Yellow River
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Sep 11, 2026
Stuart BellNARRATOR
The Middle Kingdom is as vast as Europe and has a differentiation of idiosyncrasies marked by the two great river systems which traverse it.
Stuart BellNARRATOR
The Yangtze-Qiang and the Huang-Ho are respectively the Mediterranean and the Baltic.
Stuart BellNARRATOR
Even today, in spite of the centuries of unification, the southern celestial differs in his thoughts and beliefs from his northern brother as a member of the Latin race differs from the Teuton.
Stuart BellNARRATOR
in ancient days when communication was even more difficult than at present and especially during the feudal period this difference in thought was most pronounced the art and poetry of the one breathes an atmosphere entirely distinct from the other in lao-tse and his followers and in kutsugen the forerunner of the yang tse kiang nature poets we find an idealism quite inconsistent with the prosaic ethical notions of their contemporary northern writers lao-tse lived five centuries before the christian era the germ of taoist speculation may be found long before the advent of lao-tse surnamed the long-eared the archaic records of china especially the book of changes foreshadow his thought But the great respect paid to the laws and customs of that classic period of Chinese civilization which cumulated with the establishment of the Chao dynasty in the 12th century BC kept the development of individualism in check for a long while, so that it was not until after the disintegration of the Chao dynasty and the establishment of innumerable independent kingdoms that it was able to blossom forth in the luxuriance of free thought.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
one of the captains who was flying in our flight came rushing in and congratulated me for shooting down a MiG.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
And he had seen that episode and had watched the airplane go back over the Yellow River and watched it go down.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
And that isn't a whole lot of satisfaction.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
You'd rather see all that happen yourself, of course.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
One of the wings had two squadrons and the other had three, which in essence meant that there were approximately 125 F-86s assigned.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
That didn't mean they were all on commission.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
And we could look across the Yellow River, and we could count about 1,500 MiGs on several airfields in Manchuria.
Walker Bud MahurinGUEST
So we were greatly outnumbered.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
For already a rumor was abroad that Uncle John must leave them, that another Christmas Day would see a stranger in his pulpit.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
After dwelling briefly on his favorite subject, Christian love, and showing by quotations from the noblest of heathen philosophers how low and false their standard was, how poor a keystone is earthly citizenship, the patriotism of a pugnacious village or a little presumptuous attica, to crown and bind together the great arch of humanity, after showing too with a depth of learning wasted on his audience how utterly false the assertion is that the doctrines, or rather the principles, nay, one great principle of our New Testament had ever been anticipated on the banks of the Yellow River, eloquently he turned himself to the application of his subject.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
With some unconscious yearning perhaps, or perhaps some sense of home truth, he gazed towards the curtain pew where sat his ancient friend, brought thither, it was too evident, by tidings of his absence.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
As the eyes of the old men met for the first time after long estrangement, those eyes that had met so frankly and kindly for more than 50 years, during all which time each to the other had been a necessarius, and as each observed how pale and gray his veteran comrade looked, neither heart was wholly free from self-reproach and sorrow.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
They're all near rivers or other sources of water, and they are places where people established settlements, which grew into cities, with those cities and societies that they were home to becoming more and more complex.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Other cradles of civilization include the Indus Valley on the Indian subcontinent, the western coast of South America, including Lake Titicaca and the Andean Plateau, and the Yangtze and Yellow River systems in China, as well as Mesoamerica.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Starting with the establishment of its first cities, ancient Mesopotamia spans more than 3,000 years of history.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Civilizations, kingdoms, and empires overlapped and influenced each other, so trying to put together a linear timeline or even a more relative one is actually quite challenging.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
This first victory for the Qin led by Bai Qi turned a few heads from out east.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
With lands that they seized from the two vanquished states, the Qin were now inside the Yellow River Valley.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
In 292, still in BC times, Bai Qi's forces invaded Wei and seized 61 cities and towns.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
In the following year, in 291, both Bai Qi and one of his generals, Sima Cuo, drove Wei to the brink and they sued for peace and took themselves out of the competition.
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Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
And then, like they began doing in 316 BC in the former Ba and Shu kingdoms in Sichuan, take all the Qin laws and administration and implement them in the south.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
Easier said than done.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
Anyone familiar with China can tell you the climate and topography of the Wei and Yellow River valleys is hardly the same as the two Guang's, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
By the time these half-million soldiers, divided into five separate columns, got as far south as Hunan, they were already starting to realize this was a mistake and they hadn't adequately prepared for such a campaign.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Different regions were solving similar problems in their own ways, using local rivers, local climates, local materials and local traditions.
speaker_5NARRATOR
In East Asia, the Yellow River basin became one of the great centres of this long experiment.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Yellow River is powerful, unpredictable and heavily burdened with fine yellow sediment called loess.
speaker_5NARRATOR
it has nourished farming communities for thousands of years but it has also flooded shifted course and destroyed settlements with terrifying force living beside it required patience co-operation and a willingness to rebuild long before dynasties there were villages By roughly 5000 BCE, Neolithic communities in northern China were growing millet, raising pigs and dogs, making pottery, and living in settled or semi-settled villages.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Yangshuo cultures, spread across parts of the Yellow River region, are known for painted pottery, communal settlements, and increasingly complex craft traditions.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Later came the Longshan cultures, beginning around 3000 BCE.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Their pottery could be thin, dark and polished almost to a metallic shine.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Communities near the coast worked jade and navigated river systems.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
After dwelling briefly on his favorite subject, Christian love, and showing by quotations from the noblest of heathen philosophers how low and false their standard was, how poor a keystone is earthly citizenship, the patriotism of a pugnacious village, or a little presumptuous Attica, to crown and bind together the great arch of humanity.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
After showing, too, with a depth of learning wasted on his audience, how utterly false the assertion is that the doctrines, or rather the principles, nay, one great principle of our New Testament had ever been anticipated on the banks of the Yellow River, eloquently he turned himself to the application of his subject.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
With some unconscious yearning, perhaps, or perhaps some sense of home truth, he gazed towards the curtain pew where sat his ancient friend, brought thither, it was too evident, by tidings of his absence.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
As the eyes of the old men met for the first time after long estrangement, those eyes that had met so frankly and kindly for more than 50 years, during all which time each to the other had been a necessarius, and as each observed how pale and gray his veteran comrade looked, neither heart was wholly free from self-reproach and sorrow.
Moria ChappellGUEST
Oh, no, but the Egyptians were the first to civilize.
Moria ChappellGUEST
They were the first to build the temples, and then everybody else figured it out based off of they are the first, right? And then, okay, but what about the Yellow River Valley in China? What the heck were they doing? How did they figure it out? Oh, well, basically we independently all came up with the exact same answer because that's what works.
Moria ChappellGUEST
Okay, well then how come we're not all the same? And there are major differences.
Moria ChappellGUEST
So that almost reduces any amount of invention, 'cause if, if we're all just bumbling humans going along and we're all gonna eventually figure out what works, then there's no... y- you know, how can you, y- y- That, that's not true either.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
After dwelling briefly on his favorite subject, Christian love, and showing by quotations from the noblest of heathen philosophers how low and false their standard was, how poor a keystone is earthly citizenship, the patriotism of a pugnacious village, or a little presumptuous attica, to crown and bind together the great arch of humanity.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
After showing, too, with a depth of learning wasted on his audience, how utterly false the assertion is that the doctrines, or rather the principles, nay, one great principle of our New Testament had ever been anticipated on the banks of the Yellow River, eloquently he turned himself to the application of his subject.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
With some unconscious yearning perhaps, or perhaps some sense of home truth, he gazed towards the curtain pew where sat his ancient friend, brought thither, it was too evident, by tidings of his absence.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
As the eyes of the old men met for the first time after long estrangement, those eyes that had met so frankly and kindly for more than 50 years, during all which time each to the other had been a necessarius, and as each observed how pale and gray his veteran comrade looked, neither heart was wholly free from self-reproach and sorrow.
JJGUEST
yeah
Carl ZhaHOST
a rump away state and not even the most productive part so weibo wasn't happy with that so as soon as the yubang crossed yellow river uh weibo had come over to him and a couple uh south generals that was made kings by uh that was made kings by Xiang Yu, also surrendered.
Carl ZhaHOST
The Zhao general, Sima Ang, and another Zhao general, Shen Bao, they just, because Liu Bang just had a much larger side army.
Carl ZhaHOST
Xiao Ge had mobilized over 100,000 recruits for him.
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Carl ZhaHOST
And he still controls the Luoyang base, the Zhou Dynasty royal domain.
Carl ZhaHOST
So he's keeping east of that.
Carl ZhaHOST
But everything else, all the land north of the Yellow River, they're all gone.
Carl ZhaHOST
All these kings have switched their allegiance.
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