How good is he? Im eager to know each youtuber Historians quality of objectiveness and coverage depths

Thanks for the feedback, and glad you've enjoyed the video! There's so much history and culture to talk about, especially stuff that I can translate from Chinese into English, and with each new video I'm experimenting with more ways to include them in the videos without overwhelming the viewers. It's great to hear that you and others have found them helpful.

Thanks, appreciate the support!

Yes definitely, the parallels are quite striking. The chaos in northern China is especially reminiscent of Western Europe from the 400s to the rise of the Carolingian Empire. Ultimately the difference between China and the Mediterranean world may have been that the physical distance between northern and southern China was a lot less than that between the western and eastern Mediterranean, so eventually China was able to unify.

​​​​@@gatesofkilikienThere's another great difference that breaks the analogy for me, and it's about identity. We always have to remember that, while politically annexed and integrated by Rome, the eastern part of the empire always retained its Greek language and culture (in fact it was Rome that was hellenized after conquering the east). In other words, Rome was not the birthplace of mediterrenean culture like Luoyang or Chang'an have been for China. China is more like if Athens had conquered Rome, instead of the other way around, and had built a fully Greek speaking empire over the Mediterranean. Then the analogy for the five barbarians period would be an invasion from the east (maybe by the Parthians), with the Greek elites fleeing from Athens (=Luoyang) and Sparta towards Rome (=Jiankang) and the less populated western frontiers of the empire (=southern China). Fascinating to think about what a world like this would have looked like... In any case, what I'm saying is that, in some way, the Romans have been the original northern (or western) barbarians all along.

​@@valeriobertoncello1809 Top tier stuff right here

Thanks. Yes this period is nuts in terms of complexity, but so many interesting stories too.

Thank you so much!

Thanks, I'm working on the next chapter now and there's some quite exciting events to cover!

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Glad you’ve found it helpful! The Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms are important periods and great starting points, although there are many other interesting periods too

Glad you've enjoyed the content, and appreciate the heads up!

Thanks, glad you've found the info helpful! It's a huge topic that can be intimidating to learn, so hoping to help make it easier for people.

Yes this period is crazy chaotic, and most books just gloss over it. I'm trying to do a chronological series on Ancient/Medieval Chinese history, so want to make sure I don't skip over any time periods, including this.

The Former Qin Dynasty had a lot of contradictions. On one hand Fu Jian was noted to be a very benevolent ruler who treated the common people and his enemies well, which likely contributed to his downfall when the Xianbei and Qiang rebelled. On the other hand though it's hard to see how much of the praise directed towards him was propaganda, and some of the stuff he did (which I didn't include in the video) come across as extreme political posturing. His forced resettlement of his own Di people across northern China was also very emotionally traumatic, and my personal view is that in order to treat people well you have to start by treating the people already close to you well. Benevolent rulers also don't haphazardly launch a one million strong military invasion that almost certainly caused a lot of hardship for his people. With Former Qin there's the additional complexity of whether we can characterize it as an occupying barbarian state or a "native" Chinese state, or both, or if we can really even draw the distinction. With this, too, Fu Jian was quite complex: he's noted for sinicization efforts, but then there were hardly any Han Chinese in his inner circle besides Wang Meng, and the Han Chinese elites of his time, who have their own biases and issues, didn't seem too warm towards him either.

Also, I think you replied a while back, but I was traveling and didn't have good internet access, and now I can't find the comment more, so thought I'd add to the discussion some more: compared to many of the other dynasties around the time period, especially in northern China, the Former Qin Dynasty did have a much more benevolent ruling style, and wasn't as brutal as, say, Northern Wei. Hard to say how things would have turned out for them if the Battle of the Fei River didn't happen, but allowing large numbers of their own tribesmen to be killed off while people like the Xianbei and the Qiang survived certainly wasn't a good survival strategy.

Just wait till we get to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ;)

No, the Romans lost this battle and the Goths withdrew

Thanks for the feedback, and I've noticed too that I've been speaking faster and faster in my more recent videos, and I'm planning to start slowing down in future videos.

@@gatesofkilikien Thanks! I hope your channel grows a lot. Definitely an underserved topic along with Indian history.

@@yashashgc3488 Thanks, and hopefully as I build on things the channel will grow too. Indian history is fascinating, but it's such a hard topic to delve into. I'm thinking I could start to include some Indian history, especially ancient and medieval Indian history, in future videos

胡人的部落模式相比汉人的门阀来说确实比较原始

@@user-hj1jh7qx7oNot really, the Han just Sinicized and stole other cultures developments for themselves.

@@AssasiCraftYogUscus 给你唐完了，没了解清楚就妄下断言，既不学习也不谦虚

@@AssasiCraftYogUscus 窃取了谁？

Either you are a barbarian from Asia or you are a barbarian from the West