The Birth of China - Hunters on the Yellow River (20000 BCE to 7000 BCE)
On the first episode of a new series exploring China's early history, we examine the scattered hunter-gatherer communities of the Chinese Upper Paleolithic, following them as they slowly adopt a more sedentary way of living, and sow the seeds of both plant and animal domestication.
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Excellent video! I appreciate your scientific rigour by citing evidence and referencing key papers and other sources. This places your YT channel above those that offer only perspectives and assertions without clearly indicating where the information had come from. A new standard that all science-based content should strictly adhere to.
The index of the sources would be preferable in the description of the relevant video.
@@jean-baptistelully I would do this but I went over the character limit.
@@TheHistocrat when you just have to many sources :)
As someone who grew up in the countryside, I can say that the village is often encircled by an accumulation of garbage, forming a prolonged ring of earth. Within this landfill, plants inevitably sprout, nourished by the discarded remains. Interestingly, due to the fertile soil, these plants tend to grow exceptionally large. It is fascinating to think that the origins of agriculture may have originated from such circumstances.
there’s been findings in South American (I think) plains with pockets of fertile groves as being old waste piles of early Hunter Gatherers
Oh wow. That makes sense how agriculture came from hunting and gathering sequentially like that.
This seems a very plausible way by which agriculture could have arisen. My favorite theory on scale increase of grass cultivation is the seasonal seed distribution on flood planes of rivers. Just like the Egyptians had done for millennia, even well into history.
@@quinn3334 Terra Preta. I'd wager "food forests" were our first steps into agriculture.
when all the "garbage" is organic it figures itself out.
This is something we need on Hisotry Channel, not the Pawn Stars, Truck Night, Oak Island, Ancient Aliens and all those things unrelated to the history.
Its so easy to limit my historical perspective to just the past 3000 years but videos like this remind me that it goes back so much further.
Most people limit their historical perspective to 500 years and usually a Western lens viewpoint. So honestly surprised someone even said this the 3000 year part.
@@user-wl8jx6oz9x nearly everyone knows about ancient greece and rome. The battle of thermeyopole was 2500 years ago.
I'm always surprised how that's easy. In school we had one semester from stone age to roman empire and then we went straight to middle ages the other semester. The other years were world war 2 and the last year touched on cold war. I lost all interest in ww2 and I wish I knew more about the actual ongoings in the cold war other than the Kuba Crisis and the eventual fall of the German wall. But the worst thing is the skipping and absolute disproportion of real time vs time talked about it. 10thousands of years in less than a lessen but talkung 6years about one day that doesn't even affect anyone today (other than talking about it for no reason). At least we learned some of the fundamentals in the last 2 years of biology seeing back 10s of millions of years back to the beginning of things we can still observe.
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@@kapifromnevada4697 indeed
My jaw dropped when I saw this video, and it dropped even further when I realized that it’s the first in a new series! I absolutely loved the Birth of Civilization series and as an American, I’ve always felt woefully uneducated about ancient Chinese history. I have attempted to educate myself on the topic on numerous occasions, but Chinese history is so long, nuanced, and complex that it always posed an insurmountable obstacle for me on my own. I absolutely cannot wait to dive into this series! I cannot think of a better channel than Histocrat to give this incredible region the detailed and thoughtful historical treatment it so well deserves. I am beyond excited!
The Indus valley civilization seems to be largely neglected also!
Without the people of Asia, Hindustan, and the Americas, we wouldnt have all the amazing things we all love today. Imagine food today without these civilizations : P
Another podcast you might find interesting (though I can't vouch for it's quality as I haven't actually listened to it yet) is the History of China podcast. It's over 200 episodes now.
@@stevep5408indus valley is one of the few most popular civilizations we know. the other being european, chinese, meso/south america, egyptian etc. meanwhile what do we know about melanesian people? most people probably never heard of it. those are whats neglected.
There was a Chinese emperor who destroyed a crap ton of history, he didn't want the past achievements of China to overshadow what HE might do, so he destroyed tons of their history, the only copies, so now nobody knows...he might have rewritten part of it, I forget, but I know that a bunch of their history that WAS recorded, was intentionally was. I always imagine if we actually could see that destroyed material, today. One day, we will all know the answers!
I am SO EXCITED to watch this!!!! The Birth of Civilization video series is one of my all time favorites, and I am constantly in search of ancient/prehistorical content that can live up to the incredibly high standards the Histocrat has set!
It's the birth of china, not civilizations. Other places around the world who never had contact also had civilizations that grew.
@@Benderisgreat219 I was talking about his previous series that is called The Birth of Civilization. I'm not sure how you got the idea I was saying civilisation only originated in one place.
@@electra424 ah, that makes more sense, sorry for misunderstanding.
@@Benderisgreat219 that's ok!
@@Benderisgreat219I somehow don't think he quite got your point. I applaud your apology.
im a Chinese.we dont called the"houke waterfall",but "Lukou waterfall".written in Chinese is壶口瀑布❤
Incredibly fascinating video, you guys. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.
I was looking forward to this! 😍😍 You’re SO amazing.. thank you for all your hard work! It’s greatly appreciated!!!
I’ve been hanging out for a new documentary from you guys and you certainly don’t disappoint. Thank you so much for what you do, the quality of your documentaries far surpasses anything I see on TV.
This narrator is topnotch
Thank you so much! I'm excited for the rest of the series! Great job unlocking the Archeological Record! I'm eager to see how it compares to the written/oral traditions in later episodes!
This is going straight to my playlist. Already know it's gonna be amazing. Thank youuuu!
Your videos are wonderful, as always. Thanks so much for making it and I can't wait for part 2!
Love videos about ancient civilizations! Thanks for the upload!
Yes!!!! I've never been so excited to see an update!! Thank you for all the hard work!!
I was looking for things about ancient China, both bronze age and before, and this was just perfect. Having just watched this video I immediately subscribed and plan to watch not only the whole series but most content on your channel. The presentation and level of detail are perfect, and the inclusion of source references in the comments really sets an example to follow. The only thing that put me a little off was how long the intro went on for. I understand it was the introduction not only to this video but to the whole series, but the 8 minutes spent talking about a very different period than that mentioned in the title of the video felt excessively long. That said I still watched, so that's a testament to the quality of the presentation!
What a great history lesson. Thanks for creating this!
I'll probably end up watching this later as I have a backlog of things to watch. I've followed your channel for a while, I really like history from dinosaurs to ancient rome. I don't comment enough but your videos are so well presented.
Excellent introduction, now anticipating the extremely interesting subject of your second episode! Thank you!
So excited for this series! Can’t wait to see what you research regarding oracle bones and early writing! Hyped.
Love your videos! Keep up the great work!
Beautifully written, narrated and produced! Thank you.
This is so excellently done! Thank you very much for sharing such a fascinating video.
I just subbed the other day after watching your "Birth of Civilisation" series. And now this? I'm in great luck!
I stumbled upon this fantastic video today and immediately hit the subscribe button. As a novice KZheadr with a channel focused on Chinese history, I gained so much knowledge from watching your video. Thank you for creating such valuable content!
Your channel looks interesting, I will check out your videos.
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You are very welcome
@@G4mer_D4dwait I thought I was his father?
@@chrisdooley1184no i am
I’m not your dad
@@VegasBubba565 exactly, i am
Gorgeous, thanks alot and we await even more!
I really love your videos, I have always been obsessed with history and the past few years I've been really into ancient Chinese history but it is so deep and complex that I always end up getting lost.
We don’t cotton to freaks around these parts
Trying to learn chinese history is like trying to learn all the kingdoms and princely states of the holy roman empire. Lol
In fact, Chinese history is not as complex as you might imagine. There's an ironic joke: Mr. Lu Xun, a Chinese writer from the last century, once said, "When I open the book of Chinese history, I see only two words - 'cannibalism.'（吃人）" He summarized the entire history of China into two phases, which are the era of being stable slaves and the era of wanting to be a slave but not being able to. These two phases have cyclically repeated throughout history.
@@LalyVang-rj6ni In fact, the number of vassal states in Chinese history far exceeds that of the Holy Roman Empire, but delving into each of them individually doesn't hold much significance. The key is to understand the historical pattern of unity followed by disintegration and disintegration followed by unity（合久必分，分久必合）. This pattern involves the central government becoming corrupt over time, local powers inheriting and carving out their domains, these local powers eventually merging with each other to form a few major forces. When the time is ripe, one dominant force emerges victorious, becoming the new central government after unification, and the cycle begins anew.
A further point to add is that in Chinese history, vassal states, apart from the Pre-Qin period (the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties )when they were officially enfeoffed, mostly emerged during the late years of a dynasty when the central government became too weak to govern the regions effectively. Over time, local officials established their own power bases. At a certain point, these officials' local forces rebelled and declared their own rule, leading to the sudden emergence of many vassal states.
Really high quality content, I’ll enjoy this thoroughly.
😊Thank you for the content, and. Hopefully you'll keep 'em coming.🎉
I’m still amazed at how little we know of China in the west. Most of this is due I am sure to old prejudices we’ve never let go. It is high time we did and learned more about these people. Thank you for this video.
You know what they say, the less you know, the more you fear. Everyone should learn more about each other and make peace, the west and east has more things in common than most people on each side thinks.
Yes .. but I lived there and it’s a polluted pit 😂❤. People still poop beside roads in the countryside. Amazing poverty and overpopulation. We should understand to avoid growing our western populations and falling to their troubles ❤😢
Forget it pal. Your people wouldn't understand a thing.
A lot of discoveries weren't made until the last 50 to 100 years and weren't widely shared due to lack of interest and language barrier. Archeology is still a very young science and that is a sliding scale depending on the location. China has a long way to go to fill in the gaps especially because China is one of the cradles of early civilization. It's exciting to know we have so much more to learn, we can't be grudge the past for not doing more. What they did was enough, now it's on our generation to add more to the story.
@@JonnoPlays exactly. I do wish the CCP would lift their van on excavating their pyramids. Unless they are afraid it would prove Egyptians founded their country. Remember they are very xenophobic and to this day regard all other cultures as barbaric.
Another excellent episode!
You nailed it! Fantasic episode!
ayyyoooo thank you for blessing us with this
Another great Episode, glad to see stuff about Eastern Asian early history. I have a hard time finding good videos about it in English.
u guys cover the exact type of history im in love with and that i rarely see videos about, keep up the amazing work
There is not enough of this out there, thank you so much!!
your channel rocks dude. don't know why I hadn't subbed yet, every video of yours I've seen is just fascinating
This was very interesting. I can't wait for the next chapter.
😍😍 happiness is a new Histocrat vid
Glad to see you making videos worth watching again.
These videos are always very done, interesting and informative. Thank you
Plot twist: in 6500 BCE, they invented sweet and sour pork, and mysteriously, everything changed.
excellent place to start this series, China is and has been a mostly unified entity for longer than any other state has existed. The cultural continuity is unrivaled across millennia. while I mostly interested in China as a geopolitical entity, I'm excited to see your perspective as a historian
Subscribed, great content cannot wait for next episode.
Great stuff, I enjoy these series!
Beautifully written, narrated and produced! Thank you.. What a great history lesson. Thanks for creating this!.
Japanese people are familiar with Chinese history, but I am surprised at the ignorance of Westerners about Chinese history. Westerners don't understand kanji, so I suspect that it's boring to have so many similar pronunciations. Certainly, the pronunciation of proper nouns in Chinese history is similar, but the Chinese characters are different, and the meaning of the Chinese characters carries a lot of information.
This is excellent! Thanks so much. It is fascinating history and superbly produced. You made my day. 👍
感谢你的创作，让更多人了解中国文化。
这是一部精彩而透彻的中国古代纪录片。 非常感谢您发布它。 這是一部精彩而透徹的中國古代紀錄片。 非常感謝您發布它。 This is a wonderful and thorough documentary of ancient China. Thank you so much for posting it.
Newly suggested video. First time here. Thanks, KZhead algorithm!
I been waiting 4 years for this!!!!
When I travel to different provinces in China, one of my favorite things to do is to go to the local museums! The cultural heritage of different historical dynasties and different customs is really amazing.😆
下次来广东，我带你吃喝玩乐本地美食。
I wish I had the time to explore China, it's such a large nation with such a wide variaty of cultures and people, it would take a liftime to explored it fullly
I'd probably get arrested if I ever went to China with how much I've shit-talked Xi "Winnie the Pooh" Jinping, and their government as a whole.
@@TocsTheWandererI promise you won't.
@@TocsTheWanderer Don't worry, nobody cares about you in China lol because there are too many people in China
Like this episode. Interesting overview of Chinese civilization. More please.
Thank you for you amazing effort and clear narration. I really enjoyed it and looking forward to the coming episodes. You have a new subscriber!
The fact that an ancient civilization survived so long and is also currently a world superpower is amazing
It's a control thing. No free expression or your DEAD..🤨
@@Hatewontwinno free health insurance you will not survive neither
There r many ancient civilizations which survived
@@Hatewontwin Ask Julian Assange or Snowden and then you will conclude that free expression in US is just a lie.
@@Hatewontwin it's even bigger control thing in the US and India.
Don't forget the Chinese who originated from the yellow river ring (Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin) has height as tall as northern european and much taller than its other region counterpart like the south who mostly descended from the admixture of Chinese with southeast asian or natives aborigine. Although current modern time it's quiet difficult to search for the origin of everyone because of the migration from time to time but the Yellow river ring tall people was indeed true and recorded in the book.
As interesting as this is, I already am slightly fearful of the episode about the Three Kingdoms (or as it is officially called, [Cao] Wei) period. One advice beforehand (which should be useful for the whole series): Apart from historical works, there exist also various later novelisations and folk stories. Please bare in mind, that folk stories (which often are the basis of certain elements of novelisations) aren't necesarily ficticious, and often when the histories suggest someone did something stupid, those stories explain why, and sometimes, like with Yuan Shu's declaring himself emperor, get confirmed by later findings (which often are poorly known in the west). In detail: The Chronicles of the Three Countries (or Kingdoms, if you must) record that after Yuan Shu obtained the imperial seal, he declared himself emperor, citing descendance from dynasties which ruled before the Han; all other warlords ignored that and fairly quickly destroyed him. The Historian implies, that he proclaim himself Emperor because he was a bombastic tyrant, ignorant enough, to think that having the imperial seal was legally enough to proclaim a new dynasty. Some 20 or 30 years ago, various text written at the time were discovered, and they show that not only Yuan's claim was much stronger than Liu Bang's (who, 400 years earlier founded the Han), but also that he ruled his lands with uncommon kindness and was exceedingly popular among the people, to the point of being openly urged to ascend the throne long before he obtained the imperial seal.
In other words, no different from Ancient Greek tales, Roman tales & stories from the Bible (most of which, originally believed fictitious, were discovered to be historical events)….
As a Chinese who likes to study Chinese history, your argument makes me feel confused.
@@Shineon83 扯淡，这完全不同，中国的历史人物记载非常详细，有墓葬，有历史文物，有墓志铭，有地方志，有族谱，有县志，有诗歌，等等许许多多真实存在的历史，且出土文物也大多与历史记录人物能够对应，历史人物关系也非常清晰，这和古希腊神话完全不同，请不要把西方史观强加到中国历史观，这没有可比性，为了你们的欧洲中心论，你们历史可以借助神话来叙述，却贬低中华文明史，可笑至极。
袁世凯400年前是刘邦？中间这么多朝代都丢失了吗，那些出土文物和真实历史记录怎么办
@@user-wq6ov3bg6k翻译的问题 他原话是袁 指袁术
Mom, moooom, Histocrat added a new video!!! 🎉
quite enjoyable program, filled with much good information
I just happened to come across this video it is fascinating thank you for posting. Look forward to more content. I just subscribed to your channel. I’d rather watch this video then any movie that Hollywood has the show. I’m from Ontario Canada. Greetings.
Congratulations on a video production that is informative and beautiful. In particular, that there is almost no intrusive backlground music whilst the narrator is speaking, showing respect for your viewers. Most other videos use constant background 'music' to dum down and manipulate the viewer.
Amazing! Thank you.
Was just wondering what I was gonna fall asleep listening to tonight, lo and behold histrocat has a new video out
In fact, it was the ancient Chinese who first domesticated dogs
Thank you for this series. I only wish you'd begun it a couple years ago so I could watch more of it right away. I'd definitely binge this: so much better researched than many other channels.
Hey, just stumbled upon Immersive Translate and it's been my go-to for diving deep into Chinese culture. From ancient poetry to modern novels, it's like having a cultural guide in my pocket!
its another histocrat documentary, instant like, this is excellent channel
Thank you. Finally, something to spark my interest in Asian history
After such a long time Birth of series
Looking fwd to the next production in this series.
It's really good. hope to see part 2
15:32 Longwangchan was actually my old gradeschool nickname
It is quite amazed to see this video made with so much scientific evidence and fair perspectives, in terms of the birth of Chinese civilization.
Love the new narrator!!!
Thank you!
Im very excited to see this! Your video on the Ubaid period gave me a complete image of life at the rise of complex societies, which no one else has. I anticipate this will provide the same for East Asia. On another note, I think our knowledge of the Paleolithic in Asia is about to change radically as China opens it's museum collections for research in collaboration with Western scholars (especially the Planck Institute)
Happy belated Chinese new year, is this the year 4721 of the rabbit?
Rome fell, but China could have been older than Rome but China still continues until today.
Well produced, factual and with really good filming. Great job. :)
Your content is amazing! Also, I totally thought that person on the scooter was going to be splatted by that bus at 38:23
I bet it was lush back then.
Ancient China must have been so incredibly cool to live in. There were a vast number of ethnic groups in the various regions, so many ecosystems, and a huge diversity of flora and fauna no longer present in the modern day, like rhinos, elephants (Asian and possibly Paleoloxodon), leopards, tigers, tapir, etc.
It sucks. As well as any other ancient society. You work dusk till dawn just to be able to eat (maybe), die from any minor illness and surrounded by dangerous predators and hostile tribes.
@@user-hb7py7xy7b Hunter gatherers didn't work dawn till dusk. Farmers did
Nah, trust me, I am ethnically Chinese, and Chinese culture is very barbaric.
@@user-hb7py7xy7bhunter-gatherers worked far less than modern people.
@user-hb7py7xy7b Even as a modern person with a little knowledge, it's pretty easy to survive off fishing and hunting. As an ancient hunter gatherer with a massive amount of passed down knowledge as well as tremendously plentiful fish and game I doubt they worked more than an hour or two a day to bring in a huge feed.
What a topic!! Yesssss
Beautiful work. I love these videos. You should continue them on different countries!? For example, Ethiopia, India, or even some of the Nordic countries would be cool!!
Nice maps ;P
Thanks!
Awesome!
Longwangchan must have a lot of descendants.
Southern China around Yunan province are used to be the homeland of austronesian people. Austronesian people leaving this place after an invasion from the north that forcing austronesian to leave due to smaller population than the north. If china claiming south china sea as their traditional fishing ground, does it means maritime south east asian such as indonesia, malaysia, brunei and philipine can claim southern china around yunan province as austronesian homeland that belong to austronesian people?
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Yunnan is the hometown of the Dai and Hmong Miao ethnic groups The Dai people have lived on this land for generations to this day. The Dai family is Thai, Thailand Cambodian and Lao laos The Hemudu culture of the ancient Austronesian people lived near the estuary of the Yangtze River in Zhejiang Province. The ancient ruins of the Liangdao people in Fujian Province, dating back 8,200 years, are also related to the Austronesian people. If you are an Indonesian, you can come back and live in Zhejiang Province or Fujian Province but the conditions are yours the government returns the land of the Southeast Asian archipelago, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines to the indigenous peoples, the Negroes, the Semang, and the Melanesians. 😂😂😂
thank you for this - lots of old CCTV9 docos on this topic but not much else, so this is much appreciated.
Wow, in-video citations. Bravo!
the southern sites are probably austronesian yue tribes
Or other unknown tribes
One of the hundreds of Yue has an Austronesian language group The ancient ruins of Liangdao man in Fujian were discovered Genetic testing is Austronesian
I'd rather watch this than any other movie right now
When will episode 2 be available?
Incredible ❤
I would suggest that the toolset of South China included a lot of bamboo, which unfortunately is rarely preserved, especially in the regions climate. Elsewhere we might hope for a peat bog, but I don't think these exist in South China.
They arent called pete bog over there but yu bog or something
Babe, new Histocrat just dropped
hey there i absolutely love your work was wondering if you can suggest any readings with me, that will help to understand more about how, in china, or anywhere else, the practice of generating surplus towards concentrating wealth happened? thanks