The ENTIRE History of CHINA in 18 Minutes

Egypt, Babylon and Rome fell and never came back. China fell apart again and again, and every time it put itself back together. 🏯 The entire history of China in one animated documentary: the legend of Yu and the floods of the Yellow River, the oracle bones found in a medicine shop, the Shang kings, the Zhou and the Mandate of Heaven, Confucius and the Warring States, Qin Shi Huang and the Terracotta Army, the Han and the Silk Road, the Sui Grand Canal, the golden age of the Tang and Wu Zetian, Song paper money and gunpowder, the Mongol conquest and Kublai Khan, the Ming, the Forbidden City and Zheng He's treasure fleet, the Manchu Qing, the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion, the fall of the last emperor, Mao and the People's Republic, and the reforms that turned China into the factory of the world. See how one idea, the Mandate of Heaven, explains why Chinese dynasties rose and fell for four thousand years, and why the country always came back. 🔔 Subscribe for more stories of how the world's great nations were made.