The Secrets Behind the World’s Largest Monument

00:00:01 - introduction
00:00:43 - Part 1: The Nightmare Frontier - Walls Before the Wall
00:20:44 - Part 2: The Warring States Arms Race - Seven Walls, Seven Kingdoms
00:45:03 - Part 3: Qin Shi Huang's Obsession - The First Great Wall
01:06:37 - Part 4: Han Expansion - The Wall in the Desert
01:25:26 - Part 5: The Silk Road Fortress - Walls of Commerce
01:43:07 - Part 6: Walls in Chaos - The Age of Fragmentation
02:01:47 - Part 7: Sui Dynasty's Deadly Ambition
02:23:41 - Part 8: Tang Confidence - When Walls Seemed Unnecessary
02:45:44 - Part 9: Song Sophistication - Rivers Instead of Walls
03:02:55 - Part 10: Mongol Conquest - When Walls Meant Nothing
03:20:20 - Part 11: Ming Terror - The Wall Reborn in Stone
03:35:02 - Part 12: The Monumental Ming Wall - What The World Sees Today
03:50:34 - Part 13: The Wall Under Siege - Mongol and Manchu Pressure
04:04:16 - Part 14: The Great Betrayal -- When the Wall's Gates Opened
04:11:51 - Part 15: Epilogue: The Stone Dragon's Dream