2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius: World History #7
2000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius: Crash Course World History #7 In which John introduces you to quite a lot of Chinese history by discussing the complicated...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we’re going to talk about China, whichthese days is discussed almost constantly on television and in newspapers - wait, are they still a thing?So, we used to print information on thinly sliced trees and then you would pay someoneto take these thinly sliced trees and throw them onto your front lawn, and that’s howwe received information. No one thought this was weird, by the way.[theme music]Right, but anyway, you hear a lot about how China is going to overtake the U.S. and buryus under a pile of inexpensive electronics, but I don’t want to address those fearstoday. Instead, I want to talk about how the way you tell a story shapes the story.China was really the first modern state – by which I me...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we’re going to talk about China, whichthese days is discussed almost constantly on television and in newspapers - wait, are they still a thing?So, we used to print information on thinly sliced trees and then you would pay someoneto take these thinly sliced trees and throw them onto your front lawn, and that’s howwe received information. No one thought this was weird, by the way.[theme music]Right, but anyway, you hear a lot about how China is going to overtake the U.S. and buryus under a pile of inexpensive electronics, but I don’t want to address those fearstoday. Instead, I want to talk about how the way you tell a story shapes the story.China was really the first modern state – by which I me...
