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You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 53, no country for Old Yen.

Last time we saw the northern states of China momentarily unite under Fujian's later Chin's state, before almost immediately succumbing once again to factionalization, civil wars, and ethnic cleansing. This week, another powerful faction will arise from the far reaches of the

Gobi Desert in an attempt to stitch the barbarian states all back together again.

And its emperor will plunge headlong into superstition, paranoia, a mad quest for immortality,

and even hanging his son upside down in a well.

We start off today with a look at a branch of the Shenbei tribe known as the Toobah clan.

Now, like all of the step peoples of this era, the Shenbei possessed no written language of their own,

and as such all records that have come down to us about them were written in Chinese.

So the name, Tuva, is what the clan came to be called in Mandarin,

but is in fact a sinusized fanaticization of the ethnically prototypic people.

We can perhaps get considerably closer to the true pronunciation of the group's

demonym through the old Turkic language in which the group was called the

Tob-Gach or Tob-Gach. Nevertheless in the interest of this remaining a

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