#12 - E. Zhou 1: The Shattered Empire

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 15 February 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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King You of Zhou lays headless, the capital a smouldering ruin, and royal authority utterly destroyed. Regional lords exploit the chaos at hand to expand their own domains - and at times declare their own kingdoms - while the new, toothless Eastern Zhou kings struggle to stabilize the situation. After a holiday break, we're right back into the action with the beginnings of the Spring and Autumn Period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.2	When last we left off with the Joe Empire, things had turned grim. King Jo had been so
1:27.3	keen to impress his concubine that he'd alienated, belittled, and enraged every ally
1:32.4	he'd ever had. And it cost him both his
1:35.0	capital city as well as his life. Today we begin our look into the early
1:40.5	portion of the Eastern Joe period, also known as the Age of
1:43.8	hegemony and most famously the spring and autumn period. That name
1:49.2	spring and autumn can be a little confusing. What do seasons have to do with it? Well, nothing.
1:57.0	In fact, the phrase spring and autumn, or chunchio, was in classical Chinese, a figure of speech for the year as a whole.
2:06.2	It was actually a rather common title for Chronicles and historical collections during this period
2:10.9	of history. The historical name for this period, however, can be traced to one specific work, the Spring and Autumn Annals.
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