What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen 

shes chinese american

ikr haha

ikr i was gonna say that

although i think they got a chinese person to say the words

feels good m8. I hate it when they pronounce shit wrong, and then keep saying it over and over again. JUST USE THE WORD IT OR HE OR WHATEVER

arent you quite the peacemaker

tnt ntn tbh either will do the job...

nah it wouldn't slit your esophagus if it was lubricated

clarapendragon♡ But it would be fun. Stop being a boring fuckboy.

Clorox Bleach Bleach is for fuckboys. Cum is for Men.

Iroh : has flashback from when his son dies

there is no war in ba sing se

VYNLT The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.

@@aidanrogers4438 I am honored to accept his invitation

No his son didnt die he almost burned by his dad

I like how she uses more "political correct" words like "Chunqiu" rather than "Spring & Autumn" and "Xiongnu" instead of "Huns". Too bad she left out the fact that the Qin dynasty only lasted 15 years lol

neutralButton It's a talk on the great wall of China not all the other specialists subjects interjecting with it

wunademones I would consider that fact pretty significant. The Great Wall is considered a staple of Qin greatness but most might not realize that Qin rule only lasted 15 years and a lot of the construction is carried out by the succeeding Han dynasty.

It just confuses me from what I've been taught in class. I'd rather she pronounce them normally

must be a watch MOJO fan

Samee

Same here

No wall

Me too

@Ace Ghost Gaming goo

I- okay then. . .

What about FedEx

@Mr Wonder lol

@@KatiesAccount69 wa aww 0

Ya can say that again 0_0

If only China could control the gunpowder trade,they could be filthy rich

Ching Hung Lin you are a smart one

actually Ming dynasty perish becuase of people's uprising, then Qing enter by this chance.

Good lesson for US

Ching Hung Lin this is a classic example of Survivorship bias. If they didn’t have the wall, they might’ve been overthrown long before the internal collapse.

same

Le mao

Why?

@@dylanpickle7292 well it is called the Great Wall Meaning singular, as in one wall

nah fam its gae

They did, the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"

naturalDisplay21

so you want your enemy to pay for your defense from them? Would that rly work?

US got the New Mexican state

Ant Marmaud mongolians built todays earth

+Chipwhitley274 They should call it the Great Walls of China!

I know, the disorganization is killing me

Made in China...

Maybe the Mongols had OCD or the mess it was made logistics a nightmare for invaders.

Chipwhitley274 I always thought it was a straight wall 😂

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Thomas Alsip i felt the same i was so frustrated

AAAHHHHH!!!!

ocd, I have ocd

Thomas Alsip You're joking, right?

Imnotsurewhat tomakemyusername​ Right and wrong, I am a helluva perfectionist but I've got a sense of humor, overreacting type, offensive type, roasting (which you're only supposed to do to close friends), puns, I've got a variation in humor (not good at any tho) and I'm thankful I don't have OCD, really, just a neat freak diagnosed with ADD.

+GlitchyShadow13 when did he say that?

+TheSunshineRequiem After he took over China like Trump will

Silicon Cake Why so rude

"I will build a wall and make the mexican pay" said Donald Trump

Ifly 777 That's the joke

Is this what you call a wants to know your location meme but the problem is already solved?

*Burns flag*... Perfect *smiles in Huns*

*But there's still something worth fighting for*

*=/*

Gaming, music and jokes! *and a bit of cooking* time to make a man out of you

That's a joke right?

@@xxsansgamerxx6093 lol

@@xxsansgamerxx6093 hmmm I wonder

eren is quivering

im glad that this comment was here. i was in class watching this and it was getting a bit boring lmao

agreed

+Shanghai Noon I disagree, it cannot stand that many visitors.

Aston Ma it's good for our economy bro?

+Shanghai Noon You're one of the seven wonders?

Nope, i'd rather visit Japan.

+professorM how did this theory come about? jon snow's pet dragon?

94kenDOLL Rumors from the first men also a dragon under Winterfell.

FuranDuron The North never forgets.

23 feet high?! When winter comes, China better hope that's enough to keep out the white walkers

Let's eat it

The wall was a pen and humanity cattle.

They are the prey and we are the hunters

It was intended to protect the Titans from Levi Ackerman

welp they will facing another wall.

I know right?

And he is right.

except that it’ll take 2000 years

How much money do you want to waste on an idea that will never work, to protect against something that really isn't a problem?

Sebastie Cortes 1a

she is chinese... duhh

@@ZhuGeLiang6969 how u no

Plot twist: she's actually Mulan

@Chloe Nichols and how do you know she is not? The fact she pronouced chinese perfectly is the proof that she could be a chinese english speaker, eh?

@@i_nameless_i-jgsdf yo chill is it really that important

Lies again? World Cup Don't Understand Chinese

@@NazriB could you elaborate what your comment means?

+Oliver Bergqvist As the name "pen-pen chen" indicates...

+Oliver Bergqvist Yea I made that mistake before too! Her pronunciation in both languages are really good!

pretty sure there were two people talking lol

+Alex Blood Only one narrator is listed, though.

YoungTheFish there are two

and They Turkish not mongolian. even their name Turkish

@@kayacenk4164 lol kublai Khan was grandson of chingis Khan and he is Mongolia 😂 by Turkic people's logic everyone is Turkish in earth

@@kayacenk4164 Its Mongolian(NOMADIC) names , you Turkish are arabs, kurds , greeks and local anatolians with muslim customs, your only Turkic thing is your language lol Real Turkic are closer to Mongols , compare yourself to Kazakhstan or just see yourself in the mirror and tell me if its asian or arabic greekish my dude lmao.

And Kublai never needed to cross the great wall, the northern China was already in Mongolian Empire's control at his time.

Who else read Conn Iggulden and knew he was his grandson? Great set of books

But take into account that there were periods such as the warring states period were China wasn't unified at all, and some states built their walls in order to fend off neighboring states. China's border has also varied over time, so it was logical for them to build new sections of the wall as well. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, because it's just an opinion after all

@@andyzhang9928 Well most of your comment was likely based on solid facts and it was actually exactly what I figured had contributed to the erratic nature of the wall. I just hadn't put two an two together. Thanks for the info!

I feel the pain...

Finally someone who said it out ... I actually thought it was one continious wall and now I feel incomfortable knowing how inconsistent it is

@@michaelinglis8516 You also have to take into account the terrain.

Thanks!

+Gav Cantrell Who are you?

+Daniel Dourado The composer.

+Gav Cantrell Nice! Is there a full version of it ?

Unfortunately not, I just wrote to the video. But thanks for your interest!

huh? One Ming general simply opened the gate and let the Manchus in to repel the rebels who overthrew the Ming dynasty and conquered Beijing. But the Manchus decided to stay and rule instead.

+unrealsimon93 *whoosh*

+unrealsimon93 Yes. No one would work or fight for you for free.

+unrealsimon93 It's a joke. It's a common 9/11 joke to say "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" to joke about the 'inside job" theory. The phrase changed a lot, and became a meme. "Jet fuel can't melt dank memes,". It changes to suit the historical situation. For example, when talking about the Siege of Constantinople, it's said "Ottomans can't melt Byzantine walls, 1453 was an inside job". Same with the Chinese and the Ming. "Ming generals can't melt stone walls". tl;dr: it's a joke about inside jobs.

Oh I see! Thanks for the explanation lol :D

haha because she is Cninese

@@tuna34joseph Her English speaking voice is Asian, higher pitched with clear articulation, different from a more coarse, deeper Caucasian woman's voice. She is second-generation Chinese I guess. Most second generation Chinese can pronounce pinyin and tones correctly like she does, but most of them cannot actually speak Chinese fluently in an authentic way

@@janieliu9713 Are you Chinese too?😅

Yusuf Tuna well her last name is Liu which is one of the most common Chinese last names so I’d say yes.

She is. Look at the name in the title.

What a about Mongolians ? They had one of the only biggest empire

Yes bloodlust stories rock

@@sansan2591 Mongolia has no cultural background, only fights and does not rule. If it is not the civil strife of the Han people, they cannot beat the Han people (the main nationality of China)

@@莱克多巴蛙-d8o *every ethnic groups have their own culture and should be respect by the whole world*

@@莱克多巴蛙-d8o thats so rude of you to say that . Of course they do have cultures omg

Sameee❤its rlly unique

These walls build to stand centuries and it was built over many centuries.

yeah

Yup

I watched both seasons of Marco Polo, I can vouch for your statement

C. J. Bailey That show is fucking terrible and terribly inaccurate. But that was a funny comment.

Matthew Smith I found it entertaining. And yeah, I don't recall the actual Marco Polo living in Mongolia that long

C. J. Bailey​ It was unwatchable to me. First season was borderline. I couldn't roll my eyes hard enough when Marco Polo drew the trebuchet and gave it to Kublai. Like it was some privileged European technology the Mongols knew nothing about. When in reality, the Mongols had the best engineers on the planet. And there was nothing Marco Polo[a merchant's son] could tell them about builing siege engines. Also about the warning Marco gave not to attach the "Lion Hearted" European s. You mean the guys we just ran over a decade before? Those guys?? Europeans were not a mystery to the Mongols at this point in history. They knew all about them. The second season was somehow even worse. They made Kublai seem like an easily manipulated fool. I only got 3 episodes in that season so I'm not sure how it progressed from there. But when Kublai was manipulated into killing that child, I was done. It became too stupid for me. The show just seemed sloppily written. The only good character I could see was Kublai's wife.

5 north nomadic hordes, you can google ''Uprising of the Five Barbarians'', althoug "uprising" is not a correct description.

五胡亂華

@@atlanticking2315 exactly

My ancestors are not barbarians. They're brave and great warriors. Not a barbarian!!

@@pesetmekyokkacssart7483 sorry mate, but you are a barbarian ;)

love it.

Weebs

Ya, that is what he did.

Sounds like Trump

also trump build it and mongols and Mexicans pay 200000000000 $ or yuan

Actually made Huns to pay for it. After Huns devastating defeat by Chinese force 2000 Years ago, some surviving group moved to the Central Asia and Eastern Europe, others became prisoners for the Chinese, and Imperial government resettled these Huns at the border and fix the Wall.

How?

@Mog of War History tends to repeat itself. Will we ever learn?

ahh~~~

miles janes pan not pen, pan means desire in Chinese, Chen is a surname, literally means not new.

张纲 *READ THE DESCRIPTION* THE NARRATORS NAME IS *PEN PEN CHEN* 🤦‍♂️

"Hey where's that ciment ?"

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Give 20 years and i might build a wall, not even THE WALL just a wall mabey

+Ömür Seçkin gotta be a goddamn turk. you have nothing to do with mongols, xiongnu or xianbei. remember that.

Karl Pilkington? An Idiot Abroad? Anyone?

Yuki Yan that was a quote from Karl Pilkington...

+Ömür Seçkin "with an 'ead loike a fookin' orange!"

Murat Karayilan aha bir tane kürdo da damladı. şimdi 5000 yıllık şanlı kürt tarihini anlatacak.

because they dont know shit

Also if you ask a Mongolian they would say that the name should be pronounced as Chengish Han .

close enough

Chengis not ish, Mongolian here. :P It means God, Sky, Horizan, or mighty.(all those words sort of mean the same thing since the sky and horizan is thought to be the folklore, mighty sky god, tengri)

Joel Battan Ya sorry my bad i made a spelling mistake in my original comment. Interestingly in many indian languages including hindi and bengali he is called as chengis han only.

He was his grandson. This video is not fully correct, I guess.

+Tiffany C. has a lot of mistakes

I too know he is his grandson

+George Holden yes, he was Gengis khan's grandson.

+George Holden As Mongolian i can tell that "this video has too many mistakes"....

I know you probably meant no modern technology..... but they still had technology

+Halil Ibrahim i know

Turkic peoples include turkish people but not all turkic peoples are turkish

Good point. People don't often realize the change in meaning from Turk-ish to Turk-ic

+DassKla4 I thought Turkic came from Turkey long time ago?

Actually I think the Turkish come from central asia

What about the pyramids and sphinx in Egypt and Machu Picchu in Peru

​@@willyoueatmypussyplease3549 Generally, The Ancient Pyramid and Great Wall of China are considered the Pinnacle of human achievement. For the Pyramid it is the exceptional engineering wonder. For the Great Wall of China, it is the tenacity of everlasting rule & order. China is perhaps the only empire that could call themselves the thousand Reich. While Khafre Pyramid is the most lasting engineering wonder, made by mankind.

@@willyoueatmypussyplease3549 Great but useless

Well but tye one that consolidated they power in china is the manchus so yeah

And shun is so short lived too

还有通敌卖国的晋商。那些人在满族建国后都成了皇商

This is a very detailed video! It answered all the questions I had in mind. I would definitely recommend this video to anyone curious about the great wall.

coz he's a tyrant IRL

Yep. But many sections are connected to each other, so it's still the biggest monument mankind has made :-)

Christian Jiang Ah ok. I wonder if it's possible to walk the entire length of the main part of the wall, or is it unsafe.

***** You are not allowed to go to some parts, they are closed because it's very dangerous (you know, they are not so well maintained). But it's already enough to visit the sections opened to the tourists, they are wonderful!

+dbsirius Today the wall is broken in some places. So you cannot walk to whole thing anymore.

+Christian Jiang It wasn't built as a monument, it was built as a functional structure and as such it's nowhere near as large as the US Interstate Highway system.

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