ANCIENT CHINA: FIVE THOUSAND YEARS
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on Ancient China — the oldest continuous civilization on earth, which invented paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass, and paper money, built the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, reached North America before Columbus, and then turned inward at the exact wrong moment.
This episode covers the Shang oracle bones, Confucius and the Warring States, the first emperor Qin Shi Huang, the Han Dynasty Silk Road, the Song Dynasty economy that was the most sophisticated in the world, Zheng He's forgotten fleet, and the…
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