Korean Three Kingdoms Period explained (History of Korea)

Korean three kingdoms period explained
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State formation in Korea: historical and archaeological perspectives
East Asia: by Hugh Walker
A History of Korea
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[micahistory]

Korean history is interesting but underrated

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

0:03 There’s four Koreas but soon there’ll be only one

[chatsberry]

Me when I found out I was 1.1% Korean: "My peoples"

[dombutterflies]

I wonder why no one has done a video game about ancient Korean history, it’s really interesting, and could be a hit piece.

[liaminkorea]

Didn't expect a more in depth video about Korean history after the first one 👍. Korean history is criminally unknown in the west.

[-SRM-]

You do three kingdoms. I like. Actually never heard of the Korean one. Interesting Epi

[ginkiba]

Thank you for this video; whenever I try to find books on Korean history it either is about the Korean War or the split between South and North Korea, not classical or medieval Korean history. Content like this has proved more informative than many libraries.

[Maocat]

Now I understand where all the historical kdramas come from.
Ty!!

[argonaut]

The history of Korea is a very fun topic to touch up I love it so much

[sheckjesus]

Such an interesting time in Korean history. Each kingdom was mostly independent, powerful compared to other powers in the area, and had unique characteristics that all show up in Korea today.

[dangyeonsim]

0:57 Yeah, Go-Joseon just founded their kingdom in the Northern Korean peninsula, not entire the peninsula. According to Korean historians, the Southern Korean peninsula was inhabited by many Korean aboriginal tribes, included some Yayoi tribe who are one of the ancestors of the modern Japanese before they move to Japan island. They were very aboriginal and not really found any system of a kingdom like Go-Joseon. Then, Korean people of Go-Joseon kingdom moved to the South of Korean peninsula, especially, after Emperor Han Wu Di of Han Dynasty (China) invaded Go-Joseon in 108 BC. Northern Korean peninsula was ruled by Han Dynasty with few small kingdoms of Korea were found as vassal, included Buyeo, Okjo and Dongye...etc. While the many migrants and tribes from Go-Joseon go to the Southern Korean Peninsula as well as some tribes in the Southern Korean peninsula moved to Northern peninsula and mixed with the tribes and people in these kingdoms like Buyeo, Okjo...etc and created the Samhan. Samhan is 3 confederacies or 3 main great tribes of Korean people, included Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhan. And Goguryeo and Baekje belonged to Mahan, Shinla belonged to Jinhan and some Byeonhan, while other Byeonhan founded the 4th kingdom called Gaya in 42 CE by King Kim Suro. That's why Korean people claim themselves to be the descendants of King Dangun of Go-Joseon and belonged to Samhan tribes are Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhan.

7:52 Actually, this is the map of Three Kingdoms of Korea in the late 6th century, when King Jinheung of Shin La betrayed King Seongmyeong of Baekje as they're the alliance to against Goguryeo, and Shin La kept this territory span until King Jinji and King Jinpyeong lost some lands to Goguryeo and later Baekje again. Baekje was weak after the sudden death of King Seongmyeong and during the reign of King Wideok, but when King Mukang, the son of King Wideok reign, he fought and won almost all battles with Shin La from King Jinpyeong and his daughter Queen / Empress Seondeok, took back the original Baekje's lands that were lost from Shin La and even invaded few regions of Shin La. Baekje's military was pretty strong at the time and upper hand to Shin La. So this map must show Baekje's territory span to be bigger and Shin La will getting smaller at 8:00. And then, Shin La was attacked by both Goguryeo and Baekje, so Queen / Empress Seondeok asked the aid from Emperor Tang Tai Zong of Tang Dynasty to help her, so they formed the Alliance to against Baekje and Goguryeo and they defeated Baekje in 660 CE and Goguryeo in 668 CE, Shin La finally unified the Three Korean Kingdoms.

However, Dae Jo Young, one of the last generals of Goguryeo escaped from the lost war and go to the north where is now Northern North Korea, Manchu (now is North East China) and Siberia of Russia and founded his own kingdom called Balhae.

[sylee]

To add, Silla did not technically unify all the three kingdoms because about 20 years after the fall of Goguryeo another powerful kingdom named Jin (or, more famously known, Balhae) was established, whose population consisted of former Goguryeo people, and recovered and even extended beyond the former territory. Thus, some people call the period North-Southern kingdoms period rather than unified Silla period.

[chalk]

For how geopoliticaly significant the Korean peninsula is, it sure is strange that (in the west anyway) Korean history seems to start in 1910.

Great vid, glad to see more under appreciated histories.

[HoH]

Man this is amazing, I've never delved into this but your video convinced me I should. Great video!

[Doctrina_Stabilitas]

there's a mistake @epimetheus, at 0:40 you have it as 37 BC to 668 BC when it should be 37 BC to 668 AD

[bkpopz]

Fun fact!: the Kingdom of goryeo and its last emperor were overthrown by general yi song gye! The first king of the Joseon dynasty! And also the name Goryeo is basically the modern day name of Korea!

[Cleopattern]

I thoroughly enjoyed this highly informative film on Korean History. 10 out of 10 stars, would watch again, best part was at 7:44

[왓더쿼카]

Five logical steps to prove that Goguryeo is Korean history.
1, the clothes of Goguryeo are similar to those of Silla. They wear a cone hat decorated by feather and a coat over their pants. You can see this in ancient murals or <당염립본왕회도, 唐閻立本王會圖>
2, Goguryeo's tomb style is identical to that of Baekje.
<돌무지무덤, 積石塚>
3, There is no discovery Scythian-style crowns in China while found in Goguryeo. Currently, only gold, silver and bronze crowns are found in Baekje, Silla, Goguryeo in common.
4, According to Nihon Shoki, the oldest japanese history book, the three kingdoms of the Korean Peninsula spoke the same language.(The three kingdoms lent each other translators when they needed to go to China.)
5.For a long time, Chinese historians couldn't interpret what was written on the tombstone of King Gwanggaeto. They didn't even know it existed before the Qing Dynasty. As a result, the first people to interpret were Japanese. On the other hand, even the Samguk Sagi, the korean history book, is recorded. And on this monument, the king himself asked the Korean(韩人) to protect his tomb.

[Kusunoky]

Seems that most of the Korean drama have something very accurate. Partys wanted power, money, tax and betrayal...

[letskculture]

🟥[Fact Check - History of KOREA(KOGURYEO or KORYEO or SHILLA)] After Gojoseon, there were 3 Dynasties divided on Korean peninsula: Koguryeo, Baekje, and Shilla. Koguryeo was destroyed by Shilla on the Korean Peninsula: By Shilla Dynasty's suggestion, Tang Dynasty of the central China sent reinforcements, and Koguryeo was perished by the Shilla-Tang allied forces, so then Koguryeo was absorbed by Shilla. In the end, Shilla ultimately unified the 3 Dynasties and the Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Unified Shilla. The capital of Koguryeo was Pyongyang, and afterwards, Pyongyang was the territory of the Unified Shilla.
The Unified Shilla Empire used the term "Khan" for emperor like the Mongolian’s Yuan Dynasty used the same term and the emperor of Shilla called himself "Marip-Khan" and it was an empire on equal status to Tang Dynasty of China.
Following Unified Shilla Empire, there was internal Dynasty transition and Koryeo Empire emerged, and as its name implies, Koryeo(KOREA in English) was a country that succeeded Koguryeo.
Following Balhae Dynasty in the northeast was founded by part of the Koguryeo refugees, afterwards the so-called Manchurians (former Koguryeo people) established the Qing Empire in the northeast, and the Koryeo people established the Koryeo Empire in the southeast.
The Qing Dynasty, the empire of the Manchurians invaded and destroyed the Ming Dynasty of the Han Chinese in the central China and established the Qing Dynasty on the heart of China.
Manchurians, Mongolians, and Koreans are originally the same ethnicity of the northeast(Dongyi), called the Altai-Mongolian, using the Altai-Mongolian transformed languages, which is totally different language to the Chinese language.