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A Global History from China, Season 2: War and Migration
Opening a connected world
Completed · 26 episodes
Buy for ¥48.00
Audio in Chinese
Ge Zhaoguang and Duan Zhiqiang: A World Made by War and Migration Across Three Ages 1. How Horseback Riding Changed Warfare Across Eurasia | The Arrival of War Animals 2. Peasants Organized for Battle | Greek Phalanxes and Warring States Armored Troops 3. Every Strong Archer Became Armored Cavalry | Warrior Peoples of the Eurasian Steppe 4. An Agrarian State Tries to Conquer the Steppe | King Wuling Adopts Nomadic Dress and Cavalry 5. How Rome Became Master of the Mediterranean | Legionary Tactics and Technology 6. How Agrarian Soldiers Defeated Nomadic Cavalry | War Between Han and Xiongnu Empires 7. Did the Northern Xiongnu’s Westward Migration Destroy Rome? | Eurasia After the Xiongnu Empire Bonus, Part I | Long Lances and Stirrups: Eastern and Western Knights with Shared Military Technology Bonus, Part II | Heavy Cavalry on the Battlefield 08 A Symphony of Light and Dark | Eurasian History After the Fourth Century 09 The Zhaoling Stone Figures and Phantoms of Red and White Banners | Secrets of the Early Tang 10 The Nine Sogdian Clans Between Tang and the Caliphate—An Iranian People’s Restoration 11 Serving Kings, the Dharma, or Allah—An Age of Envoys 12 Followers of Mani—Travelers Across the Old World 13 Celestial Pillars, Sacred Relics, and Universal Monarchs—How Eurasian Empires Built Legitimacy Bonus, Part I | Four Wars That Changed Fate: The Rise and Fall of World Empires in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries Bonus, Part II | The Civil Service Examination: The Sui-Tang Empire’s Institutional Gift to the World 14 What Was the “Mongol Age,” and Why Not Call It the “Yuan Dynasty”? 15 The Steppe Empire That Overturned the World | What Made Genghis Khan Exceptional? 16 From Sunrise to Sunset, All Nations Gathered | How Did Mongol Armies Cross Eurasia? 17 Hungary and Israel in the West, Japan in the East, Java in the South | The Limits of Mongol Expansion 18 From Steppe Khan to World Emperor | Brothers Divide Eurasia 19 The Mongol Empire and the Black Death | Was This the “Beginning of World History”? Bonus | Past Empires and the Future Age of Globalization Duan Zhiqiang: Leave Empires and Wars Behind; Turn to Everyday Life