#5 - Xia 3: The Fall Of The House Of Xia

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 6 December 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode we cover our source materials, and then delve into the latter half of the Xia Dynasty post Shao Kang's restoration. It all ends with the corrupt and cruel Emperor Jie coming face to face with the Army of Shang bearing down on him, intent on ending his reign of terror once and for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:55.0	Episode 5, the fall of the House of Shah. Last time, we ended with the restoration of the Shah Dynasty from ruined by Shah Kong and
1:00.6	his triumphant defeat of the pretender General Hanjo.
1:05.0	This episode, we're going to follow the Shah Dynasty's long second decline,
1:10.0	ultimately into depravity, cruelty, and final defeat at the hands of one of his own
1:16.1	vassal lords, the Duke of Chang.
1:21.4	Unfortunately, there are quite a few Shah emperors that we know very little about.
1:27.0	This is largely due to the nature of its questionable historicity, which is in turn due to the total lack of primary sources.
1:35.8	What we do have is written between 1500 and 2,000 years after the fact.
1:42.0	So before we get to the begat begat of the later Middle Shaw Dynasty, let's first take a look at
1:48.9	exactly which sources were mainly pulling from. The bamboo annals and the records of the Grand Historian,
1:56.8	which I have for brevity's sake been calling the Shihji.
2:01.8	The bamboo annals are the older of the two toms of knowledge.
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