The Longest War In China - The Warring States Period

[daveeygdoeschinese]

Hey all. Thank you for watching my video. I understand many of you are upset about my useage of AI images. Please allow me to explain.

I have studied mandarin 2 hours every day for almost 12 years and spent up to 7 hours a day making these videos for about 4 years (mostly research) all while having a job and somehow having a life. Although it doesnt seem like it, I treated this channel like a full time job for much of the past 4 years.

I educate people for free on my own dime, frequently hiring editors to help me with video editing. I spend such a huge amount of time on these videos, spend my own money and get paid nothing for for it, all for the goal of educating people for free about a subject I have spent over a decade mastering simply because I love it.

I simply want to continue providing high quality videos at a reasonable rate for you, without it eating into my life while I make nothing from it.
I dont request anything from my viewers, but that they simply watch and enjoy what I have created.

[nobblkpraetorian]

The Warring States Period is a really underrated period of Chinese division that is overshadowed by the more famous Three Kingdoms period. I'm glad that this period gets more attention nowadays.

[antares_m]

i got interested in the warring states period after watching the kingdom anime lol, thanks for the detailed video

[maxgong]

Ayyyy exactly what I wanted. Lol especially with the kingdom manga.

[Baldricksturnip]

Horse-faced riders, 6-7 fingers on each hand. Man those were really the times of myth and legend.

[mariarebelo]

AMAZING WORK. I LOVE Chinese history, unfortunatelly I am already a «little» too old to start learning Manderin. KEEP GOING. CONGRATULATIONS for your work.

[Nick-higx]

A war is not "a number of battles". The Warring States period is not a war. There were hundreds of wars during the period, and as many peace agreements.
Also, the Era of Disunity lasted longer; 475-221BCE 250 years. Era of Disunity was arguably 294-580CE, almost 300 years.

[justinecarlregalado]

been following this manga Kingdom for couple years now which sets in Warring States Era i took this oppurtunity to learn more about this era and i landed here did learned a lot

[ran.]

The Warring States Period is much more interesting than the Three Kingdoms, but it is too complicated to translate

[babyelephant]

I'm guessing it's just an easier workflow to edit the video when you can just wait for ai to generate specific photos you want than to look for every photo you want to use (I've edited some videos as a hobby and editing takes a surprisingly long time)

[dieglhix]

I'm a Chilean, world history enthusiast, now becoming Sinology enthusiast. Slowly studying its history and language and also its ancient sages such as Kong Zi and Lao Zi. Thanks for this video.

[Rorschachqp]

Bro mentioned the 100 Schools Of Thought in the first paragraph!

[admdubya]

The video above this one in my feed was a documentary about a single NBA player that has yet to complete his second contract. It was five *hours* long. 😂

[yuwen-lf]

The pictures generated by artificial intelligence are too inconsistent with the real history

[pepemiko]

I'm watching this after reading the Novel "A Step into the Past" The relationships between the kingdoms shown in the novel aroused my interest in this period of Chinese history

[mehradstn]

those ai generated images are really disturbing

[AmberHeard-ocuz]

"
Longest civil war fought over a continuous period

The world's longest period of continuous civil warfare lasted for 254 years from 475 to 221 BC in China and is known as the Warring States Period
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- guinnessworldrecords

[RelationshipEcology]

thank you for this work <3 I appreciate the dedication to my cultural ways, and support your use of AI imagery. Personally, I feel like it is more about evoke a feeling, rather than needing to be a depiction of something that none of us have every experienced, and so I hope you know you are doing good work, and continue on this path!

[ImAMassiveBender]

I really liked it. Does any archeological evidence support these army sizes? They are so much bigger than any other bronze age army.

[PapaOscarNovember]

Warring States period in many ways is similar to Europe from 1400s to early 1800s. Small states coalescing into larger polities, dynamically changing alliances, constant warfare as politics by other means, rapid social development and reforms, rapid development in science and technology. Both periods ended in forced unification by dictators (Qin shi huang di and Napoleon), only to see it divide again soon afterwards.

In Europe's case, the idea of a united Europe was seeded by Napoleon's rule (rule of law by Napoleonic code), and it has been revived in the form of European Union. (Does that make current EU European equivalent of Han dynasty?)