Dan Snow
speaker
15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard today
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Beijing in the early fifteenth century would have been something to behold.
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Behind the immense city walls lay the capital of one of the most powerful empires on earth.
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Its streets teeming with merchants, soldiers, scholars, officials, carts bringing grain and goods into the city from across China.
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Silk, porcelain, tea all flowing around from an empire which was in turn connected to markets which stretched across Asia.
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And all the way to the Middle East and Europe.
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And at the center
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Or something extraordinary.
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The forbidden city.
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A vast imperial world of vermilion walls and yellow tiled rooms.
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Formidable gates, enormous courtyards, and ornate ceremonial halls, all arranged along the great north-south axis.
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Architecture designed to convey hierarchy.
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Order.
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The overwhelming, the unshakable authority of the emperor.
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To the north, that emperor's armies campaigned against the Mongols.
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To the east of China's coast, great treasure fleets sailed through the South China Seas to
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The Indian Ocean to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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This was Ming China.
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At its imperial height.
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And it seemed unstoppable.
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