In this soft spoken ASMR video, I tell you about the History of the Great Wall, the "TenThousand Mile Wall" (万里长城) and, through it, the history of Ancient China from the birth of civilization around the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to the Ming Dynasty, the last one to maintain and expand the Wall.

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Timestamps:
0:00 TenThousand Mile Wall
10:20 Beginnings of Chinese Civilization
20:09 Qin and Han Dynasties
28:50 Confucius and East Asian Societies
42:23 Tang Dynasty
50:28 The Wall and the Ming Dynasty