Chinese Empires (7/9)

For over 4000 years, the world's greatest empires have come and gone--only China has survived the test of time. Century after century, China's regal emperors mobilized immense peasant armies to accomplish engineering feats unparalleled in human history. Among the groundbreaking innovations were the world's longest canal and a naval fleet mightier than all those of Europe combined. However, none can compare to the colossal 4,000-mile wall that stands as the most ambitious construction project ever built. From such heights came spectacular death spirals, as dynasty after dynasty, consumed by vanity and greed was stripped of power by the people it had ruled. Peter Weller hosts.

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[shishila]

he missed tang, five period, and song dynasty

[xingfenzhen]

interestingly, he skipped the powerful Chinese dynasty(Tang) and the richest Chinese dynasty(song)...

[truvianni]

@xingfenzhen thank you actually I was not sure so I checked it on wikipedia I am reading about it now. I have always been interested in history and have recently become fascinated by ancient cultures where before I concentrated on basically events of the last few centuries in Europe

[xingfenzhen]

@truvianni

yes and no, it's first one where gov't issued fiats. (And first probably first used the "tool" of inflation to solve government finacial troubbles) Before that private merchant groups did issue silver draw rights, with is similar to paper money.

[truvianni]

@xingfenzhen was the Song dynasty the one which started printing paper money?

[ComingDawnRed]

hahah this emperor was a pimp.

[makemap]

Financial?

[KaraKhitan]

@PakistaniisPower

Yes Ming Dynasty was the beginning of Emperor's absolute power to a degree never achieved before. The power was so centralized in Ming Dynasty that the post of Chancellor was abolished.

[PakistaniisPower]

Ming dynasty is the best

[Rico8458]

british had saxon rule, norman rule, german rule.

[cbong1993]

@niagu, ofcourse it is all Chinese Empires... When Mongols rules China. It's just like saying the German Georgian family ruling England.