Dan Snow
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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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But of course.
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Everything changes.
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Prosperity bred corruption.
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Power creates enemies and dominion.
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Brings forth rebellion.
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Your listed Dan Snow's History Hit, and in this episode we're heading to Beijing to tell the extraordinary story of the Ming.
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How an impoverished peasant
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Rose up to found a dynasty that would rule China for nearly three centuries.
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And how this state, one of the most powerful on earth, if not the most powerful.
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eventually unraveled through rebellion, war, crisis, and environmental catastrophe.
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China has long been a land of extraordinary ethnic diversity.
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Over the centuries, dynasties rose and fell.
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And different people have seized and relinquished power, or had it prized from them.
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You might be familiar with some of the groups, like the Manchus, the Jurchins.
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The Ketans.
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And you get this pattern throughout history since ancient times, alternating between periods of political unification and fragmentation.
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But for the purposes of our story, what you need to know is that throughout much of its history
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The great majority of people living in China's densely populated heartlands are
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were from the ethnic group the Han Chinese.
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And that's still the dominant ethnic group today.
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