#18 - E. Zhou 7: Shifting Loyalties, Uneasy Alliances

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 18 April 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Qin's power continues to grow unabated, as the other states struggle to put aside their own differences long enough to deal with this emergent threat to their balance of power. As hastily put together "Vertical Alliance" might have the capacity to check Qin encroachment, but the King of Qin has dispatched his own agents to foreign courts to lure them away from their allies by promising them the moon and stars... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to the history of China.
1:11.0	Episode 17, shifting loyalties, uneasy alliances.
1:17.0	Last time, we went over Chin's early defeats by Hahn and Wei, its subsequent reformation at the hands of Shagnan, and finally its rise to power within the Joe Empire.
1:29.0	This week, Chin really begins to flex its new-found muscle, much to the chagrin of its neighbor states.
1:37.0	You'll recall from last time that in 364 B.C.E.
1:41.0	Chian had irrefutably asserted its power over Wei, formerly the preeminent power of the Joe
1:46.6	states by soundly defeating the combined Wei and Han armies at Schimun when they had attempted to invade Chin.
1:55.6	So absolutely crushing was the Chin victory that it was only through the diplomatic intervention
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