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Why did King David sponsor the writing of the Bible? For these three reasons. Why did Augustus Caesar sponsor the writing of the Iniat? For these three reasons, okay? Legitimacy. I'm the rightful king because God said so. Unity. We're all part of the community of God, okay? And that's what differentiates. We're Christians, and everyone else is pagan or infidel or heretic. Differentiation. We are not the Byzantine Empire, okay? So, Charlemagne is trying to create legitimacy, unity, and differentiation with the Holy Roman Empire, okay? So, Pope Leo, why does he sponsor Charlemagne? Why is he crowning Charlemagne the Holy Roman Empire? Well, he's trying to assert his authority, right? He's trying to establish the fact that the pope is a true representative of God on earth, okay? Second is he's trying to protect himself. 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So I want to g..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1459.34, "end": 1528.68, "time_label": "24:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But sometimes they were extremely violent. And this led to a series of wars in Judea between the Jews and the Romans. These were terrible, terrible wars that killed millions of people. Three major wars were fought. Anot..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1529.16, "end": 1590.85, "time_label": "25:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Jews and Persians got along really well because Persians are extremely tolerant people. But Jews really didn't like Romans. And the Romans really didn't like the Jews either. Okay? 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