The Real Impact of the Silk Road | Extra Long Historical Documentary

great job on the documentary! it really dives deep into the complexities of the Silk Road. but honestly, i feel like it oversimplifies some aspects of trade relationships between cultures. i think there’s a lot more nuance to how they interacted, especially regarding power dynamics. would love to hear other thoughts on this!

The peoples of the southeastern Russian and northern Asian Steppe also started using horseback to coral and hunt animals they could never keep up with on foot. It’s not a stretch to say that some of that knowledge gained on horseback hunting animals was adapted for cavalry warfare.

I find it strange that a documentary about the Silk Road doesn’t even hardly mention the silk exchanged on it. It’s interesting how the Chinese went through great lengths to keep it a secret of how to make silk and where it came from. They made it a capitol offense to transport the silkworms or their eggs outside the country guarding the process with the threat of death for anyone who attempted to reveal it to outsiders. This allowed them to maintain a monopoly on silk production for centuries.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this was funded by Chinese government propagandists. Doesn't make any of it of most of it wrong, but it certainly shows as determined and vibrant amount of back patting. The Belt and road shill at the end of it gives the game away, big time.

I loved this documentary because it brought together a large sum of world history instead of a fully western perspective which has been done to death. I’m more interested in the lesser known regions of history

Xiongnu and Avars were ancestors of Mongols. The Xiongnu’s political center was in central Mongolia

Wrong if you can't walk on water then not part of the silk "ROAD" Belt and "ROAD" and the longer the point is made then longer on the "ROAD" without water and the devil's dragon should know that unless XiXiXi knows soon people will be drinking blood because they are worthly.

Yep find islam for İstanbul is wrong its derived from greek istanpolis or polin meaning into “the” city

And what about earlier with the Romans and Greeks?

Where dod it start and end? You said Poland. But it sounds like Iran or Turkey

At around ~40 Mins. ... The Trade was already esteblished and florisching. This wasnt the first time some Quacks brought back something frome the east. But it was the first time that the exchange of Ideas and Goods took new hights, like a Realestate-Bubbel.

When was the OTt muzac goi g to quit

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Great video. Thank you

Did the Romans have brass copper helmuts.....I always thought their gig was iron.

Definitely Chinese government propaganda.

"One damned war after another" with too many ads😢

The video is very meaningful. Thank you.

Chinese sponsored nonsense!

Hard tp tolerate the bgm!

I thought it was that dark Web Silk Road documentary

Last part was insane. Looking like chinese propoganda to create economic hegemony 😂. One belt roads hahaha uffff

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europeans were even the last to silk on that side of the planet, the more i learn about them the more their sad existence is revealed.

Why watch a documentary jus to point out "what's wrong" with it?

The first nuclear war

Its amazing that China was so influential in the modern world yet are so backwards and gross now. The filth in China is absurd.

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This documentary was sponsored by the Chinese PR Department, but it's a well told story nonetheless.

Thank you very much for an excellent documentary!!!

who paid for this the chinese, they stunted themselves ,and they will do it again, they strive to dominate the most with all power given to the few

I don’t think corn was traded on the silk road.

you mean East Turkestan..

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Is this the swtor SITH* warrior voice lol

Actually the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended the Silk Road in which the European colonization became as a result.

If you can bother to translate into English than I can't be bothered to watch/listen to your program. Subtitles just don't cut it.

Did I see ears of maize at the beginning?

Horses were too small to ride and that is why chariots came first before horseback riding. You are ignorant to believe that riding a horse is easy. You can not just jump up on any old horse and ride it. Go get a wild mustang and try riding it right off the range and see how long you last. Even the best horses can be difficult to ride, even Superman had a problem, fool.

Thank You. Fascinating and very rich.

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The sik Road according to William Dalrymple is a 19th century exaggeration invented by a German . It ignores the more important influence of India , the inventors of the zero , the exporters of Buddhism and Hinduism. There was little influence of China on the west was minimal, compared to India. There is no doubt of the influence of armed horsemen over thousand years, from East and west. Silk came from India not China, no Roman coins have been found in China , compared to the hundreds of thousands of Roman coins in India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. The latest archeology will bring down this edifice of the myth of the silk Road. Why do Americans count in hundreds rather than thousands, and speculate rather than base on evidence? The inaccuracies of video are manifest. Back to the drawing board lads!!

Agnes Tsu Tang is so pretty

China is pretty cool!

History shows that the Chinese have always been business-minded people. Also explains why there are Chinatowns all over the world.

I don't think it is correct to say that the Chinese were using toilet paper in the early centuries of the common era.
I Tsing, a buddhist monk who visited India in the later half of the 8th century, remarked on the methods used by the monks in their monastery and seems to have been impressed... he adopted those methods and toilet paper was not mentioned by him even in passing.