Dan Snow
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15,041 appearances
104 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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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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But in the early thirteenth century.
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That ethnic dominance did not mean political power.
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In twelve seventy nine, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan.
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did what no one else could do.
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He united a disparate China under Mongol rule.
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He declared his dynasty as the Yuan dynasty, and it prospered
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Mm for a time.
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He moved his capital city to the site of modern day Beijing.
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Which became the heart of his vast, powerful empire.
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And there Yuan elites and horsemen mingled with Persian astronomers and Venetian merchants and Chinese Mandarins and diplomats.
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He created a powerful combination.
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The rugged
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military virtues of the steppe with the philosophy of the Chinese court.
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His realm was a meeting of worlds, a center of innovation, trade, and exchange.
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The Silk Road hummed with life as goods and ideas and even faiths flowed across continents.
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