How Old is China?

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When people think of the oldest civilizations in the world, they often think of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus River Valley Civilization, but another one that is often included is China, seeing as China is possibly the oldest surviving civilization in the world. With that in mind, just how old is China as we know it today?
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@jacobarmour6325 4 года назад

*The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rice of china*

@supernt7852 4 года назад

I see what you did there, rice...

@elvolvasky69 4 года назад

Two genius comments jaha

@crimson90 4 года назад

Did you eat your cereal?

@coryplum5375 4 года назад

Rice? how about noodles or dumplings?

@njlschpprkjrsvk 4 года назад

nice

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 года назад

I love learning more about our neighbors

@jakubpociecha8819 4 года назад

Supreme Leader,what country would you like to learn about next?

@GIOB5 4 года назад

Plot Twist: THIS IS THE REAL KIM JONG UN 0_0

@Mercilessonion 4 года назад

South Korea's next

@tmfan3888 4 года назад

Dear Supreme Leader, you forgot to use British english which you're always using...

@szfpa 4 года назад

Pleeeease bomb Albania

@Exmaple 4 года назад

It’s probably older than me

@ericktorres9791 4 года назад

You’re not wrong I-

@jakubpociecha8819 4 года назад

Well,that's because it is

@gustavosauro1882 3 года назад

Probably

@bowenzhang4471 2 года назад

Assumably

@woshishei2879 4 года назад

Thanks for making this video. It's so refreshing to see a video trying to help people understand China instead of simply attacking her.

@kriitixanimetions8399 4 года назад

Loving the minecraft parts! Makes a mundane topic more interesting. At least for me.

@monikagandhi6560 4 года назад

69 likes, nice

@Ttegegg 2 года назад

Yay great migration

@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977 4 года назад

China is like a time Lord, it can simultaneously be thousands of years and a few years old

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

Stop forming bs

@flutterwind7686 3 года назад

@@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 It's a joke. Chill

@leezhieng 3 года назад

if you count by dynasty then yes it's pretty new

@scythal 2 года назад

@@leezhieng The current CCP regime is only 73 years old at most...

@prometheus7387 4 года назад

3:39 Passing the throne to me? I am honoured!

@prometheus7387 4 года назад

@Briny What if the throne was common property then? 🤔

@jakubpociecha8819 4 года назад

@@prometheus7387 Well,you're not wrong...

@khai96x 2 года назад

"Passing the throne" could just be a myth made up by Confucian scholars. In reality, "usurping the throne" is more likely.

@Daniel-ht4wr 4 года назад

There's a lot of "the greats" in History (Alexander, Alfred ect..) but theres only one "The Engineer" in world history lol

@1Orderchaos 4 года назад

ad goes from 4:30 - 6:08

@Cjnw 4 года назад

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@lesleylee3755 4 года назад

Khanubis, I love it when you use both traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.(mainly traditional Chinese)very unique

@Taffee 4 года назад

Idk but it's probably younger than Bernie Sanders

@njlschpprkjrsvk 4 года назад

ouch

@KhAnubis 4 года назад

*Probably*

@explofct 4 года назад

or the Queen

@JoaoPedro-gc8mw 4 года назад

True story. And Joe Biden helped build the Great Wall.

@nuclear9977 3 года назад

@@KhAnubis lol my guy

@Brandonhayhew 4 года назад

China still the oldest and continues its rise and fall. Still the best country.

@erapunongbayan6067 2 года назад

Not until now

@Brandonhayhew 2 года назад

@@erapunongbayan6067 how?

@riderchallenge4250 2 года назад

One of the oldest not the oldest

@tdoran616 2 года назад

A country I would not want to live in or visit. It’s still a poverty stricken third world country outside of tier 1 cities.

@fuffluff 4 года назад

RU-vidr asks why people get mad at RU-vid Ads and Sponsors but not a TV ads. Because the 30 Second YT ads, the second 5 second skipable ad, the 5 second intro sponsor, the 15 second intermission YT ad, the 2 minute detail sponsor ads and the 30 second outro YT ads adds up to more than half of the actual contents time, Usually 5 minutes, compared to TV's some 30 percent of the total runtime... So i must thank this lad for giving us 10 minute videos without bombarding us with ads and sponsors

@kairoplayzroblox 4 года назад

How old is Covid-19? Me: 19 years old

@KhAnubis 4 года назад

It feels like it's been that long though

@Cjnw 4 года назад

It theoretically may have existed _before_ China; but, it was just discovered in 2019СЕ.

@commentorbot3979 4 года назад

@@Cjnw ay dis person on to something doe 🤔🤔🤔

@paddlesaddlelad1881 4 года назад

@@Cjnw ...you're right...

@zliu4208 4 года назад

Angela Kindness Theoretically, not that long. Virus in animals has to gone through many mutations to be able to infect humans. So COVID-19 in its current form would only have existed for about a few months.

@kekero540 4 года назад

While I agree that it’s impossible t equate modern China with ancient China due to the continius cultural evolution and mixing over thousands of years. China has had consistent cultural elements over that Long ass period of time. The mere fact that there is a common mythology associated with the people and land points towards some sort of idea that there is a Consistent identity the Chinese could point towards.plus government is a crucial aspect of culture and cultural identity. Because government itself and how it functions is a product of culture. So having a consistent form of government for the past 2000 years around the same area of land and people qualifies is as a nation in my opinion.

@josephkennelly8953 4 года назад

That ad was way too long for the length of this video abd very irritatingly placed

@OpalRaptor 4 года назад

nice video kh anubis

@radioactiveriver6718 4 года назад

How old is China? KhAnubis: Yes

@internetexplorer7143 4 года назад

Amazing video, I love your channel. Love from China

@aniseedus 4 года назад

Indus valley civilization should be renamed as Indus-Saraswati civilization because it's shown the existence of a larger twin river as basis of IVC. The drying up of Saraswati river is thought to be the reason behind the end of this civilization.

@camelxravennova 3 года назад

So glad to learn more about China

@limboonsiew5552 4 года назад

oh, a bit of HOI4 The Kaiserreich China's Qing Dynasty ost at the start?

@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад

*Society!* Coming soon to a dank river valley near you

@anemu3819 4 года назад

And the animals are helping

@BananaBrainsZEF 4 года назад

Dude, I swear, I see you in the comments section of like every history video.

@dtripp_603 4 года назад

Isn’t that from bill wurtz

@ekmalsukarno2302 4 года назад

Khanubis, can you please make a video titled 'How Diverse is Indonesia?' Thank you very much.

@gamerplaypal4509 4 года назад

Great idea

@KhAnubis 4 года назад

Coming something soon!

@illyasvielemiya9059 4 года назад

Seconded for this topic

@hameltonnotlemah1913 4 года назад

Blinkist add ends at 6:09 ;) Although 5:04 - 5:10 is worth a watch :D

@drewpanicho2105 4 года назад

A video idea: Gran Colombia, its birth, it's death, and why?

@tinypenguinhk 4 года назад

3:40 technically Yao did not start the dynasty. His son did.

@supernt7852 4 года назад

Not really. Yao named his country 'Xia', but he did not intent to pass the throne to his son. His son killed the person that he was gonna pass the throne, so Yao was forced to pass the throne to his son. Yao's son passed the throne to his son which started the Xia Dynasty. However, Yao did not intent to start a dynasty.

@tinypenguinhk 4 года назад

Matthew Liu so the dynasty only starts when his son ascends to the throne. Moreover, I remember that the intended successor was not killed but simply ignored by other tribal leaders?

@Pyxlean 4 года назад

Khanubis there is a problem: For which China are you talking about???

@reeckoyoshi5887 4 года назад

He is talking about the Libya China obviously.

@flutterwind7686 3 года назад

@@reeckoyoshi5887 ?

@nehcooahnait7827 2 года назад

The China that mainly coincides with the modern-day PRC while sharing some history, especially modern history, with the modern-day RoC that is known as Taiwan especially in terms of the origin of the regime.

@Lucas-vr1qr 2 года назад

@@nehcooahnait7827 roc was beaten by the prc and hence you can not separates these two periods in time

@tmfan3888 4 года назад

KhAnubis: *uses simplified characters* HK, TW, MC: we do not approve this

@internetexplorer7143 4 года назад

I’m from HK. I have no idea how to read or write traditional Chinese.

@tmfan3888 4 года назад

@@internetexplorer7143 did u move to hk from mainland or non chinese speaking countries? u should learn trad chinese bcus our official lang is TC.

@internetexplorer7143 4 года назад

@TM Fan Nah, I’ve lived in HK all my life. I was born in HK and still live there today. I go to an International school and we learn Mandarin Chinese in the school. My parents taught me how to speak Cantonese but they didn’t teach me how to write in traditional Chinese.

@loltim2109 4 года назад

@@tmfan3888 The funny thing is that, as what you've said, I do get a little bit TRIGGERED everytime I see foreign RU-vidrs to talk about OLD China without using MORE TRADITIONAL characters which is still being used nowadays. But may be it is just our faults for not paying enough efforts in promoting the idea and culture to other locations of the world.

@erenyeager3829 4 года назад

China as a civilization is over 5000 years old, so... then it is one of the oldest

@warlock833 4 года назад

Dutch Van der Linde you survived!

@XianFish27 4 года назад

XxMegamonsterxX when they only have different systems, internationally they're considered as the same country. It just depends on which govt has more power. The people on the two sides has no difference cultural wise

@sisyphusvasilias3943 4 года назад

Imagine being the last generation of Homo Erectus before the first Generation of Neolithic man. "Check me out I'm bleeding edge BioTech; Human 1.99.9.a.v1" *Evolution: New Server Update. "Human 2", now online

@HVLLOWS1999 4 года назад

I'd put it at 221 BC as a nation as a people group before 3,000 BC

@brianwalsh9595 3 года назад

Me during this video: Persia wasn't even mentioned?! It's old too

@red2theelectricboogaloo961 4 года назад

so how old is china? i'd say it's at least 58 months old.

@CEKROM 4 года назад

1:39 Wuhan ist now famous =D

@Cjnw 4 года назад

Bereits, war es berühmt

@KhAnubis 4 года назад

Just... not for the best reasons

@jakubpociecha8819 4 года назад

@Komrade Egg Do I even have to say how wrong this comment is? (no offense)

@hwg5039 4 года назад

Komrade Egg You are the disease

@Cnut_the_grape 4 года назад

As an Indian, Chinese history has always felt so... homely, for the lack of a better word. I've always been fascinated by the mandate of heaven concept, and excuses different dynasties used to change the mandate.

@Cjnw 4 года назад

T-Series, Apna China

@Cnut_the_grape 4 года назад

@Swapn Lok ayyy aren't you the guy who argued with me about Alexander the Great? Wassup

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

Chinese history is full of barbarity.

@Cnut_the_grape 4 года назад

@Swapn Lok maybe you're different, but it was in the Achaemenid empire video.

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

They used to eat humans, still eat. Cannibalism is still followed there (in China) Ture - - - -

@youssefmejri1800 4 года назад

The muqaddima was written by ibn khaldoun who was from tunisia 🇹🇳like me !

@zinjial-abeed2255 4 года назад

CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

@akbarmohammed4eva 3 года назад

China lunar calendar is now the year 4719

@saadamansayyed 4 года назад

The age of China is either four thousand years or forty years. It depends on your perception of a state's age. For me, it is a forty-year old regime on a territorial area consistently inhabited by the same ethnicity and culture of people. I request you guys to do the painful task of compiling your supposed age of this country into a single sentence.I want to learn your opinion. Thanks. ---------- Khanubis deserves a shout-out for another thorough and very well-explained video! I love this Egyptian-seeming American-born Passportia-ruling German-citizen educational RU-vid star.

@nehcooahnait7827 2 года назад

Forty? Why forty? PRC is 72 years old, and RoC as a regime that is now mainly Taiwan is almost 110 years old.

@_Mackan 4 года назад

Idk man, gotta be atleast 5

@Medjed-y3g Год назад

Modern China, as we know it now, was formed only in 1912 after the collapse of the Manchu Qing dynasty. According to your logic, we can connect any people of Asia with the Sumerian civilization in Western Asia or the Jeytun civilization that arose in the Neolithic era in Central Asia, or we can say that the Scythians are the ancestors of the Hindus Persians Turkic Mongols and Slavs. but we all know that this is nonsense, because none of these Nars will be able to understand the Scythian, just like a modern Chinese person will not be able to understand a person from the Shang dynasty.

@Medjed-y3g Год назад

I too can come up with such nonsense; about 35 thousand years ago, the ancestors of modern Europeans began to come to Europe from Africa through Asia Minor, and the ancestors of Europeans who remained in Africa and Asia built Luxor, Abydos, Uruk, Kish, etc., according to this logic, modern Europeans can claim the history of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

@JELazarus 2 года назад

The Yellow River is much less stable than the Yangtze and changes course much more frequently and violently. So flood myths from civilization near the Yellow River is totally understandable.

@nehcooahnait7827 2 года назад

Well its flooding is not really a myth, but a reality. It can be as recent as last summer…

@JELazarus 2 года назад

Well, yes that's true. I think I was more referring to a "myth" of cataclysmic flooding, above and beyond the usual seasonal inundation. I imagine the ancient Chinese had floods, then they had the myth of a FLOOD. Just like everywhere else in the world. I don't think the entire world flooded at once, but the big flood from all the myths and religious stories was most likely a series of localized floods that essentially affected a huge portion of the human species at the time (early humans did tend to coalesce around river valleys and coastlines). So you're right, but I was trying to reference something a little deeper.

@eugene44569 4 года назад

LEARNING IS FUN WHEN IT IS NOT SCHOOL

@musAKulture 4 года назад

it really is pretty annoying when people talk about "china" without a definition of what "china" is. i tend to go with china being a group of people from basically the same area with similar culture and including other ethnic groups in the borders of modern china(s). Han on the other hand, is that specific group of people defined as "chinese" by the han or xia people or...know what i give up. it is what you want to believe it is.

@eleazarloyo8473 4 года назад

The Chinese civilization is old, but it is not even in the same ballpark of being the earliest civilization in history. Even if we take for granted the existence of the mythical Xia dynasty, it would place the origin of the Chinese civilization at around 2070 BCE. On the other hand, Uruk (the first Mesopotamian city built that we know) was founded around 4000 BCE. The difference in time between the birth of the Mesopotamian civilization & the birth of the Chinese civilization is about the same as the difference in time between the destruction of the 2nd temple of Jerusalem by the Romans & modern day.

@tc2334 2 года назад

But the Chinese claim that their culture is constant. The Mesopotamians aren't around anymore, but huaxia is still there.

@bowenzhang4471 2 года назад

The time scale of ancient times is different with today's. The developing speed grows exponentially by time. Primitive mans evolved for a million years but still lived on hunting while new technologies get invented everyday today.

@KEUNGWHITETIGER 3 года назад

THE FIRST CULTURED AREA ALONG THE YELLOW RIVER, WE CALL THERE IS MIDDLE-EARTH

@OsamaMoloy 3 года назад

I was going burst in laughter when you said “America?” but I didn’t out of respect 0:10

@dumer1227 4 года назад

I thought the PRC was in the 1950s

@biliminsrlar5752 4 года назад

*Insert bill wurtz referance here*

@romeforeverr 3 года назад

I would answer with Mesopotamia.

@SuperNetworkJoe 4 года назад

(Background music) Kaiserreich Gang

@Eldrich4291 4 года назад

Probably older than my grandpa

@Weirdude777 4 года назад

Khanubis has the mandate of heaven!

@ChessedGamon 4 года назад

Iunno just ask the queen

@infinitejinpachi 4 года назад

at long as they're 18 then we're good to go

@jrsdt2ndaccount30 4 года назад

Petition for all kinds of roads

@xulapostasy7132 4 года назад

70 years old

@tylerliu2632 4 года назад

how old is China? ah shit. here we go again

@Dylan-wi6lp 4 года назад

Probably at least 4.5 years

@dstinnettmusic 3 года назад

I mean….can we really count China? Given the China broke again, now it’s whole again, now it broke again, I think it is more fair to say China is the oldest culture/civilization but not the oldest state.

@智障-k1s 2 года назад

He basically touched on what is China towards end there. But I would agree. As a nation state it’s like max 100 years old. As a civilisation state it is very very old.

@glaceonthesnowfoxpokemon8289 2 года назад

Can you make a video called "How old is Japan"?

@Sergeant_Sparky 4 года назад

What if Bolivia declares war on Chile in 2020

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 4 года назад

They would lose. Besides they would look like sore losers given the fact that Bolivia already lost a court battle that would have demand of Chile to just enter into negotiations on whether or not to give some sovereign coastline to Bolivia.

@laMoria 4 года назад

I wouldn't call chinese culture the oldest culture. Because in my opinion, the 18th century Han culture (main chinese culture nowadays) would have been quite unrecognizable for a Han of the 1st millennium BCE, as a Roman visiting 18th century Rome wouldn't even speak the same language.

@nehcooahnait7827 2 года назад

Yeah no shit, at the first glance the Han Chinese dressed like the Manchus. But you are still horribly wrong considering how your horribly underestimated the Chinese characters and Classical Chinese literatures that didn’t change a bit since 2th century BC how 27 century old poem are still taught and vaguely understandable from literature’s point of view. There are philosophical traditions that had been established before the Han dynasty formalized as state eduction no matter who ruled China, Han, Jurchens, Mongols and Manchus alike. Classical Chinese was largely based the vernacular Chinese from 27 centuries ago… with consistent grammatical structures… the literature based on this written form of language only exploded in numbers without the change of its structure. In modern days, even with the difference between traditional Chinese simplified Chinese and Kanji shinjitai, people will still end up, especially the Chinese, recognizing the meaning of the words reading the street signs even in S Korea with its mere occasional occurrence of Hanja in form of traditional Chinese. And now the architecture…

@nehcooahnait7827 2 года назад

That Roman Latin example is just so horrible bad as it adopts such narrow minded European centric view on a culture, a civilization that fundamentally worked in so many different ways. Of course, Europeans changed that thought colonialism.

@KEUNGWHITETIGER 3 года назад

5000 YEARS

@olivialopez6243 3 года назад

I SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF THE FLOOD??? 3:15. By the dam of dirt kinda looked like kaka

@novacentorium4943 4 года назад

“Introducing housing to China” *shows them throwing Minecraft houses at a hut*

@JizzMasterTheZeroth 3 года назад

70 years. You're welcome.

@shukracharya_ 4 года назад

One video about mahajanpadas of India

@VELIkiq8 4 года назад

Yhe oldest country is Bulgaria From 681 to nowadays

@brandonroos6382 4 года назад

Doh

@rakiahbaker5589 4 года назад

4,000 years old ...Ai- ya!!

@KEUNGWHITETIGER 3 года назад

WE USE PICTURE-WORD WRITING TO UNIFY ALL THE PEOPLE IN CHINA, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE

@adamhenrywalker 4 года назад

Sumer was first, but it's gone. Japan is the oldest.

@gaylecheung3087 2 года назад

The Chinese did not need any other cultures they were the centre of their own universe they were content to be left alone and live by their own faith and beliefs

@thisismelv 4 года назад

Putting Taiwan in China?

@XianFish27 4 года назад

Not putting Taiwan in China?

@falloutgod4762 3 года назад

Why not just ask the queen of england? She was alive far before China came into existence For the normies out there this is a meme about how the queen is super old.

@im.not.typical91 4 года назад

Probably younger than Betty White

@hamish241 4 года назад

Younger than Ethiopia

@RIFLQ 4 года назад

Who would win? World oldest civilization vs Cultural revolution boi

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

Chinese civilization ain't world's oldest civilization 🤦‍♂️

@1000eau 4 года назад

@@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 No, but it's world oldest civilisation that still exists...

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

@@1000eau it's not oldest civilization who told ya this tosh. The oldest civilization is Hindus /Indus civilization, then Greek are followed by Mesopotamia etc. All civilization has died except Hindus civilization.

@aii_penguin9096 4 года назад

ᎡႮՏՏᏆᎪ`Տ ᗞᗴᖴᗴᑎᗞᗴᖇ uh no, Mesopotamia is the oldest civilization and it died. The Indus Valley civilization isn’t the oldest nor is it alive. They aren’t the same Modern Indians or Pakistanis today.

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

This is bs yr molvies would have told ya. Ya can't change the truth /facts /evidence. Hindus civilization is one of the oldest and survival civilization on earth. Mesopotamia is 3,000 oldest (a newborn in compare of that) which has been destroyed by Islam 🤦‍♂️. All _penguin.

@ShahrukhKhan-qo9pw 3 года назад

Very

@nuclear9977 3 года назад

Hey you sound like Daily Dose of Internet.

@gelgamath_9903 4 года назад

I believe Chyna is 46

@armchairwarrior963 4 года назад

China still around the others are not.

@chiefslinginbeef3641 3 года назад

I can never go back to not hearing Trump say Chyna.

@spookyshark632 3 года назад

China is 72 years old.

@gamecongamecon7653 4 года назад

Almost Nobody asked how is china

@nicolasgainous5936 4 года назад

I did

@ineffabledharmicpolytheist7828 4 года назад

Not more than 3,000/4000. They used to eat dogs cats humans still eat.

@supernt7852 4 года назад

ᎡႮՏՏᏆᎪ`Տ ᗞᗴᖴᗴᑎᗞᗴᖇ yeah right that's the origin of the Coronavirus.

@raestera 3 года назад

"CHJAINA!" - Donald Trump

@Burg7. 3 года назад

yes it’s pretty old….. BUT NOT AS OLD AS YOUR MOM

@augustuswade9781 4 года назад

Since 1979

@krishnamurarisingh6491 2 года назад

Krishna murari singh kisan village Barma po kaithma district Sheikhpura Bihar India good

@Arag0n 4 года назад

Imagine if Rome was still around. . China is older than that.

@NiteDriv3r 3 года назад

IDAN!

@SentMyOwnWay 4 года назад

👍

@ifureadthis_urgay 4 года назад

China is epic

@zhubajie6940 4 года назад

The Xia? Seriously? There is no extant written record of them for all the time of Chinese writing from Yinxu circa 1300 BCE to the Bamboo Annals circa 300 BCE (and even that is not extant text until the Ming dynasty). There's not a bronze artifact, not a jade piece, not a tablet or a stele in a thousand-year period mentioning the Xia. The Zhou mentioned the Shang but not the Xia, the Shang said nothing of previous dynasties. Though individual characters have been found as far back as (Jiahu) there is now extant text until Yinxu. There are pre-literate cultures but it is an oxymoron to say a pre-literate civilization. Older sites than Yinxu are neolithic cultures, not civilizations.

@camelxravennova 3 года назад

Deities aka respected ancient people made myth