I doubt you're interested in listening (much less reacting) to the so far 275 episodes of the history of china podcast (and he's still just approaching the year 1700), or even the hundred (yes, 100!) that he did on chinese history up until this bloodbath, but I think at the very least you will find episodes 101 "heart and belly, claws and teeth" and 102 "song of everlasting sorrow" very much worth listening to, maybe even reacting to even if it is just audio with a few maps. It goes into a bit more detail without becoming boring (at least imho) and I think you'll like it and it would fill in some of the stuff both leading up to and during the rebellion that K&G has to gloss over for time reasons. And oh yeah, just to put into perspective what a "golden age" means for China (because this fact utterly blew my mind when he said it), this pre-industrial mainly agricultural society had a total population of at least 60 million, and the capital Chang'an might, once you include all of its suburbs, add-ons and neighnouring villages, have had a population just prior to the rebellion of (are you ready?) TWO MILLION, which is just nuts to think about when compared to the rest of the world both during this time and for centuries afterwards. It's easy to see why many consider the early Tang the true high point of chinese history, they truly dominated all their neighbours (even the steppe to their north) and dwarfed everyone else at a time when there was no Roman empire to compare them to (like during the Han), nor any mongol or colonial european empires like they later would have to deal with and eventually be crushed by. 650-750 might honestly be (relatively) the greatest hundred years in chinese pre-modern history, period.
Chinese civil wars are wild
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Nice video sir 🔥🔥🔥, please reacts to more mongol empire videos especially the logistics and military army videos by kings and generals
React to battle of talas kings and generals which was a precursor to this event
I doubt you're interested in listening (much less reacting) to the so far 275 episodes of the history of china podcast (and he's still just approaching the year 1700), or even the hundred (yes, 100!) that he did on chinese history up until this bloodbath, but I think at the very least you will find episodes 101 "heart and belly, claws and teeth" and 102 "song of everlasting sorrow" very much worth listening to, maybe even reacting to even if it is just audio with a few maps. It goes into a bit more detail without becoming boring (at least imho) and I think you'll like it and it would fill in some of the stuff both leading up to and during the rebellion that K&G has to gloss over for time reasons.
And oh yeah, just to put into perspective what a "golden age" means for China (because this fact utterly blew my mind when he said it), this pre-industrial mainly agricultural society had a total population of at least 60 million, and the capital Chang'an might, once you include all of its suburbs, add-ons and neighnouring villages, have had a population just prior to the rebellion of (are you ready?) TWO MILLION, which is just nuts to think about when compared to the rest of the world both during this time and for centuries afterwards. It's easy to see why many consider the early Tang the true high point of chinese history, they truly dominated all their neighbours (even the steppe to their north) and dwarfed everyone else at a time when there was no Roman empire to compare them to (like during the Han), nor any mongol or colonial european empires like they later would have to deal with and eventually be crushed by. 650-750 might honestly be (relatively) the greatest hundred years in chinese pre-modern history, period.