The Rise of Early Chinese Civilization ~ Dr. Min Li 

In this superb and intense crash course Dr. Min Li defines the different approaches to defining Civilization and how these concepts are applied to Neolithic and Ancient China when tracing the early origins of Chinese Civilization. This was intense and he did such a great job, take notes and comment your thoughts below! Support Dr. Min Li by checking out his work below! Academia : independent.academia.edu/LiMin To support the channel, become a Patron and make history matter! Get you face mask today: spqr-emporium.com/collections/face-masks?aff=3 Patreon: www.patreon.com/The_Study_of_Antiquity_and_the_Middle_Ages Donate directly to PayPal: paypal.me/NickBarksdale Enjoy history merchandise? Check out affiliate link to SPQR Emporium! spqr-emporium.com?aff=3 *Dislaimer, the link above is an affiliate link which means we will earn a generous commission from your magnificent purchase, just another way to help out the channel! Join our community! Facebook Page: facebook.com/THESTUDYOFANTIQUITYANDTHEMIDDLEAGES/ Twitter: twitter.com/NickBarksdale Instagram: instagram.com/study_of_antiquity_middle_ages/ Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/164050034145170/

Grateful to have someone of the origin speaking about archaeology in Ancient China. Would love to hear more lectures from him and on other relevant content. Thank you Dr. Min Li!

Thank you for these precious videos and the sharing of knowledge, greetings and love from Tunisia.

Always been fascinated by early Chinese civilisation, thank you for this video!

Wonderful overview making sense of a huge diversity of finds and studies. I learnt a lot.

The greatest civilization. Greetings from Greece.

Were the Indo-Europeans mentioned here? I'm going to watch it later and I am wondering. The Ancient Chinese societies had trading contacts with Indo-Europeans since before 2000 bc (Andronovo culture had settlements in Hexi and you had the Tarim peoples and the Afasanievo before that too) and it has ben argued that with that trade came metallurgy techniques and styles (improving the preexisting Chinese crafts) as well as horses and later on chariots as well as some cultural aspects. Really interesting and goes against the traditional isolationist perspective of Chinese development.

The Xia, Shang, Xhou, Song, Tang, And Ming dynastic periods were some of the most well organized

I love ancient archeology and I especially love good lectures on Chinese history. If possible please have this professor on again. Maybe a lecture series?

i took an ancient chinese history class once... what a shame my professor was so boring! dr min li makes it so much more interesting.

Video about 5 dynasty 10 kingdom or 16 kingdoms sounds good

Great lecture. So unopinionated and factual. Dr Min Li would be a very interesting person to talk to. I live in China and have started researching its more ancient history. Be great to visit some of these sites.

this is great. thanks.

Very interesting. Thank you.

China is uniqueas the only civilization state in the world with continuous cultural lineage from ancient time, and could legitimately claim Chinese exceptionalism!

Love me some Chinese history

More on Chinese history please

I always wonder, is it possible that Chinese keep their logographic script is because they don’t have the Bronze Age collapse?

Hi, hope you see this message, i've been looking at pictures of archeogical artifacts from the shang and xia dynasty and i've notice that the art is very similiar to early mesoamerican artwork espeacially that of the mayans or aztecs. There's also the jade work, the similarities are uncanny. Could there had been some kind of early interaction between these cultures? Or could the mayans have decended from shang or xia dynasty refugees? The shang even practiced ruling class sanctioned human sacrifice like the aztecs. There must be some kind of communication between these cultures. i do understand, correlation is not causation but I have been scouring the internet for academic papers regarding this topic but have not been able to find any research done on it yet. In fact even the shaman pictures in the video look very similar to american indian shamans. And many aboriginal american indians have very similar facial structures to east asians. What do you think about this topic? Is there anywhere i can find more information about it? Thank you for this very interesting and informative video.

The middle Yangzi river civilization is completely ignored in this picture given by Dr. Li, two must-be-mentioned sites r Shijiahe(石家河) and Panlongcheng(盘龙城) in Hubei province which r greatly related to the myths of Xia and the real origin of Shang should be included. Light has been given by studies from Olga Gorodetskaya Rapoport, and her points of view r really eye opening.

Best part is that everything lines up perfectly with the historical records. I really do appreciate their habit of recording authentic history

The rhinoceros sculpture/ cup is after the Neolithic era? I'm wondering if this has a connection to the tragic rhinoceros horn application in old "medicine ". I'm just fascinated that several subspecies of this creature was found in Asia, Africa, and America throughout different times and current ones. Sadly they are going extinct.

For the first time I heard that the Shang people came from Shanxi. I always thought that the Shang people came from Shandong.

This is fascinating! I never expected the Xia might be hiding right under our noses! (or between our nostrils?)

Hershey corridor...ha!

This was a dagger.

tell me about ordos civilization l 👍 am from india

what are the genetic roots of first humans in this region of the world? a branch of homo sapiens coming from africa?

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To me, a number of the beautiful artifacts shown in this video, bear a striking resemblance to ancient artifacts discovered in South America.

Greece & China have the best history. And the best fantasy & history movies.

Ancient East Asian, since the land called China today were ruled by 56 ethnic Asians a lot longer than co called Han Chinese.

Remember most of the war is the Hun against me as Mong for the 10,000 years

Everything in life derived from pecking order bro.