The Tang Dynasty also invented gunpowder, waterproofing, fireproofing, gas stoves, and air conditioning. They developed agricultural machines to speed up the processes of planting, irrigating, and harvesting crops. the song dynasties Just a few of these advancements included improvements in agriculture, development of moveable type, uses for gunpowder, invention of a mechanical clock, superior shipbuilding, the use of paper money, compass navigation, and porcelain production.
Most people forget that guns using powder were actually invented in the west and air conditioning system were already in place in many parts of the world since a very old age, like Roman times (previous to the Tang Dynasty). Agricultural machines also were created in the west and the middle east.
@@Alejojojo6 then you may have been reading the wrong sources of history 😏 it’s widely known that the Chinese had firearms and canon way before the Mongols passed on this knowledge to the west. As for air conditioners, you may have mistaken basic evaporative cooling methods to modern day air conditioner units that requires electricity to power them up, id credit the British / Americans for this invention as Ancient Rome Egypt or Chinese for all their cooling methods are just nothing close to what we know today.
Very good overview! Many histories of this period completely ignore social and economic changes and focus on palace politics. Very happy to see a people's history instead of palace history of China.
Ming is quite underrated. When China invented printing press, it torpedoed their culture to completely different path. Books became more accessible everywhere and people demanded for good stories. Many ancient Chinese folklore either invented or reinvented in Ming dynasty, like Journey to the West, Naza, Romance of 3 Kingdoms, and millions other stories. Great stories created where readers loved them so much, temples were built to worship characters in the stories.
I learned from this presentation what I never considered much about Dao Philosophy. I see that it was pretty advanced idea of philosophy and fusion of religeos best ideas, that, came close to modern day aspects of modern philosophy of realism and also os physics - practical and realistic approach. Reminds me an ancient Socrate and Aristotle, who dealt with real problems and pratical approach to finding truth thru investigation.
I liked it but you jumped a little bit all over the place. You talked about the Song then again about the Tang so it was confusing at times. Should have kept it linear.
Karakorum wasnt just a village prior to Genghis Khan it was an extremely holy site to them. If you watched the game of thrones series Khal Drogo and his culture were pretty much carbon copies of the Mongols. The special camp Drogo goes to where the tribes trade, meet and no blood may be spilled there on pain of death is exactly what Karakorum was to the mongol tribes.
"History of the Suí dinasty", chapter 84: The superiority of the Göktürks is in their cavalry and archers. When they are in a winning position, they advance with fury; but when danger comes, they withdraw with the speed of the wind, and disappear like lightning, without preserving order. Bows and arrows serve them as claws and fangs. Helmet and cuirass are their usual attire. Their detachments do not go in order, their camps do not stand still. They stop wherever they find grass and water; rams and horses provide food for their army. If they win, they stop and seek the wealth of the enemy; if they are defeated, they withdraw without any shame. They do not burden themselves with night duty, nor do they keep watch during the day; they do not waste their strength in building fortifications, or in storing provisions. But when Chinese soldiers go to war, they [Göktürks] behave very differently. If the Chinese enter the battle with the Göktürks, they [Chinese] rarely win. If we begin to imitate them now, if we adapt to their means, they will not be able to overcome us, and they will not attack us again. - Emperor Yang of Suí [Documents historiques sur les Tou-kioue (Turcs), extraits du Pien-i-Tien et traduits du chinois par Stanislas Julien (1797-1873) - Journal Asiatique, série 6, tome 4, juillet-décembre 1864. Pages 200-241, 391 sqq, 453-476. - p.104-105]
The Mongolian hordes destroyed a mysterious Xixia empire. Its traditions and cultures were lost forever. Such is the greatness of a barbaric tribesmen that went around leveling cities all the way from Persia, Arabs, India and into Europe. As Karma has it, Mongolia was destroyed by Ming China. Today more than half of its land belongs to China. Karmic retributions indeed !
cope inner mongolia in china is only because of manchus who though that han people were loyal but alas they were wrong and instead han showed their true color and massacred millions of mongols and manchus
@@bokonoo77 Karmic Retributions. The amount of savagery and massacres done by the Mongols to the world were tamed and reduced back to human level by the Manchus. They inflicted the same barbaric treatment on the nomadic Mongols can only understand. The semi-nomadic Manchus saw the superior Han Chinese culture that they readily adopted. Again Karmic Retribution befalls on Manchus and were overthrown by Han. Remember how Uyghurs in Xinjiang massacred the Qing troops and Manchurian populations when the information of Qing dynasty being topple. Today Outer Mongolia is like an out dated Russian village town saturated by foreign culture. They now seek Chinese Inner Mongolia's help to recover their lost culture.
What you don’t know is the story of slavery. The entire Mongol region was just a slave breeding ground for the empires surrounding it. Every nations around it exercised frontier slavery every year, kill off the adults, take the children for slavery and raid constantly. That’s why the tribes united. And it had to fight and conquer every nation in order to enforce its will of stopping slavery. Many Mongol enlisted to find their children and that’s why they could go and reach ends of the earth and conquer everything in its path. Not to govern, but enforce the will of eternal blue sky and stop slavery.
There were 4 nations which have managed to defeat the 1200's Mongols in war ; Javanese (Majapahit), Turks (Khalji & Bahri Mamluks), Japanese, Vietnamese (Dai Viet). Mongols of the first half of the 13th century however were unstoppable Major nations destroyed by the Mongols ; -Jin(Tungusic) -Khwarezmids(Turkic) -Souther Song(Sinitic) -Kara Khitais(Khitanic) -Cumania(Turkic) -Kievan Rus(Germanic and Slavic) -Seljuk Rum(Turkic) -Abbasids(Arabic) -Western Xia(Qiangic) -Volga Bulgaria(Turkic)
but they were facing a very different Mongol Empire, weakened by decades of being softened by 'civilsation', while China resisted a Mongol Empire at its military peak under legends like Subutai.
Initially dubbed in historical sources as the Turks of Shatuo circuit (Shatuo Tujue), occasional references to the "three tribes" of Shatuo-the Shatuo, Anqing, and Yinge-suggest the existence of multiple confederations, the Shatuo ascent coinciding with the decline of the Eastern Turks in the eighth century. Their armies were surpris ingly small relative to other minority rulers of China over the past millennium, but Shatuo warriors seemed uniquely "brave and aggressive," courage in battle buttressed by an enviable expertise in siege warfare and archery. Indeed, the arrows of a skilled bowman could pierce the shield of any foe." Davis, R., 2017. Fire and ice. Li Cunxu and the founding of the Later Tang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p.4.
Hong Kong's history community is well-known joke in China. In their history education, the cause of the Opium War was the British trying to stop the Chinese from smoking opium. 🤣
There was not such thing as Medieval China, so as there was no Springs and Autumns Greece. The history of China is divided along the Chinese lines, not European, and it's as follows (the English transactions are not official): 太古： archaic period: since the Big Bang till the appearance of humans 远古 distant antiquity period：since the appearance of humans to 2070 BCE 上古 early antiquity：2070 BCE- 220 CE 中古middle antiquity：220-684 近古 near antiquity：684-1840 近代 near modernity：1840 - 1911 現代 modernity 1911-1949 當代 present period: after 1949
@@KS-PNW Nope. The term 6th century is abstract for all places. It's not real, it's a mathematical construct, whereas the terms like Middle Ages pertain to culture and events, which are unique to specific places.
What's more, when you say "6th in China" I know exactly what time period you are referring to, but when you say "medieval China", I have no idea whether you mean, say, the period between Han and Tang, o whether you include the Mongols in it as well.
Nomadic people has no fixed locations. They just wondered around with their animals anywhere where no civilization exist. They only ventured to Chinese towns to exchanged for manufactured items with their live animals.
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Isn’t calling people “barbarians” even if just a common turn of phrase a little irresponsible to do when presenting from a purely unbiased historical perspective
So do the tens of ethnic groups live in southern China🤔. By the way, Mongolia has been like a 'bus', people came and go, first the Donghu, then Xiongnu, then Turks, then Uyghurs, Khitans and so on. Most of the Mongol tribes originated from Manchuria (current northeast China and Russia far east) and were ruled by the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, they slowly moved to Mongolia and rebelled against the Jin.
they subjugated goryeo demoted it from empire to kingdom level and demand a lot of tribute the yuan used it to craft ships manpower for there military campaigns
Wow, this is pretty weak... The voice kinda sounds like a robot... I think this might be one of those new AI chat things, where you just type in "make a video about medieval China", and it spits out a reasonable facsimile of a 10th-grade book report, complete with visual aids.
Please don’t be such a racist, not barbarians in the north, it’s called nomadic incursion from north, China isn’t the only civilization, nomadic people also have its own nomadic culture.
The Romans called the other Germanic tribes barbarians as well, it's not racist, it's historically accurate. Plus, the way they massacred millions to conquer other lands, were they not barbaric? What would you call them? Saints?
MONGOLIA AND CHINA BELONG TO THE SAME COUNTRY FOR VERY LONG TIME. ONLY AFTER 1946, OUTER MONGOLIA AND CHINA WERE SEPARATED, BUT INNER MONGOLIA REMAINS IN CHINA.
@@enkhzayazundui1063 Mongolia was under Chinese rules. Western Han, Eastern Han, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang and Ming all conquered all or large part of Mongolia.
@@joerogue231 uh..no lol, Ming had troubles with the mongols and the manchus, they didn't want those lands either, until the manchus did the treacherous move and formed ponytail qing
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English people cannot explain history ever as they are failures. All empires in the world are part of the same continuous empires that belong to myself. There is no such empire that ended outside of the United Kingdom, and it should be understood that language protocols where introduced and my own ancestors pronounced themselves With the new generation titles. Now the governments have been made the people can enjoy reading there caste or kingdom history as I have a duty to marry women of these empires of mine to create the continuation and appreciation of the work done in the last 2000 thousand years. And so even the Manchu han, tang etc are still active today and have there own history to join with mine so the world completes itself. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕
👍Where/Why they all keen to got title name Khan? Kara(korum) Han ! and english world sound HUN as well . They are all from orginal sound of HAN . The Great Han Empire. Khan= Kara(korum)Han ! means black/dark Han . They are all entitled themself by name of Glorious Han Nation since Qin(China) Han Dynasty... When you see TerricattaWarrior and The Great Wall of Qin Empire onsite by your owneyes once. You know everything.
