Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History It.

It's that time when, once a fortnight, we give over an episode of this podcast to our

sibling podcast, The Ancient's, the hit podcast hosted by the brilliant Tristan Hughes, in

which he looks at ancient history.

Not just your Mediterranean basin here folks, it's not all the battle of Canny here, it's

not all Hannibal crossing the Alps.

It's not all Cicero anyway.

It's also ancient civilizations stretching from Mesoamerica to the warm waters of the South

China Sea, or in this case the marginally colder, in fact very much colder waters of the

yellow sea.

This is eight, do you know what?

This is why I love the history.

I've never heard of the subjects this episode, that's the reason I wanted it on my feet.

This is a podcast about the Chong Ngu, history's first nomadic empire, between the third century

BC and the first century AD, as China was forming to the South, the Chong Ngu in Habiton

area that roughly corresponds to Mongolia.

They are critical in the later movement of the Huns to the West, and they often invented

effect that I had on the Roman Empire of the West, but they also had huge connections

with ancient China and Persia.

We're all global historians now everybody.

Everyone's global historians.

And the ancient is a symptom of that fascination.

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