
Like when china tried to find Rome
They are the human spirit in its essence , to unify man under our passions and beauty. East and West is merely where our hearts lie , their stuff and wonder is synonymous throughout. All speaking in different languages yet the exact tone .
@@ortox409 what?
Civilizations*
This is unalterated history my friend…
Zheng He is truly one of the most important yet often overlooked historical figures.
I wouldn't say hes overlooked. the anglosphere is typically ignorant of chinese culture and history but you'll find tons of RUclips channels with videos about him. I'd argue hes one of the more well known Chinese historical figures and his treasure fleet is one of the more well known parts of imperial chinese history outside of wars or dealings with Europe.
indeed.
Hm
Is that the guy from dynasty warriors 4
@@josephjoestar995 That's a different person. Zhang He (Dynasty Warriors) was active during the three kingdoms period 3rd century AD. And this Zheng He is from 14-15th century AD. And although their names look similar, they use different characters altogether.
Imagine being the first Somali to set foot in Imperial China, all the stories, trading, & shock of the era must’ve been amazing to witness. The art direction in this narration beautiful.
Ya
You mean to be a Chinese and set foot into Africa and see the vast Glory of his temples cities and people
@@lastzulu180 swahili cities are just dirt pits compared to imperial china
@@lastzulu180 lol you're funny
Zoomalia is poor
I live in Mogadishu and would love to dive extensively on these shores. Due to recent instability, not a whole lot of archeological work has been done and I can only imagine the relics on the beds of these waters.
Fun fact: Sa'id of Mogadishu is said to be the first African to ever translate Mandarin into a native African language such as Somali.
Both languages influence on each other can still be seen today. The Mandarin word for Giraffe is the same as the Somali word for it since Giraffes are native to Africa and the Chinees would've first been introduced to them by the Somalis.
Contrast that with modern abdis acting like roadmen. wtf happened?
Giraffe in Mandarin Chinese is 长颈鹿 which means long长 neck颈 deer鹿. Does Somali word call it in the same way?
@@ibizawavey8630 all types of things colonialism, foreign intervention, civil war, becoming the children refugees, identity crisis, traitors etc. being born in a foreign place In destitute poverty is enough to push anyone to crime. If you get hungry enough you will do what is necessary to survive, when it comes to self preservation and all that morality goes out the window. Besides a lot of children of those first gen are angry at the cards they were dealt knowing full well how their great grandparents lived, also having your nation of origin constantly slandered in the media doesn’t exactly help u feel “British” or whatever that is so you reject that label “British” and maintain your culture I remember I use to hate speaking English felt like I was whitewashing myself, I’d be in top set English speaking fluent Somali to my friends my teacher would get so irritated because she couldn’t understand us lol. Most Somalis in the west are now 2nd gen entering adulthood raised by their parents raised in Somalia while growing up in Britain. You are stereotyping a bit most Somalis don’t engage in “criminal behaviour” even though some do. But I feel if you compare statistically to other first gen migrants communities criminality levels are equal or less then for example south Asians in the 20s or Caribbeans in the 50-60s or west Africans in the 80s. Criminality usually peaks in the second gen of immigrants as they usually have it the worse time. First gen are to scared to break the laws as they don’t understand the system second gen understand the system but have nothing to lose and third gen chill out because they have shit to lose.
The Chinese just call the Giraffe as "Long Neck Deer"... So I don't really think the word necessarily originated from Somalis...
@@The_Art_of_AI_888 ”Long nec deer“ actually is its modern name. In the history, it was called "Qilin" in Madarin or "kirin" in Japanese. I guess it might sound similar to the word in Somali.
As Somali I thank you for presenting this forgotten history,
Not forgotten. Just surpressed by ytttppl.
Still hard to believe that this incredibly well-researched and well-made content is from just the two of you!
Same here. These 2 gentleman made history enjoyable and informative to watch. Great job guys.
Thanks for this emergence of Far East worlds. As a Somali American learning more of my history, I found it pleasurable and educational.
I’ll say it again: these videos are so insanely immersive. Love the fact that you touch on non Eurocentric history as well, wonderful stuff all around
I used to work in a museum in Mombasa (Fort Jesus). Chinese porcelain is there in mostly perfect condition. Thanks for the video! Amazing job. Keep it up.
I’m speechless….this is legitimately one of the most well made videos I’ve ever seen on this platform well done!
The visuals and audio of this channel are absolutely awesome. Just to say, I'm a Baba Nyonya Chinese from Malaysia, meaning my ancestors came to the Malaccan Empire during this time and stayed. 600 years later, we're still here with a mixed culture of Chinese and local Malays. My Hokkien language is also mixed more than half with Malay words. A tradition and culture I'm absolutely proud of.
中国人那么早到达非洲，但并未像欧洲白人那样搞殖民。不同的文化、价值观。
Malaysia Boleh
明朝在东南亚设立过宣慰司，也算是殖民地吧，可惜满清丢了
What do u mean that u are Baba Nyonya Chinese from Malaysia
@@绿菊人 那在哪里？公元1400-1511年的马来群岛完全由马六甲王朝统治
Not many history channels do much on Ming China, so this was pretty great :D Hope you guys do something on medieval India and Ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and Assyria as well
Btw what is the music that starts at 13:00?
A slightly slower version of "Way of the Warrior" by Yi Nantiro
We need some west African civilizations too!!
@@chacesimpson2856 AFRICAN HISTORY IS THE LARGEST AND GREATEST AND THEY PREDATE EVERYONE
@@HistoryDose Is there any chance you could post a link to this version of the song? It sounds far more somber and beautiful the way you edited it.
Edit: The song is in C Sharp Minor, slowed down to 63 bpm
There is also a Chinese bloodline in Lamu Island when a team of 20 Chinese sailors survived a shipwreck in the Indian occean, washing up on the shores of Lamu Island in 1415 CE which was one of the Swahili City States and married the local woman. Lamu Island is Kenya's 2nd oldest town (Mombasa being the first which Zheng He visited) and has been continuously inhabitted since the 12th century and is also the best preserved of the Swahili City States and continues to be an important center in Eastern Africa.
Watched this story in a Doc. There was a girl whose dna from thèse sailors, was offered Chinese purse to study Chinese médecine in China.
Great how past and present are linked ❤
I have also read it@@sokhna-sl4fp
This fascinates me. In the early 1400s was when my people/ancestors, the Shona, were finishing building the Great Zimbabwe, which was the new capital of the Zimbabwe Kingdom then, while the Chinese were building the forbidden city, their new capital in Beijing, both world Heritage sites today, both States reached arguably their respective highest historical achievements at this time. At the time were Trading gold, copper, very likely Ivory or Rhino horn (and apparently maybe animals?) with China (and others, mostly Arabs) from the Great Zimbabwe Empire (later known as the Mwenemutapa Empire) through the Swahili city of Sofala who traded Chinese porcelain, as well as Both Chinese and Arabic cloth, glass beads and other goods with Great Zimbabwe (and it's satellite towns/centres).
Hmm.
It's time for we Africans to take back what is rightfully ours, the world is depending on Africa to save guide the world hate it or love it
I love all the work and passion that is put into these videos it's very hard to find something like this elsewhere!
The story of Zheng He and his fleet will never ceased to amaze me. It signals the renewal of Han Chinese on the Dragon throne, the reopening of mercantile by the sea, and strength through diplomacy.
But it also illustrated a lost opportunity for further maritime exploration beyond Africa and the Southern Pacific. As conservative opinion shifted away from foreign affairs. The CCP would raised Zheng He as a heroic Chinese who restored Han Chinese image abroad and brought the world closer through trade and diplomacy by naval power.
The ccp is still a problem tho
In South Africa we have an ethnic group called the Basotho people, they splintered off from the larger Tswana people who came from modern day Botswana, they have this traditional attire where they wear these grass coned shaped hats called Mokorotlo that look very similar to the grass hats found throughout Asia and especially in China, I wonder if maybe either the Basotho or Tswana people got the inspiration from the Chinese, or if they maybe had contact with China in medieval times
@@admiralkaede ccp have done a lot for its people, atleast better than most of governments. Only westerners and their slave countries consider them to be their enemy , because they are trying to challenge western dominance.
@@admiralkaede how
@@keshavtyagi948 lol NO it really isnt its horrible
Man I love the art work
@Adolfizzz0 : This guys comment is longer than this video’s script..
Can we just appreciate how incredible these artworks are in the video? So detailed and realistic, brings the whole atmosphere of this video to a whole new level.
This was really good! I speak some Mandarin and nothing pisses me off more than lazy documentaries that don't try to learn how to pronounce names correctly. I can appreciate that you made the effort to learn them and they were very good! I remember watching a professional documentary (I think it was History Channel actually) and they completely butchered Wu Xetian, made me cringe every time they said it lol Thank you for all your hard work on the fine details like pronunciation. Beautiful paintings as always, I'm gonna see if my wife wants one up on the walls since she loves Chinese art :)
Thank you! We'll have the art up in our store later this week :)
Wow didn’t expect to see u here love ur bannerlord vids
Just came from your Elon Musk video lol
@@thehoboshack5253 lol! Noice. These guys put out top notch content. I always stop working so I can watch when they publish something.
@@Darkcamera45 Yeah man I watch everything these guys put out :) I tried to replicate some of their editing in my Amir Timur episode 1 intro, but holy crap did it take a long time! A couple minute intro literally took me 2 full days of work to complete lol I'll let these professionals do their thing and I'll stick to my numbers!
Great to see you on their channel as well!
This was an absolutely beautiful video. I learned so much from this. I visited China for a few months years ago, and was blown away by the hospitality of the people, and the beauty of their artwork. Many good times I had in China.
Minus the government and egregious human rights violations
@@applejuice9468 Well yes, I enjoy not having to use VPN in America. The harsh anti marijuana laws there also suck.
@@KingDanny9 well they had bad experience with opium so you can't blame them
+100000 social credits👍👍👍
@@ikeice7726 There is no war in Ba Sing Se
Man this was strangely relaxing. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to be one of the sailors and see all those lands for the first time. It must have been truly magical.
I remember this rapper poet artist named Akala saying they once found Chinese artifacts in Nigeria (&Nigerian artefacts in Asia if I'm not mistaken) there is sooo much history lost to war &colonialism I'd love to see epic movies on the level of The Last Samurai/The Kingdom Of Heaven etc based on ancient African kingdoms &Africa's interactions with the far east
So you mean We Wuz KANGZ N Shiet?
@@headshotmaster138 get a life
A show on it might work. A lot of untold history can work as shows. The immortal Chinese monk traveling with an Arab guide to meet with the Khan as trails of the dead are left, in an attempt to convice Ghenghis that taking a life is wrong. The ancient cities of Africa and it's connections plus growth, and so much more.
@@samuraijackoff5354 honestly there are SOOO many untapped angles.. we have the talent &the budgets.. just need the goodwill & impetus.. once a couple movies or shows like that takes off.. it'll be hard to stop the snowball rolling.
@@headshotmaster138 Pink whtebois like to have their gfs and wives be BLACKED in front of them💕
This channel is an absolute masterpiece. The writing and preparation done for these are second-to-none. I don’t know if the RUclips algorithm will ever allow it, but these two guys deserve so many more subscribers. I will be liking and sharing to as many people as I can to spread the good word. Thank you for giving us the ability to view this for free.
Thanks so much! This one is a little slow on takeoff, so your efforts are appreciated!
This is historically important. The Ming Dynasty made diplomatic overtures to a massive portion of the non-Western world. That's jaw dropping 😳
@tom suleman Except the Spanish pirates in the Philippines, to be precise
@tom suleman Europe and Asia had different environments. The whole reason for the European colonization was so that they didn't have to pay a high price for Eastern goods. The Chinese already had these goods.
Hating Europeans incessantly is pathetic
@@BR0984 Europe is the one doing the hating.
@@BR0984 there wouldn't be a hatred of Europeans if the Europeans where like the Chinese and came to Africa and the far Eastern lands to trade and learn and explore ...but history has shown us the European came to loot , kill, enslave and colonise that is why Europeans are hated ....
@@BR0984 Defending Europe is even worse, that was a dumb example u used in defense of Western Colonialism, what makes Europe think they have right to said goods, and also chinese can justify the same for western goods and do evil, but they didnt do said acts, as compared.
European colonialsim is the worse collection of acts in history, filled with much EXTREME EVIL more than anyone has commited before
I am grateful for the studious presentation of information that doesn't exist in our memory in the West for Africans. I thirst for accurate history and that is without bias. I have a rare collection of books on Asia, however, there are always those who cannot imagine a word with the man from Europe.
Western colonizers subvert history in their favor
This video has to be one of my favorite just with the art alone. Everything from the depiction of Mogadishu with Zheng He's massive ship in the background, to the city scapes of ancient china, and the terrifying depictions of battles is so amazingly beautiful that I can hardly put it in words. The music selection is also incredible at capturing the mood and scale of the events happening.
Everything about this channel is perfect.
I watch all of the big history channels here on RUclips. Your narration and artwork and just the order in which you present the information is top notch. In my opinion you have the best history channel on RUclips. I look forward to your next upload, keep up the phenomenal work.
8:27 "That was Africa!" sent chills down my spine, amazing narration, editing, and music!
Somalia really.
@@toontown9854 isn't that the same thing?
@@zuesadam7143it is
That’s Somalia a country in the African continent
@@zuesadam7143Africa is so large
Sound design and tone!!! I love the atmosphere. Honestly have wet eyes whenever your videos turn toward the purple tone of nostalgia, when the highs of history turn low I feel the inevitability and it’s excellently executed. Great work!
People need to stop acting like Africa is that isolated place that no one ever visited. This is tragic so many folks including Africans think this way
Africa is not a country and africans aren't a people
Its because of the slave trade, that despicable trade rearly tarnished the image and history of africa.
how you mix commentary with the music/sound fx are amazing ... legit could just listen to this on a podcast but would be absolutely ROBBED of the stunning visuals ya'll create. this is crazy good content
You give detailed history on things no one else does in an interesting and entertaining way. Keep it up man
This entire production was both informative and artfully done. Bravo!!!
Rare to see any African related historical stories told that take place before European invasion. Thank you so much for this video😆😁🤩
He talking about china Africa slavary it's bullshit ,
there is not one person in china with black slave ancestor , Africa was not always slaves lies ,
The Arab trade MOSTLY MAJORITY/80% included Europeans as slaves
The Africans had the trade. The Europeans came and took Africans life, and took over the Trades.
the Muslims had already invaded Africa centuries before Europe went to rescue Africa from Islamic colonization
@@pro-tection9140 What do you mean "they went to rescue". They did no such thing! They went to CONTINUE THE EXPLOITATION!
@@oliviamonteque6407 lol
Great history and expert storytelling, you always deliver!
The way you easily navigate the English language, the beautiful artwork accompanied by the amazing sounds, genuinely transports me into the past. Amazing work as always.
This is one of the least violent History Dose episodes! Yet it manages to be goosebump-inducing. It's super cool to see Africa portrayed as this fantastical, idealistic, and content land. Imagine seeing a giraffe for the first time after never knowing that something like it is even anotomically possible!
I rarely buy it when people claim that any civilization before 1970 was happier than today's version; I'm big on modern comforts and medicine. But after watching this video, I think some areas of the 15th century Somalia region were likely happier than the country today.
This is the right way to do it not the European way of death and colonisation
So correct!!! If only the Europeans weren't so violent back then.
The Western Europeans will storm this comment section to say “It Wuz A DIfFEreNt TiMe. eVEryONe rApEd AnD MurDeREd.” Yet here is Zhang He and the Chinese showing that you don’t need to brutalise people to get the trade goods you need out of them. Europeans did it because they loved blood and war not because it was necessary.
Another great video man. Worth the wait
As a former Chinese student, your history videos teach our history way better than any of our teachers ever did. Well done !
The story of Zheng He‘s imperial voyage is not even taught properly and thoroughly here in China, history class from middle school to college, got so many to tell, teaching each individual story happened in ancient China like this, is simply mission impossible.😭
@@cheungchingtong 郑和下西洋你历史课没学过？
没好好听课吧你
@@zhhaosh properly and thoroughly, dumb.
@@zhhaosh former student😒
@@zhhaoshhahaha😂
Stellar production, I was transported for full 15 mins :) You should be proud of what you accomplished.
It is quite interesting that Zheng He was a Muslim, shows how long presence and deeply embedded Islam was in millennium of history in China.
Your channel is the only one I can think of on RUclips that weaves facts with storytelling so well. Your videos really manage to capture the atmosphere of the times and places they depict.
One slightly off topic but interesting tidbit regarding the nephew emperor whom Emperor Yongle overthrew. Legend is that he survived and escaped overseas, and his descendants gradually settled in France. One of the reasons Yongle sent Zheng He overseas was to look for this nephew, as was rumored at that time. Former France footballer Frank Ribery claims that his ancestry is from this usurped emperor.
the narratives, dresses, ships and details in the background paintings totally reflect the history of Ming Dynesty China. Someone did very thorough research in the making this documentary, which is very rare by a non-Chinese production team
As always, I find myself amazed at the quality of your videos. From the images and paintings, sound and music, narration and pacing, everything is perfect! I would love to see a video about the portuguese discoveries such as the arrival to Brazil and to India, as well as the conquest of Ceuta and sailing around Africa! Thank you!
Wow! I am getting more and more impressed by your stories. The music makes it even more powerfull. It makes me want to see a whole movie, or a series about it.
Thank you History Dose!
One thong that made me appreciate history so much more is realising how many things happened simultaneously. Not specific to this video it just reminded me of that
Thank you for these great videos
Yes, love finding history that completely changes my perception of different eras
10:10-10:30 idk why but this is hands down my favorite scene, u can feel the festival and pure happiness between two worlds
Indonesian here, Admiral Zheng He is highly admired in Indonesia even until right now. I bet there's no Indonesian that doesn't know about him (Indonesian peoples know him as "Cheng Ho"). He brought at least 27.000 army with 307 fleet to Southeast Asia not to attack but to established a peace between two major races. He came with many gifts to Indonesian rajas(kings) in return of tributes but the biggest remnant of him is Islam. Now he is a legend, a symbol of tolerance between races in Indonesia. May his soul rest in peace in the afterlife.
Salaam alaikum brother 🙋🏾♂️
That's the difference between chinese explores,traders and navigators compared to euroassholes who's bringing nothing but a curse,hate and prejudice to whatever land they set foot on medieval era
Yet Indonesian massacred so many innocent Chinese people living in Indonesia and never felt sorry or apologized for that. I wonder what Zheng He would've thought if he knew, in 500 hundred years later, his people got treated by the Indonesians like that.
LOL, he is not even a legend although some places in java established by the chinese during this period. My point is he is no one to our soceity. Islam must be erased, the return of buddhism in our land.
Nonsense many majority of indonesians have no clue who Zheng He is, even in java the place Zheng He most visited in the entire southeast asia the people here are clueless about him.
It is amazing Zheng He didn't take even one hectare of land, nor kill a single local native king.
Thank you shining a light on this part of history. You two never fail to impress :)
I hate how the government and schools don't teach us such history
Nice video! Just a quick reminder. Please distinguish the Somali coast and Swahili coast. Both coasts had different demographics and political structure. The Swahili coast were divided into city-states with significant presences of Arab, Persian and other African tribes from the interior. The Somali coast were under two central Somali governments. The Ajuran and Adal sultanates. The demographics of the coast were predominantly Somali with insignificant foreign presence.
Thanks! We mentioned a Swahili-speaking and Arab-descended presence in Mogadishu not because those would have been native to the Somali coast, but because Mogadishu was a metropolis filled with traders from the Swahili coast.
@@HistoryDose That's very true Mogadishu was a metropolis hub in the medieval period. It was the largest and richest city in East Africa and one of the most important commerce and religious centers in the Indian ocean. It was known as the white pearls of the Indian ocean. What amazes me is that its rival was Zeila which was the second largest city in East Africa located in northern Somalia and was the capital of Adal Sultanate.
@@lumiam6982 Zeila city is not located in Puntland, state of Somalia, but located in Somaliland.
@@ethiopia9011 is zeila or somaliland in ethiopia? Don't talk about what you don't know
@@mohaahmed3162 Zeila is an ancient port city in the Awdal region in the extreme northwest of Somaliland. Ethiopia is a country cut off from the sea, so Zelia does not belong to Ethiopia. You have to be quiet and learn world geography.
I'd like to say, as a chinese, your masterpiece of image and music are amazing. Especially 7:19 , although the shape of the palace and clothing is vague, it can be seen that it is correct. Same as 9:20, the shape of Ming Dynasty general's armor is very correct as well. I think it even most game companies in China can't recover better than you guys.
By the way, how can I watch these ORIGINAL ART PRINTS ? Seems like your link in the video introduction is dead.
Fascinating history, great content (love all of your drawings).
But many would put Ming China in the Early Modern period. In fact, Zheng He's sails were just decades before Portugal and Spain's maritime adventures.
I love that we are talking about other cultures in history more. I've been to Beijing, definitely interesting culture super deep history, too many dynasties. Africa will someday be next
How were you treated?
No. Only nort Africans and horn of Africans. The rest of Africa was primitive beings
@@Abdikaiser If you paid to have that type of info, go ask for a refund. You deserve it.
@@Abdikaiser you never heard of the Mansa of Mali? The Benin Kingdom? The Ghanaian Kingdom? The Sokoto Empire? I can go on forever.
@@makutumafwa7496 I think he's a troll. Don't give him consideration.
best scriptwriting/narration/animations ever for this type of thing, cant tell you i love you guys enough.
You are unbelievably good at writing and narrating. Hands down my new favorite history Channel. It really makes you feel like you are there.
For how much work you guys put into these videos I dont think you get nearly enough recognition these videos are amazing!
Thank you SO MUCH for this content! It's amazing!
This is the only history channel that transports you into the subject of the video. I hope you work on some sort of VR history videos that immerse you into the story
This is so wild to me. Thank you so much for this wonderful video
Love how western colonial history left out a lot of these interactions. As if they were wanting us to believe their history!!
Use your head, with all people have to learn why would schools in the west spend time on a specific Chinese admirals voyages during the 15th century? This is what history courses in college are for or videos like this one in the age of the internet we live in.
@@historyrepeat402 BEACAUSE EVEN IN THE WEST WE LEARN WORLD HISTORY!!! Use YOUR head.
@@RedTurtle710_ You act as though anyone is stopping you from learning about it, or like you didn’t just watch a video about it from a western individual and not eastern one from the East.
@@historyrepeat402 schools you mark im referring to the American public school systems that only teach wester colonizer history.
this makes no sense lol why would they teach china talking to somalis. that has nothing to do with them. they only teach relevant history.
I loved this episode. Very fascinating seeing two worlds collide! Could we perhaps see one on China and the Philippines and how they interacted with one another?
we are interacting way before spanish came in in fact we have our own dynasties like tondo dynasty here in the Philippines
South East Asia is part of maritime silk road
This help me understand China better.
I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another.
When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire.
Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium.
After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government:
1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free.
2. Make opium legal in China.
Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor.
In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.
In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone.
Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles.
Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.
In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height.
For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China.
Everything China does is negatively reported.
They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor.
They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US.
They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US.
When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices:
1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists.
2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes.
China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky.
During the pandemic,
When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman.
When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers.
When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated.
Western Media always have reasons to bash China.
Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good.
Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world.
They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars?
When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down.
The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad.
China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world.
I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.
-C L
“Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything, instead he just got lost”
-Tasia Grzenia
The west was motivated by competition at home as well as the threat from the ottomans with their blockading of trade routes to india. China thought they were the strongest in the world and thought they would get more profit by trade. Neither are relatively "good". Just ask the vietnamese, tibetans, mongolians and koreans. See what THEY think of the chinese.
@@goodstuff1126 Regarding Tibet.
"History clearly reveals that the old Tibet was not the Shangri-La that many imagine", he wrote "but a society under a system of feudal serfdom."
Until 1959, when China cracked down on Tibetan rebels and the Dalai Lama fled to northern India, around 98% of the population was enslaved in serfdom. Drepung monastery, on the outskirts of Lhasa, was one of the world's largest landowners with 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. High-ranking lamas and secular landowners imposed crippling taxes, forced boys into monastic slavery and pilfered most of the country's wealth - torturing disobedient serfs by gouging out their eyes or severing their hamstrings.
Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama is smiling in all those photos has something to do with the six-figure salary he pulled down from the U.S. government during the 1960s. According to declassified intelligence documents, he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA's funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year. The idea was to disrupt and hamper China's infrastructure.
@@goodstuff1126 During the First Indochina War. In the early 1950s, the Vietnamese Communists confronted formidable enemies and Ho Chi Minh avidly sought advice and weapons from China.
The PRC began to send their advisors and later form the Chinese Military Advisory Group (CMAG) to assist the Viet Minh forces led by Wei Guoqing and Chen Geng.
CMAG and Viet Minh began training for their first campaign.
In September 1950, the Border Campaigns were launched.
And between April and September 1950, China sent to the Viet Minh 14,000 rifles and pistols, 1,700 machine guns and recoilless rifles, 150 mortars, 60 artillery pieces and 300 bazookas, as well as ammunition, medicine, communications materials, clothes and 2,800 tons of food.
In addition, a “political advisory group” was also sent from China to northern Vietnam in 1950, led by Luo Guibo. Luo went to Tonkin to “pass on China’s experience in financial and economic work, the rectification of cadres’ ideology and working style, government work and mobilization of the masses.”
Between 1951 to 1954, the Chinese helped the Vietnamese in training their military commanders; reorganizing their defense and financial systems. They also helped the Vietnamese to mobilize the peasants to support the war through land reform campaigns. Overall, there was a massive transfer of the Chinese experience of making a revolution to the Vietnamese.
After the Geneva Conference
In the years following the conclusion of the 1954 Geneva Conference, China desired a peaceful international environment in order to focus on domestic reconstruction while Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) faced two fundamental tasks: to reconstruct the north and to unify the south.
To rebuild the north, the CPV immediately got assistance from China after the Geneva Conference.
To help the DRV “relieve famine, rebuild the transportation systems, revive agriculture, reconstruct the urban economy, and improve the armed forces,” Beijing agreed to provide rice, sent a team of economic advisers and experts to North Vietnam. In December 1954, China sent more than 2000 railroad workers to the DRV to repair railway lines, roads, and bridges.
During Ho Chi Minh’s official visit to China in 1955, Beijing agreed to provide a grant of $200 million to be used to build various projects. After that, they also established a manpower exchange program. Between 1955 and 1957, in addition to assistance from China, the Soviet Union also played an important role in helping DRV reconstruct and develop its economy.
When the 15th Plenum of the VWP Central Committee in 1959 authorized the use of armed struggle in the south, Hanoi kept asking Beijing for military aid. Under these circumstances and in response to Hanoi's requests, China offered substantial military aid to Vietnam before 1963.
According to Chinese sources, “during the 1956-63 period, China military aid to Vietnam totaled 320 million yuan.
China's arms shipments to Vietnam included 270,000 guns, over 10,000 pieces of artillery, 200 million bullets of different types, 2.02 million artillery shells, 15,00 wire transmitters, 5,000 radio transmitters, over 1,000 trucks, 15 planes 28 naval vessels, and 1.18 million sets of military uniforms." It was China’s aid to North Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 that effectively gave the North the resources needed to begin the insurgency in the South.
Confronting U.S. escalation
The catalyst for the Vietnam War would be the controversial Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964. “To confront the increasing U.S. pressure in Indochina, Beijing stepped up its coordination with the Vietnamese and Laotian parties.”
To counter these U.S. overwhelming airstrikes, Ho requested Chinese Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units in a meeting with Mao in May 1965. In response, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces began flowing into North Vietnam in July 1965 to help defend Hanoi and its major transportation systems. The total number of Chinese troops in North Vietnam between June 1965 and March 1968 amounted to over 320,000.
“The peak year was 1967 when 170,000 Chinese soldiers were present.” In the same year the PLA and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) & Viet Cong (VC) made an agreement under which the PLA provided the PAVN/VC with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes.
In total, the agreement included 687 different items, covering such goods as table tennis balls, volleyballs, harmonicas, playing cards, pins, fountain pen ink, sewing needle, and vegetable seeds.
Such allowed Hanoi to use its own manpower for participating in battles in the South and maintaining the transport and communication lines between the North and the South and played a role in deterring further American expansion of the war into the North.
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China in the Vietnam War
@@condorX2 and yet china feels the need to migrate han chinese into those lands to outpopulate the native tibetans. And still yet they feel the need to kidnap the next dalai lama because the tibetans refuse to accept them as their legitimate rulers. Serfdom. So what? Is it any worse than the surveillance big brother state the chinese empire has become? Does it change the fact that the tibetans were annexed by force and that they obviously very much hate it to this day?
I like how this comment went from simple appreciation of Chinese history and culture to straight CCP pandering. There’s a reason why the majority of the worlds population doesn’t like an authoritarian government in general and it isn’t as simple as “western propaganda” as you think.
People distrust government that actively tells you not to criticise it, censoring any critical topics/criticisms and actively encouraging their own people to view their ideology as righteous and that anyone who disagree with this is against your people.
I’ve never met a single person who has said that they dislike Chinese people or their culture. It’s like ever since the mid 20th century the concept of the Chinese identity has to be tied in with the CCP. No it does not. Chinese identity was appreciated back when they stayed true to themselves, not watered down to be told on what they are told to be now. It’s this reason why people like Taiwan and not so much China. It’s not about being “democratic” that buys us alliances but cooperations does.
Your comment exactly proves the main gripe that people have with the government. Use the CCP as a shield against the “hate of China” and deflect it as “the west is bad”. This active antagonisation is the reason why China is very unpopular of not just the west but it’s Asian neighbours as well. So this logic of “people don’t like CCP cause they don’t want China to be prosperous” is nonsense. Even if you’re looking at a financial standpoint, how would chinas collapse for the sake of “western pride” would in anyway be worth compared to the Repercussions? In a connected world as the 21st century, an event where a major power like China disappears our need for export would be hit with a disaster. If western powers want more dominance then I guess it’s better to keep China afloat than to loath in self pride and see it crumble.
On the regards to the Uighur “genocide” I’d say both east and west claims are neck and neck. The wests term of genocide doesn’t have to mean outright holocaust but a cultural cleansing . The Chinese government claims that such a claim is false but then again how can you believe everything the government says if they actively discourage critical analysis by not allowing anyone to document what’s going on in the province? If you’re so confident about your innocence why hide? It’s suspicions like these that people find troubling. That’s like me pleading not guilty to robbery and my evidence be, trust me bro!
I find it funny how you also mention the government has no option but to “re educate” the mass from terrorism. As if the concept of re education in itself isn’t a violation of individual rights. That’s like neighbour Joe who happens to Christian has committed mass shooting and now my entire family and neighbours have to be forced into a camp like prison of barbed wires, isolated from society to be “educated” that I’m an extremist and that my religion is evil and solely responsible for killing people.
it makes me sick how underrate this channel is you should have 2 mil subs at least with this quality
Bro they should have at least 10 million, this history channel is unrivaled by anything on this platform.
If they keep this up, they will get there eventually my dude. Might take a year or two. But it can happen. Also youtube sometimes takes peoples old videos and starts shoving it in peoples recommendations.
they tells stories equally, especially for the Chinese part, nowadays lots of ppl like to see bad sides of China, or the ancient China, dictatorships, evil dragons, etc.😂 guess that’s why.
14 minutes yet it felt like a 3 hour documentary I can’t explain how much I love this type of content.
These are always incredible pieces. Epic history told through master storytellers, win win.
The first Africans that contacted the Chinese Were the Somalis 🇸🇴
legendary people gotta rate it
@@fromabove422how are they legendary
There have always been Black people in North Africa. For instance, Taharqa (690-664 BCE) a Kushite king and pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty was engaged in regular warfare with the Assyrian empire for geopolitical supremacy in North Africa and The Levant. Black people were common players in occidental history. To be sure, their numbers declined with the continued immigration of asiatic peoples to North Africa, eventual mixture with these peoples, and the decline of Black civilizations but there were still a few strong Black civilizations in what is now known as southern Egypt and northern Sudan. For instance the Christian kingdom of Makuria was powerful enough to give the Muslim Arabs one of their only defeats after the latter had overrun Byzantine Egypt. This defeat led to the signing of the treaty of Baqt. Makuria was strong enough to invade the Umayyad Caliphate in Egypt (up to Alexandria, some say) in order to force the Umayyad Caliphate to honor the terms of the Baqt treaty (which lasted approximately 900 years). So their certainly would have been Black people in North Africa at this time. In terms of an organized powerful Black state, it is likely Makuria that the Chinese traveler Du Huan visited in the 700s.
Excellent video! Awesome channel!
obviously because blacks are actually native to north africa
how is this free ? Amazing content ! the art, the narration, everything. Thank you really.
The artistic value of this video is insane!!!! some image shots gave me goosebumps (combined with the BGM and the narration）
Based video bro - you guys are killing it. The worlds of China and Africa in medieval times were like alien planets meeting. God this is epic please keep it up!
Chinese porcelain and coins have also been found in the coastal cities and towns of Kenya.... Mombasa, Lamu... There is even an island in the Lamu archipelago that has Africans of Chinese decent 🔥🔥
this is how history should be taught
Even today the Chinese treat Africa with way more respect than the French do
This is just phenomenal content man. Well done kabisa.
This content is so amazing, keep up the good work!
封面和視頻中的圖片繪製非常精良考究，服化道与風俗都和歷史貼合度很高，繪製者是是誰，向您表達崇高的敬意
Another masterpiece. Thank you so much guys 🙏
Thank you!
The art in this is breathtaking
You do some amazing work. I am addicted to your videos and how well you narrate the stories of history.
I felt so good watching this video, the sound design, music and everything is just so perfect
Thank you for sparking a passion for ancient history🙏🏽I’ve always enjoyed history mostly world war’s and the Vietnam war buh recently been doing a lot of research into ancient history thanks to ur videos
You two are my favorite channel for history. Vivid story telling paired with beautiful animation and editing. Not to mention the sounds intensifying it all. You are a blessing!
did u get a ps 5
Thank you for shedding light on African history and it’s involvement in world trade before the Europeans attacked
a nother legendary video from the best youtuber on the platform
This video really transported me to a golden era.
It’s quite poetic that Chinese and African relations evolved to that of today. Infrastructure being built by Chinese engineers and resources being traded by African traders. I hope both peoples continue to enrich and mutually benefit each other from their continued partnership and friendship.
I had no knowledge of this fascinating part of history, I appreciate your dedication to research and commitment to make this video possible for us all.
Please do more African history your videos are so gooooddddd
Muqdisho is uniquely Somali. Swahili speakers were only as common as Arabs. Africa isn’t a monolith, and conflating the unique peoples does them a disservice.
they misunderstood it
I have been a subscriber for a while now and these videos do not disappoint. It would be nice if you did a video on maybe the Aztecs or Incas? As a lifelong history nerd these videos are everything. Keep up the solid work.