Ang ilang sa mga Dinastiya ng Tsina na nasabing nakikipagkpalitang ng kalakal sa bansang Pilipinas ay patunay lang na may sarili na ring itong Kultura bago pa man dumating ang mga mananakop na Espanol sa aming bansa. Maging ang aming sariling Wika ay pinalabas nilang hindi kailanman nagkaroon. Mabuhay ang Wikang Filipino! Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!
my favourite dynasty is the Song,that might be the most rich and free dynasty in ancient chinese,the fist emperor of the Song even said"never kill one 士大夫",the maths, science and art also had many achievements,some Chinese might not like the Song dynasty,becouse Song was always be threatened by the Jin and Liao,at last been kill by the Mongolia
I am an american and I cannot deny that China is on the way to top super power. But I did not really come here to debate. I came here because I LOVE East Asian History :)
America! Watch and learn we Chinese was a superpower 300 years BEFORE YOU GUYS WERE BORN OUR A PLACE CALLED AMERICA AND WE WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE!!!
If Zheng He didn't die, China would be a superpower. And the New emperor is retarded, why would he burn all the ships and documents down, he ruined China.
@Airstrik3 China was a super power in that time,if Zheng He was not die,Ming Dynasty also can`t let he go on.becouse the purpose of the travel was not for business,just for showing the emperor`s power.the travel was really cost lots of the money.many people didn`t agree that.
Ancient Chinese dynasties did invade other countries, but most of these invasions were retaliations. For example, the nomadic Xiong Nu invaded the Han Dynasty,and then the imperial army of Han Dynasty retaliated and defeated the Xiong Nu.
The story of Zheng He is perfect example of Chinese peoples' inherent desire for peace, unlike the West. China built a massive fleet, and used it to explore and trade. We all know what the Europeans did instead.
@jacksta246 Some truth, But which Romans? The East ones or the West ones? I do not remember. But The Roman General that stopped the Huns was Flavius Aetius...
@jacksta246 I do not know 100% but I can fine out. My best guess is corruption and greed, it is like that will may Empires. It was like that with China too. Hell, nowadays here in the U.S. many (not all) of our politician behave in a similar matter. The big difference is they do not kill each other, they try to destroy each others image… As well as ignoring the Poor, the middle class or the working class. So yea so far our Empire is falling too. :/
@jacksta246 Um it is not the politicians have more power than the president or prime minster, at least here in the U.S., it is the top 2% or the rich & corporations that has more power than the people. Most politicians and to some dagree the president that are puppets to the rich and corporations. Just look how they are trying to take Unions away in the U.S . & give tax brake to the rich as well as tax brake to the Corporations that outsource jobs... :o The fact is we are going down hill.
@raymondwr1 You mean the Mongols who tried and later got their asses kicked by the Ming while Japan well epically failed in the Imjin War as well. lol I guess that does not count lol. It's kind of moot since Japan was China's bitch for ass load of time /rolleyes.
@raymondwr1 you mean the Mongols who punished by Ming and the Japanese who got their pathetic samurai asses kicked many times especially in the Imjin war lolwut.I guess that does not count or that Japan was basically their bitch
China has never witness a disaterous fall because of quick transitions into other forms of empire. Plus, I think the Ancient Chinese were not dedicated in conquering the world, they just wanted to live in a secure environment, safe from threats by other empires, tribes, etc. I really admire when the Chinese had the opportunity to colonize the world by controling the seas, (before the europeans) they chose not to. Great history.
just like Chine top rich governor want to visit (Camp David)white house , I know too many chine people want to leave kin la and move to (freedom and human right democracy United states) to open Chinese restaurant .Finally , lucky, enjoy to born in USA, Canada not the Yellow Ming dynasty or New Red China!
hello, every empire of American citizen, I am yellow skin and white people education man. the Ming dynasty of sailing is not for interest of the world , the reason is find a Undead medicine for the king , (this history writing in Cantonese primary school book. University of Miami professor skip lots of detail about the dark chine for the local people life. Don't worry to much about Chine , Come to Peking , shanghai the USA Embassy,count how many rich chine man want to get Green card?
Why did the emperor burned the Chinese armada and made China isolanist? Just imagine if the Chinese fleet did not suffered that fate .. European colonialism in South-East Asia would never had occured and the invasion of the Manchurians could probably be avoided.
But still, the Chinese created the biggest armada that is still unmatched today, and ofcourse, being one of few early civilisations, and having the most continuous empire ever.
Cant believed that the territory China in all maps provided by West doesnt include Taiwan and Hainan. In Ming dynasty, Taiwan was a county of Fujian province of China. This is fact, nobody can change the history.
What a fucking retarded Emperor! Heck, I'd be speaking Chinese now if he hadn't burnt the fleet. There would probably be no America, Australia and New Zealand today if it wasn't for that retard.
@Zaphenath4 Maybe or Maybe not, Europe how ever was in fact a up coming force regardless; way better armor, better trained troops, better guns, and canons; Spain, Portuguese, British fleets were going to become a competitor regardless.
What a fucking retarded Emperor! Heck, I'd be speaking Chinese now if he hadn't burnt the fleet. There would probably be no America, Australia and New Zealand today if it wasn't for that retard.
Never underestimate the Chinese before it is too late! Every Chinese has a list of their nation's enemies! Those who have done things evil to this country will pay back in the end! : ) China is too deep for you guys to understand!
Never underestimate the Chinese before it is too late! Every Chinese has a list of their nation's enemies! Those who have done things evil to this country will pay back in the end! : ) China is too deep for you guys to understand!
Lol. Peter Weller (the narrator) was RoboCop in the movies, and now he's a history lecturer! That tickles me.
As Peter Weller hints, in many cases the Chinese Han Dynasty was like the Roman Empire in the West, comparable in terms of overall territory, population size, military might, rich material culture, science and technology, etc. Perhaps the first European power that surpassed Rome in many regards was Spain and its global colonies, followed by Great Britain.
@jacksta246 Yes that how many Empire fall, like Rome, Han, and many others. And Hope to God not us, but we are heading there too, the same reasons too...
People, wake up already! From 4000 BC until 2010 AD, when one country is engulfed by war, peace, poor, prosperity, the only party who will enjoy the good lifestyle is the government while people like us suffer the most. When the country is rich, government will raise the tax as high as possible to expand their empire. When people is poor, government will still have their super luxury party regardless the condition of their people, from Qin She Huang, Hitler, to Obama, they are all the same.
@briansuck, Nationalism, Patriotism, Fight for your race, fight for your freedom, fight for your God, fight for your country is just a tool used by government or any leader to make people like us willingly to step to the first line of the battlefield and have no sense of affraid for killing others. In the end, killing itself is already wrong. Killing people as suicide bomber nowadays is as wrong as killing invaders in world war 2. We are all just a chess piece, controlled by Greedy government!
@briansuck, human history are full of violence, made by violence where innocent blood spilled and only the strong survives. Just look at countries in Asia, America, Europe, Africa, and name 1 country where the government cares about their people. US? they forced their people to fight in Vietnam by using draft system. China? if Chinese government cares about the people, why so many of them migrate to other country? How bout UK, France, German, Canada, Indonesia, Australia? they are all the same.
will you forgive Manchurian for slaughtering millions of Hans when they invaded China 300+ years ago? Will you forgive Manchurian for their "Close Door Policy" and causing China to left behind in technology then Europeans chased up to bully/humiliate us? Will you forgive Manchurian for Opium war, western invasion and Nanking massacre ? If it's not Manchu, neither of this we will suffer. No Chinese have to run overseas and suffered. Think about "1998 Anti-Chinese Riot in Jakarta".
China cannot be great in modern times because of chinese's unconfidence. They are racists, but the people they discriminate are themselves, that's why some of them are acting in a barbaric way, the way they despised once
hey, stupid Muslim pig. Learn to suck Chinese cock & shut the fuck up! I piss on your Allah pig face, u this inferior Mongol Tartar Turk Kazakh pig fuck !
nonsense, Central Asians are a proud people with a rich history. I understand that China was probably one of the top 5 Civilizations of all time, but your all a bunch of commies now anyways...
Don't come to Chinese territories for education. Don't ask Chinese to have trade relationship with you, get the fuck out of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), tell your Kazakh fuck friends to get out of China.
Most importantly, Kazakhstan was Chinese territory. And soon, we will get our lost land back.
Yeah, I know there are some dumb chinese out there. Personally, yes, I am pro-chinese and consider myself as chinese, cuz I was born there. But the tragedy is that chinese commies are creating individuals like "smartgirlfat"))). True proud chinese must unite toward to stop emergence of these "smartgirlfats" )
Just a bunch of inferior hybrid Islam pigs made of filthy barbarian bloods (Mongol, Turks, Uighur, Tartar...) all uncivilized nomads, not intelligent, no contribution to society, only bring chaos & terrorism.
I did not remotely imply that the Chinese did not invent firearms. I have no idea why you said the Chinese invented firearms in your response. Also, in my question, I said DEFEND, not CONQUER. Communicating on the internet is frustrating for some strange reasons. By the way, you did not answer my question at all. If you still don't understand my question, just ignore me or reread my original question.
The point is, China invented firearms and rocket/missile long before Anglo-Saxon. During Tang-Ming dynasty, the large fleets commanded by Zheng He was strong enough to conquer every continents they visited. But China refused to do so, not because of cowardy but Chinese people believed in peaceful correlation.
You don't know how to ask, because your IQ is lower than me. I am East Asian and I smart. That's it. You not East Asian and you not smart, that's it. Good Bye~
If you not Ashkenazi Jew, don't bother chat with me.
You are obviously the stupid one. You gave irrelevant response. You failed to comprehend the simplest question. How do you know I am not East Asian? You made a stupid assumption that I am not East Asian. The fact is, I am.
Kind of funny that White would be proud of conquering the whole world. Lol these white people feel proud about that? hahahaa i find this funny, these clowns are getting more and more funnier.
For the past 300 years, Han Chinese suffered the darkest age of all time under Manchurian administration. This is how China was forced to Opium deal with Britain. You should more history back 5000 years, China was always the global superpower for too many centuries while European civilization haven't even truly started until 1300.
the chinese lost the naval war to the british was that once they had built the giant river thingy to transport grains they didnt need a navy. back in the 1600 the chinese had multi stage rockets and flamethrowers but nope. they didnt want to interact with the outside world, its their own fault.
@codeagent47 If that boy had been born 200 years ago and had claimed that Qing was not China, the Manchurian emperor would have arrested and had him executed
The name Middle Kingdom (China), it's like the Sun standing in center of the solar system while other stars moving around the sun! Of course the Manchruan claim themselves as the Middle Kingdom (China) because it's the center of the civilization!!
I'm sorry, but China has never been "Colonialist". On the other hand, the country of origin of this language I am using (and I don't mean Latin) was quite the flag planter. Anyways, there's nothing wrong in taking pride in the fact that China is the only survivor of the great ancient civilizations. While it's true that China's fallen many times, the spirit of the nation always incites the people to re-coalesce- Now that's a nation, now that's a race.
Ming empire was take down by the peasant uprising force because of the low harvest rate that may cause by a serious drought , and before that a major earthquake has reduce the population to 50% , and the civil war of the young emperor and his uncle who wanna took the place has ruin the army and the national treasury too .
Manchurian and the corrupted Ming's military general must to blame. Anyway, Manchurian are Chinese too. So I don't want to start a pointless argument here. Peace :)
@mkfk1, not only "China" has fallen many many times. But what about the Ottoman, Persian, Aztecs, Holy Roman Empire, Greek empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire, Nazi Germany? They all fall too (they all are short lived too, compared to some Chinese dynasty). So the point is even though China may fall again, it will rise up as a whole again!
India, or Iran for example has had cultures going back just as far.
China itself has not always been one conitnous state. It has changed over and over again across different dynasties. There were also long periods of civil war. It's been taking over by mongols, its been turned into a republic and then a communist state. Does the culture continue? Yes, but so do other countries cultures. Did the state continue? No.
@emperormai You say Iran and India has older culture, could be true but its not continuous. Lets start with one very basic aspect of a culture. Language. The Chinese Language has remained the same both spoken and written for over 5000 years!!! Iran and India...ha...Please... don't kid yourself and try to rewrite history against the historians that know better.
Second of all, to say China has the a culture that's never changed is absolutely absurd. You don't think the infomation age/globalization has affected Chinese culture? Or how about there many different nations before Qin Shi Huang unified them all? Do you honestly think they'd all have teh exact same culture? You think the south acts like north? And writing did NOT stay the same. One of Qin's goals was to impose one written language over the rest
@emperormai who care whats the oldest. Sumerian and Egyptian or Tamil could be the oldest. Do you or anybody you know actually still widely speak Sanskrit? NO! I don't think so. The Chinese Language began over 1500 BC is still spoken and written (slightly modified of course). Of course the culture are not exactly the same and has to evolve with time and has grown but the Chinese people and its culture is still there. This fact is widely accepted by most historians.. Iran and India..haha
China has not survived 5000 years. Sinitic civilization is 4200 years old, with a history of about 3200 years.
Furthermore, each individual Sinitic empire and kingdom was different with a unique culture. There is no such thing as "China" as a continuous kingdom - that is a bogus stereotype of the 20th century.
Some elements of Sinitic culture, on the other hand has survived thousands of years.
Unfortunately, the Manchus & commies have killed the hanfu, traditional script, etc
@Intranetusa Can the word 'Sinitic' be used to describe a civilization? I thought the word Sinitic was used to describe one of two branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family. I am a linguistics student and I have only ever heard the word Sinitic used in this context.
@Intranetusa Hanfu and traditional script still exist. Hanfu is currently experiencing a revival while traditional script is considered illegal, but it's still being used.
@Intranetusa Traditional script was also banned due to high illiteracy in China, since traditional script is hard to learn. And if you watched the entire opening ceremony or visited China you wouldn't have said that.
That is a bs excuse. The literacy in mainland China still sucks. The literacy rate for Hong Kong and Taiwan is 99%
Simplified script destroyed many of the rules and natural flow of the writing system, so it is not that much easier to learn.
The historical bit in the Olympics was a half-bit presentation by that cheesy director Zhang Yimou. He should stick to making wuxia fantasy movies. The other presentation was good, but the culture bits were inaccurate, gaudy, and overdone.
@Intranetusa its like 94% in 2011.i dont give a fuck about where you're from.you're talking about literacy.thats a joke.you even dont know how to respect people.i feel sorry for you. you think you guys are superior to other asians.shame on you,only you.
All you have to do is look up statistics and facts dummy.
The literacy rate in Taiwan/Republic of China and traditional script is much higher than the literacy rate in the PRC/mainland China with their simplified crap. Simplification didn't help literacy very much.
@Intranetusa yes, it didn;t help literacy. but so what? the aim of using Simplified Chinese is not to help the literacy at all. It is just the natrual progress of chinging of the writing Chinese. language is always changing both pronounciation and writing. and so does the modern chinese. Education is the only way to help literacy and the FACT is that the basic education in china have almost been completed in the most recent 30 years. human is keeping going forward, u r just narrow minded.
It is not a "natural" change at all. It is an unnatural "FORCED" change. The communists forcibly erased much of the traditional writing system and replaced them with simplified characters - the problem is they didn't follow the RULES in the writing system. This made it even harder.
All they did was butcher the language and cause the new system to be horribly inefficient with a lot of discontinuous styling errors.
@Intranetusa The communist party simplified the writing system of Chinese? u r just totally ignorant. it starts when China was ruled by Nationalist before Communist. Communist follows after Nationalist was beated. So, the fact is that the simplified chinese is just not made by Communist Party members, ok?
Even the official language of china is not "traditional", it was highly influenced by languages of other races, instead of han. So we also need to change our official language to Cantonese???
First of all, you need to understand the difference between a writing system and a spoken language. Chinese is a writing system. Cantonese is a spoken language. The two are not the same thing.
Traditional Chinese writing was not influenced by other "language" - it has been in existence in approximately the same form for thousands of years.
Second, the Nationalists used traditional Chinese script. Simplified script was created in 1950s-1960s when the COMMUNISTS were in power.
@Intranetusa stupid racist fucker,that is because many operators in the olympics games were Manchus,you racist pig may not like it but it already a reality that Manchu and China had already combined into one
You are an ignorant moron. Chinese isn't a race. Manchu isn't a race either. Manchus are a nomadic group from Manchuria.
And you're obviously clueless because Manchu culture was not the same as the Han culture. Look up the queue laws - it was FORCED onto China. People had to shave their heads and wear pony tails or the Manchu lords would execute them. The qipao and cheongsam are MANCHU nomadic clothing. Traditional clothing is called the hanfu.
@Intranetusa just shart the fark up,han chinese invaded and assimilated your ancestors in southern by raping and massacring and forced them to become han chinese,thats why nowadays many fake han chinese exist in southern china below yangytzi river
Again, you are an idiot. The Han originated from the Yellow River valley. They are the original Han. They expanded, intermarried, and conquered other nations/kingdoms and by the time of the Han Dynasty, Han became a term to describe any citizen of the Han empire. It is a term to describe Han culture and Han citizenship.
Learn some history you ignorant moron, not just the crap that the commies you worship brainwash you with.
You're an ignorant moron who doesn't even know a shred of history. And you're the troll who started this in the first place.
I suggest you go read a history book on 16th-17th century China, because you sound like a typical commie in your bullsh*t proclamations that all Chinese are the same.
@cbong1993 That how it is with most Nations that have more of a pure ethnicity or good scene of identity. The Holy Roman Empire lasted about 900 to 1000 years. That is way longer then any Chines dynasty. It just renamed it self as the German Empire by the late 1800s
Despite political fragmentation and foreign conquest, China has ruled over it's territorial core with a continuous political governing system longer than any other civilization-state in human history.
China, the oldest and greatest civilization humanity has ever produced.
not necessarily,, because the Emperor didn't feel the need to trade with other nations,, and plus China was in debt and facing a lot of chaos within the country!!
@dalecampbl6 we should have invaded other countries back then, it would have brought us even more glory
Vampiric59 2 weeks ago
Ang ilang sa mga Dinastiya ng Tsina na nasabing nakikipagkpalitang ng kalakal sa bansang Pilipinas ay patunay lang na may sarili na ring itong Kultura bago pa man dumating ang mga mananakop na Espanol sa aming bansa. Maging ang aming sariling Wika ay pinalabas nilang hindi kailanman nagkaroon. Mabuhay ang Wikang Filipino! Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!
cyborg1295 1 month ago
my favourite dynasty is the Song,that might be the most rich and free dynasty in ancient chinese,the fist emperor of the Song even said"never kill one 士大夫",the maths, science and art also had many achievements,some Chinese might not like the Song dynasty,becouse Song was always be threatened by the Jin and Liao,at last been kill by the Mongolia
yijiez1115 1 month ago
@yijiez1115 Song Dynasty is one of my favorite to, but Tang Dynasty was not bad either they were very rich country too.
By the way you like the Song Dynasty watch Yang Jia Jang
jia2001 2 weeks ago
I am an american and I cannot deny that China is on the way to top super power. But I did not really come here to debate. I came here because I LOVE East Asian History :)
GrainghisKhan12 1 month ago
America! Watch and learn we Chinese was a superpower 300 years BEFORE YOU GUYS WERE BORN OUR A PLACE CALLED AMERICA AND WE WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE!!!
jia2001 2 months ago
If Zheng He didn't die, China would be a superpower. And the New emperor is retarded, why would he burn all the ships and documents down, he ruined China.
Airstrik3 3 months ago
@Airstrik3 China was a super power in that time,if Zheng He was not die,Ming Dynasty also can`t let he go on.becouse the purpose of the travel was not for business,just for showing the emperor`s power.the travel was really cost lots of the money.many people didn`t agree that.
yijiez1115 1 month ago
why not Tang dynasty. you know nowadays how chinese people call "China Town"? They call it Tang man Street
mount922 4 months ago
In history of china..They never invasion any 1 country...
Example like zheng he, his navy force can invaded anywere. But they not doing tis...In history of china..They never invasion any 1 country...
Example like zheng he, his navy force can invaded anywere. But they not doing tis...they strength relationship, mediations war btw others country.
Not like western Established colonies around!!!!
chlam8094 4 months ago
@chlam8094
Ancient Chinese dynasties did invade other countries, but most of these invasions were retaliations. For example, the nomadic Xiong Nu invaded the Han Dynasty,and then the imperial army of Han Dynasty retaliated and defeated the Xiong Nu.
TheXanian 3 months ago
is PRC chinese empire? its communist coward, not han chinese's empire! dont insult han chinese with communism.
mapscraper 5 months ago
3 kimchi pigs dislike this video?
GodsCommand 7 months ago
fuck barbarians. china belongs to the han!
ervin920 7 months ago
@ervin920 fark you barbarian
GodsCommand 6 months ago
china is a living empire.chinese history is independent of the rest of the world.
240kankan 7 months ago
the biggest boat could hold more than 1000 people.our Chinese named it BaoChuan
inflexibleqi 7 months ago
excellent chinese negro>>> these mofos go hard in thier rri ]wprn architecture
JATTiS0SiKH 8 months ago
The American is not very good in Asia History. I wish them to read more old history books for China's history.
sichimura 8 months ago 5
Three Disguising Korean dislike this Video . Lollllllll
zhongguoren2011 8 months ago
The story of Zheng He is perfect example of Chinese peoples' inherent desire for peace, unlike the West. China built a massive fleet, and used it to explore and trade. We all know what the Europeans did instead.
heindrich1988 9 months ago
Oh, look! Robocop :D
StandingRedPanda 10 months ago
STUPID EMPEROR that was a waste of resources, he should of continued zheng he ambition and colonise the world
jacksta246 10 months ago
i was there
MrShaolin101 10 months ago
there is no such thing as Chinese Empire, only Chinese Civlization, you will never be able to destroy Chinese civilization.
virtuous8 10 months ago
The Chinese and The Huns would of taken over the world
but they both stopped for unknown reasons
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 A Roman General stoped the Huns in fact.
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
@xxTeutonicKnightxx
really i thought that the romans paid the Huns to stop attacking them lol
The Hun empire began to fall when Genghis khan died
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 Some truth, But which Romans? The East ones or the West ones? I do not remember. But The Roman General that stopped the Huns was Flavius Aetius...
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
@xxTeutonicKnightxx
lol i looked on wiki it said the western romans
why does the roman assasinate there own people ceasor and know aetius???
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 I do not know 100% but I can fine out. My best guess is corruption and greed, it is like that will may Empires. It was like that with China too. Hell, nowadays here in the U.S. many (not all) of our politician behave in a similar matter. The big difference is they do not kill each other, they try to destroy each others image… As well as ignoring the Poor, the middle class or the working class. So yea so far our Empire is falling too. :/
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
@xxTeutonicKnightxx
Yeah it was lol
true there really smart
yeah alot of politicians are corrupted
i think that the politicians have more power than the president/ prime minster or you could say they are just puppets.
they are like tyrants in a way but do not expose it
i do not know to much about politicians i know alot of them are bad
I just know one day war is gonna break out soon
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 Um it is not the politicians have more power than the president or prime minster, at least here in the U.S., it is the top 2% or the rich & corporations that has more power than the people. Most politicians and to some dagree the president that are puppets to the rich and corporations. Just look how they are trying to take Unions away in the U.S . & give tax brake to the rich as well as tax brake to the Corporations that outsource jobs... :o The fact is we are going down hill.
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
everybody just don't know a lot about China I am afraid... many ppl don't even get the basics rite let alone the details...
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
China fell many times to non-han barbarians, but they were able to rebuild
Monkeyshex 1 year ago
@raymondwr1 You mean the Mongols who tried and later got their asses kicked by the Ming while Japan well epically failed in the Imjin War as well. lol I guess that does not count lol. It's kind of moot since Japan was China's bitch for ass load of time /rolleyes.
kamikazeroniner 1 year ago
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@raymondwr1 you mean the Mongols who punished by Ming and the Japanese who got their pathetic samurai asses kicked many times especially in the Imjin war lolwut.I guess that does not count or that Japan was basically their bitch
kamikazeroniner 1 year ago
@raymondwr1 The closest thing to Rome nowadays is the European Union.
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kamikazeroniner 1 year ago
nice china has it`s history.
assyrianzowapride 1 year ago
China has never witness a disaterous fall because of quick transitions into other forms of empire. Plus, I think the Ancient Chinese were not dedicated in conquering the world, they just wanted to live in a secure environment, safe from threats by other empires, tribes, etc. I really admire when the Chinese had the opportunity to colonize the world by controling the seas, (before the europeans) they chose not to. Great history.
Manolo1013 1 year ago
@Manolo1013
yes it is great isnt it
cause if you colonize the world theres gonna be war some where in time rebellions is gonna break out
and the empire is just gonna lose control
its like the british they colonised india and rebellions broke out
same in America
its better to stay put and be safe
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 WW1 & WWII is what made Europe lost control of there Empires. Other then that they were doing good.
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
wow China is the greatest civilization in the world
jizzinmypants191919 1 year ago
just like Chine top rich governor want to visit (Camp David)white house , I know too many chine people want to leave kin la and move to (freedom and human right democracy United states) to open Chinese restaurant .Finally , lucky, enjoy to born in USA, Canada not the Yellow Ming dynasty or New Red China!
QWERTYUIOP12321234 1 year ago
hello, every empire of American citizen, I am yellow skin and white people education man. the Ming dynasty of sailing is not for interest of the world , the reason is find a Undead medicine for the king , (this history writing in Cantonese primary school book. University of Miami professor skip lots of detail about the dark chine for the local people life. Don't worry to much about Chine , Come to Peking , shanghai the USA Embassy,count how many rich chine man want to get Green card?
QWERTYUIOP12321234 1 year ago
Our beloved Roman Empire still lives on in some or other form: Vatican City.. Now, there's the EU. We shall see how far that one goes...
mattboy88 1 year ago
i bet'' SMARTGIRLFAT '' not even asian just some moron trying to cause problems..ignore SMARTGIRLFAT dont chat with SMARTGIRLFAT!!!!!
utubb100 1 year ago 2
Why did the emperor burned the Chinese armada and made China isolanist? Just imagine if the Chinese fleet did not suffered that fate .. European colonialism in South-East Asia would never had occured and the invasion of the Manchurians could probably be avoided.
But still, the Chinese created the biggest armada that is still unmatched today, and ofcourse, being one of few early civilisations, and having the most continuous empire ever.
Graymoths 1 year ago
Qin Dynasty emperor ruled 6 countries. He is the cruel emperor...
Han Dynasty emperor didnt do much, only his generals and his other people.
Legomint 1 year ago
Cant believed that the territory China in all maps provided by West doesnt include Taiwan and Hainan. In Ming dynasty, Taiwan was a county of Fujian province of China. This is fact, nobody can change the history.
xt1986 1 year ago
What a fucking retarded Emperor! Heck, I'd be speaking Chinese now if he hadn't burnt the fleet. There would probably be no America, Australia and New Zealand today if it wasn't for that retard.
Zaphenath4 1 year ago
@Zaphenath4 Maybe or Maybe not, Europe how ever was in fact a up coming force regardless; way better armor, better trained troops, better guns, and canons; Spain, Portuguese, British fleets were going to become a competitor regardless.
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
What a fucking retarded Emperor! Heck, I'd be speaking Chinese now if he hadn't burnt the fleet. There would probably be no America, Australia and New Zealand today if it wasn't for that retard.
Zaphenath4 1 year ago
@Zaphenath4 The emperor don't want people be smarter than him.
Legomint 1 year ago
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mtm0815 1 year ago
Never underestimate the Chinese before it is too late! Every Chinese has a list of their nation's enemies! Those who have done things evil to this country will pay back in the end! : ) China is too deep for you guys to understand!
xinwang2uk 1 year ago
@xinwang2uk yup
Legomint 1 year ago
Never underestimate the Chinese before it is too late! Every Chinese has a list of their nation's enemies! Those who have done things evil to this country will pay back in the end! : ) China is too deep for you guys to understand!
xinwang2uk 1 year ago
Lol. Peter Weller (the narrator) was RoboCop in the movies, and now he's a history lecturer! That tickles me.
As Peter Weller hints, in many cases the Chinese Han Dynasty was like the Roman Empire in the West, comparable in terms of overall territory, population size, military might, rich material culture, science and technology, etc. Perhaps the first European power that surpassed Rome in many regards was Spain and its global colonies, followed by Great Britain.
EricMetalGuitarist 1 year ago
dont listen to bitchy smartfatgirl she is ignorant I feel disgraced just to be chinese
Kr4zyAc3 2 years ago
shame,shame
TheArthurChow 1 year ago
why would chinese fight each other ?
hunter54able 2 years ago 3
@hunter54able
because there were greedy people who wanted to be emperor and have lots of money and live a luxiously life
or they were just corrupted
jacksta246 1 year ago
@jacksta246 Yes that how many Empire fall, like Rome, Han, and many others. And Hope to God not us, but we are heading there too, the same reasons too...
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
People, wake up already! From 4000 BC until 2010 AD, when one country is engulfed by war, peace, poor, prosperity, the only party who will enjoy the good lifestyle is the government while people like us suffer the most. When the country is rich, government will raise the tax as high as possible to expand their empire. When people is poor, government will still have their super luxury party regardless the condition of their people, from Qin She Huang, Hitler, to Obama, they are all the same.
briansuck 2 years ago
@briansuck, Nationalism, Patriotism, Fight for your race, fight for your freedom, fight for your God, fight for your country is just a tool used by government or any leader to make people like us willingly to step to the first line of the battlefield and have no sense of affraid for killing others. In the end, killing itself is already wrong. Killing people as suicide bomber nowadays is as wrong as killing invaders in world war 2. We are all just a chess piece, controlled by Greedy government!
briansuck 2 years ago
@briansuck, human history are full of violence, made by violence where innocent blood spilled and only the strong survives. Just look at countries in Asia, America, Europe, Africa, and name 1 country where the government cares about their people. US? they forced their people to fight in Vietnam by using draft system. China? if Chinese government cares about the people, why so many of them migrate to other country? How bout UK, France, German, Canada, Indonesia, Australia? they are all the same.
briansuck 2 years ago
lets not disillusion the ppl
kaindrg 2 years ago
@briansuck true, only a small number of people rules
tofumatrix 1 year ago
Keep in mind that many Manchurian in China nowadays still eager to restore their "Qing Dynasty". The best way to secure is to eliminate threats.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
will you forgive Manchurian for slaughtering millions of Hans when they invaded China 300+ years ago? Will you forgive Manchurian for their "Close Door Policy" and causing China to left behind in technology then Europeans chased up to bully/humiliate us? Will you forgive Manchurian for Opium war, western invasion and Nanking massacre ? If it's not Manchu, neither of this we will suffer. No Chinese have to run overseas and suffered. Think about "1998 Anti-Chinese Riot in Jakarta".
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
910842507,
if you want to kill all Manchurian, I will join you. You are my brother.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
China cannot be great in modern times because of chinese's unconfidence. They are racists, but the people they discriminate are themselves, that's why some of them are acting in a barbaric way, the way they despised once
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
TheCentralasian,
hey, stupid Muslim pig. Learn to suck Chinese cock & shut the fuck up! I piss on your Allah pig face, u this inferior Mongol Tartar Turk Kazakh pig fuck !
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
nonsense, Central Asians are a proud people with a rich history. I understand that China was probably one of the top 5 Civilizations of all time, but your all a bunch of commies now anyways...
filipenis96 2 years ago
TheCentralasian,
Uighur pig !
Don't come to Chinese territories for education. Don't ask Chinese to have trade relationship with you, get the fuck out of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), tell your Kazakh fuck friends to get out of China.
Most importantly, Kazakhstan was Chinese territory. And soon, we will get our lost land back.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
Bitch, I was on your side. I said that chinese must be confident to be strong. Now I see your true face. Read carefully what I wrote
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
Don't worry about that stupid bitch Smartgirlfat...shes not like any other Chinese I met, shes just a filthy pig...
Central Asia is a beautiful and interesting place, I would like to visit it one of these days...
filipenis96 2 years ago
Yeah, I know there are some dumb chinese out there. Personally, yes, I am pro-chinese and consider myself as chinese, cuz I was born there. But the tragedy is that chinese commies are creating individuals like "smartgirlfat"))). True proud chinese must unite toward to stop emergence of these "smartgirlfats" )
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
TheCentralasian,
What the fuck is central Asian by the way?!!
Just a bunch of inferior hybrid Islam pigs made of filthy barbarian bloods (Mongol, Turks, Uighur, Tartar...) all uncivilized nomads, not intelligent, no contribution to society, only bring chaos & terrorism.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
The mongols had an advanced system of law, and had it's own language -altaic...you should change your name to dumbgirlfat...
filipenis96 2 years ago
@smartgirlfat
chanvitto 8 months ago
What does robocop do here?
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
1000% correct saying
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
Why didn't they defend themselves with canons from Great Britain?
ltlwatcher 2 years ago
Canon, guns, rockets invented by Chinese.
watch?v=KbwV0ajnUrY&feature=channel_page
China never had intention to conquer the world. Chinese are peaceful thinking nation
watch?v=QHyspkeyIfs
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
I did not remotely imply that the Chinese did not invent firearms. I have no idea why you said the Chinese invented firearms in your response. Also, in my question, I said DEFEND, not CONQUER. Communicating on the internet is frustrating for some strange reasons. By the way, you did not answer my question at all. If you still don't understand my question, just ignore me or reread my original question.
ltlwatcher 2 years ago
The point is, China invented firearms and rocket/missile long before Anglo-Saxon. During Tang-Ming dynasty, the large fleets commanded by Zheng He was strong enough to conquer every continents they visited. But China refused to do so, not because of cowardy but Chinese people believed in peaceful correlation.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
The point is, your response is irrelevant to my question.
ltlwatcher 2 years ago
You don't know how to ask questions. Or you don't like the answer I gave you, because it against your interest.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
You don't know how to answer.
ltlwatcher 2 years ago
You don't know how to ask, because your IQ is lower than me. I am East Asian and I smart. That's it. You not East Asian and you not smart, that's it. Good Bye~
If you not Ashkenazi Jew, don't bother chat with me.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
You are obviously the stupid one. You gave irrelevant response. You failed to comprehend the simplest question. How do you know I am not East Asian? You made a stupid assumption that I am not East Asian. The fact is, I am.
ltlwatcher 2 years ago
White people always asked Chinese.
"If you Chinks are that strong, why didn't ancient China conquer the whole world ? " Why's white Europeans instead ?
The answer rise in this video, please watch:
watch?v=QHyspkeyIfs
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
Kind of funny that White would be proud of conquering the whole world. Lol these white people feel proud about that? hahahaa i find this funny, these clowns are getting more and more funnier.
m0rttal 2 years ago
For the past 300 years, Han Chinese suffered the darkest age of all time under Manchurian administration. This is how China was forced to Opium deal with Britain. You should more history back 5000 years, China was always the global superpower for too many centuries while European civilization haven't even truly started until 1300.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
@ItIwatcher, China cannot defend from the Great Britain because of Opium, also the Manchu are not so great at ruling China.
cbong1993 2 years ago
the chinese lost the naval war to the british was that once they had built the giant river thingy to transport grains they didnt need a navy. back in the 1600 the chinese had multi stage rockets and flamethrowers but nope. they didnt want to interact with the outside world, its their own fault.
knightj60 2 years ago
Because at time in power were Manchus, who did not care about the destiny of China
TheCentralasian 2 years ago
@TheCentralasian
you do know that Manchus want to become the Chinese right?? they practice every Chinese tradition just to blend in as the Chinese!
codeagent47 1 year ago
@codeagent47 If that boy had been born 200 years ago and had claimed that Qing was not China, the Manchurian emperor would have arrested and had him executed
waterdropsfall 1 year ago
@waterdropsfall
The name Middle Kingdom (China), it's like the Sun standing in center of the solar system while other stars moving around the sun! Of course the Manchruan claim themselves as the Middle Kingdom (China) because it's the center of the civilization!!
codeagent47 1 year ago
@codeagent47 Manchurian emperor had always claimed that they were successors of Chinese former Dynasties, instead of barbarian invaders.
waterdropsfall 1 year ago
It's sad that the chinese search for pride in their ruthless colonialist past and present.
Northgrant 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but China has never been "Colonialist". On the other hand, the country of origin of this language I am using (and I don't mean Latin) was quite the flag planter. Anyways, there's nothing wrong in taking pride in the fact that China is the only survivor of the great ancient civilizations. While it's true that China's fallen many times, the spirit of the nation always incites the people to re-coalesce- Now that's a nation, now that's a race.
clumfuproductions 2 years ago
stupid ignorant white trash, shut up !
Every east Asian can screw your white ass up in academy !
smartgirlfat 2 years ago 2
ya... we aint finished yet
HeadShotted001 2 years ago
Ming empire was take down by the peasant uprising force because of the low harvest rate that may cause by a serious drought , and before that a major earthquake has reduce the population to 50% , and the civil war of the young emperor and his uncle who wanna took the place has ruin the army and the national treasury too .
sonofliberty08 2 years ago
Manchurian and the corrupted Ming's military general must to blame. Anyway, Manchurian are Chinese too. So I don't want to start a pointless argument here. Peace :)
smartgirlfat 2 years ago
Ming Dynasty simply ruined itself and decided its own fate of being outpowered by West...what a shame...
seannyslow 2 years ago
Ming empire was taken down by Manchurian. The west didnt directly affect China until the Qing. Get your history right.
mkfk1 2 years ago
I meant Ming became the motive of fall of China
seannyslow 2 years ago
"China" has fallen many many times by many many reasons. Ming is just one of them.
Again, get your history right.
mkfk1 2 years ago
@mkfk1, not only "China" has fallen many many times. But what about the Ottoman, Persian, Aztecs, Holy Roman Empire, Greek empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire, Nazi Germany? They all fall too (they all are short lived too, compared to some Chinese dynasty). So the point is even though China may fall again, it will rise up as a whole again!
cbong1993 2 years ago 19
china knows how to rise
lcddg 2 years ago
China is the only continuous kingdom in the world that had survived the 5000 years test of time. No other kingdoms could exist that long.
smartgirlfat 2 years ago 29
@smartgirlfat no empire can survive forever they all have crumbled
KozMick1 1 year ago
@smartgirlfat dont say china say han people
lifes40123 1 year ago
@smartgirlfat I'd debate that on several levels.
India, or Iran for example has had cultures going back just as far.
China itself has not always been one conitnous state. It has changed over and over again across different dynasties. There were also long periods of civil war. It's been taking over by mongols, its been turned into a republic and then a communist state. Does the culture continue? Yes, but so do other countries cultures. Did the state continue? No.
emperormai 1 year ago
@emperormai You say Iran and India has older culture, could be true but its not continuous. Lets start with one very basic aspect of a culture. Language. The Chinese Language has remained the same both spoken and written for over 5000 years!!! Iran and India...ha...Please... don't kid yourself and try to rewrite history against the historians that know better.
ebokers100 1 year ago
@ebokers100 What? Sanskrit is older than Chinese.
Second of all, to say China has the a culture that's never changed is absolutely absurd. You don't think the infomation age/globalization has affected Chinese culture? Or how about there many different nations before Qin Shi Huang unified them all? Do you honestly think they'd all have teh exact same culture? You think the south acts like north? And writing did NOT stay the same. One of Qin's goals was to impose one written language over the rest
emperormai 1 year ago
@emperormai who care whats the oldest. Sumerian and Egyptian or Tamil could be the oldest. Do you or anybody you know actually still widely speak Sanskrit? NO! I don't think so. The Chinese Language began over 1500 BC is still spoken and written (slightly modified of course). Of course the culture are not exactly the same and has to evolve with time and has grown but the Chinese people and its culture is still there. This fact is widely accepted by most historians.. Iran and India..haha
ebokers100 1 year ago
@ebokers100 You sir, are a dumbass.
emperormai 1 year ago
@emperormai dumbass? Is that Sanskrit?
ebokers100 1 year ago
@smartgirlfat so how do u feel about the mongols?
khmerbraveheart 10 months ago
@smartgirlfat
China has not survived 5000 years. Sinitic civilization is 4200 years old, with a history of about 3200 years.
Furthermore, each individual Sinitic empire and kingdom was different with a unique culture. There is no such thing as "China" as a continuous kingdom - that is a bogus stereotype of the 20th century.
Some elements of Sinitic culture, on the other hand has survived thousands of years.
Unfortunately, the Manchus & commies have killed the hanfu, traditional script, etc
Intranetusa 9 months ago
@Intranetusa
Chinese political governance over it's core territories is the longest out of any nation in history.
Phead128 9 months ago
@Intranetusa Can the word 'Sinitic' be used to describe a civilization? I thought the word Sinitic was used to describe one of two branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family. I am a linguistics student and I have only ever heard the word Sinitic used in this context.
deus1118 8 months ago
@Intranetusa Hanfu and traditional script still exist. Hanfu is currently experiencing a revival while traditional script is considered illegal, but it's still being used.
TheBrolit 8 months ago
@TheBrolit
It's ridiculous that the CCP considered traditional Chinese writing to be "illegal."
The CCP also ended up using mostly Manchu-influenced clothing for the Olympics.
Chinese Communist Party, destroying Chinese culture one piece at a time...
Intranetusa 8 months ago
@Intranetusa Traditional script was also banned due to high illiteracy in China, since traditional script is hard to learn. And if you watched the entire opening ceremony or visited China you wouldn't have said that.
TheBrolit 8 months ago
@TheBrolit
That is a bs excuse. The literacy in mainland China still sucks. The literacy rate for Hong Kong and Taiwan is 99%
Simplified script destroyed many of the rules and natural flow of the writing system, so it is not that much easier to learn.
The historical bit in the Olympics was a half-bit presentation by that cheesy director Zhang Yimou. He should stick to making wuxia fantasy movies. The other presentation was good, but the culture bits were inaccurate, gaudy, and overdone.
Intranetusa 8 months ago
@Intranetusa its like 94% in 2011.i dont give a fuck about where you're from.you're talking about literacy.thats a joke.you even dont know how to respect people.i feel sorry for you. you think you guys are superior to other asians.shame on you,only you.
240kankan 7 months ago
@Intranetusa stfu, u know not enough for the development of Chinese literacy.
159357123100 7 months ago
@159357123100
All you have to do is look up statistics and facts dummy.
The literacy rate in Taiwan/Republic of China and traditional script is much higher than the literacy rate in the PRC/mainland China with their simplified crap. Simplification didn't help literacy very much.
Intranetusa 7 months ago
@Intranetusa yes, it didn;t help literacy. but so what? the aim of using Simplified Chinese is not to help the literacy at all. It is just the natrual progress of chinging of the writing Chinese. language is always changing both pronounciation and writing. and so does the modern chinese. Education is the only way to help literacy and the FACT is that the basic education in china have almost been completed in the most recent 30 years. human is keeping going forward, u r just narrow minded.
159357123100 7 months ago
@159357123100
It is not a "natural" change at all. It is an unnatural "FORCED" change. The communists forcibly erased much of the traditional writing system and replaced them with simplified characters - the problem is they didn't follow the RULES in the writing system. This made it even harder.
All they did was butcher the language and cause the new system to be horribly inefficient with a lot of discontinuous styling errors.
Intranetusa 7 months ago
@Intranetusa The communist party simplified the writing system of Chinese? u r just totally ignorant. it starts when China was ruled by Nationalist before Communist. Communist follows after Nationalist was beated. So, the fact is that the simplified chinese is just not made by Communist Party members, ok?
Even the official language of china is not "traditional", it was highly influenced by languages of other races, instead of han. So we also need to change our official language to Cantonese???
159357123100 7 months ago
@159357123100
First of all, you need to understand the difference between a writing system and a spoken language. Chinese is a writing system. Cantonese is a spoken language. The two are not the same thing.
Traditional Chinese writing was not influenced by other "language" - it has been in existence in approximately the same form for thousands of years.
Second, the Nationalists used traditional Chinese script. Simplified script was created in 1950s-1960s when the COMMUNISTS were in power.
Intranetusa 7 months ago
@Intranetusa stupid racist fucker,that is because many operators in the olympics games were Manchus,you racist pig may not like it but it already a reality that Manchu and China had already combined into one
GodsCommand 7 months ago
@GodsCommand
You are an ignorant moron. Chinese isn't a race. Manchu isn't a race either. Manchus are a nomadic group from Manchuria.
And you're obviously clueless because Manchu culture was not the same as the Han culture. Look up the queue laws - it was FORCED onto China. People had to shave their heads and wear pony tails or the Manchu lords would execute them. The qipao and cheongsam are MANCHU nomadic clothing. Traditional clothing is called the hanfu.
Learn some history you dumb fuk.
Intranetusa 7 months ago
@Intranetusa just shart the fark up,han chinese invaded and assimilated your ancestors in southern by raping and massacring and forced them to become han chinese,thats why nowadays many fake han chinese exist in southern china below yangytzi river
GodsCommand 7 months ago
@GodsCommand
Again, you are an idiot. The Han originated from the Yellow River valley. They are the original Han. They expanded, intermarried, and conquered other nations/kingdoms and by the time of the Han Dynasty, Han became a term to describe any citizen of the Han empire. It is a term to describe Han culture and Han citizenship.
Learn some history you ignorant moron, not just the crap that the commies you worship brainwash you with.
Intranetusa 6 months ago
@Intranetusa you freakin stupider,I am not even commie you freaky biatch!
GodsCommand 6 months ago
@GodsCommand
Stupider isn't even a word you ignorant fool. Go lick some commie boots some more.
Intranetusa 6 months ago
@Intranetusa hey stobborn bitch listen,I am not even commie? who are you anyway? what is your ethnicity?? pathetic low life troll!~
GodsCommand 6 months ago
@GodsCommand
You're an ignorant moron who doesn't even know a shred of history. And you're the troll who started this in the first place.
I suggest you go read a history book on 16th-17th century China, because you sound like a typical commie in your bullsh*t proclamations that all Chinese are the same.
Intranetusa 6 months ago
@Intranetusa you farken stupid freak,who the fark tells you im commie?
GodsCommand 6 months ago
@smartgirlfat Have two ! another is India.Duo empire from the ancient world . Asia Go ahead conquer the world .
chanvitto 8 months ago
@smartgirlfat in fact,our Chinese usually called it Empire
inflexibleqi 7 months ago
@cbong1993 i don't know if your chinese, but well said. China is everlasting unity, one empire.
SpiritWanderer91 1 year ago
@cbong1993 That how it is with most Nations that have more of a pure ethnicity or good scene of identity. The Holy Roman Empire lasted about 900 to 1000 years. That is way longer then any Chines dynasty. It just renamed it self as the German Empire by the late 1800s
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 year ago
@cbong1993
Despite political fragmentation and foreign conquest, China has ruled over it's territorial core with a continuous political governing system longer than any other civilization-state in human history.
China, the oldest and greatest civilization humanity has ever produced.
Phead128 9 months ago
6:56 The reason? I believe it was Confucianism!
OnePeopleOneChina 2 years ago
not necessarily,, because the Emperor didn't feel the need to trade with other nations,, and plus China was in debt and facing a lot of chaos within the country!!
codeagent47 2 years ago
Talk about a single turning point in the history of the planet to date.....Then again, the Mongol Empire only crumbled because of the Plague.
cavaleer 2 years ago
no really! because they had management problem led to many up rising around their empire!
codeagent47 2 years ago
woah, good vid
minborox 3 years ago
Good upload
GTF4EVER1994 3 years ago