Nyoom~

I know it's literally ancient history but it's sad that Emperor Wu was so scared of his advisor he had him killed.

Loved this video!!!!

The humor in this one was particularly top notch

@@codekillerz5392 i love to laugh while i learn. Never seen a video made like this. Absolutely brilliant!!

I am afraid he was underestimating, 52 episodes won't be enough to describe Han dynasty alone, and you can make hundreds of videos just on Three Kingdoms era with how much it played into popular culture.

起来!!!

AGREEE!!!!!

Considering just how extensive Chinese history actually is, 52 episodes would still be the short version. I too support the great Jack Rackam binging on Chinese history. I would absolutely love that.

As a socialist, when someone starts a sentence with “we the people” and ends it with “China” I don’t really expect the best things 😂

I need this. Shame Wikipedia will probably get rid of it now though.

LMFAOOOOOOOOO

Its make as much sense as North Koreas Unicorn Lair.

Justinian needs his own episode. Heck maybe even Belisarius, who was a Ceasar level chad.

"still got outplayed by the ballsiest man in history who busted out the town gates and came out playing a song for Sima Yi and his forces," Only in the novel.

Mad lads! Someone get Count Dankula on the horn!

Sima Yis and Zhuge Liangs fort encounter is a fictional incident, though. Likely it never happened, as with a good deal of the stuff alleged to have happened during the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The war for the heavenly horses against the Bactrian cities was a different time period to the Sima Yi of the Three Kingdoms period. I think it was later during the Tang dynasty and their push into central asia? Edit: it appears I confused the Tang campaigns against the Gokturks and Abbusids in central Asia for the earlier Han campaigns

yeah, the Qin learned the hard way that just because you got ultimate power does not mean that everybody in your dynasty will not jump on top of you when they feel like someone else can do a better job.

I believe William the Conqueror did so too. On his deathbed, sure, but still.

@@louthegiantcookie interesting, I don't know much about william other than hastings. What did he apologize for exactly?

@@brokensky2378 but they have the mandate of heaven, they should be able to do what they want.

@@NimbleIvy He apologised for how he treated the English - especially the North of England. The men were all killed, and the survivors impoverished to the point of cannibalism. Generations later they were still recovering from it.

Fast forward to checking your dungeon 70 years and 5 kings later "who is this old geezer in the oubliette and why is he only now complaining?"

sounds like cesar took a book from this guy

Also a bit of a rogue, like pretending to be a rich man to get into parties and con artist before becoming a sheriff.

@@powerist209 He was so charming that the host even let him married his daughter

The Qin's laws was so draconian that it made rebelion a better prospect for even people who commit minor crime than taking the punishment

Liu Bang is the most based emperor

basically, the emperor was cunning and did shtposting

He had godly charm: Bluffing his way into an exclusive party(saying he'll pay 10 000 coins) then impress the host so much that the man gift his daughter to him as a bride, seducing a bunch of talented people to his side(like Han Xin the greatest general of the age) Ironically ,Liu Bang 1st step to become an Emperor was a stroke of bad luck: His job was to deliver prisoners as laborers for one of the many Qin's construction projects & by the draconian laws if he's late or missing even 1 prisoner he would be put to death. During the night a couple of them escape into the forest & searching for them would delay the trip a couple of days so he let the rest go, most decided to stay with him & became outlaws then rebels

@@aokhoinguyenang3992 Imagine rebelling and becoming emperor just because you are late for work.

@@bosunbill9059 He wasn't the only one, there was another dude who was late for work, rebel, recreate the 6 States, then become king of Chu. The harsh punishment made rebellion a very appealing choice. The mentality was "If I'm going to die(via execution or overwork to death as a laborer) for both big & small crime(they really needed those laborers), I'll commit the biggest one(overthrowing the government)"

@@aokhoinguyenang3992 Ah yes, his "Oathsworn" bro turn Arch nemesi

I know right? He did a lot of episodes on Rome! Same thing! Let's get that 52!!! Yeaaahh!

52 likes already on your comment, so I'm not gonna add another, but I agree.

God, that would be amazing. Full cast of characters, completely voice-acted, multiple skilled animators, and so many people with wicked senses of humor running rampant across a few thousand years of crazy-ass history.

@@zenogias01 and call it "The Playlist of the Grand Historian" or smth

@@raphaeldoran-penafiel7858 Fuck yeah!

My CK runs in a nutshell: "A prisoner died? I had prisoners?"

@@BrandonVout I look in there and see that a 23 year old has lived in my jail for 17 years

A suitable prison? How about the oubliette?!

I'm sorry but what the fuck happened there? What did he do in order to rack up that much misconduct in less than a month?

@@matthewcoster5535 Refusal to abstain from meat and sex during the period of mourning (for his uncle, the last emperor) Failure to keep the imperial treasury secure Improperly promoting and rewarding his old subordinates during the period of mourning Engaging in feasts and games during the period of mourning Offering sacrifices to his father during the period of mourning for his uncle And others.

Oh tell me about it. What the fuk was up with that???

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 The most degenerate emperor, or the Elagabulus if you like, of the Ming Dynasty. Was generally capable and competent when he was in court and actively governing, however, for the vast majority of the time he severely neglected his duties, turning Ming court politics into a mess, and allowing the eunuchs to gradually gain power as the "mouthpieces" and "representatives" of the emperor. He was extremely eccentric and childlike, being obsessed with fireworks, and Tibetan and Islamic culture (and was rumoured to have converted to Islam), once ordering the eunuchs of the palace dress as shopkeepers and turning the palace itself into a bazaar, and building a zoo in the Forbidden City. He was also bisexual and probably was the horniest emperor, having homosexual trysts with his eunuchs, while also regularly visiting brothels (shark's fin soup was invented by a courtesan of his who tricked him into eating fish's fins, which before this were only consumed by beggars), being an active rapist (he was caught once and was only recognised once he was dragged to court), and created a harem of women so large, that the logistics of maintaining it broke down and it ended up converging with the zoo, leaving many women to starve inside. He was a talented military commander, personally defeating multiple foreign invasions and internal rebellions, however, he was also irresponsible in this respect. He gave himself military titles that, as emperor, one was not supposed to have, and once ordered that a rebellious prince be released so he could personally recapture him and bring him to justice. In the end, he died after falling into the Grand Canal and catching pneumonia after being fished out, and despite his horniness, he left no children.

@@Thecognoscenti_1 wait, "rumored to have converted to Islam" eh??? Was this the same guy whom CJ once said that he called himself a sultan when it wasn't possible since he acknowledged it *privately* instead of *publicly???* Hmm, well, to be fair, the demon king of owari was chill with Christians. Did he convert to it???

Always a pleasure to see nice comments after going live! :D

@@JackRackam sikh empire please

Did he ever become not a baby?

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Kid became one of the best emperors.

Spoiler Alert!!! He did get out and become a commoner for a while before become the Emperror.

@@justblueboy2939 i think it is his son who became the emperor

It's a wonder that it survived so long. Basically a golden disaster empire.

@@deiansalazar140 Isn't that most of Chinese history?

@@martijn9568 yep so goes the cycle of Mandate of Heaven. I actually took a graduate level methodology class that sought to explain how historiography and methodology aka the narrative and research of history changes. Because of the Confucius influence on historiography on China we see a more cyclical nature of gaining and loosing the Mandate of Heaven aka the divine right to rule China

@@martijn9568 I was referencing OSP's Byzantium hypothesis.

@@deiansalazar140 oh yeah I remember that episode I actually took a graduate level course on Byzantine history honestly that’s kind of the conclusion I came to at the end of the course.

I'd include the mad lads Sun Quan, Liu Yuan, and King Tang of Shang too.

Much obliged!

In addition, whenever a Confucian scholar passed by and kowtowed to him, he would take the poor scholar's hat off and piss in it. (This was the time before Confucianism became the state philosophy, and coincidentally it was Han Wu Di who made Confucianism the empire's official philosophy)

@@chamberlane2899 😂😂

Is there any reason he doesn't want to? Are the resources needed too much? Is he afraid we would get bored and stop watching? There are many history series that are successful.

Big commitment that would potentially take me away from my regular content, I imagine a lot of people would be really excited for it but typically series on KZfaq see declining viewership with each successive episode and I imagine not everyone will be keen on any particular nation's history taking too much real estate on this channel. Not that I haven't considered something like it anyway!

@@JackRackam Thank you so much for replying!! I feel like I'm being acknowledged by a celebrity. I am curious though. Would uploading a part of the series once every 2-3 months negate the effects or is it just a complete no go?

Also, can you heart this comment so that everyone asking the same thing can find your response quicker.

It wasn't all pride tho, the Xiongnu were raiding the north and can't be stopped by simply paying tribute. This would be the equivalent of Canadians burning down the Midwest instead of Iraq or Vietnam. He definitely could just stopped at defeating them tho.

As for the Afghanistan war, it did exactly what it was set out to do. Generating massive amounts of profits for the weapons manufacturers and served as an excuse for funneling even more taxpayer money into the military industry complex.

@@navilluscire2567 And now that US is done making money over their, the next hot place to be is Ukraine.

The war between the Han Dynasty and the Huns was by no means meaningless. In fact, the victory of that war ensured the prosperity and stability of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years

@@navilluscire2567 screams in 2.2 trillion dollars.

while economic, it sure does mean trying to be substantially sustainable in the long term, compared to extractive centralized economies/oligarchic systems it does take more definitions in detail to define this

Now that would be epic.

I feel like Gustav's predecessors, Gustav Vasa and his civil war-prone sons would be more up Jack's alley. Not so many glorious battles but many more convolutes plots, rebellions and madnesses. Gustav's Danish counterpart, Kristian Tyrann, would also make a great episode.

@@Oxtocoatl13 I can actually agree on that with you. What you say makes sense but from WHAT I KNOW (which isn't allot) Gustav Vasa made his own biography which could mean that what he did wasn't real in his escape from the Danes to becoming king. Also I think that Gustav ll Adolf's campaigns during the 30 years war could be intresting to talk about.

That would be Jersey Shore's The Situation, in the Situation Room

what a series that would be! More Jack!!!