How the Silk Road Made the World | Full Documentary

The best I've seen so far from Get.factual. I like the honesty in the presentation about where inventions like horse warfare and gunpowder actually came from. Students who have only been taught Western history have no idea that Chinese and other Asian societies were equally advanced, and in some cases advanced in the arts of civilization before the west. China and what is now Cambodia (at Angkor Wat) had cities of a million or more people at a time when London and Rome counted only a few dozen thousand. They had running water and urban sanitation systems, textile industries, and high culture, including epic written works, at the same time, or in some instances earlier than western civilization.
You cannot have a proper history that just completely overlooks half of the planet.
Get. factual deserves credit for being realistic about that.

The new "SILK ROAD" will do exactly the same America is scared .

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Composite bow was made in central asia and Scythian were collective nomads who roamed from eastern Europe to east easia

recurved bow

Mafia China stole the world in this century began with that greedy

Pisces age of expansion of 'Peace & War '....... Double confluence fish tale War & Peace ...not War alone

Who is this Anges Hsu-Tang? She has no idea of the long history of the XungNu! They invade China and pillage villages in northern borders mainly for food and supply to help themselves stay alive through the coming winter! I have never heard that they “only want the finest things”. For the fine set things, they often trade with Chinese venders.

I have to say that David Anthony says several nonsensical things in this documentary.


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this was very educational and helpful

The earlies documented mass production was the early Chinese interchangeable bronze crossbow triggers. The metal arrow points if researched would predate this claim. The middlemen in the spice/silk trade was the Sogdian metchants overseeing the entire route system as business men. Their story and culture is another fascinating aspect.

Thank you for the video. I grew up reading about The Spice Road due to spices being the overwhelming trade commodity. Silk was merely one of the products traded. Also there were many different routes including important maritime routes. The "silk road" is not only misleading but denies the many international routes that still are maintained and now elaborated in importance in our modern world. Romantically I refer to this early area of international contact as When the Legends Began. A modern genre of literature which has exploded in popularity is The Silk Road Fantasy category. The Spice Road appears eternal.

The Hun was the Xiongnu that were defeated by the Han Chinese. After the defeat, they migrated west. The Kushan empire was by the Yuezhi people that were defeated by the Xiongnu. Both of them were on the north of ancient China. The Yuezhi people migrated west to central Asia, defeated the Saka people there and established the Kushan empire.

A difference between the Indo-European culture and the east Asian culture is Individualism and community. Indo-European cultures are more concerned about individualism while east Asian cultures are more about community.

No new technology

All that is old
They were using arrows in times of the mongols and before

Another must for the cavalry: trousers.

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Education correction*. The Huns used the recurve bows as part of their Calvary regular strategy several centuries before the Mongols utilized them and to this day have annual competitions where those talents are displayed. I sincerely hope ppl fact check in their research rather than falling for *headline driven content that waste ppls time.

Ancient Central Asian peoples are always depicted with Asian features ....when actually the majority of them in ancient times were more caucasian....or somewhere in between.

Having no cavalry and chasing down units of horse archers in total war is the absolute worst! I empathize with the first Roman army to fight the Parthians lol.

The Silk Road was a Chinese silk trap.

Same thing in reference to Visgoths and Roman Empire will shortly happen in the USA . OUTCOME WILL BE THE SAME .

Really corn was traded on the silk road???????

Having the gentleman explain arrowheads in whatever language he was speaking. Completely took away from the greatness of this documentary. have the damn documentary all-in-one language. For this reason I give you two thumbs down.👎👎

Nepalese Newar merchants and artisans of Kathmandu Valley crossed the Himalaya and traded on the Silk Road from a thousand years ago.

Yeah factual This is not my phone some lunatic muslim in my phone right now.. ROFL🤣🤣 running his screen.. 🤣 I don't care about Muslims.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

They chase after new young threads into massacre ,scare tactics, trendy looks into disaster cosmetic bone cut but theirs name others as dreamers.....climbers....... They are nobody's fool/ grass/ sticky glues....

Narssis is Greek words. Na- Reun- Ha- Da( korean phrase,became weary from Nal- Eu- Da/ transport mountain rocks), so he took a nap after carrying stuffs. Greek Olympic stars must be handsome and strong to work any heavy works. Later he must have took show business job which was easy or gladiators with iron armors but That avenue took him to Nal- Ak/ Na- Rock- Eui- Ro- PPa- Juh- Deul- Da into Tang- Za.

As I watch these documentaries about ancient history and battles, I really wonder about the support logistics for the size of the armies -- 40,000 Roman soldiers, 10,000 soldiers, including cavalry, and so on. Where did they get food supplies for 40,000 soldiers, not to mention the horses. Even allowing for foraging along the way, it takes pretty lush pasturage to support even 100 horses on the move and if the army is encamped for days or weeks, it becomes more problematic. I should think archaeologists would be digging up mass graves at these ancient battle sites and I don't hear anything about that. Did they not bury the dead, but leave them to be scavenged? If anyone has any insight about these things, please share.

The one aficiado speaker says Attila the Huns cavalry vanished without a trace after a raid. Well, definitely an exaggeration. Probably less of a trace than an army, of course, but a tracker could obviously see horse tracks, etc., plus the obvious ruins and carnage! But otherwise I liked his contribution to the story, about how quickly the Hun cavalry appeared. Also, I'm surprised Arabian horses are among the world's most desirable rather than the steppe horses discussed here. I guess because the steppe ones weren't racehorses.

They always depict Ghengis Khan as appearing oriental.....yet the earliest depictions if him describe him as having reddish to blonde hair and Caucasian features. Not all of Eurasians had mongol or asian features. That became the norm after time; but was not so in earlier times. In earlier times the predominant tribes on the steppes were more Caucasian peoples.

So cool. So many smart people leaving comments. I'm pretty obsessed with Central Aisa,so I'm in my glory now.

Even a jade butt plug wont stop a fart…. So keeping the spirit in, probably also a no.

CCP funded

I knew for the first time that why called Silk Road over this footage,Chinese govern might be want revival again of this Eurasia path through the project so called one belt one road

Well narated...but biased. As there's no mention of advanced Cavalry and Bows/arrows being used in the Indian Peninsula at least 2500 BC, which is recorded history and also in available Archaelogical findings...!

And the US
hates China for rebuilding the Silk Road

This video is about the development of ancient warfare, not about the exchange of goods and ideas between east and west. It barely mentions the 'silk road'.

Niggah says you need to have a recurved bow to have calvary.... ever hear of swords or spears?

aahhh venice sold information to mongols

All these innovations were invented by Turks, not Chinese not Parthia not Roman.

With all that talk of bows and arrowheads I'm surprised no mention was given to the stirrup. I notice how all of the riders in this video are using stirrups. I've seen quite a bit of conflicting information on the use of stirrups in Asia, with introduction dates ranging from 800 BC up to 200 BC.

you shouldn't be scared of using words Turks and Mongols instead of nomad, no one is gonna judge you. we are proud of what we were:)

The Battle of Crecy in a documentary about the silk road. How did that get there I wonder?

She's the sexiest Chinese woman I've ever seen, so beautiful.

In indian scriptures you find evidence that horses were used much much longer before the time it was mentioned here.