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Episode: Fall and Rise of China: Rise of Nurhaci
Description: Long Intro China is one of the world's four ancient civilizations, alongside Mesopotamia, the Indus valley and Egypt. It has a written history dating as far back as the Shang Dynasty, that's around 1600 BC, over 3000 years ago! Now as you can also imagine you are not getting the full rundown of the entire history of China, it's simply too immense for the overall story we are getting into. The story I want to tell has been termed by scholars, "the century of humiliation" dating 1839 until 1949. During this period China or better called the Qing Dynasty...