Comments by "Hiyuke La Vie" (@hiyukelavie2396) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions"
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I'm sorry, 1:30 minutes in and I already have to pause the video to post this comment
Yes, it's tempting to view China's entire history through the concept of dynastic cycles, it makes thing a lot neater and easier to understand
But you have to understand, the Zhou dynasty wasn't just another Chinese dynasty
You see, for much of China's early history, there is no China
What there was however, was a bunch of smaller independent kingdoms
The kingdom of Zhao, the kingdom of Qi, the kingdom of Yan, etc
(Confucious was from the kingdom of Lu)
Each of these kingdoms have their own rulers, and although they acknowledged Zhou king as a sort of "king of kings", but they were all independent (they had their own currency, for example)
So trying to land that joke of China breaking apart at the begining of the video just shows a level of ignorance towards that period of Chinese history - how can China break apart when it was never one united country in the first place
It was only after the Qin dynasty that a unified Chinese state existed
It's the reason why the Qin dynasty is such a big deal in Chinese history, despite being so short lived
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