Hello everyone, if you wanted to see the later history of this region, most of it is included in this video: th-cam.com/video/yJhqNa2L_A8/w-d-xo.html Also, this will probably be the last regional video I make about Asia, unless I do Japan, because there aren't any regions left. I will continue with the History of the World series with Vologda Mapping, but as for regular mapping videos, it would be nice to hear what you'd want to see in future. Let me know if you have any ideas :)
-First Indochina War. -History of South America, with smooth independence wars and an acurated depiction of every war. For example, most videomapping videos show all Chile and Peru independent in 1822, while in this time most of Peru and a huge island as big as Wales were under Spanish rule. Also, most civil wars are not shown. -Indonesian War of Independence -Sengoku period in Japan with all damyos and nice battles -History of Research Stations in Antartica -History of Caribean Islands, also showing Venezuela's and Centroamerican coasts -Colonization of Amazonia -Colonization of Australia -Colonization of east and middle USA -Spread of Budhism -History of currencies -History of Siberia
The history of Central doesn't end with Mongol Empire. It extends to Russian empire till the day they gain independence in 1991. I was expecting to see the full history till 1991.
Very interesting. I'm Kazakh and in my family there are people from 4 tribes which had 4 kingdoms showed here on the map - Wusun kingdom, Kanguj kingdom, Yezhi kingdom and Naiman kingdom. All these tribes live today in one nation and even in one family. I'm actually Yezhi myself or as Turkic people call us - Kipchak tribe.
Kamilah Bahyt Yuezhi is a Chinese state of warring state periods which move to the Central Asia in 3BC. Because of the thread of Xiongnu........the emperor even want to cooperate with them and help them fight the Xiongnu.....
??? Sorry, we (Yuezhi) are not chinese. Our turkic name of the tribe is Kipchak or Kip-Sak (the blessed Saka).Yuezhi is actually a chinese name of our tribe, many nations gave us different names: russians called us Polovtsy, greek people gave us name Scythians, persian name of our tribe is Saka, indian name is Shaka or Shakya, european people called our tribe - Celts.
GoguryeoTiger We are not half iranian, maybe iranians have a little bit of our blood after my ancestors conquered their land and took the most beautiful women as slaves, the same thing happened in Egypt, nothern India, on the territories of China, Russia.
4:04 After the defeat of the Uighur Kaganate, the Kyrgyz Kaganate should have been. Its territories were lands from Balkhash lake to Liaodun Bay and from Angara river to Lobnor lake.
Dudu channel -the Central Asian countries Currently are: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Other countries in the map include: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, and Russia.
Can everyone stop hating and complaining about the Turks, Mongols and how long the Intro was and just appreciate the video. If you don't have nothing good to comment then don't comment!!
4:05 is not correct, after the fall of the Uyghur Kaganate, power passed to the Kyrgyz Kaganate, there is specific written, archaeological evidence about this. The author does not have an objective opinion, he is politicized
The first state in Central Asia was formed in 500 BC. By 300 BC, three states had emerged.they were the states of Dovan, Bactria, and Kashan. The state of Dovan was twice attacked by China, but never became dependent on China.
After that, after the Arab invasion. The Khorezmshahs ruled Central Asia. It was conquered by the Mongols from the 13th to the 14th century. In the 14th century, Amir Temur the Great conquered all of Central Asia, East Turkestan, He conquered northern India and present-day Turkey. After that, Central Asia was not dependent on anyone until the Russian invasion
Amir Temur's grandson, Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur, ruled India from the 16th century until the British invasion. One of the 7 wonders of the world. It was built by Turkic peoples, more precisely by Uzbeks
Great stuff, but I have one suggestion. At the start of the video, it would be helpful to start with a larger world view, and then zoom into the area you are digging into. That way, it is a bit easier to get one's bearings.
It would have been cool with China defeated the Caliphate at Talas, it would be different if Central Asia was Sinicized and became Buddhist. Would be an interesting area!
Very interesting and worthwhile video. One thing is obvious: Empires and the like come and go, most are soon gone, and they all eventually come to an end.
@@YS-tn9ur Islam is a religion and Uyghur Turks are a ethnicity. It is like saying Europeans were pagans none of them were Christians . Everyone in this world worshipped some other religion before. Humanity didn't start with religion. You get that?Chinese are atheists now. Not many Buddhist apply your logic on them now
@Hernando Malinche We havent save them, but the turks fought many times with the Koreans against for examble China. Koreans and Turkic people are Brothers and you cant change it.
@Hernando Malinche Watch the Video from the Korean Jay kim which is named ,,do Koreans really think Turkey is a brother country? " He is a korean and says that Turkey is their brothercountry (And he also says why). You cant change it!
No turks dare to claim it's turkish but we know it was not fully mongol. Google how mongol empire was established. "This federation not only consisted of Mongols in the proper sense-that is, Mongol-speaking tribes-but also included tribes of Turkish descent." -Britannica
But they are claiming. They say chingis khan's mother was turkish. He heared stories about arabic invasion against turks from mother and then he wanted to take revenge of this invasion. They united the turks and marched to arabs. His army was full with the turks because this revenge thing.
Arda you realize Turkic is a term designed to allocate a language right? Even panturkism was invented to convince all who speak Turkic language to form a unified nation, even though they have very different ethnic and cultural traits. As a result of the nationalism movement in late 19th century, panturkism was widely pushed around, yet it still DOESNT MEAN THAT SOME EMPIRE THAT ONCE RULED ASIA WAS ‘TURKIC’ you fucktard
Hey Ollie Bye ! Is it possible if you can do a video about the History of the whole Eurasian Steppes (which would include, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Persia, Central Asia, the Xinjiang Region, Tibet and Mongolia). I think it would be awesome if you cover the whole region because of the impact that the region has had on Human History due to all the various migration that went from Asia to Europe and the Middle East. =D
Most of the political, military, and cultural developments you see here were either directly or indirectly the consequences of one decision by one man in the early 4th century B.C. One of the multiple petty kings in the Warring States period. That man was King Wuling of Zhao and his decision was to experiment with adding cavalry to Zhao's army vaguely modeled after nomadic steppe tradition. He couldn't have anticipated just how effective these cavalry would become, much less the competition that would follow as other Chinese kingdoms scrambled to develop their own cavalry. Because of one king's decision, much of China scrambled to seize pasture land to breed, train, and sustain the horse populations needed to have a strong cavalry. Because the needed pasture land was in steppe nomad territory, and because these new cavalry allowed Chinese to venture deeper and deeper into those lands, relatively disorganized, poor, and peaceful nomads were forced to revolutionize many aspects of their way of life to survive wave after wave of Chinese conquest. Nomad society soon was thrown into perpetual crises plagued by constant attacks and shortages. Before that one decision, nomads couldn't compete period with China much less the rest of the world. They lived a subsistence-level lifestyle with the majority of people being a producer of bare necessities. After that decision, around the 3rd century onward, constant invasions and looting of their land forced them to adopt a society that revolves around a military class of nomadic raiders and warlords and an economy based on tribute or outright pillaging. If you were an adult man from that point forward, you were either a soldier or your job was related to militarism in some way. Warlord territories turned to nomadic empires, becoming more and more centralized, organized, and violent. This effect began to snowball, eventually creating the Xiongnu empire. Less than a few generations before, China could easily dismiss nomads, at best making temporary alliances with them to use as fodder in their personal feudal scuffles. Now, China had a massive enemy stretching from Manchuria to the Gansu within a hundred miles one of their most prosperous cities Chang'an. The Han were forced to acknowledge nomads as a possible existential threat. China was easily forced to the negotiating table with people they saw as barbarians and for many years China would submit to the Xiongnu in a desperate bid to avoid their destruction before they could come up with a way to keep them under control. They were willing to give these nomads large amounts of tribute regularly just to appease them enough to avoid destroying China entirely. There were still brief raids along the border that the Chinese were helpless to stop. Attack after attack became a continuing reminder of an enemy that was now accustomed to the lifestyle of a raider. The Han would build their strength over the years and strike back at the Xiongnu, attempting to cut them off from other targets they depended on killing and looting. Nonetheless, in the coming centuries, they were never able to pacify them completely. For centuries warrior nomads ruled Central Asia. Their activities played a massive role in both Western and Eastern history. The Hephtalites alone had a massive effect on the policy of the Sassanids. Barbarian invaders at the Caucasian gates would force the Sassanids and Byzantines, two powerful, bitter enemies to accept a truce. Nomad invasions would cause hysteria in Sassanid Persia that would create a heretical sect of Zoroastrianism that would persist for centuries, even after the Islamization of the plateau. In Europe these invasions greatly began to influence military strategy and economic activity. The total effects during this time are too many to count, but due to that one decision in Zhao all those years ago, one giant effect in the form of a lower-class boy would be born. That boy's name was Temujin, as a child he was shy and afraid of dogs. As a man he is better known by the name Genghis Khan, hardened by a warlike steppe lifestyle. That man would create a gigantic empire, a meritocratic society, and a set of laws that would dominate all of the Central Asia and some areas beyond for centuries. The Mongol Empire would single-handedly end the Islamic Golden Age, force Eastern Europeans to overhaul much of their infrastructure and military, and indirectly force explorers to look for alternative routes to India, spawning the rise of European colonialism. The rest, as you likely know, is history. All because one king decided to give horses in his army a try.
I agree with everything exept one thing.At the time of the Mongol empire the silk road was open and safe for trade so Europeans didn t had to look for alternatives.It was after the Ottomans that the Europeans tried to find alternative ways to get to India and the spice islands,thus opening the way to colonialism.
Dear Ollie you are incredible! I've been watching your creations in the last couple of years and I am astonished! May I ask that you prepare something that nobody has yet attempted? I would like to see a History of the Japanese Islands, especially the period between c. 1000 and 1603, when the Tokugawa Shogunate was officially established. I would like to see the history of the various clans and the Shogunates, as well as the period of Shengoku Jidai in the 16th century and the wars of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Thanks for your great work! Keep going mate!
It's amazing how all these little empires squabbled with each other for centuries, and then the Mongols came along and gobbled them all up in short order.
fuck you, we were huns, after than turks, and so on, you made great china wall for us, we were like a nightmare for you, you forgot it, read your history man carefully, central asia was is and will turks territory, we are nomad people
Yes I noticed that too when I first watched the video I think Ollie believes it is too controversial to show the ambiguous borders of the saka tribes, but at least he approximates the location of the scythians in his history of asia video, although it should be placed further northeast, and a distinction should be made to contrast the scythians as nomadic iranic peoples and the later huns as nomadic turkic peoples.
This is great. I like hearing about this part of the world because I rarely ever do. You have to go out of your way to learn about the history compared to Europe, East Asia, and the Americas.
This is Brilliant and very helpful to understand the historical movings. Would more than appreciate, if you could identify a few important cities in each continent?, for example, Panjab, Khotan always shown?
Kirman Selçuklularının Haritasını Arayan Dost Manchu is an ehnic of China, and only in China. The founder of Qing was an official of Ming. They are not Han Chinese, but they are still Chinese. So you want to say no one is American in America except the Anglo-Saxon?
funny how many people and even history books say Huns that invaded Europe under Attila are related to White Huns (who were Indo-Europeans called Hunas)
Ollie Bye, If it is possible can you tell us what application or software you have used in making such amazing videos I really like them and I also want to make however I could not find the good app. Thanks in advance. :)
Your motherland is in Mongolia. The earliest Central Asians recorded in Chinese history were Scythians and Tocharians. You Turks arrived in Central Asia a thousand years later than huaxia ppl😂
Ollie, more great stuff as usual. One thing that I've wanted to see was an interactive map/timeline, as it progresses and yours does, but with historical highlights that the user can touch and expand on. Is this something that you could see yourself doing as software experience, rather than TH-cam? Looking forward to more magic.
Hello everyone, if you wanted to see the later history of this region, most of it is included in this video: th-cam.com/video/yJhqNa2L_A8/w-d-xo.html
Also, this will probably be the last regional video I make about Asia, unless I do Japan, because there aren't any regions left. I will continue with the History of the World series with Vologda Mapping, but as for regular mapping videos, it would be nice to hear what you'd want to see in future. Let me know if you have any ideas :)
Ollie Bye could you do history of North Africa?
Ollie Bye this is good
Ollie Bye
Good Job
-First Indochina War.
-History of South America, with smooth independence wars and an acurated depiction of every war. For example, most videomapping videos show all Chile and Peru independent in 1822, while in this time most of Peru and a huge island as big as Wales were under Spanish rule. Also, most civil wars are not shown.
-Indonesian War of Independence
-Sengoku period in Japan with all damyos and nice battles
-History of Research Stations in Antartica
-History of Caribean Islands, also showing Venezuela's and Centroamerican coasts
-Colonization of Amazonia
-Colonization of Australia
-Colonization of east and middle USA
-Spread of Budhism
-History of currencies
-History of Siberia
History of antarctica seems like a good idea. Make sure to talk about the great penguin vs seal war that happen in 1468.
1200: Oh look, another small state formed... duh, nothing extraordinary...
1244: Holy sheet.
central asia belongs to RUSSIA!!!
太守苏定交趾 China belongs to Mongolia
太守苏定交趾 Central asia belongs to Turkic and Mongolic people !
Central asia belongs to Han chinese
Smasher Gamer remember Siege of Diaoyu Castle 1259
5:27
the most complex map ever.
Holy Roman Empire crying rn
Princely states of British Raj: *Am I a joke to you?*
@@sparrowhawk3723 They were very complex.
@@beltranbeltran3441 Hey, how about Mongol Empire?
But everything changed when the -Fire Nation- Mongol Empire attacked
SantiFiore lol
Lel
lol see everything changed and the attacks begun again after the Age of Discovery.
Avatar!
Wut?
I laughed so hard when the whole map turned purple even though I already knew it was coming.
Me too.
"Wait for it... The Mongols." - John Green, host of Crash Course World History
The history of Central doesn't end with Mongol Empire. It extends to Russian empire till the day they gain independence in 1991. I was expecting to see the full history till 1991.
Alec K
Check his comment
А что было интересного при ссср?
I also was
Ll Rey Насильные переселения, омегалуль
look at description
Everyone: struggling to remember the countries in Central Asia
Genghis Khan: I can fix that
I'm Central Asian 😁🙄
He still can't fix it.
we save our Caucasoid features from Mongola
@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat But most of central asians look like Mongoloid/East Asain/South East Asian
@@01Crown Most Central Asians?
kazakhs are only 17 mln
kyrgyz are 5 mln which are mongoloid.
uzbak Afghan and others look plain Caucasian
@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat Afghans aren't central asian , their history and culture is mix of Indian and Iranian .
@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat So are you Uzbek ? Why you have Russian letters in your name ? 🤔
My favourite bit was when the entire map turned purple.
:(
XD :3
Shit Are You From Mongolia
Turkic Khaganate>Mongol Empire
@@fgdentz who?
Classic Mongol Empire, totally saw that coming.
lmao
Genghis Khan = Dark Souls Boss
IC 1101 DARK VADER'S EMPIRES ???😋
He died half way through the expansion of mongol empire just saying
Nope, stupid Destroyed Muslim golden era and Song dynasty. Not help to Human civilization. Too overrated One.
@@soju1995 마 환경전사 무시하냐!
@@soju1995 source?
5:15 Arena closed. No players can join.
diep.io reference
5:26 actually
Excellent video, Ollie! I always liked Central Asia.
Thanks Galactic!
Aryanic propaganda! Turks come to c.asian at bc200 ? Hahahha
Egemen Şahin dude he is always neutral. He just used the sources he had.
Yes, Turks had entered down to Syr Darya around 3-4th century .
@@EgemenSahin Yes that's true and it was not Oghuz tribe. Some say Gökturk Empire
I like how at the end the Mongol Empire consumes the whole screen
Very interesting. I'm Kazakh and in my family there are people from 4 tribes which had 4 kingdoms showed here on the map - Wusun kingdom, Kanguj kingdom, Yezhi kingdom and Naiman kingdom. All these tribes live today in one nation and even in one family. I'm actually Yezhi myself or as Turkic people call us - Kipchak tribe.
and all of it recorded by our chinese ancestors with chinese names.
Kamilah Bahyt Yuezhi is a Chinese state of warring state periods which move to the Central Asia in 3BC. Because of the thread of Xiongnu........the emperor even want to cooperate with them and help them fight the Xiongnu.....
??? Sorry, we (Yuezhi) are not chinese. Our turkic name of the tribe is Kipchak or Kip-Sak (the blessed Saka).Yuezhi is actually a chinese name of our tribe, many nations gave us different names: russians called us Polovtsy, greek people gave us name Scythians, persian name of our tribe is Saka, indian name is Shaka or Shakya, european people called our tribe - Celts.
Sorry, but Celts are Indo-European people
GoguryeoTiger We are not half iranian, maybe iranians have a little bit of our blood after my ancestors conquered their land and took the most beautiful women as slaves, the same thing happened in Egypt, nothern India, on the territories of China, Russia.
5:27 Wow! That's the most detailed and complex map I've ever seen! O_O
Wow, I've waited this for ages. Thank you for this awesome video
4:04 After the defeat of the Uighur Kaganate, the Kyrgyz Kaganate should have been. Its territories were lands from Balkhash lake to Liaodun Bay and from Angara river to Lobnor lake.
Не было его
@@ernar8926 у вас какие то подтверждения словам есть?
Кыргызский Каганат по охвату территорий из 30 мировых империй занимает 16 место. и просуществовал он с 9 по 13 век
5:27 So much mongols...
Mongolia has joined the game (^_^)
WHERE IS IMPERID OF AMIR TIMUR
Такого кроме постсоветов никто не знает ахах
тут дело в том что Эмир Тимур построил свое государство после Монгольской Империи
Lol, you probably mean the Empire of The Timurids( I laughed at it for 5 minutes, man). So, you have to wait another 130 years. Good luck!
ÇOK YAŞA TİMUR!
Everything looked so natural and somewhat peaceful...and then the 1200s happened.
-Yes, if you ignore tribal blood wars and pillages.-
So now Central Asia doesn't exist?
Dudu Channel yes sadly due to mongols
Dudu Channel Check out Ollie Bye's comment at the top.
Oh, thanks
Dudu channel -the Central Asian countries Currently are: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Other countries in the map include: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, and Russia.
+Texas Mapper I-It was ironic
I think this is the only Ollie Bye video we'll ever see where just 1 country covers the entire screen at the end.
Rowan Mapping Technically, it is an empire.
I was more interested in the history after 1244...
That's when my ancestors raise against the rule of Mughuls
@@salokhiddinmukhiddinov4921 so you are Uzbek?
Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Kyrgyzstan - Tadjikistan Central Asian independent states with deep history & rich culture.
🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇲🇰🇬🇹🇯
Been waiting for this one
Can everyone stop hating and complaining about the Turks, Mongols and how long the Intro was and just appreciate the video. If you don't have nothing good to comment then don't comment!!
Ibn Amir Al-Mansur
You started it.
Türk came from China. Kiiled native White people in xinjiang.
@@soju1995 wtf
Enes Çağrı Tonyalı why you so high? Didn’t you’ve seen original türk?
Good job Ollie !
4:05 is not correct, after the fall of the Uyghur Kaganate, power passed to the Kyrgyz Kaganate, there is specific written, archaeological evidence about this. The author does not have an objective opinion, he is politicized
The first state in Central Asia was formed in 500 BC. By 300 BC, three states had emerged.they were the states of Dovan, Bactria, and Kashan. The state of Dovan was twice attacked by China, but never became dependent on China.
After that, after the Arab invasion. The Khorezmshahs ruled Central Asia. It was conquered by the Mongols from the 13th to the 14th century. In the 14th century, Amir Temur the Great conquered all of Central Asia, East Turkestan, He conquered northern India and present-day Turkey. After that, Central Asia was not dependent on anyone until the Russian invasion
Amir Temur's grandson, Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur, ruled India from the 16th century until the British invasion. One of the 7 wonders of the world. It was built by Turkic peoples, more precisely by Uzbeks
@@jazooo1856 He dont conquered North India but he conqured Pakistan
Great stuff, but I have one suggestion. At the start of the video, it would be helpful to start with a larger world view, and then zoom into the area you are digging into. That way, it is a bit easier to get one's bearings.
Bukturuma
I am currently in Astana, travelling into Xinjiang and Tatarstan and this video really cleared some shits up for me! Thx Olly
It would have been cool with China defeated the Caliphate at Talas, it would be different if Central Asia was Sinicized and became Buddhist. Would be an interesting area!
buddhist sucks.
Chinese Buddhism came from Central Asia. Moreover, in China, Buddhism does not have much power compared to Taoism, Confucianism, and Legalism.
You mean Central Asia become a Chinese cultural countries？ like Japan，Korea？
“Every year” except everything past the 1200’s
The last slide is just...perfect
Turks and Mongols The real power, history , civilisation , and Empires
Turko mongols the children of Blue Sky
Very interesting and worthwhile video. One thing is obvious: Empires and the like come and go, most are soon gone, and they all eventually come to an end.
4:37 it's the Seljuk Turks Ah!
Seljuk➡️Ottoman➡️Turkey
Uyghuristan is real country not part of china, save Uyghur 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It ia part of china ugyhur were buddhist none were muslims
Lol this video clearly shows that the Uyghurs arrived in Xinjiang much later than the Chinese did.
@@YummYakitori yes
@@YS-tn9ur Islam is a religion and Uyghur Turks are a ethnicity. It is like saying Europeans were pagans none of them were Christians . Everyone in this world worshipped some other religion before. Humanity didn't start with religion. You get that?Chinese are atheists now. Not many Buddhist apply your logic on them now
Long live KASHGAR!!
Great video!
Great Turkic Khaganate 💪
GoguryeoTiger what you have against the Turkic peoples?
@Hernando Malinche We havent save them, but the turks fought many times with the Koreans against for examble China. Koreans and Turkic people are Brothers and you cant change it.
@@younglord7805 Maybe he isnt a korean. Most of the Koreans like us. I know it because I was in Korea.
@Hernando Malinche Watch the Video from the Korean Jay kim which is named ,,do Koreans really think Turkey is a brother country? " He is a korean and says that Turkey is their brothercountry (And he also says why). You cant change it!
@Hernando Malinche And by the way who says that we fought together numerous times?
Great video, thanks.
You forgot the Kangar union
and the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate
At least no Turkish kid dare to claim Mongol Empire ‘Turkic’, yet
No turks dare to claim it's turkish but we know it was not fully mongol. Google how mongol empire was established.
"This federation not only consisted of Mongols in the proper sense-that is, Mongol-speaking tribes-but also included tribes of Turkish descent."
-Britannica
But they are claiming. They say chingis khan's mother was turkish. He heared stories about arabic invasion against turks from mother and then he wanted to take revenge of this invasion. They united the turks and marched to arabs. His army was full with the turks because this revenge thing.
Introverted Turkish propagandists insist to call every Tatar Turkic, well then, at least Republic of Turkey is fully Greek
ibrahim halil köse at this point I’m aware that they think every Asian man is Turkic
Arda you realize Turkic is a term designed to allocate a language right?
Even panturkism was invented to convince all who speak Turkic language to form a unified nation, even though they have very different ethnic and cultural traits. As a result of the nationalism movement in late 19th century, panturkism was widely pushed around, yet it still DOESNT MEAN THAT SOME EMPIRE THAT ONCE RULED ASIA WAS ‘TURKIC’ you fucktard
Hey Ollie Bye ! Is it possible if you can do a video about the History of the whole Eurasian Steppes (which would include, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Persia, Central Asia, the Xinjiang Region, Tibet and Mongolia). I think it would be awesome if you cover the whole region because of the impact that the region has had on Human History due to all the various migration that went from Asia to Europe and the Middle East. =D
Most of the political, military, and cultural developments you see here were either directly or indirectly the consequences of one decision by one man in the early 4th century B.C. One of the multiple petty kings in the Warring States period. That man was King Wuling of Zhao and his decision was to experiment with adding cavalry to Zhao's army vaguely modeled after nomadic steppe tradition. He couldn't have anticipated just how effective these cavalry would become, much less the competition that would follow as other Chinese kingdoms scrambled to develop their own cavalry.
Because of one king's decision, much of China scrambled to seize pasture land to breed, train, and sustain the horse populations needed to have a strong cavalry. Because the needed pasture land was in steppe nomad territory, and because these new cavalry allowed Chinese to venture deeper and deeper into those lands, relatively disorganized, poor, and peaceful nomads were forced to revolutionize many aspects of their way of life to survive wave after wave of Chinese conquest. Nomad society soon was thrown into perpetual crises plagued by constant attacks and shortages.
Before that one decision, nomads couldn't compete period with China much less the rest of the world. They lived a subsistence-level lifestyle with the majority of people being a producer of bare necessities. After that decision, around the 3rd century onward, constant invasions and looting of their land forced them to adopt a society that revolves around a military class of nomadic raiders and warlords and an economy based on tribute or outright pillaging. If you were an adult man from that point forward, you were either a soldier or your job was related to militarism in some way.
Warlord territories turned to nomadic empires, becoming more and more centralized, organized, and violent. This effect began to snowball, eventually creating the Xiongnu empire. Less than a few generations before, China could easily dismiss nomads, at best making temporary alliances with them to use as fodder in their personal feudal scuffles. Now, China had a massive enemy stretching from Manchuria to the Gansu within a hundred miles one of their most prosperous cities Chang'an. The Han were forced to acknowledge nomads as a possible existential threat.
China was easily forced to the negotiating table with people they saw as barbarians and for many years China would submit to the Xiongnu in a desperate bid to avoid their destruction before they could come up with a way to keep them under control. They were willing to give these nomads large amounts of tribute regularly just to appease them enough to avoid destroying China entirely. There were still brief raids along the border that the Chinese were helpless to stop. Attack after attack became a continuing reminder of an enemy that was now accustomed to the lifestyle of a raider.
The Han would build their strength over the years and strike back at the Xiongnu, attempting to cut them off from other targets they depended on killing and looting. Nonetheless, in the coming centuries, they were never able to pacify them completely. For centuries warrior nomads ruled Central Asia. Their activities played a massive role in both Western and Eastern history. The Hephtalites alone had a massive effect on the policy of the Sassanids. Barbarian invaders at the Caucasian gates would force the Sassanids and Byzantines, two powerful, bitter enemies to accept a truce.
Nomad invasions would cause hysteria in Sassanid Persia that would create a heretical sect of Zoroastrianism that would persist for centuries, even after the Islamization of the plateau. In Europe these invasions greatly began to influence military strategy and economic activity. The total effects during this time are too many to count, but due to that one decision in Zhao all those years ago, one giant effect in the form of a lower-class boy would be born. That boy's name was Temujin, as a child he was shy and afraid of dogs. As a man he is better known by the name Genghis Khan, hardened by a warlike steppe lifestyle.
That man would create a gigantic empire, a meritocratic society, and a set of laws that would dominate all of the Central Asia and some areas beyond for centuries. The Mongol Empire would single-handedly end the Islamic Golden Age, force Eastern Europeans to overhaul much of their infrastructure and military, and indirectly force explorers to look for alternative routes to India, spawning the rise of European colonialism. The rest, as you likely know, is history. All because one king decided to give horses in his army a try.
I agree with everything exept one thing.At the time of the Mongol empire the silk road was open and safe for trade so Europeans didn t had to look for alternatives.It was after the Ottomans that the Europeans tried to find alternative ways to get to India and the spice islands,thus opening the way to colonialism.
Man, how do you write it?
@@alejandrorojas2364 after deep research,patience and determination of course
His reign was famous for one more important event: the reforms consisting of "Wearing the Hu (styled) Attire and Shooting from Horseback (in battle)"
So basically: he invented cavalry
5:17
A wild Mongol appeared
Dear Ollie you are incredible! I've been watching your creations in the last couple of years and I am astonished! May I ask that you prepare something that nobody has yet attempted? I would like to see a History of the Japanese Islands, especially the period between c. 1000 and 1603, when the Tokugawa Shogunate was officially established. I would like to see the history of the various clans and the Shogunates, as well as the period of Shengoku Jidai in the 16th century and the wars of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Thanks for your great work! Keep going mate!
Where is the Scythians and Sacks?
Central Asia used to be called “Scythia”
It's amazing how all these little empires squabbled with each other for centuries, and then the Mongols came along and gobbled them all up in short order.
Han Chinese controled central Asia way eariler than Turks.
turks？omg for old china civilization, Turks were like kids.
Xiao FANG haha you funny
fuck you, we were huns, after than turks, and so on, you made great china wall for us, we were like a nightmare for you, you forgot it, read your history man carefully, central asia was is and will turks territory, we are nomad people
Everyone's a gangster until Ghengis rides into town.
Genghis Khan-I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more
Yuezhi is Tocharians right?
Mr. Potato man Yes
Nope , their origin were Altaic.
Yuezhi should not be from Tocharian. The purebred Tocharians have red hair and green eyes.
Takhari people are Tajik not any mongol
5:28 water: we are undefeated
That ending, though. 😂
you forgot the Scythians, did you not? some of them settled next to Bactria
Yes I noticed that too when I first watched the video I think Ollie believes it is too controversial to show the ambiguous borders of the saka tribes, but at least he approximates the location of the scythians in his history of asia video, although it should be placed further northeast, and a distinction should be made to contrast the scythians as nomadic iranic peoples and the later huns as nomadic turkic peoples.
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18+ restricted due to adult sexual content
3:40 Umayyad in Central Asia
Saka
Parthia
Kushan
Scythia
Bactria
Sogdia
Massgetia
Were Iranian
Center Asia "Andorowo " was Iranian mother land not turks
Fck off brainless... İf you says really, Firdowsi a liar.. and Shehnameh is fake .
Ok
All of this anmy of persian and part of turcik state ideot
True even us Hepthalites
But not iranian Tajik
props for including the Aral Sea
This is great. I like hearing about this part of the world because I rarely ever do. You have to go out of your way to learn about the history compared to Europe, East Asia, and the Americas.
The music is so good
5:28 hardest map ever
Easiest
Yay new video
the intro is 24 seconds. way too long tbh
my wife is from samarkand thanks for the interesting video
starwreck9 where are you from?
you are tearing me apaaaart chinaaa... oh hi gengis
Subutay Han You’re my favorite empire
This is Brilliant and very helpful to understand the historical movings. Would more than appreciate, if you could identify a few important cities in each continent?, for example, Panjab, Khotan always shown?
Yuzhei-Xionite Hunas-Magna Hungaria-Hungary.The Huns were not Hungarians.
Tang empire is great
Long live a chinese empire!!!!! ( han,jin,sui,tang,song,ming and qing dynasties )
Kirman Selçuklularının Haritasını Arayan Dost Manchu is an ehnic of China, and only in China. The founder of Qing was an official of Ming. They are not Han Chinese, but they are still Chinese. So you want to say no one is American in America except the Anglo-Saxon?
3:06
Orta Asya: Ortam çok sakin,nerde bir aksiyon
Mete Han: MERHABALAR AQ
Can you make something like WWII by every week? Would look interesting, no doubt
"to the height of the Mongol Empire"
What height may that be, you ask?
5:27
Where is the Kyrgyz Khanate?
It should be after Uyghurs in 840
Maybe up in the Yenesi off the map?
@@yidiandianpang Yeah I guess so, Yenesi was the land of Kyrgyzs actually, they names it Enasoy which means "Mother river".
It's kinda frightening seeing the entire map go purple at the end there
5:29
*and then they died in a tornado*
watirMapping Died ? All Turkic clans have fought for Mongols, Cenghiz's army consisted of Turks
@@tekeoglu6383 Bill Wurtz referansı yapıyor th-cam.com/video/Mh5LY4Mz15o/w-d-xo.html
Xiongnu is ancestors of Turks.
Who also is in vacation? 😃
i love your music choice .
Tang Lost To Islamic Caliphate in 721
Tang empire is great
Wow, great job
Central Asia has always been a cosmopolitan area.
We want part 2 from 1244 to late 18th century
1:02
*dingling*
3:20 I dig the music
5:26 very satisfying
Mongols : "The party's over."
Mongolia just took all of that stuff in the end, WOOOOW!!! BIG SHOCKER!!!!
Any way, nice vid Ollie Bye!
+Ollie Bye How can I use the program of the "Every year"?
5:17 oh boy...
Did the geographic program you were using get corrupted again or have you decided not to use the program anymore?
I am Naiman, we are still live!!!
we are naimans, our history is so rich, but our government don't say that special
Adai
funny how many people and even history books say Huns that invaded Europe under Attila are related to White Huns (who were Indo-Europeans called Hunas)
Center Asia is 2th middle east
Before the barbarians, there were so many Iranian and Tocharian civilizations
😹😹😹
Lol Iranian troll
Ollie Bye, If it is possible can you tell us what application or software you have used in making such amazing videos I really like them and I also want to make however I could not find the good app. Thanks in advance. :)
Tibet was really great at this time
Ali Muhammed Khafaji and then Tibet people all go west and invade the Arab and the. Both of them collapsed...
pontifex maximus I didn't understand. Tibet never reached any Arabic country.
Tibet clashed with Arabic caliphate for central Asia.
@@lilithshopping7904 They formed an alliance against china in battle of talas.
@@shagu8312
After battle of Talas, the first caliphate also fought against Tibet.
Perfect depiction of TH-cam before T-Series
Fatherland of Turks 💙
That would be the region around Lake Baikal
Your motherland is in Mongolia. The earliest Central Asians recorded in Chinese history were Scythians and Tocharians. You Turks arrived in Central Asia a thousand years later than huaxia ppl😂
i loked away for five seconds and my entire screen turned purple
I didn’t see Kyrgyz Khaganate
Yeah you are right. There have to be the Kyrgys khaganate too.
Кыргызский каганат появился позже, мы как видишь в этом видео, до сих пор в Энесае😄
ELBA CAREN Kyrgyz kaganaty Enesayda turgan
Ollie, more great stuff as usual. One thing that I've wanted to see was an interactive map/timeline, as it progresses and yours does, but with historical highlights that the user can touch and expand on. Is this something that you could see yourself doing as software experience, rather than TH-cam? Looking forward to more magic.
Lets make Mongolia great again!