Ancient China | Early Civilizations | World History | Khan Academy

At the end of the Mythic Period of China's history, the Xia dynasty gave way to the Shang Dynasty… if the Xia really existed at all! Sal gives an overview of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties—societies that lived between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers—and discusses their cultural practices, their bronzeworking, and the origins of a Chinese identity.

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[evilromulus]

Your content is great. Might have to watch some of these videos multiple times for everything to sink in, but there's so much knowledge contained in your library of videos.

[obi_wanbeans]

my COLLEGE professor is making us watch this instead of reading our textbooks, which just goes to show how good khan academy is.

[lubnamalik]

Very satisfying and thorough explanation of Chinese dynasties, THANKYOU Khan Academy

[wildelizabeth]

First now I have been drawn into Chinas history. Interesting. Lots to learn. Thank you for this video.

[Stoney-go]

The a in Shang is "aw". The n is not pronounced when there is a ang.
The X in Xia is pronounces "Sh". "She" + "a"
My children will enjoy this. You might ask Austin Guidry to do these series. He would love it. /user/austinguidry2

[miked]

What a coincidence I have to talk about this in school tomorrow.. Thanks Khan!

[astrophysx]

Chinese characters have a very long history. An average Chinese person can still make out some of the words on the oracle to this day. If you show an Egyptian person some hieroglyphs im pretty sure they cant read it.

[frozenshadow]

where is the video following this one ?

[Waterharmony]

This video is so on point, thanks for sharing :)

[kissluna]

the "Shang" is pronounced "Shaun" in modern Chinese, hope this helps.

[julierarcay]

can you send me written report of this?

[zarraah]

i enjoyed so much i was sad when it ended but i learned alot

[CJonesApple]

I much prefer Sal teaching videos. I like his voice, even if he stumbles over his words sometimes. Less on this one than others.

[johntennant]

So what are your thoughts on how long the Indus valley civilization was present? They seemed to be quite a bit more advanced than others of the same time period. I know there is not much known about them, but there have to be some theories as to how old that civilization was, I would have to refer back to my history books to see what they said, but I do remember thinking that they had a ton of quality of life improvements that it appeared others had not thought of in the same era...seemed to me like they had probably been there for a while to come up with a septic type system, develop wells for close to each house, regulate building in the manor they did and the city planning....wow!

[weee]

pronounced shya not Seeuh. why does every single historian pronounce xia wrong?

[Numero]

please don't put the emphasis on the words you don't know how pronounce its ear-scratching to say the least

[therealmicksa]

In which a bunch of people attempt to teach us how to pronounce Chinese through English text.

[matthewmann]

The Ming period was the most powerful influential martial prowess time of great China

[魏振雄]

In all china history only 1 lost kingdom is san xing dui kingdom

[Smirkless]

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