China is a unique nation and has been the most populous planet for the last few centuries. Considering ethnic Chinese living in other countries, it's estimated that about 1in5 people on the planet are Chinese. Twentypercent. The population of China in 2020 was 1.44 billion people. Recently it's been announced that India, whose population in 2020 was 1.38 billion people, will soon be the most populated country on Earth. Premier Xi Xinping has become increasingly totalitarian in his political thinking and seems to be growing a bit paranoid, for the Chinese economy is showing signs of real trouble underneath the veneer of success. Like Chairman Mao before him, Xi's political writings and actions have almost been codified as "Xi Xinping Thought." Suppose you're in the top ranks of the Communist Party. In that case, you will be monitored closely not only for your affinity for Xi Xinping Thought but monitored for hostility to it and the potential for rebellion. From the late 1950s until about 1960, China, which Chairman Mao Zedong ruled, undertook to move from the ranks of economically backward nations into the 20th century. This program was called "The Great Leap Forward."Though the events of the Great Cultural Revolution, which followed the Great Leap Forward in the later 1960s, got more attention from many historians, the Great Leap Forward was a mass movement of unreal scale which involved hundreds of millions of people. Some of the goals of the Great Leap were: to improve food production, increase steel production, spend more money on and develop modern armed forces, construct new water management systems like dams and irrigation, and more. Lets dive into today's video as we uncover some of the most bizarre events in the history of Chinese communism.Timecode:00:00 Introduction01:29 The Social Credit System10:27 The Great Leap Forward13:28 Bizarre Event Of Homemade Steel Production16:00 The Hundred Flowers Movement17:38 Red Light means "GO!" #history #communist #chinesehistory #maozedong #thegreapleapforward #communistchina #communismScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Jake FloryMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com

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The Roman Empire fell in the 5th century AD, prey to internal corruption, disputes, and many enemies on and within its borders. Despite being just a memory for over fifteen hundred years, the ancient Romans, whose territory included almost the entire coast of the Mediterranean even before an emperor ruled them, have cast a long shadow. The politics of many nations today are based upon many ancient Roman principles. So are laws and modern Western architecturejust three things descended from ancient Rome. First, the language of Rome, Latin, is one of the two main building blocks of many modern European languages, along with Greek. Second, English words coming directly from Latin are "convivial" and "conviviality," relating to a pleasant but not overly raucous good time with good company. "The party was quite convivial, and all the guests enjoyed the spirit of conviviality encouraged by the party's hosts." Third, the Romans called some of their parties "convivium," a relatively sedate private banquet whose Latin definition means "living together." A successfully convivial convivium could last for many hours or even days.Today we shall talk about the nasty private parties of roman emperiors like Caligula, Nero, and Augustus, etc.Upperclass Romans, just like the members of the upperclasses worldwide today, had access to the most exotic and expensive foods of the day. Usually, a Roman banquet would include three meals, the gustatio, today's “hors d'oeuvres”. Incidentally the English word “gustation”, is a direct link to ancient Rome, and means “the act of tasting”. The main course was called “Mensa primae” or “the main table”, and dessert, “Mensa secundae”, or “secondary table”.#romanparties #history #romanslaves #caligula #nero #ancientrome #romanslaveScriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Abhishek SharmaVoiceover Artist: Stephen VoxDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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The word “concubine” has several definitions and many connotations. The easiest way to define the Chinese type of concubinage, at least among the very rich and the Imperial family was that they were mistresses. Concubinage in China differed in many ways from that of other nations, though it did have similarities as well. At the very top, in the Imperial Household, there was sisterhood, rivalry, palace intrigue, and much more. This likely took place at the home of rich men too. In the Imperial China which lasted until the Communist Revolution of 1949, a man could have only one wife, but as many concubines as he could afford to house, clothe and feed. Frequently, in Chinese history (and that of other nations), a man's wealth and power were partly judged by the number of concubines he kept and how they lived. Likely the most famous system of concubinage existed within the Chinese imperial family, likely going back at least two thousand years to the Han Dynasty, which lasted from 25AD to 220AD. The law then, and going forward to 1949 was that the higher the rank of the man, the more concubines he was able to have. Since Han times and likely before, a concubine could be bought, at a slave market in the earliest times, or from a family with an attractive daughter who needed money to survive – these are just two examples. In many cases, a wife would have to approve of this “transaction”. History is full of tales of Chinese wives mistreating their husband's concubine or concubines, sometimes addressed as “little sister”, with a number attached in case of multiple women. That was a common occurrence, but likely as common was a good relationship – especially in a bad marriage: a concubine/mistress could take the attention and pressure off a wife and allow her her own time – even more so in a household with multiple concubines. #concubines #history #imperialconcubine #ancientchina #chinesehistory #qingdynasty Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Jason Bohol Voiceover Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com

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Today we shall dive deep into human evolution as we look at some of the most bizarre theories of how homo sapiens grew big brains with enhanced cognitive abilities!For the first twothirds of our evolution, homosapiens shared the same brain size of monkeys and other primates. It would take a groundbreaking discovery in 1924 at a quarry in Taung, South Africa, to first introduce this extraordinary new idea. It was there that anthropologist Raymond Dart was stunned to find the fossilized cranium and intact skeletal face of an early bipedal ape, whose remains shared amazing similarities with the human brain.Dart declared it a previously unknown ancestor of modern humans, christening it with the name Australopithecus africanus, or ‘ManApe of Africa,’ causing a mixture of skepticism and feverish enthusiasm to sweep the academic world. Dart experienced lot of pushback from scientists, who believed it was impossible that such a smallbrained specimen, with a size of 450 grams equal to that of a chimpanzee, could be a hominid. It would take decades, and several more important archaeological finds, to validate Dart’s proposal. By the 1950s, a lot of other smallbrained hominids had been excavated. One of these was the Paranthropus robustus, which first came to the attention of scientist Robert Broom in 1938 after he received an intriguing fossil in the mail. He followed this up with a dig at the mysterious origin site in Kromdraai, South Africa, finding a hominid ape with a brain size of 525 grams, similar to that of a gorilla at 500 grams.As a result, the Taung child, another name for Dart’s trailblazing fossil, and the idea that humans had once had similar brain masses to chimpanzees and gorillas, was accepted into standard evolutionary models. In the final third of our evolution, our brain size began to increase dramatically. The first notable enlargement occurred in the Homo habilis, the first type of Homosapiens that entered the evolutionary stage 1.9 million years ago. It was in the next manifestation, Homoerectus, who appeared 1.8 million years ago, that another sizable expansion happened. Their brains were now averaging a little more than 600 grams.Thanks to incremental increases like these over hundreds of thousands of years, average brain weight reached over 1000 grams by 500,000 years ago. When Homosapiens appeared 300,000 years ago, they had a similar brainsize to modern humans of 1,200 grams or more. #homosapiens #history #evolution #neanderthals #paleoanthrology #homoerectus Scriptwriter: Jake LeighHowarthVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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In the 13th and 14 centuries, the Mongols established the largest land empire in human history. At its furthest extent, the Mongolian Empire stretched from the coast of China along the northern border of the Himalayas, encompassing much of today's Middle East from Persia to the Black Sea, much of southcentral Russia and Ukraine and Europe to the gates of Vienna. This was done on foot, wagon, and most famously, on horseback. By the time the Mongols reached the eastern borders of Ukraine in the late 1200s, some of their armies numbered 100,000, but it was not their numbers that were the Mongols' primary weapon – terror was. That policy of terror started with their first great leader, the infamous Genghis Khan. He is not infamous everywhere. “The Great Khan”, as he is also known, is still a national hero in Mongolia today.Many stories about this episode have it that Genghis' older halfbrother Behter stole a fish that Temujin killed for the night's meal, and ate it all himself, refusing to share with his family. Soon after, Temujin secretly followed Behter, waited for him to be alone, and then shot him with one of the famous Mongol recurved bows. Another version of the story adds that Behter, as the oldest brother, began to order people around, and this caused resentment on the part of Temujin and his younger fullbrother Qa'sar. There may or may not have been food involved, but in this version, Temujin simply used Behter's greed as an excuse to kill him and move to take control of the the clan himself.Genghis, whose real name was “Temujin”, which means “of iron”. #genghiskhan #history #genghis #mongolempireScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Stephan VoxMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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For those of you new to this topic there were basically two types of Nazi camps: the “extermination camp”, for which the sole purpose was the mass killing of human beings. The German word for extermination camp is “Vernichtungs Lager”. The“Konzentrations Lager”, or concentration camp, was also a place of horror, but while in hundreds of thousands of cases, there was no real difference between the two types of camps, very generally speaking, there was a greater chance to survive in the camps designated “KZ” or “kah tsett”, as the letters and acronym was pronounced in German. In the extermination camps one's chances of survival were dramatically reduced.Though it is the most infamous camp, Auschwitz was actually three camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz IIBirkenau,and Auschwitz III – Monowitz. As you may know, “Auschwitz” is the German word for the town of Óswięcim ( pronounced “Ohss vee etch im”) in southwest Poland, where the camp was located. By the time Auschwitz IIBirkenau (“beer keh now”) was gassing its first victims in March, 1942, the name “Auschwitz” already chilled the blood, at least for those “in the know”.By the time the name filtered down to the people on the lowest rung of the hierarchy of the Nazi state, the Jews and others who made up the Nazi's victims, rumors abounded about what really lay at Auschwitz, and make no mistake, by 1943, the knowledge of what Birkenau, whose name “place among the birches” peacefully belies its function, was an open secret. Escapees and the Polish resistance disseminated the information – though most of the information went to governments and military men in the Allied countries. But, as one saw in the famous movie “Schindler's List”, the Jews, who made up 90% of the victims of the Holocaust, had heard rumors about what happened at Auschwitz, although they, like many Nazi victims, went into denial, for to believe the rumors was to lose all hope. There were six extermination camps: AuschwitzBirkenau, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. All were located in Poland. At Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka, fences covered with pine branches hid the main extermination areas, which, at all three camps, were gas chambers harnessing the exhaust from truck and/or tank engines.My mustread list of Holocaust books:Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account: https://amzn.to/3Sp7lsuRena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz: https://amzn.to/3Q2dBnQMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History: https://amzn.to/3bjlcQ8The Last Jew of Treblinka: https://amzn.to/3oIe1o0Things We Couldn't Say: https://amzn.to/3vufwtH#nazi #auschwitz #history #concentrationcamp #auschwitzbirkenau #holocaust #hitlerScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commissionDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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No one knows, probably not even the Russian government, exactly how many people perished as a result of the many purges, labor camps, and other punishments that occurred during the life of the Soviet Union, which existed from 19171991. Reliable estimates have put the number over ten million, and perhaps as high as twenty million or more. Most, but certainly not all of those deaths occurred during the reign of Josef Stalin, a genius in the exercise of raw power, but otherwise, a paranoid megalomaniac with few equals in history. In today's video, we are going to tell you about some of the other terrible events that occurred during the life of the Soviet Union, or USSR.In the mid1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, a communist reformer, became Premier of the Soviet Union. When he came to power, he understood two things almost immediately: that the Soviet economy needed to be restructured and people allowed more economic freedom, and that many people were dissatisfied with life in the USSR, but did not dare speak of it for fear of government repression. Knowing that this fear and dissatisfaction was liable, sooner rather than later, to spill over into public discontent, protest, and perhaps more, Gorbachev instituted the policy of “glasnost”, or “openness”, which allowed people more freedom to speak their minds.This also held true, to a certain extent, for members of the government and its many organs. The immediate spur to “glasnost” was the awful events that took place at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine – then a part of the USSR. Attempting to keep the radiation leak secret from their own people and the world, the Soviets finally had to admit they had a very large problem at Chernobyl, and this was partly caused by people's fear to speak up about problems there and in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster.From Soviet diplomats being kept hostage to Stalin's psychiatric hospitals, to the Chernobyl mess up! We've it all covered in our video!The Best Books On The Gulags And The Soviet Regime:*The House of the Dead: https://amzn.to/3Q7d1W1Between Shades Of Grey: https://amzn.to/3zmdhJPKolyma Tales: https://amzn.to/3OLW7eoThe Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: https://amzn.to/3biOGOdSakhalin Island: https://amzn.to/3Q3sUNa*#sovietunion #history #gulags #sovietgulags #sovietsecrets #classifieddocumentsScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commissionDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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In 2014, the world came to know the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as it exploded onto the global scene with bloody conquests in Iraq and the Middle East. ISIS became legendary for its barbarism: it beheaded prisoners, forced captives into slavery, and destroyed anything that conflicted with their extremist ideology.In August 2014, the small Yazidi ethnic group would face the full force of this brutality. Today on A Day In History, we explore a tale of slavery, depravity, and mass murder in the 21st century genocide of the Yazidis of Iraq.If the topic of this video is interesting to you, consider subscribing and checking out the other videos on this channel, and leave a like to show your appreciation.Who Are the Yizidis?Not many people have heard of the Yazidis. After all, even the highest estimates place their global population at no more than 1.5 million, or as low as 700,000.The Yizidis are a small Kurdish ethnic group who have traditionally lived in small pockets of the area known informally as ‘Kurdistan’ in Iraq, although today they also have a diaspora of a few hundred thousands around the world. The history of the Yazidis mirrors that of other Kurdish peoplesrecurring persecution from the numerous states and empires who have ruled over them, but despite it all they have maintained their own communities, language, culture, and religion.This Yazidi religion is unique. They are monotheists, but not Abrahamic like Christians or Muslims, and instead their religion draws more from the ancient Persian Zoroastrian faith. This religion has been a primary motivation for their persecution. Muslim rulers have oppressed them as ‘unbelievers’ and Yazidi persecution has not been met with the same sympathy in the Christian world that fell upon people like the Armenians.Music: Epidemic music#yazidi #isis #historySources:Atika Shubert and Bharati Naik, ‘ISIS ‘forced pregnant Yazidi women to have abortions’’, CNN, 6th October 2015, https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/mi...David Stout, ‘Be Captured and Killed, or Risk Dying of Thirst: The Awful Choice Facing the Refugees of Sinjar’, Time, 6th August 2014, https://time.com/3085270/iraqyazidi...Elizabeth Hagedorn, ‘Rescuers scout Syria for Yazidis still trapped in enslavement’, Middle East Eye, 4th March 2020, https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/node...Lori Himmar, Maya Alleruzzo, and Balint Szlanko, ‘Islamic State Tightens Grip on Captives Held as Sex Slaves’, Associated Press, 6th July 2016, https://apnews.com/generalnews7685e...Rukmini Callimachi, ‘ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape’, New York Times, 13th August 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/wo...Rukmini Callimachi, ‘ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape’, Washington Post, 13th August 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/wo...Sefik Tagay et al, ‘The 2014 Yazidi Genocide and Its Effect on Yazidi Diaspora’, The Lancet, 390 (10106), (2017), p1946Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickey, ‘Playing Dead: How One Man Survived an IS Massacre’, Middle East Eye, 13th February 2015, https://www.middleeasteye.net/feature...UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Iraq: 6 July – 10 September 2014, , October 2014Copyright © 2023 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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In this short historic documentary about Joseph Stalin, the leader of the USSR, we shall explore his final 24 hours.If you look at the reign of Joseph Stalin as the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, you get an image of Stalin as a ruthless, politically crafty, and dangerously paranoid individual. He held power in large part due to the fear he instilled. That insidious fear, not just of Stalin himself, but the mistrust he fostered between people themselves let him stay in power for 30 years. It eventually also led to Joseph Stalin lying in his own urine, the heads of state surrounding him, too afraid to lift a finger to help. Live by the sword, die by the loss of bodily functions in a narratively interesting way, as the saying goes. Joseph Stalin rose to power in the early 1920s. He already held the title of General Secretary while Lenin, his predecessor, suffered from worsening health problems. As Lenin declined Stalin solidified his power base, discredited his rivals, and positioned himself as the next de facto ruler. One of the last things Stalin and Lenin worked on was the creation of the USSR, formalizing soviet power in the surrounding countries. There is conjecture that Stalin helped speed Lenin’s declining health along with some good oldfashioned toxic substance, but no claims have been officially made.In his many years in office, Stalin was responsible for the leadership of the massive USSR, and his decisions controlled the fates of millions upon millions of people. His highlight reel, if you want to call it that, includes antisemitic witchhunts, secret police reign of terror, mass executions, WWII, the beginning of the Cold War, and the Holodomor among others. Let's look at Joseph Stalin's final 24 hours, how he passed away, and what happened to the USSR after he passed. This is a brief history of the final 24 hours of Joseph Stalin.#josephstalin #sovietunion #history #ussrScriptwriter: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]Managed by PodcastPayouts.com

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Henry was never meant to become king of England. His older brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, had that role sewn up. Born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich on the 28th of June 1491, Henry was brought up to be an educated and strong princetalented at Latin, French and Italian as well as hunting, dancing and sports. He picked up his fair share of titles as a boyfrom Duke of York to Warden of the Scottish Marshes and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland – all given to him by his father, Henry VII. Lets go back in history to look at the notorious life of the Tudor king Henry VIII. #henryviii #thetudors#bizarre #ancienthistoryScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Voiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Timecode:00:00 Start00:24 The Boy Who Would (Not) Be King? 02:02 Party Animal 03:45 A Lover and A Fighter07:52 Henry’s Enemies 09:34 Decline And Death Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com

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