#19 - E. Zhou 8: The End Of Zhou

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 27 April 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this first of two part exploring the end of the Warring States Period, Qin continues its campaign again the six other fractious kingdoms, decimating Zhao and Yan before putting the Zhou Dynasty itself to rest forever. 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. Episode 18, part 1, the end of Joe.
1:15.0	Last time, we looked at the repeated attempts of the six states of Joe to unite against the aggressive expansionism of the Kingdom of Chin, which had already succeeded in massively expanding to the south, west, and had been incessantly pushing east into the Yellow River Valley.
1:34.0	No matter how they tried, however, the mutual distrust, suspicions, and backstabbing among the Joe
1:39.7	Vassal kingdoms, not to mention Chien's own web of alliances specifically aimed at weakening
1:45.4	its potential enemies precluded any lasting defensive alliance.
1:49.4	We finished off on this note with a spectacular implosion of the final alliance between
1:55.2	Han and Wei against Chin in 294 BCE, who exploited its enemies' differences to seize the
2:01.4	bulk of both territories.
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