Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms is a video created by OverSimplified. It talks about the Chinese conflict called "Three Kingdoms," that was fought between the dynasties Wei, Shu, and Wu. The conflict started after the Han dynasty's fall.

Summary
For thousands of years, dynasties would rise rule over China for centuries to come, improving people's lives as well as making advancements all across the spectrum. However, eventual political and economic turmoil would result in another dynasty rising and taking over the Mandate of Heaven, or the right to rule.

For example, there is rampant corruption in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in part because of a string of child emperors that gave power to corrupt officials, such as Eunuchs. The Yellow Turban Rebellion (184 AD), led by a 'Magical Wizard' Zhang Jue would happen and eventually would be crushed by Regional Warlords. These Warlords included Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Dong Zhuo, and many others.

But due to the reliance on Regional Warlords, the power of the government would decrease and the Regional Warlords' gained power. He Jin becomes the regent and Jin gets killed by the Eunuchs.

Just then Jin calls in the Tyrannical Dong Zhuo from the Northwest. Chaos happened in the capital, which led to a fire. When Dong Zhuo reached the Capital with his Army, he realizes that he was 'In Charge'. Dong Zhuo becomes the emperor's regent. The emperor gets replaced by his younger brother. Zhuo becomes hated by the Warlords and a civil war happened. The Warlords, who hated Zhuo, decided to split up and the war ended.

Zhuo gets betrayed by Lü Bu, and multiple civil wars happened in China. Multiple alliances were formed by Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao. Multiple wars happened between Shu and Shao factions and a man named Cao Cao nearly win all of China.

But he was halted by Liu Bei and Sun Quan. The three Warlords would conquer most of China for themselves. They would create their own kingdoms. Cao Cao would died and his son, Cao Pi, would become emperor of Wei. Quan and Bei would crown themselves as emperors afterwards. Wei conquered all of China, and change their name to Jin.

Transcript
View Three Kingdoms' transcript here: Three Kingdoms/Transcript

Trivia

 * Three Kingdoms is the fifteenth video to get uploaded to the OverSimplified channel.
 * The video's topic of the Three Kingdoms may be mythical as told by OverSimplified himself.

Errors

 * At around timestamp 5:22 - 5:23, one of the Eunuchs' eyes disappears.