The legendary Battle of the Red Cliffs marks the end of the four century old Han dynasty. Poverty, famine and floods lead to uprisings such as the Rebellion of the Yellow Turbans. The weakened empire got split into smaller regions after the death of Emperor Ling. It was only under imperial general Cao Cao that the empire managed to reunite the northern territories. Shortly after, Cao set off to conquer the land south of the Yangtze River and reunite the former territory of the Eastern Han. His efforts were crushed by the allied forces of the southern warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan who held up their line of defence. Find out all about the battle that would mark the beginning of the Three Kingdoms' aera, now on IT'S HISTORY. » The Complete PLAYLIST: http://bit.ly/HistoryOfChina » Mentioned Videos: Sun Tzu - Art Of War: http://bit.ly/SunTzusArt Han dynasty: http://bit.ly/QinAndHan » JOIN OUR COMMUNITY FOR MORE HISTORY KNOWLEDGE! Write us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ITSHISTORYfb Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thehistoryshow Your photos on Instagram: https://instagram.com/itshistorychannel » Interested in the First World War? Check out our PARTNER channel THE GREAT WAR! https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar » SOURCES Videos: British Pathé (https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe) Pictures: mainly Picture Alliance Content: "Luo Guanzhong: ""The Romance of Three Kingdoms"" Rafe de Crespigny: ""Generals of the South-The foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu"", https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/html/1885/42048/gos_ch4.pdf Rafe de Crespigny: ""The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin- A history of China in the Third Century AD"", https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/html/1885/42048/3KWJin.html#part1 http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/html/en/34History359.html www.kongming.net http://www.thefinertimes.com/Ancient-Wars/the-battle-of-red-cliffs.html" » ABOUT US IT’S HISTORY is a ride through history - Join us discovering the world’s most important eras in IN TIME, BIOGRAPHIES of the GREATEST MINDS and the most important INVENTIONS. » HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL? You can support us by sharing our videos with your friends and spreading the word about our work. » CAN I EMBED YOUR VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE? Of course, you can embed our videos on your website. We are happy if you show our channel to your friends, fellow students, classmates, professors, teachers or neighbors. Or just share our videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. Subscribe to our channel and like our videos with a thumbs up. » CAN I SHOW YOUR VIDEOS IN CLASS? Of course! Tell your teachers or professors about our channel and our videos. We’re happy if we can contribute with our videos. » CREDITS Presented by: Indy Neidell Script by: Dan Hungerford Directed by: Daniel Czepelczauer Director of Photography: Markus Kretzschmar Music: Markus Kretzschmar Sound Design: Bojan Novic Editing: Franz Jänich A Mediakraft Networks original channel Based on a concept by Florian Wittig and Daniel Czepelczauer Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson, Spartacus Olsson Head of Production: Michael Wendt Producer: Daniel Czepelczauer Social Media Manager: Laura Pagan and Florian Wittig Contains material licensed from British Pathé All rights reserved - © Mediakraft Networks GmbH, 2015

• published: 15 Aug 2015
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