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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Travelling around begging, he's on the road.
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Yeah.
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What's next for him?
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So that's the context in which his natural charisma, his skill is it just comes out.
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I mean fighting the Mongols is a mind blowing like and these sort of peasant militias, is it hit and run attacks?
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Are the Mongols pretty stretched to sort of keep this mighty empire garrisoned?
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Nationalism is obviously um anachronistic phrase, but is there a sense that they don't like the Mongols because they are foreign and they are
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Is there foreigners they're objecting to or are they just saying there is chaos, the government is not good enough, we are going to emerge in our local area as a an alternative power structure and and they keep sort of growing outwards from there?
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Zhu Yuanzung's rebellion captured the southern city of Nanjing in 1356, and he built a power base around the wealthy Yangtze region.
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He spent the next decade or so defeating rival rebel leaders.
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When he felt strong enough, he declared himself emperor.
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He took the name Hong Wu and proclaimed the Ming Dynasty.
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He then turned north and sent his armies towards the Yuan capital, Da Do, where modern Beijing stands.
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It's a formidable operation, and the Yuan court sees it coming.
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They know that the garrison's morale is shaky, they know grain stores are running low, so rather than risk a devastating siege, they decide to abandon their capital and retreat into the steppe, hoping they can regroup in their native grasslands.
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The Ming take Da Du under their control with ease, but they then decide to establish their own capital in the southern city of Nanjing.
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The Ming era has begun.
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Is there a moment when he turns from a sort of
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a rebel, local warlord, into a a figure who is who looks like an alternative centre of political power, starts doing things with bureaucracy.
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How's that transition going?
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