The Creation of China Explained

Correction. Qin Shi Huang according to many historians did NOT burn book because of revisionary history. Instead he burned books because of ideological conflict between Confuciusism vs Legalism. During the Warring States era, Confucius teaching was popular because it preached the value that benefits nobility. And you can guess why Qin people hated it. Also, they didn’t burn all the books, nor kill all the scholars. They confiscated books and burned copies. And killed those scholars who pushed hard for Confucianism. The books that Qin Shi Huang didn’t burn, got burned by the rebel leader Xiangyu after Qin fell. Because Shi Huang put them all in one place in a palace. And btw although Qin eventually fell because of those fed up nobles(almost all of the rebel factions were led by toppled feudal lords, and the rest were mere opportunists who tried to capitalize on the chaos). The successor of Qin, Han dynasty was also largely a legalist state. It was KNOWN that Liu Bang, the founder of Han, took a lot of Qin government documents and books when he conquered the capital. And most of Han policies were just milder version of what Qin had. And BTW Liu Bang, a fugitive who eventually founded Han dynasty, joined the rebels only because his mates in the hometown wanted a scapegoat. The mayor of the town was worried that rebels would come for him, so his adviser came up with the idea to fake rebel so the rebels wouldn’t kill them. And they needed someone other than themselves in case Qin won, so they thought of Liu Bang. Upon the return of Liu Bang to the town, the mayor got cold feet, the adviser sought to kill the mayor and pushed to elect Liu as their leader. I mean, think about it. Of all the prominent local families, everyone agreed to elect a fugitive who’s been running in a mountain for years to be a leader… and the death of the mayor was definitely an inside job because Liu Bang was locked out of the city gate atm.

I DEMAND A COMPLETE CHINESE DYNASTY SERIES

I'd love to hear more history concerning Chinese history. I don't think enough people learn about World history, and with how prevalent China was/is on the global scale, learning more concerning their history and experiences is a personally exciting venture.

Not only Confucius, Shang Yang is definitely one of the most important figure in Chinese history. With his legalism policies, he with Qin monarchs had made Qin from a backwater country into the strongest warring state and then finally united China. And Qin Shi Huang is no doubt the greatest emperor in Chinese history because his work had laid a sturdy foundation for Chinese civilization

I am leaving this comment here so that after some hours, days, weeks, months or years when someone likes or comment on it, I will be reminded to watch this video again

Kendrick and history scope dropping in the same week that’s crazy

A full series would be incredible cool

okay a slight little (i hope) constructive criticism that came to my mind, the 1st few minutes seem to suggest that the Han ethnic identity was universal to all peoples of the yellow river valley from the get go, which as far as i know was not the case. Han being so dominant is only a later development of politics within the region. I think saying "(...)they started to develop their own ethnicities, chineese ethnicities one of which is (some flowery sentence if u will) Han(...)" and later the video could go on as it does. Imo it would save people that little bit of confusion... but it could just be me. aside from that little thing great video!

I love that your videos cover the most important aspect of history that lots of high school history skips on - the WHY things happened. I wish these videos were available when I was in high school.

i love that history youtube isn’t afraid to make content about a subject that has been covered (specifically china) because all of them tell the story in a different way/perspective. also i want to hear all of this info again without watching the same video. (this sounds so back handed but being sincere and i love this video)

Yeah, make this a series👏🏾✊🏾

Always dropping videos on my birthday, that's hype. Thanks! 🍫

A series of top tier juicy history videos on Chinese dynasties sounds amazing.

We need the full series!! Thank you for making this video

PLEASE make a complete series!!!

Yeah new History Scope video!! History Scope rocks

You pronounced “Zhao” more or less correctly in this video, but the vowel in “Zhou” is pronounced more like “oh” like the name “Joe”

Awesome video, I always look forward to watching them!

Great job! Please give us more!

Slight correction. Rice farming occurred around the Yangtze. Around the yellow river they farmed wheat