#109 Collapse (Part 2)
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
This week we’re taking a look at the moments in history when things went to pot. Come with us to see Louis Napoleon’s self-coup in mid-19th century France, the frequent dynastic collapses in China, plus: how the Ottoman Empire bit the dust.
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| 0:56.3 | That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Hello, this is part two of societal collapse. Let's go on with the show. So today I am going to talk to you about the end of dynasties in China. |
| 1:20.9 | Now, this is kind of fascinating. |
| 1:23.5 | In China, the collapse of a dynasty is such an accepted inevitable fact of history that it has a name for it. |
| 1:33.7 | And that name is Chow Dai Sun Wan, which means dynastic cycle. |
| 1:39.3 | And whether you agree with the theory or not, it does reflect the country's desire to understand why all 13 major imperial dynasties eventually collapsed. |
| 1:49.7 | Which I kind of, there's an amazing fact that, isn't it? |
| 1:51.8 | Like, you think eventually one of them would stick, but all 13 of the imperial dynasties collapsed. |
| 1:57.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.8 | It's going to affect your mentality. |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah. But do you ever affect your mentality. Yeah. |
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