Medieval China and the Mongols: The Tang, Song, Yuan, and Early Ming

Medieval China and the Mongols: The Tang, Song, Yuan, and Early Ming | A Complete Overview

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The Golden Age of Medieval China goes through China's medieval period, kicking off from our Ancient China episode. It begins after the fall of the Han, through the Sui, Tang, Song, touching on the politics, economics, and social structures of the time, and onto the rise of the Mongol Empire, focusing on the Yuan Dynasty, and finally the Early Ming. The video ends going over the new religious developments, like Neo-Confucianism, and the artistic culture during this time.
This will be our 5th episode in the Medieval World mega-documentary!
0:00 Period of Disunity
2:08 Sui, Tang, Song Dynasties
21:04 Mongol Empire
29:32 Early Ming
32:50 Neo-Confucianism
37:18 Literature, Painting, and Poetry.
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@MadeInHistory Жыл бұрын

What's your favorite dynasty of Medieval China?

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

song dynasty and tang dynasty i like those dynasties

@dantreviso4753 Жыл бұрын

Great work guys.👍 Well researched and informative.

@MadeInHistory Жыл бұрын

@@CARL_093 Thanks so much, really hope you enjoyed!

@MadeInHistory Жыл бұрын

@@dantreviso4753 Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын

Later Tang

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

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.

@gilgameschvonuruk4982 Жыл бұрын

Are you sure Porcelain isn't older than the Song Dynasty?

@EmperorCQX Жыл бұрын

@@gilgameschvonuruk4982 porcelain already existed by Tang

@Alejojojo6 Жыл бұрын

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.

@duaneaikins4621 Жыл бұрын

Wow, they invented waterproofing. So the Phoenicians using pitch to seal their boats doesn’t count?

@ecofriendly0 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@aseemawad4294 Жыл бұрын

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.

@dhruvsharma891 Жыл бұрын

such a great video , great efforts , really appreciated and overall fully satisfied with it .

@mirnasaleh1981 Жыл бұрын

Loved listening to it while doing my house chores ❤

@kontex616 Жыл бұрын

lol. i feeel ya

@jackdarby2168 10 ай бұрын

Why listen to this.. history of china.. listen to some music.. way better wang Dynasty or whatever

@jonathaneffemey944 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting

@MadeInHistory 10 ай бұрын

No problem!

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

@@MadeInHistoryit's really quite good 👍👍

@user-fe7lh7wp4o Жыл бұрын

good video❤

@gaiamagna9156 Жыл бұрын

Great job! One of the best! 👍 Me about Mongolians...🤔... dislike the cruelty in wars but like the freedom of religions....

@linzoniao Жыл бұрын

well, still barbarians

@borgilbatbaatar7683 Жыл бұрын

Lol, you are wrong

@symmetry08 Жыл бұрын

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.

@leekinboo Жыл бұрын

thank you as a Chinese it is high quality

@Alejojojo6 Жыл бұрын

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.

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

i m very excited on the nxt video bro

@lolalolalola3801 Жыл бұрын

I feel like you skipped Jin and the 16 kingdoms period

@cdickenson82 Жыл бұрын

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.

@flyingknee23 Жыл бұрын

Bruh

@MB-tj7xh Жыл бұрын

except for the rascism

@eoinsweetman9263 Жыл бұрын

What racism?

@staremmitor7946 Жыл бұрын

Curiously quincy 🌳 Old no longer fashionable language, "of time way" 🐥

@Eyeballs1386 2 ай бұрын

A+

@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын

"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]

@VicmundLim Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why you keep sending stupid things like this

@edwardsnowden8821 Жыл бұрын

#Free Kurdistan

@blueblue894 Жыл бұрын

Imagine Chinese students in history class ,

@daymonklotz Жыл бұрын

grow hemp print currency on hemp

@papazataklaattiranimam 11 ай бұрын

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)

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

The Japanese kind of lucked out with the "Divine Wind ”’ devastating the Mongolian forces before the fighting really began.

@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын

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.

@edwardsnowden8821 Жыл бұрын

#free Kurdistan

@joeroganstrtshots881 Жыл бұрын

U r greek

@buddhidev7877 Жыл бұрын

Mongols at that time didn't only live in the present Mongolia, but also in the North and Northwest China and in Siberia.

@jacku8304 Жыл бұрын

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.

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

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

@staremmitor7946 Жыл бұрын

Curiously quincy 🌳 Old no longer fashionable language, "of time way" 🐥Currently N. America, and attempting, again too big to fail, "modern advanced thinking" ⚖

@user-pr8nr5ix2p Жыл бұрын

In Tang Dynasty, Mongolia plateau was ruled by Uygurs and Turks. Mongolians were not dorminant in the Mongolian plateau yet at that time.

@canturan4396 Жыл бұрын

Zuhahahah, Uygurs are Türk too , zuhahahha

@enkhzayazundui1063 Жыл бұрын

@@canturan4396 actually. We are all Mongols. Yughur or Tureg or Mongol are just the names of governing .

@tylerking5214 Жыл бұрын

Turks are Mongolians

@bokonoo77 5 ай бұрын

@@enkhzayazundui1063 not really genetic cluster analysis aka PCA showed that mongols are more similar to han chinese than turks who are very distant

@enkhzayazundui1063 5 ай бұрын

@bokonoo77 Sure. Today, people who call themselves Turks are a mix of many nationalities.

@calebargyle8636 Жыл бұрын

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

@denk3236 Жыл бұрын

Cope

@ursulazeng4601 11 ай бұрын

where can I email you?

@CARL_093 Жыл бұрын

jin dynasty will be manchus then qing dynasty

@user-yx3sy5ep1s Жыл бұрын

金（jin1） not be 晋（jin4），not be 后金（Later Jin1，Predecessor of the Qing Dynasty）

@jeraldbaxter3532 Жыл бұрын

Interesting, to a point, but badly organized. Instead of a coherent narrative, it jumps back and forth, then back again, between dynasties.

@Themostdef100 Жыл бұрын

Nobody asked for a critique from you Jerald😉😂(what a dorks name). Go back to the basement at mommy’s house. Her meatloaf will be ready by 6pm.

@jacku8304 Жыл бұрын

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 !

@steelrain9159 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. Finally someone who’s sees Genghis for what he is, a savage. The dude killed like 100mn people and yet he is revered.

@bokonoo77 5 ай бұрын

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

@jacku8304 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Ganjil100 3 ай бұрын

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.

@jarekzawadzki 10 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

That's like saying "there's no 6th century China" because their calendar called it something else.

@jarekzawadzki 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@jarekzawadzki 2 ай бұрын

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.

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

@@jarekzawadzki your way to white to making this argument. Medieval is a roughly defined time period. It's equally applicable to China or Europe.

@jarekzawadzki 2 ай бұрын

@@KS-PNW Medieval is a cultural term.

@yeetzzz2996 Жыл бұрын

first

@TaskerMatt Жыл бұрын

Congratulations

@user-iq7xj5cu9h 7 ай бұрын

希望内蒙古能和外蒙古早日成为一体，从中国独立出来。成吉思汗的后裔~永远闪耀吧！伟大的蒙古民族团结起来！

@cjyoung4080 Жыл бұрын

its like calling france or uk empire rome... lol

@user-fe7lh7wp4o Жыл бұрын

新疆是清朝的时候才有的

@Thegraveyardofkhaild1618 Жыл бұрын

East Turkestan not Xinjiang meaning new territory 😉

@he-yi-jie-you-wei-you-bao-fu Жыл бұрын

多读点书汉朝就控制新疆了

@Mtrl-newer Жыл бұрын

西汉时期的西域都护府

@xiaohuli27 Жыл бұрын

@@Thegraveyardofkhaild1618 新疆人叫它“新疆” 😂 不用你们外国人插嘴

@user-gq4fy6fh7z Жыл бұрын

先有你再有你爸爸的？

@wangken5226 Жыл бұрын

Great work on not including Taiwan 🇹🇼

@JeffKing0627 Жыл бұрын

There is no such a term, medieval, in China history.

@pamndz1 Жыл бұрын

Yes there is

@JeffKing0627 Жыл бұрын

@@pamndz1 spell it

@scotishjohn Жыл бұрын

@xiaohuli27 Жыл бұрын

中古

@linzoniao Жыл бұрын

@@xiaohuli27 there, that's the word

@giuseppelogiurato5718 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jacku8304 Жыл бұрын

It all depends on whether you are into Asian history or seeking faults over things not to your taste.

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome to do your own video if you want

@is2ken Жыл бұрын

Mongolia is not China. They have their own language,culture and land.

@user-pr8nr5ix2p Жыл бұрын

In Tang Dynasty, Mongolia plateau was ruled by Uygurs and Turks. Mongolians were not dorminant in the Mongolian plateau yet at that time. 😂

@XuerLi Жыл бұрын

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.

@KushiteMerchantandScholar Жыл бұрын

@@XuerLiwow that explains so much for me hey are Arabs and Mongolians the same ppl?

@enkhzayazundui1063 Жыл бұрын

@@user-pr8nr5ix2p what does it mean?

@enkhzayazundui1063 Жыл бұрын

@@XuerLi no. We didn’t go or didn’t come from . We have been there like you guys been there in you South east Asia.

@MrTTuguldur Жыл бұрын

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.

@linzoniao Жыл бұрын

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?

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

It's not racist it's reflecting the views of the videos subjects

@staremmitor7946 Жыл бұрын

Curiously quincy 🌳 Old no longer fashionable language, "of time way" 🐥Currently N. America, Insurance premiums $2500 / yr ⚖ pays out, a $1 thousand dollar vehicle value, or $100 thousand dollar vehicle value Advanced education

@user-pr8nr5ix2p Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Korea as well. So? What you trying to say? Choose your word carefully my friend.

@joerogue231 Жыл бұрын

@@enkhzayazundui1063 Korea was under Chinese rules and influence since the Han.

@enkhzayazundui1063 Жыл бұрын

@@joerogue231 I will talk for my Mongolia.

@joerogue231 Жыл бұрын

@@enkhzayazundui1063 Mongolia was under Chinese rules. Western Han, Eastern Han, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang and Ming all conquered all or large part of Mongolia.

@linzoniao Жыл бұрын

@@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

@SrimanArcharyaJBC Жыл бұрын

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. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

@KS-PNW 2 ай бұрын

Probably time to put down the pipe buddy

@oushaboo1 Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ is real repent glory to the One true god

@symmetry08 Жыл бұрын

you need to check with reality, you are suffering from religious fanatism and delusion.

@AG-GA Жыл бұрын

👍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.