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1215 - The Mongols led by Genghis Khan attacked the Jurchen Jin Dynasty of northern China in a battle where patience and tactics would be matched up against a more highly developed city and society.
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0:00.0 | The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, The Medieval World. |
0:24.0 | Episode 68, The Battle of Jong-Du. Oh, The medieval city of Jong-Du in China is at the same location as the modern city of Beijing. |
0:59.0 | The area around Beijing has a fascinating human history that stretches right the way back to the prehistoric period. |
1:07.0 | All the way back in the fourth episode of this very |
1:14.3 | called homo erectus, we spoke of a discovery made at a site called Jogodion of a fossil |
1:22.3 | which has been named in the English-speaking scientific world as |
1:26.7 | Peking man. The fossil is over half a million years old, quite an unimaginable amount of time ago to the average human being. |
1:37.6 | The name Peking is a version of Beijing, which was used officially as the city's name, until recently when an |
1:46.5 | effort was made to call the city by its proper name of Beijing. Peking Man is the oldest one of a number of prehistoric human fossils found at |
1:57.8 | Jogoldein and in and around the Beijing area as well as wider China. |
2:05.3 | Despite the land around Beijing being fairly barren |
2:09.2 | its close proximity to the Bojic Sea |
2:12.2 | meant that it was an area of human occupation going into the Neolithic period. |
2:18.0 | Historical records suggest a settlement existed near or at Beijing before the archaeological record |
2:27.6 | firmly supports the existence of a settlement there |
2:30.9 | from the days of the Western Joel Dynasty around 3,000 years ago, |
2:36.2 | which makes it one of the oldest surviving cities in the world. |
2:40.0 | The settlement would grow in importance throughout the 1st millennium BCE, serving as a capital |
2:47.6 | city for its local rulers. |
2:51.8 | The first Emperor of a unified China, Xinxi Huang, turned the city then known as |
2:58.3 | Gycheng into his Western capital. Due to its comparative proximity to the northernmost |
3:06.4 | lands of China's influence the city itself was not very far from the great wall |
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