Ancient Greeks and Chinese fighting over horses - War of the Heavenly Horses (illustrated summary)

That one time a Bunch of Greeks and Chinese went to war over a bunch of Horses.
Though it’s definitely one of the most interesting events in ancient history in my opinion, because it shows how interconnected the ancient world really was.

Sources:
Benjamin, Craig (2018), Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CE, Cambridge University Press,

Watson, Burton (1993), Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian: Han Dynasty II (Revised Edition, Columbia University Press

Peers, C. J. (1995), Imperial Chinese Armies (1): 200 BC – AD 589, Osprey Publishing

Images used :

[Yuric_INC.]

I’m back, with another video. This time I figured out how to add “Motion-blur” to images in Premiere Pro, so I had use it whenever I had the chance. Sorry for butchering the Chinese names, I already struggle with speaking in general.

[jordandino]

The World was surprisingly interconnected back than

[shouayang]

Fergana: Look at my horse! My horse is amazing!!!!

Han: (sweating blood) i need them

[presidenttogekiss]

I love the Xiongnu dude. He looks so gooood.

[JoelTDan]

Well now that explains a lot how the silk road, Chinese's dominance at the time, and how important horses were. Always love a good history lesson and hey if the merch atore does well i hope to see more. I totally want a shirt with my favorites on it. 😆

[NIDELLANEUM]

This is always my go-to story to showcase how interconnected the World was in ancient times. I always love everyone's reaction upon hearing that Ancient China and Ancient Greek fought a war

[NIDELLANEUM]

You can tell that they were still true to their Greek roots by how much Hubris they had. Imagine bullying *the Chinese Empire* multiple times, mocking them, ruining their merchants, causing so many lost lives and so on, and acting like China was just going to stand around doing nothing to stop this

[danukil]

Oh, how wonderful! The Greco-Bactrians are such a fascinating population. I am glad that one more popular history YouTube channel has delved into this unique part of history :)

[NightPhoenix.Y]

And for anyone asking, they did defeat the xiongnu btw, at their own game even. The Han made their own archer calvary units, defeated the xiongnu's main army and sacked their capital, fragmenting the confederacy.

[EzekielDeLaCroix]

'The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and the Han Dynasty of China. I'll start with the *LATTER* first."
>proceeds to start with the former

[shouayang]

Yes! One of my favorite historical encounters with east meets west!

[SethMMX]

Gonna be honest, I didn't know any of this, but I loved it. Thanks for another great video <3

[villolian]

where were you bro, its been 3 months, appreciate the vid tho.



edit: the end of the video cleared it up, hope things arent stressful in life

[nierzh]

When the world needed him most, he returned!

[alrickit]

You are a wonderful teacher for history, I look forward to all your videos. Especially your ones with lovely ladies. We know who we are.

[Thereaperofcrows]

I never knew any of this! So incredibly fascinating

[silver]

Is that an Alexander with heterochromatic eyes I spot at 1:28?

[Cordigern]

Ironic 4 days ago I was looking up this war for a Eu4 scenario and now Yuric puts up a video on it

[CubixFails]

Very well done and very interesting :3

[breezysteel]

New Yuric INC. Video! Let's go! 😆