History Summarized: Medieval China (Ft Jack Rackam)

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@erichayes8445 4 года назад

Chinese Emperor: *Becomes Corrupt* The Heavens: "HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN!"

@jessebai592 4 года назад

Corruption is unavoidable for feudal system. proberly it is unavoidable by any type of system. There is always a ruling class which would be crrupted by its power. The only way to flaten the curve is to refresh the ruling class.

@beareble-lion4446 4 года назад

@@jessebai592 imo a open market libertarian republican system in which those in the top 25% of wealthy people would pay for 50% of taxes needed for roads security force's an education. Government shouldn't be in charge of anything else. That an as long as your actions and words don't harm or rob someone unwillingly it's legal to do as a adult. And education should be aimed at making free thinkers an the self employed.

@bosunbill9059 4 года назад

@@jessebai592 Let's be honest, corruption is inevitable in ALL systems.

@adamcheklat7387 2 года назад

Also Heavens: THERE HE IS! GO GET HIM!

@erichayes8445 2 года назад

@@beareble-lion4446 there's still gonna be corruption just from the corporations instead of the state

@falco6121 5 лет назад

That pun at the beginning killed me

@TerenceClark 5 лет назад

RIP

@McJethroPovTee 5 лет назад

apparently even blue can't handle his own pun.

@MisterJasro 5 лет назад

Oh ashame you had to miss the rest of the video. They should put such killer puns at the end next time.

@grumiosspoon_ 5 лет назад

TheFalcon67 same

@coyotecody99 5 лет назад

Death:Welcome to the afterlife what killed you? Me:a truly terrible pun Death:yeah lots of people die from pun exposure. I mean the afterlife is just filled with pun-demonium as a result of them Me: AHHHHHHHHHHH

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

*_Below is a 100% accurate rendition of Wu Zetian seizing power:_* *Literally Everybody Else:* In the name of the Chinese Empire you are under arrest. *Wu Zetian:* Are you threatening me adviser/son/other political rival? *Literally Everybody Else:* The Emperor will decide you fate. *Wu Zetian:* I am the Emperor! *Literally Everybody Else:* Not yet! *Wu Zetian:* It's treason then. *Whips out a red lightsaber, does a 720 degree inverted spin, and proceeds to go ham on everybody in room.*

@OverlySarcasticProductions 5 лет назад

She had such a knowledge of the dark side that she could even keep the ones she cared about from living.

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Is it possible to learn such -power- reckless filial piety?

@whoknows7968 5 лет назад

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi Not from a decent parent.

@whoknows7968 5 лет назад

@Tam873 Did you really have to ruin the comment chain to complain about Journey to the West? That takes time! Lots of time! Red finishes one of those every few months because of quality over quantity, and to make even more videos like that would just make them take even longer.

@whoknows7968 5 лет назад

@Tam873 Check the date when each episode released in the past, some episodes have taken 9 months this is nothing new.

@TangmoMopet 5 лет назад

**Hype for Three kingdom summarized**

@anantanni22 5 лет назад

People who are interested in Romance of the Three Kingdoms but daunted by the thick book should try watching the 2010 TV adaptation. It's really good, almost completely faithful to the novel, and even made reading it easier since I could put faces on all the names. (So many names!) You also learn how to pronounce them, so that's nice.

@Reacted1991 5 лет назад

@@anantanni22 i've seen watched the whole series atleast 4 times by now and it is hands down the best adaptation of the novel i've seen and i seen almost all of them by the way have you seen the trailer for that dynasty warriors movie that looks like some silly fun

@Wobble9000 5 лет назад

@Kains Legacy You're talking about Red Cliff, the 5 hour John Woo Epic about the battle of red cliffs. I watched a couple of times, it's a pretty great Dynasty Warriors-style action film. Here's the trailer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pd0bqLQrtdE.html Also, where can I watch this TV adaptation? I've heard of it and I am interested after playing Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends.

@Wobble9000 5 лет назад

Anant Mishra I understand that. My only exposure to this history is Dynasty Warriors, so I don’t have more background info to draw from. I need to watch that TV series.

@Reacted1991 5 лет назад

@@Wobble9000 no i'm talking about the 2010 series three kingdoms or war of the three kingdoms the red cliff movie has great action but butchered the story i have no idea why they thought it would be a good idea to have zhou yu and zhuge liang be friends when in actuality he tryed to have kong ming multiple times during their alliance he hate him and there would be no way the zhou yu i know would take an arrow for zhao yun also you could easily find the whole series on youtube by typing in three kingdoms and the episode number you want

@SonPham-CompetitiveProgramming 5 лет назад

12:00 There are many versions of why her tablet describe her achievement was empty. And one of them was that the tablet was empty per Wu's request, as she believed that her achievements are too numerous to describe in a small tablet (literally indescribable). She also knew that her heinous acts can only be judged by the large scale of history, so by living an empty tablet, she "let the future historians judged her achievements for themselves."

@JM-bb8xi 5 лет назад

I translated the Three Kingdoms after college, Reds right, it's DENSE, but honestly it's a side effect of how direct Chinese language can be. It's very to the point and meaning dense.

@cpMetis 5 лет назад

It is difficult for a person such as myself to comprehend how the language of the modern descendants of the Angals could, under a circumstance, be interpreted by a reasonable person or reasonable persons to contain a notable portion of "fluff" or otherwise excess language in the form of unnecessary words or phrases.

@loah_1 5 лет назад

The irony

@teddyganea9990 5 лет назад

@@cpMetis While English is a compact language compared to most modern-day languages, especially other Western ones (like Spanish or Romanian for example), compared to most ancient languages it is very expansive. Latin and ancient Greek are both mind-blowingly dense compared to English, with entire sentences being able to be expressed in two or three words. While I don't know Mandarin, it's not a stretch to say ancient Mandarin was more compact than English.

@cpMetis 5 лет назад

@@teddyganea9990 Ye. Ah, the wonders of slang.

@teddyganea9990 5 лет назад

@@cpMetis You're not wrong. Slang makes everything easier for English. Still, English slang is equally compact if not still less compact than proper Latin.

@soorian6493 5 лет назад

Welp, someone casually mentioned Avatar in conversation. Guess I have to watch the whole series again. *sigh*

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

Let's go reunify the Earth Kingdom! Again!

@Enchie 5 лет назад

Your acting like that's a bad thing.

@Quinn-bq9sv 5 лет назад

THE EARTH KINDOM IS WHOLE AGAIN THEN IT BROKE AGAIN

@GhostBear3067 5 лет назад

Sounds to me like the exact opposite of a problem

@potatoluna3389 5 лет назад

Ikr

@petermann673 5 лет назад

Oh man, I hope that means Red will do a Romance of Three Kingdoms series at some point!

@McJethroPovTee 5 лет назад

Right after Journey to the West, maybe Mahabharata, too.

@VietTran-po3hd 5 лет назад

@@McJethroPovTee So never?

@Taxrenn93 5 лет назад

It might coincide with the release of Total War: Three Kingdoms, when that releases in May.

@lolakitano1229 5 лет назад

And the book is monstruous too !

@ChrisX_212 5 лет назад

While she does that, how about you do your own spin on the Japanese history? I mean, not just Sengoku Period (we already got that a lot, but you can add your own spin), maybe the Kamakura Period or the time of the Minamoto? We don't get that a lot.

@lortolk5929 5 лет назад

Have a couple notes for historical purposes: 1) Would point out that every single unification of China has been effected along a North to South axis. There's been many historical arguments and analysis as to why, from examining crops (North grew wheat, south rice) and its effect on social structures (rice agriculture encouraged large public works and plantations, leading to aristocracy and weaker states, wheat agriculture was seasonal and encouraged smaller family farming) to nomad states in the north, etc. I believe it remains a major focus of historical analysis. 2) The Grand Canal was important as a unifying factor for future Chinese dynasties, uniting the Yellow River and Yangtze economies in a way they never had before. 3) Similarly, Medieval China is when the economic and demographic heart of China shifted from North, along the Yellow River Basin, southwards to the Yangtze (around the delta). This ties into questions of why unification was always achieved from a north-south axis, when the South along the Yangtze held significant demographic and economic advantages (and thus hard power) over Northern dynasties and states. Also, small correction, but ROTK was written from a SHU perspective, not the WU perspective.

@ENDERSMAN123422 5 лет назад

There is exceptions to the north south axis, the rise of Ming dynasty comes mind

@stevenyd644 5 лет назад

@@ENDERSMAN123422 And the northern expedition by KMT (only partly successful though). I think part of the reason a south-to-north unification is so rare has to do with climate. i.e. It's much easier for troops from the frigid north to adjust to the warm south than the reverse.

@6principlesforcartography61 5 лет назад

That is stereotype: Qin conquers other warring states->West to East Fall of Qin->South to North Chu-Han Contention->West to East Tang conquers other warlords->West to East

@donkey394 5 лет назад

Not true, but one factor could be long period of prosperity in the South especialy coastal regions. The North is Frigid and economic growth are hard to come by, the West has extreme condition as well, so building up a prosperous society is much harder, but that also lead to more desperate people overtime. The South after long period of prosperity can be succumbed by long period of attrition, it's not that they couldn't put up a good fight, as it usually take generations for Northern or Western region to subdue the South, but it's more often so that West to East and North changing of dynasties is more common than North to South. A few exception of South to North reunification comes from the Ming Dynasty, that was after the Mongol conquest, after a long period of prosperous time, under the Yuan where the North, West, and South region reached the same level of prosperity, this time it was the Southern region that started the rebellion and toppled the Yuan.

@albertwang3536 4 года назад

6 Principles for Cartography around after 600AD, the centre of China moved to the Yangtze river. Meaning that the state that had stable control over the area would become prosperous. Note that ANY rebellion after 1000 that over threw the government came from the south. If the dynasty had weak controls over the south then the most prosperous region would revolt.

@brettd2308 5 лет назад

Romance follows the Shu, not the Wu, as I'm sure someone as pointed out by now. Though it's idealization of the Shu was indeed built on top of Ming propaganda that even had its roots in the Southern Song Dynasty - all about villifying the northern invaders and equating the southern dynasty as the "rightful" one. Also, it bears mentioning that we have several good historical sources from this period, most notably the Records of the Three Kingdoms. The issue with them is finding English translations, as serious Chinese history scholarship tends to just read them in Chinese, and not much has been translated.

@Chinaman7915 3 года назад

Im pretty sure there were also records around this period in the Book of Later Han right?

@maxd234 5 лет назад

I’m mad that Blue didn’t go over how Emperor Chad of the Byzantine Empire sent his daughters to the Tang Emperor in order to get the famous Dragon amulet and then went to war against the Western Chinese territories Oh wait that’s my Crusader Kings 2 play through...nvm

@blarg2429 5 лет назад

I was gonna ask if there was really an emperor named Chad, so now I'm disappointed.

@budakbaongsiah 5 лет назад

Was Chad a Lunatic, One-eyed, Ambitious, Greedy, Diligent, Proud, Deceitful, Lustful man with Syphilis?

@joebeard4498 5 лет назад

@@budakbaongsiah you forgot dwarf

@peloncito_5987 4 года назад

@@budakbaongsiah you forgot inbred

@a-drewg1716 4 года назад

@@peloncito_5987 inbred is just a given at this point

@pathfindersavant3988 5 лет назад

Dang, that Empress must've been reeeeeeeeeeeealy good at Crusader Kings

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

There's an awful lot of _Empires_ in this part of history. *flashbacks to Darth Sidious's swift takeover and brutal regime...*

@khai96x 5 лет назад

Darth Sidious was a bad ruler.

@ohadgoldhagen1095 5 лет назад

I used to be a Jedi Knight, the same as your Father..,

@krantz7 5 лет назад

The Dao will be with you… Always.

@lordloaf7631 5 лет назад

Khải Hoàng he United the empire gave trillions of people jobs and created real estate space

@bloodstoneore4630 5 лет назад

Did you hear about that brave disabled war veteran who took out those armed rebel terrorist thieves?

@idkazniguess 5 лет назад

CORRECTION: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms follows the Shu kingdom. The majority of its characters are from the Shu kingdom including Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang. Source: Am Chinese

@zachbear98765 5 лет назад

I enjoy your sourcing. 10/10

@AlexanderRJaruk 5 лет назад

Personally, I think the sourcing would be slightly stronger if you added the words "so I can read it in the original", but what do I know?

@jasonfrancis9262 5 лет назад

I thought it started by following the Wu then jumps ship to the Shu presenting Liu Bei as some moral hero he likely was not

@idkazniguess 5 лет назад

@@jasonfrancis9262 If we're going with how the story starts in the very beginning, then it actually starts with Wei and how Cao Cao the leader of Wei came to power. I took "follows" to mean "main focus", of which Liu Bei and his group of people are the main focus. Liu Bei and his people are clearly the protagonists.

@idkazniguess 5 лет назад

@@AlexanderRJaruk I mean you don't even have to read it in the original Chinese to understand that the story mainly follows Liu Bei and the other people from Shu. The people from Shu are clearly the protagonists. Even a glance at the wikipedia page can confirm this.

@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 5 лет назад

Finishes Avatar, does a video on Medieval China. COINCIDENCE?!

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

I THINK NOT!

@cobraglatiator 5 лет назад

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi General Kenobi, you *are* a bold one!

@valsvlogs7459 3 года назад

@@kaushallsenthilnathan4175 go i

@スノーハッピー 3 года назад

Unfavourable accounts of Wu Zetian emerged mostly in the Song Dynasty, whereas histories written in the Tang Dynasty even after Wu Zetian's time were mostly favourable. While every Emperor tended to have committed terrible bloodshed, she likely wasn't any more tyrannical to others and was smeared later on. Patriarchy probably is a part of this historical interpretation - the Song Dynasty is more patriarchical and conservative than the Tang Dynasty.

@andrewlogan2101 5 месяцев назад

Idk man she just sounded bad ass to me

@PandaGamingBE 5 лет назад

How have you not seen the Avatar series until now?

@IamnotfromUSA 5 лет назад

@jonsnor4313 5 лет назад

Now he has to regain his honorrrrr!

@BeckettBaladas 5 лет назад

I believe he had seen it once when it came out but only recently watched it for the first time since then

@bmoney2011 5 лет назад

I haven't seen a single episode

@helenanilsson5666 5 лет назад

I have seen a single episode, but not much more. Sorry kids, I just didn't have time. There's too much good content available in the world for me to watch every great show, and that's not a problem.

@lamcb.9476 5 лет назад

holy shit, I knew the Chinese power struggle was amazing, but the melodrama, holy shit. I need to read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

@caridadchang7895 5 лет назад

China: everything is fine The Mongols: hold my beer

@GrassesOn97 5 лет назад

*China finally forms in 1949 “And now we play the waiting game...”

@inkchip7351 5 лет назад

Where's the lie tho

@Newbmann 5 лет назад

@@inkchip7351 HE HAS IRONY YOU MUST GO TO A REEDUCATION CAMP ISLAM IS A MENTAL ILLNESS SO IS IRONY China 2020

@jynexe3056 5 лет назад

We got approximately 20 more years until it collapses again

@aussieboy4090 5 лет назад

China will probably eventually collapse in ~200 years. That's around the average "life span" of a typical unified Chinese nation. But then again, Zhou lasted for ~800 years so we don't really have a pinpoint "death time" for PRC. Maybe it will be short like Sui Dynasty or average "life span." My prediction is that China could collapse in the year 2249, 200 years after the establishment of the PRC.

@Newbmann 5 лет назад

@@aussieboy4090 there's one thing your forgetting the PRC might as well be INSOC there social credit system must at the very least give them another 50 year's

@MeatGuyJ 5 лет назад

Man, red would probably go nuts drawing and summing up ROTK. Probably would be about three times as intensive as Journey to the West.

@samtrue3 5 лет назад

You mean dragonball Kai right?

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

Those Three Kingdoms need to chill out and just accept that none of them are the *_CHOSEN ONE!_* It was said that they would unite the kingdoms, not destroy them! Bring balance to China, not leave it in darkness!

@Kitkat_004 5 лет назад

Seriously man, I keep seeing you

@kushastea3961 5 лет назад

wei kingdom had the heir to the throne under its thumb, the leader of shu was a royalty, the wu kingdom had the divine seal used by emperors to declare things. so it was not about which was the chosen one, it was about who had the right to claim the throne.

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi 5 лет назад

@@Kitkat_004 The Force often brings us together in the places where we least expect it...

@Kitkat_004 5 лет назад

Obi-Wan Kenobi true true

@nobblkpraetorian5623 5 лет назад

@@kushastea3961 Actually the divine seal was never in Wu's hands. Sun Ce sold the seal for his and his men's freedom before he conquered the territory that would become Wu.

@Repider 5 лет назад

Oh my, Blue must be proud of his pun at the beginning

@trumpeteer4601 2 года назад

Coming here after reading Iron Widow is such a trip in the best way. Wu Zetian, meet Wu Zetian

@0ld_Scratch 5 лет назад

"...this (bad)boy is dense!" please stop quoting my father, thank you!

@emptank 5 лет назад

No one could ever unify China after all this chaos. Except for the Mongols!

@ojutay8375 5 лет назад

We’re the exception

@ItRemindMeOfHome 5 лет назад

For a century, then they collapsed and were replaced by the Ming

@ascendingfire8404 5 лет назад

Cue the Mongoltage!

@lemax6865 5 лет назад

@@ascendingfire8404 I remember the Mongoltage, which RU-vidr was it that used it?

@ascendingfire8404 5 лет назад

@@lemax6865 It's from Crash Course, specifically their World History series hosted by John Green.

@victoriasternberg481 5 лет назад

This isn't history. This is Dynasty Warriors.

@fireredemblem4943 5 лет назад

Lol exactly!!

@BlackBirdGuardian 5 лет назад

*sees a Being of true power riding a Red Demon horse* "They said 'Do not Pursue Lu Bu', they never said anything about 'Lu Bu pursuing you!'"

@riverbecomesastorm375 4 года назад

This was the video that introduced me to Jack Rackham's channel and I am eternally grateful.

@TheNN 5 лет назад

And then Genghis Khan busts through the Great Wall of China, explosions happening behind him, and he's like, "Sup, nice empires you got here, would be a shame if somethin happened to em."

@johncao6516 5 лет назад

Except the Great Wall you're probably thinking didn't exist yet. Not until the Ming drove out the Mongols.

@TheNN 5 лет назад

Oh i know, but it was just a joke.

@unclecaramel 5 лет назад

Funny enough genghis never got past the song. And lets just say that song might have used him to to fuck over the Jin at the time. Which was the true foundation which how the mongols shat on the rest of thr world. Song collapse because of corruption and traitorts. Of course the Yuan lasted about as long as the Qin before being overthrown by the second low born nobody.

@albertwang3536 4 года назад

The Nothing Nobody Actually, when Genghis invaded Song had already collapsed.

@kimchow4729 4 года назад

The Great Wall, although not truly existed yet at the time, was fully capable of defending China from invasions. One reason the Song was so invulnerable against Northern invasions is that during the Five Dynasty and Ten Kingdom periods, the Emperor of Later Jin ceded the Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao Empire. The Sixteen Prefectures are a huge land which act as a natural barrier. Losing the Sixteen Prefectures basically rendered the defensive wall existed at that time useless. Despite how people might think, walls are pretty damn useful. That being said though, a single hole is what it takes to make the entire thing useless.

@noaccount4 5 лет назад

Is that the age of mythology soundtrack I hear? prostagma

@erg344 5 лет назад

I've been replaying AoM lately, and I was always expecting to hear Blue's voice while playing! I thought it might also appear in Age of Empires, and that is why I haven't commented on it yet XD Inwe

@dylanchouinard6141 5 лет назад

John Merces volumen

@saittugrulturhal 5 лет назад

Esto

@t40xd 5 лет назад

He uses it a lot.

@athosbirra627 5 лет назад

Màlista

@TheJboy88 5 лет назад

I think I speak for everyone here when I say that your little moments with Red in these videos is just pure delight :)

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 5 лет назад

You should do the history of pasta, where you also compare the parallel history between the Italian and the Chinese one.

@rateeightx 5 лет назад

What's Chinese Pasta???

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 5 лет назад

@@rateeightx Chinese rice noodles. Which are also called pasta in Italy, and evolved parallerly to Italian pasta.

@rateeightx 5 лет назад

@@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 Hmm. Didn't Know Italians Called Chinese Noodles Pasta,

@rickr9435 5 лет назад

The First Primaris Cato Sicarius ummmm china has flour noodles, rice noodles, starch noodles, and even jellyfish noodles. so, only rice noodles is called chinese pasta?

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 5 лет назад

@@rickr9435 All of them are called pasta. It's just that I only know of the rice noodles.

@kala_asi 5 лет назад

I've *just* finished binging Avatar yesterday, and today I hear this 1:26. That was perfect freaking timing.

@whoknows7968 5 лет назад

Great job, now go watch it again. Or just read the follow up comics, that works too.

@kala_asi 5 лет назад

I will as soon as I get some free time!

@matthewmuir8884 5 лет назад

Just don't watch Korra. Even in season 1, Amon was interesting, but the love triangle between the heroes was nearly unbearably bad and took up way too much time.

@IrishMappermapsmore 5 лет назад

@@matthewmuir8884 17 year old teens, what do u really expect Pretty realistic if u ask me

@matthewmuir8884 5 лет назад

@@IrishMappermapsmore Ugh; I dislike that excuse. "A love triangle is realistic because teenagers", that's not my issue with it. My issue with it is that it was badly written, terribly cliché, and took up way too much screen time. It's the same issues that almost every YA love triangle has, because they're all written almost identically. Also, I dislike the excuse of "We should have a love triangle because they're teenagers" as if that's the only way to write a YA romantic subplot, when that is far from the case. Avatar: the Last Airbender had no love triangles even though it had a lot of teenagers. Ed, Alphonse, Ling and their respective love-interests in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are teenagers, yet there isn't a single love triangle in that whole show. There are multiple ways to write a realistic teenage romantic subplot. Love triangles have gotten to the point where they seem stale and cliché rather than realistic.

@psachickennugget8617 5 лет назад

That was a great, bad pun. Do more pls

@icarusancalion3523 4 года назад

What I really appreciate is how you connect viewers to other good history channels -- thank you!

@Integer_Overload 5 лет назад

China's history is like those cheesy off-brand legos that your parents bought you off the clearance shelf at walgreens. It just can't stay together, so you try to put it together a little differently, but eventually it falls apart again. Repeat over millenia.

@Alaryk111 5 лет назад

There is no state that last forever.

@potatonoodlebear8035 5 лет назад

I mean many dynasties lasted for two or three hundreds years. But again, China History is thousands years old. So, not that a long time, if you are thinking in a perspective of thousand year

@princ2024 21 день назад

中国的大部分的王朝拿出来一个都比美利坚的历史要长久

@arrowheadanimations5111 5 лет назад

Could you guys do a Legends summarised on Jason and the Argonauts?

@lovinglydull 5 лет назад

A) That pun was horrible. Good job. B) I'm hyped for the inevitable Three Kingdoms (probably) crossover video. C) Wu Zetian is best Emperor.

@lucasbeck1391 5 лет назад

wu is a ck2 player

@sarahcole9661 4 года назад

If I’m a tenth as clever as Empress Wu when I turn (however old she was at her ascension), I will be an exceedingly lucky woman.

@fluffycat1293 4 года назад

Sarah Cole when she actually named herself empress, I think she was in her late 50s (though, she had technically been ruling through her husband/son for way longer). She was a kickass innovative emperor, unfortunately historians didn’t like her since she was a woman (and probably also cuz she wasn’t from a noble family) :( She died at the ripe old age of 84, which was damn old at that time

@anonemuss1418 5 лет назад

This recent focus on Asian history lately makes me wonder if you'll ever do an episode over the Toungoo Empire, or any of its predecessors/successors really. Burma needs more love.

@Felishamois 5 лет назад

hear hear

@pfefferfilm 3 года назад

"took me three days to get through the table of contents" lolol same I still have no idea who worked for who in that book

@RoseArtemis24 5 лет назад

Oh my god Blue why did I have to listen to this pun with my own two ears

@hxhuang9306 5 лет назад

Damn, you are using some correct pictures of architectures corresponding to each time period. 9:27 Foguang Temple! Nice

@thomaspowell1582 5 лет назад

Can I just say that Age Of Mythology soundtrack gave me serious nostalgia.

@sheller153 5 лет назад

I loved that pun! And your interaction with Red was adorable! Makes me wish I had a close friendship

@ArgentDeer 5 лет назад

Do I praise you, Blue, for your web-blind/web-site joke or nah?

@bloodstoneore4630 5 лет назад

Yes

@lipan2757 5 лет назад

2:20 correction. The Protagonist of the novel is the Shu kingdom, given its emperor is very remotely related to royalty and thus was considered the more legitimate heir to the Han throne, although he was the least powerful and capable of the three. But the book shed a lot more positive light on him, given it fits Ming dynasty's agenda at the time as Ming was the last ethnic Han dynasty in China.

@bkjeong4302 9 месяцев назад

To be frank, none of the three kingdoms were run by sane, reasonable people. Wu especially had a lot of incompetent leadership (though it actually lasted the longest of the three, as both Shu and Wei fell very quickly to the Wei splinter faction that founded the Jin, and that splinter faction was itself so corrupt and insane from the start that it took forever for it to briefly put aside its internal issues and conquer Wu).

@thunderstorm5754 5 лет назад

You know my favorite history/ information RU-vidrs are you guys and crash course because you guys go into things where chrash course is great for if your just trying to learn the basics history . I wish they would show your guy's videos at school because even in a seventh grade social studies class you would would have explained all what we are missing from our curriculum this year because they essentially completely made us gloss over Egypt and I like Egypt . ❤️u guys

@dubyaw9511 5 лет назад

Red Cliff: Wu: We're the descents of Sun Tsu! Wei: Prove it!

@SheBeastJehanne 2 года назад

Jack Rackham's use of the consort Gaozong picked because she looked like Wu in the show to represent Wu in his videos about Wu is one of my favorite details

@indiesongwriter5474 5 лет назад

One thing, I would suggest that you put the names of people on the screen. I wasn't sure who the empress was that your guest was talking about and I had to rewind it like three times to tell what he was saying. Great video!

@HistoryHouseProductions 5 лет назад

Two of my favorite creators on one video? What kind of dark magic is this?

@Jkirek_ 5 лет назад

Red is the one that does the magic, maybe ask her instead :p

@suenzhong7891 4 года назад

RotK is one of my favourite epics of all time. The amount of GoT worthy (if not more) shenanigans that occur during that one dynastic era is truly mind-blowing.

@imarioiv 5 лет назад

Ok, this topic is really interesting but, thanks for giving me flashbacks to Age of Mythology. Literally the entire time listening to the music, I’m thinking of Greek villagers going “Fritomos.” “Metalef.” Ajax collecting a relic, and Odysseus firing arrows at a Nord Giant. Great game, has nothing to do with China unless you count the expansion lol.

@Demonslayre 5 лет назад

Just wanted to say, love the videos. Especially the er... captions? Annotations? Text quotes. Anyway, they're great and simple to follow. Simple enough that I'm using Red's Norse mythology (more please?) and (later) Egyptian videos to help my mother understand the mythos for her playthroughs of the latest God of War and Assassins Origins. And probably Blue's on anything Peloponnesian war when she gets to odyssey in... A few years probably. Keep it up!

@phosphoros60 5 лет назад

Whenever I hear something like 'Six successive southern dynasties' all I can think is 'Samson the Sadducee strangler, Silas the Syrian assassin, several seditious scribes from Cesarea..."

@keebler1778 5 лет назад

Historia Civilis and Overly Sarcastic Productions upload on the same day... around the same time...

@May-cu3vs 5 лет назад

The Tibet part took me OUT man I shouldn’t have laughed that hard

@Gotenhanku 3 года назад

What are you talking about? There was no such thing called Tibet in this video. It totally never existed as a legitimate establishment that could fight against China.

@justinlan7940 5 лет назад

Love the Age of Mythology soundtrack

@michaelnelson2976 5 лет назад

REally great sidebar by Jack Rackman, I love his newcaster style of presentation. I'm checking him out

@battleofjericho4540 5 лет назад

Could you do a history of mideival Poland, or one of the Native American civilizations?

@kurtpeterson3398 5 лет назад

Just want to say these videos are amazing and hilarious, couldn't stop laughing at the Wu Zetian segment.

@gorgonzolastan 5 лет назад

Wonder if the little girl in this video representing the consort will ever see it. That would be so weird to have posed for a stock photograph and find all the places where you pop up.

@NeostormXLMAX 5 лет назад

Better than greg Hefty being used for constipation

@tagalongtoourpast 5 лет назад

Excellent....and loved Jack Rackam's contribution!

@McMaster1471 5 лет назад

Jack Rackam’s so underrated!

@brokenbridge6316 2 года назад

This video was very informative. Good job. I enjoyed it.

@GreenTideStudio 5 лет назад

I can not wrap my head around the fact that you guys have not hit, like a billion subscribers. Your videos are both educational and funny. Breaking the laws of physics. Ps: eat a snicker bud

@amrathpaul2966 5 лет назад

This is a collaboration I didn't know I wanted!

@LuinTathren 5 лет назад

Awesome video! Thanks for all your hard work!

@ReySilverskin 5 лет назад

I still love how you use Age of Mythology music for these. It's so good.

@kochasaito4628 4 года назад

It's not 16 separated kingdoms in a same time, but there had been 16 kingdoms from Jin's Fallen to the Found of Northern Wei. During this time the rest of Jin Dynasty remained in the south of China and those 16 Northern Kingdoms iterated in the north until the Northern Wei(北魏) unified the North.

@dragonknightleader 5 лет назад

I cheered when I heard Red was creating a summary of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, I love that time period from China's history.

@DrakenAshen 5 лет назад

All the names on Blues wall are in a mobile game called Light in Chaos. That's funny. Cao Cao is a badass.

@french_bread4961 5 лет назад

Blue: *finally posts medieval China video* Me: Yes!!!

@silverwolf28 3 года назад

It's rlly interesting seeing this as a Chinese person, since my memory of Chinese history is three children's series' on Chinese history, filtered through the memories of me as a 4-8 yo written and published in China lol

@elg6197 5 лет назад

Thank you OSP, for introducing me another great RU-vid channel.

@elg6197 5 лет назад

Here you go Jack, a new subscriber

@JackRackam 5 лет назад

@@elg6197 Much appreciated!

@georgiaholmes5199 5 лет назад

Love your videos, thank you and keep it up! 😁

@archazriel 5 лет назад

wooooo! You have a Tibetan fan BTW.

@pixii7551 5 лет назад

i love the Age of Mythology music

@silverwolf28 3 года назад

oh and about Gaozong/唐高宗, there was this whole thing where his dad Li Shimin- a famously good emperor - originally had a different heir that was described as a lot smarter than Gaozong, but he became too ambitious and not 'kind' - my memory's kinda hazy on that - so Li Shimin replaced the original heir with Gaozong, who wasn't as 'smart', but is a lot more 老实 - not quite sure how to translate Also, iirc, Wu Zetian's monument describing her accomplishments was described to me as a choice on her part in an act of self awareness, since she knew as she did as much bad as she did good, and that she knew her legacy was waay too complicated to summarise that simply. Idk if that's factually correct, but that's what I was taught

@spencerabdo5144 5 лет назад

Poor Red... 3 days on a Table of Contents. Is that a Circle of College Hell? Like for those who just use Sparknotes instead of actually reading the books for College?

@Felishamois 5 лет назад

ok that's nice

@alecchristiaen4856 4 года назад

China: *united for a solid 50 years* China: "BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN"

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 5 лет назад

2:55 *Holy Mess Empire laughs in the distance*

@Silk-hj5jm 4 года назад

You forgot to mention the Tangut empire that existed between 11th-13th century located between Khitan and Song. There's a very good 10 episode documentary series in Chinese that talks about it.

@coal_inks4793 5 лет назад

BEFORE I WAS WEB BLIND NOW I HAVE WEB SIGHT I NEED THAT ON A SHIRT OH MY GOODNESS

@nadiavazquez2846 5 лет назад

Oh my gosh, Red's and Blue's interactions are so cute!

@inestrix7377 5 лет назад

That Age of Mythology soundtrack :D

@DerJagerlord 5 лет назад

Is...is that AGE OF MYTHOLOGY MUSIC I HEAR???? GLORIOUS

@vinhny2406 5 лет назад

Uhhhh the novel follow the Shu which is found by Liu Bei and usually seen as the main character in the novel

@Unoriginal____Starwalker 3 года назад

The frickin age of mythology music on the background adds so much for this I'm literally crying

@Artur_M. 5 лет назад

Amazing video made even greater by the cooperation with Jack Rackam. Everyone go check his channel out if you haven't already! Seriously, he's pretty awesome with a sweet mix of sarcastic humor with facts. Plus he did mention the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth already a couple of times.

@JackRackam 5 лет назад

Hi, Artur! Thanks for the plug :D

@maddie9602 5 лет назад

Looking forward to rounding out the saga with the early modern dynasties to the modern republics soon.

@weik-2936 5 лет назад

You and Red need to do a video on the world of Avatar,

@markl2571 5 лет назад

When you said you finished avatar I was waiting for confirmation on the TV show rather than the sci-fi movie. Then I heard zuko and I was so happy

@ahmedst205 5 лет назад

do a video about medieval morocco please!

@studio._.z 2 года назад

Xiran jay zhao did a wonderful multiple part series on Wu Zetian

@dianam.60 5 лет назад

Hello Blue! It would be amazing if you could make a video on the first world war! If you can't, then could you please direct me to some really good sources? Anything on the modern era would be really useful to me. I love your channel very much and it would mean a lot if you could help me💚 Btw Zuko's arc was definitely incredible!

@Loxalair Год назад

Can I recommend a podcast? Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast is not super brief, it has 154 episodes, plus a few extras, but it is significantly easier to get through and less dry than every other english translation of the novel. I just finished listening to it (and started on the other one the guy did on Water Margin) and it was excellent background noise for my embroidery