Ep. 157 | The Rise and Fall of the Qin (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this first of three episodes, Laszlo offers up a nice easy overview of Qin Shihuang and the Qin State. In Part 1 we'll look at the ancient beginnings of the Qin and how they caught a few lucky breaks, establishing themselves around Gansu and Shaanxi province, after coming to the aid of the Zhou kings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Lause Love Montgomery again. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome back to the China History Podcast, so happy you tuned in. |
| 0:07.0 | Before we begin, let me just mention, |
| 0:10.0 | back in June 2010, when I launched the CHP, the very first episode covered the life of |
| 0:15.7 | Chinshir Huang, the first emperor of the Chin dynasty, and quite a consequential historical |
| 0:22.2 | person he turned out to be. |
| 0:24.0 | Now when I started the CHP, my original idea was for these short 15-20 minute episodes that gave only a brief intro to the subject. |
| 0:34.4 | You couldn't even call it a grab-and-go-meal yet, and the first 50 to 75 episodes were mostly |
| 0:40.2 | just that. |
| 0:41.2 | Very short, just the facts, all the essential stuff you needed to mostly just that. |
| 0:43.0 | the facts, all the essential stuff you needed to know before picking up say the |
| 0:47.6 | Cambridge history of China where you could drill down to your heart's |
| 0:51.0 | content. |
| 0:52.0 | But then around episode 100 or there about drill down to your heart's content. |
| 0:52.7 | But then around episode 100 or thereabouts, |
| 0:55.3 | the CHB started to get longer and longer. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, not as long as a Dan Carlin episode, |
| 1:01.2 | but somewhere quite long. |
| 1:03.5 | And more of these multi- episode series |
| 1:06.3 | started coming out. |
| 1:07.8 | And the end result was that, well, |
| 1:10.8 | it sort of made those early CHP episodes from 2010 to say, 2015. |
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