@Cjszila the thing is so called traditional Chinese is just a formal written language used for officials, while simplified Chinese has been around for hundreds of years used by the civilians. So that means in China mainland, any middle school graduates could basically read both.

What I meant is in ancient times. Now mainland China use simplified Chinese, officials or not.

It’s sucks we live in such a young country .

Crazy

Repent to Jesus Christ!! “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭4:23‬ ‭NIV‬‬

great wall predate Qin, Qin only had the wall standardized like much of his empire...

37:55 Forced 300K soldiers and 500K laborers to work on its construction. In other words slaves. But National Geographic couldn’t use that word?

@@chrisb9960 and so were most other kingdoms and empires in the world. Well, that's the way in those days

@@nanetha13 I agree.

@@chrisb9960 nat geo is owned by Disney I’m pretty sure. Disney wouldn’t want to annoy China and lose their market there.

Yeah, that's not it. Not even close. They are motivated to get their money outta China because they know the ccp is gonna collapse and the yuan will be worthless.

If they can overcome all odds why so they follow Winnie the pooh?

What a dumb question. He's the current president. No one "follows him", most Chinese don't care or think about politics in their daily lives, only care about improving their lives and the country.. It's like asking why every American follows Biden, the current US leader. You sound hurt by Xi Jinping. Did he make you cry?

But the fact is.. Great wall of china didnt stand to defend china. But for themself.. So it means china didnt built that wall.. Their enemies built that wall..

You mean they got bullied so hard they made the largest defensive structure known to man to hide behind? That they where basically one of very few countries in history to rage quit a war and go lock themselves in their house forever I dont really see how you got your thing from this but okay ?

Chinese came from Africa

@@collinsoconnor5843 you too

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Some "warriors" hiding behind a wall... they wherent good warriors at all bunch of scared people hiding from the Mongolians 😂 if they where such good warriors they could have built city's with the bricks instead of the largest defensive structure in human history , I mean I'll give them this: they must have been scared shitless to want to waste that much time building a wall

wow

Lucky man right here

lucky

I have animals look😂😊

great

they were,nt, they were taught, like all the ancient worlds remaining civilizations after the flood..by our creators, aliens. how did ancient man know about precession, 24,000 yrs long, or have maps of the whole world, accurate..do you know what rocks contain what minerals,,they did,,how..hers a fun fact,,b/foot,,was made,,genetically,,before man..we were first made as clones..workers.. you cant fathom anything, cos your meant to be d..mb..easier to control..

I cannot fathom how many workers died to build those walls. 😅

@@HM-cn5sz 肯定比被别人侵略牺牲的人少

lol they scared shit out of from mongols. imagine building wall in 400 years just to be feel safe. damn

Intelligent? No... scared , they where scared of the Mongolians lol

Repent to Jesus Christ!! “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭4:23‬ ‭NIV‬‬

There is a Chinese saying story about "uncle Yu moves mountain" a children story about teaching determination can complete a task even if it takes generations to do it.

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A little better than that. Jackie Chan is just a crown and a jerk. He does not represent any Chinese with high moral characters.

@@chiuchan4432 you just tell everyone you`re a joke

@@geromeney8379 You don't what he did to women and what he stands for. He can't compare himself to some other kung fu masters, Without Bruce Lee's blessing, he would still be a clown in a chinese opera or simply a bullish thug on the street.

Good. Back then jackie chan was the measurement unit of power

It's probably going be used again in the future 🥺

History is so fascinating. Especially with thousands of years of recorded history.

I am Chinese, but the history of the war between the Chinese and the Mongols in ancient times did not exceed 900 years.

عزيزي ، * الادعاء ان الصينيين قد بنو جدار الصين العظيم لصد الغزو المنغولي مجرد كذبه يتم تلقينها للوعي الجمعي كما هي كذبة الغزو المغولي للعالم . * فالواقع السكاني الحالي لكلى البلدين ينفي اي امكانيه في ذلك الزمن لان يفكر المنغولين حتى بالقتال فضلا عن محاربة الصين او غزو العالم ! ! ! . * فتعداد سكان منغوليا حاليا يبلغ قرابة 3ك2.5 مليون منغولي بينما الصين يبلغ سكانها قرابة 2 مليار انسان وتخيل كم كان عدد سكان كل بلد انذاك وفقا للنسبة والتناسب ! ! ! . * فبكل الاحوال ووفقا لقانون النسبة والتناسب فالفارق بينهما ليعادل تقريبا الف انسان صيني الى منغولي واحد في كل تاريخهما وهذا ماينفي اكاذيب حرب المنغوليين للصين او الغزو المنغولي للعالم جملة وتفصيلا . * هذا ناهيك عن عدم مقدرة الصين عن صد الغزو المنغولي المزعوم وبنائهم للجدار العظيم من اجل ذلك ! ! ! . * كما ان هذا يدعمه ان الجدار ينتهي عند تقريبا 50 مترا في الشاطي ء عتد احد نهايتيه والنهاية الاخرى ينتهي بالصحراء في ثلثي عرض مساحة الصين ! ! ! . * وهذا امر غير مبرر اذ ان جيوش المغول كان يمكنها ان تلتف عن طريق نهايته من البحر او تلتف من طريق نهايته في الصحراء سيما وانه يزعم ان جيوشها عبرت القارات ووصلت لاوربا وافريقيا ! ! ! . * مما يدل على زيف تلك الاكاذيب التي تلقن للوعي الجمعي حول غزو المغول ويثبت ان جدار الصين العظيم انما بني لصد عدو غير تقليدي لايمكنه الولوج للماء ومقيد بوقت لايمكنه تجاوزه ليلتف من نهاية الجدار في الصحراء . ……………… تحياتي .

What did you do with the arrowhead?

Yes, he is the one who made the written language that last to today in china and used through out china (traditional Chinese).

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He was also the first emperor to standardize writing, measurements, and currency for all of China. Before him, there were many writing systems in place and the currency was madness since so many different countries had been formed and got abolished by other states(I think around 60 or 70 kings had ruled over different parts of China for over 100 years). He was one of the most important ancient figures for 1/5 of the population on earth. You can safely say he was one of the few people that truly change humanity before modern days.

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That's why he is the ling hing dong ding.

ok

That, and the smell of urine.

totally agreed. and it represents human civilization for ever.

寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟，哀吾生之须臾，羡长江之无穷--苏东坡《赤壁赋》

You mean sentences? And why would you be bothered about it so much, tibet is invaded and occupied, good job you!

@Aytekin Sökmen huns are mongols

different country man chill everyone speak differently but u understood right? yeah. just leave it

Can you pls tell me ...have this wall been ever used.....and I watched a video on utube about Mongols ...and they said that Mongols were able to invade China.

@aytekin sokmen huns was described with black hair black eyes and dark yellow skin, if that is not how you look, then huns has nothing to do with you

I had the same feeling - thought I had an idea of the site from pictures, and I've even seen a few of them in a museum exhibit that traveled to the US (including life sized horses and chariots), but that wide shot was AMAZING. The living people circling the site were like ants...

Visited xian in 2018. It was 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Actually, the terra-cotta warriors were made based on real people, horses, and chariots, and even the size is almost the same. And what he said is that the expressions of each warrior are different, if you understand the details of this period of history, you will understand that this should be the earliest single-line accountability system in the world. It is possible to trace the person who made it according to the corresponding symbols on each pottery figure. If there is a production error, it will be either redone, or the person may face punishment or even death.

What's been excavated thus far is only fraction of what's still unexcavated!!

did u go the filled tourist part of the great wall or the odd areas instead

@@thogusdonatus4607 both in different times.

Good for you, I’m ex-military and I look at things in a different way 🤷‍♂️

Did a Ming or a Mongol invite you to an Ice Cream Social, while you were there? I would. You seem to be a decent sort of Woman. Not worth fighting for.

If china was not taken over my MAO -SE -TUNG AND TURNED INTO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY then I would love to visit china, other than that, you couldn't pay me to vist COMMUNIST RED CHINA.

Check out fall of civilisations by Paul m m Cooper, the Han dynasty , it’s amazing, if you’ve not already watched it ,enjoy

Exactly my sentiment.

Most of them are fake cheap modern architecture，rebuilt by local authority ,I could easily point out at a glance .Japanese’s video are much better.

@@jasonuk6381 I don't know what you are talking about, most are still the original walls from Ming, only a small percentage of walls were renovated on the original foundation and open to the tourist, I don't know where "fake cheap modern architecture" come from, you are really ignorant for the lack of better words.

now, any educated Chinese can read our acient book, so we call we are continous civilaztion, non- interrupted.

You misled the context. The Chinese symbols are almost similar to what they are using today (do more research about their symbols). It means the Chinese have continued their civilization for thousands of years, their civilization is nearly non-interrupted.

匈奴（Huns） is easy to read. The rest, not so straight forward.

She is a Chinese American historian, therefore her English should be good.

Yes her vocabulary skills are impressive 👍🏻

history channel: it must be the ancient aliens who built those walls!

Its all about the 💰

Don't want Forged in Fire reruns? What about American Pickers? LOL

The fake shows like Drugs Inc don’t count?

This wasn't an achievement.... this was slavery. All great artifacts beyond the realm of regular structures are built that way.

​@@AikawaMartialArts长城建设之前，奴隶已被解放，原因是自由人工作效率更高。中国的平民愿意为国家付出更多，尽管那很悲惨。

they used tons of slaves and when the slaves died they threw the bodies and build the wall with those bodies in them

nope the pyramids had well paid workers in Egypt @@AikawaMartialArts

@@AikawaMartialArts 为什么你要用现在的眼光看待和评价以前的事情？

Hundreds, Not thousend

@@brick72thousands ... plus

Speechless is right!

Cheap, forced slave labor is a wonderful thing for making things such as these. No payroll, they wear out, you buy new ones. The way it happened. Same as Egypt's wonders. South America's wonders. Slave labor and the way of the old world. Too much Socialist Bureaucracy nowadays to make that project anything less than 100 million USD lol.

Fabulous so clever

That's always the problem with american documentaries

And the fantasy legends being proven true on camera. Lol

@Mary Clawson Do you even know what that means? You obviously have the brain power of an ant.

Read a historical book instead 🤷‍♂️ or even audio book. No offense but you’re on youtube...

@@CarlosG2288 Just because something is on video on KZfaq doesn't mean it has to be over excited, or absurd garbage. And no offense, but it isn't just KZfaq. t's National Geographic - pretty much the authority on historical geography (thus their name), except the Asia part.

if you were an archi,,you would be brainwashed..its all lies. this is why some do seminars, write books, because they go against mainstream bs there taught in uni.. did you get the jab, or threatened with job lose,,thats more bs propaganda.. all the cures were banned, i tried buying some.

Food!!!!!

Nowadays we call them an emerging power, but in reality they have almost always been at the forefront of progress

@@benoitbergeron8858 yes, they were actually the first ones to establish stable oceanic trade routes...their issue was that the later empires were extremely xenophobic, and thus decided to close the borders and cease any contact with anyone from outside china ( although they kept trading in african slaves, but unlike White people, they would demand that all black male slaves would be castrated, to prevent having any of them defile chinese women and taint their genes)...that slowed down their technological progress tremendously...if not for that, it might've been them, and not us whites, to create the most advanced society in history so far.

Wel said. Unfortunately, US and China are starting to close themselves.

@@marsenstudio2208 . Especially the street-foods are tasty and excellent . Much better than those in the famous tea-houses and restaurants.

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Search: Benevolent prejudice :)

absolutely fascinating is it not

They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8edi9WFvJveZIU.html

They have been and will be where they flowed. The globe belongs to China

@@deniskouhtev9537 citation? was it claimed or accused upon? We have families living in China for more than 2 decades. Never heard such claim.

Sorry for being ignorant… but why would you build the wall on the top these mountainous areas … as the mountains were already providing best protections against the would be enemies?

The Chinese built a Great Wall in Iran I did not know that but uranians they built the 22 mi wall

China never built that wall I belive it was from the tartarian empire

​@@user-cs7dy6tj8zand tartarian empire was chinese.

Their lives did depend on it, both from their enemy the Mongols and the Chinese soldiers who made sure they worked as slaves their entire lives. The wall was built by peasants, slaves, criminals, and other people that the emperor decided to punish. Soldiers were involved in building the wall and in managing the workers as well. It is estimated that millions of people worked on the wall over the course of over 1000 years

They did.

Uh.. that is just an understatement. Lots of people lost their lives building it and many of them were part of the wall. Meaning they were just buried in the wall when they didn't make it while working on it.

The whole wall is bodies of those who lost their lives building it packed with dirt and whatever else they used to fill it. That’s a lot of bodies even if they are spread out, probably over 1k in total.

@@noahjohns7954 its Slave, Criminals, or Rebellion. So its cheap workers 👍.

At least 5

@@trying3650 they never mentioned that though because it's only acceptable to remember American people ever used slaves. The history of everyone else, they used "workers." 👩‍🔧🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

@@trying3650 But I thought only whites had slaves according to narrative nowadays?

ok

I so wish I had gone in the 90's when I was younger !

@@alrightyru it’s never too late as long as you’re physically able!

@@dickhitswater4836 no sane person would knowingly put themselves inside China's borders...it hasn't been safe for a long time .. edit: which makes me really sad but makes me want to explore my own country more

A villager asked by the historian if he ever visited the Wall near Beijing. He answered "never"!

YUP. China is just an old player on this planet. and books from ancient are more important. such as 'the art of war' which is wrote 2000 years ago can be used to deal with global geopolitics today. and the 'the romance of three kingdom' could also be a guide for generals.

Terracotta Warriors of Emperor Qin, Sanxingdui Can visit, worth looking forward to

the workers were treated as slaves, not as part of the "team"...

It was a complete, savage struggle. I don't know what you mean. In fact, they built this wall over 400 years just to feel safe from the Mongols. Thats insane !

"preserved" you mean re-built for tourism.

they carved the wall out the mountain everybody knows this now

I am one of the lucky few... I have visited all these locations mentioned in this video multiple times, even stayed over night in one of the watch towers in Jinshanling. Jinshanling/Simatai section of the Great Wall is so magnificent - must visit! Mutianyu is good but no comparison!

@@justme6275 course you have

We respect any word interpretation a commentator have. Everybody is entitled to one.

Are you a Muslim? That's why you hate Russians. This is clearly a religious war.

@ランデルさん now and in the future china will lead in economy, science and technology we will see....

@@addifrans240 humanity?

@@aubreysong Believe me , there is no champion behind humanity.

1:42 wait this guy has a horse in the desert...is he slow

It's interesting that while Asian learnt about all major world empires, westerners only know about Roman empire. I was surprised that a youtuber from Canada said he never knew ancient civilization Mohenjo Daro existed before as he never learn about it in school, and was surprised we Asian knew about it.

Fitness used to be normal?!

they already have but not by National Geographic

@@user-fo5tr8ro4t what's the series called?

@@renforest ancient marvels History TV18

People have been building walls forever. It doesn't take a genius to build one.

Building a wall takes an architectural genius? 2200 years ago The Greeks were building beautiful temples and carving gorgeous statues that would be challenging to do today. Same with the Romans. So they must have been beyond genius.

Many civilizations of old were far better in such endeavors than we are. Same goes for many types of simple machines and wood work. And it shouldn't be a suprise since they relied on such technology for their very survival and professions were life long affairs where incompetence meant starvation. Now imagine your motivation level to excel at what you do under those circumstances.

It's scale is amazing but it's just a wall in the end. I've built walls of stone, really not that complicated.

@@kiwibob223 I specifically referred the mountain section of the Wall, to build something like that in that kind of terrain is nothing short of amazing, especially considering the time it was built

​@@evilTaker90V2it's just a short wall. The pyramids are far more impressive. The rest of the wall is its length.

How hard for every person who carry the rocks above the mountains maybe they used horses to carry the rocks above the mountains

You might wanna properly educate yourself then cause this stuff has been known for decades and centuries lol

@@Lemon83166 lots of things have been known for for decades and centuries, I’m sure you know just a fraction of them as well. be happy that someone learned something new instead of a negative and judgmental troll.

@suzannedeb181 did you know USA is a Constitutional Republic? The president of the USA has zero authority over us FYI

Do you mean it literally took you 2 days?

You didn't know about the wall???!!! Do you live in a box or something?🙃

So ameging. They are the best contractor !!! In the world.

U will be monitored by CCP

@@ddizon666 Go cry.

@@imchink lol

You won't be able to climb, don't wait till your old

corona is waving

I eat eggs

Its really pain in ass for us to learn our history

It looks like it was a waste of time and energy and a lot of fear.

@@mikevic9366 you should see what the Mongolians did to villages they wanted to pillage

@@mikevic9366 your history teacher may crying right now lol

@Alla Koby ????????????????????excuse me????

So it's really that narrow? At 0:38?

Was you looking for black powder?

In history, Han people never had the interest to invade other countries because the lands beyond the great wall are not suitable for agriculture. This has been carved in the Han people's genes.

@@jaminho9595 Country of farmers in history

Say that to the people of inner mongolia, india, tibet, nepal, hongkong and taiwan

Bruh China invaded others all fuckin right. Just like any empire it grew through the means of violence. And so obviously it consolidated also as you said, as does any empire. But even then and still now there will always be the ambitious and foolhardy who don't know when to leave others alone. Let the Chinese people live in peace and make sure their leaders let all others live in peace also.

It's amazing, imagine what is inside the emperor's tomb. It was never opened. I think it would put Egypt to shame. Omg the perils and gold and universe map. God knows what elce. I'd say the emperor is preserved also. Did you see the 10.000years ago mummy in China. A woman. Totally preserved. They had the knowledge.

....why.... So.... Many.... .... .... ... . . . ... . . . ..., You speak in Morse code? Lol

Did you bring back covid?

All of Chinas culture now resides in Taiwan. The CCP systematically, and deliberately destroyed all its ancient culture. For the good of its people?

always few delusional nut cases no matter what it is...

They should have english subtitles for this url. Quite some details there. There are also other videos on the extended topics: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8edi9WFvJveZIU.html

@@renadog1 funny joke

@@szelun74 Not so funny if you were there kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fad3mrurxLSdaIk.html

Roman engineering...not Chinese! It's a road not a wall!

Hahahaha

Walls don't work.... Except this one for 6000 years....

China :-nuke him asap India :- agreed UNESCO :- drop nuke

sad to say but they aint, they had an alternative better but it was a hundred years forward

Better to LIVE in the present!

@@VitomirMilosevic You are absolutely right but my point doesn't relate to living in the past or future... Read the comment again.. ✌

civilization.

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don't go if you acrophobia my lages shake badlly when i climbed wild walls

We rode our bikes there from Beida. We spent the night camping on the wall but not without first having to hide from the locals who were chasing us. This sort of behaviour was already suspicious back in the 90's.