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So the yellow are Crusader States. And as you can see, the white is all Muslim territory. All right. In 1099, they take Jerusalem. And as I mentioned, there's a lot of religious fanaticism going on. When the Crusaders take Jerusalem, they do so with vengeance. They kill all the Muslims. They kill all the Jews. They basically kill as many people as possible in the city. Before the siege, the Fatimids, who were in control of the city, they actually expelled the Christians because they were afraid that the Christians would help the Crusaders from inside, okay? So no Christians were killed, but a lot of Jews, a lot of Muslims were killed. It was a very, very bloody event. And the Christians celebrate this, okay? For them, this is righteous. 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There's something called clerical authority and something called secular authority. Clerical just means the Church, secular just means the nobility, the prince who is in charge of that area. So, the clerical authority passes judgment on you. Okay? It's only responsible for your spiritual life, not your physical life. The secular authority only cares about your physical life, not your spiritual life, okay? That's where the division is. So the secular authorities are those who have the power to kill you. Okay? The secular authority are those who have the right, who have the power to declare you a heretic or unorthodox. All right? So, what's happening during the Inquisition, okay? So the Inquisition is trying to figure out the truth, okay, or the soul, right? 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Once the church educates you, and you still refuse to admit the authority of the church, then you become a heretic, which means you will become excommunicat..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0015" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He catalogs church corruption as legal practice: indulgences, simony, relic commerce, worldly clerics, tithes, and landholding transform spiritual authority into wealth and privilege.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 823.4, "end": 883.43, "time_label": "13:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So what was really important was for the church to focus on spirituality. With power, the church slowly became more corrupted, okay? So let's look at some instances of corruption that were legal practices at this time,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 883.87, "end": 948.65, "time_label": "14:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So they want to buy relics in order to channel the divine power of Jesus, right? Well, the church would sell these relics, and a lot of them would be fake. But a lot of Christians, as you can imagine, would find the ver..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 949.31, "end": 1034.272, "time_label": "15:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the land in Christian Europe. And they didn't have to pay taxes to the nobility, to the prince. 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And thi..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang finishes the legitimacy problem list: schism, corruption, and the church's denial of religious intimacy produce discontent, so the church develops scapegoating, persecution, and crusading as recurring European strategies.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1100.735, "end": 1173.63, "time_label": "18:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, and it's just right next door. Everyone can see that Muslim Spain, it's much more wealthy. So that's another problem. A third problem is something called the Great Schism of 1054. That's when the Greek Orthodox Byza..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1173.93, "end": 1246.73, "time_label": "19:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Humans want to be with God. They want to serve God. But the Catholic Church says, no, we are the middleman. You have to go through us in order to celebrate God. Okay? 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They don't want to manage their land. They don't want to run their busine..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1316.408, "end": 1394.22, "time_label": "21:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "This is bad for them because the peasants don't like being exploited by the nobility. Remember, this is a feudal system where peasants are too poor and too indebted to the nobility. But in their day -to -day interaction..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1394.66, "end": 1468.18, "time_label": "23:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. But before that, the Germans expelled the Jews in 1100, France in 1306. But before then, you have these massacres going on around Europe. 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He's talking about the Muslims. Muslims don..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1746.222, "end": 1817.65, "time_label": "29:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Should conquer a people which has the faith of Omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ. It is embarrassing for us as Christians that the Muslims control Jerusalem. We must fix this, okay? All right,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1817.81, "end": 1875.092, "time_label": "30:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Do you understand? You could be the lowest person on earth. You could be a thief. But if you go on a crusade, you are now a nobleman. You are now a knight. You are now a hero, a valiant hero for Christianity. 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There's a long way, and it's very dangerous, but they're very..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1933.49, "end": 1994.15, "time_label": "32:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Elite overproduction. So as we discussed, when a society becomes much more wealthy, you have a problem of elite overproduction. Basically, younger sons who cannot inherit any land. And so they must go on a crusade to wi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1994.15, "end": 2061.82, "time_label": "33:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "People actually believe this. Adventurism, Romanism, okay? Chivalry. Chivalry means, chivalry, okay, we didn't discuss this, but it's important that you know. Chivalry. Chivalry is a code of honor among knights. 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Definitely vi..." } ] }, { "term": "Catharism", "usages": [ "A dualist Christian heresy Jiang describes as seeing the material world as the devil's prison for pure souls." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0042" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2726.22, "end": 2798.32, "time_label": "45:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "A lot of their beliefs are still around today. The main focus of the Eternal Crusade is something called the Albigenesian Crusade, which lasts about 20 years, okay? So this is complicated. 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There's a long way, and it's very dangerous, but they're very..." } ] }, { "term": "Dolcinians", "usages": [ "A revolutionary late medieval movement Jiang describes as proto-communist and anti-feudal." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0050" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0050", "segment_id": "seg-0050", "start": 3328.41, "end": 3391.265, "time_label": "55:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So you have something called the Docinians. And what they argue for, this is basically a revolutionary party. They argue for the fall of the church, the fall of feudalism. 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It demands that you toil and sweat, but the Church demands your soul, your eternal spiritual obedience, yo..." } ] }, { "term": "imperial bureaucracy", "usages": [ "Jiang's description of the medieval church as a top-down administrative hierarchy comparable to empire." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 486.69, "end": 552.3, "time_label": "8:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I'm gonna have to go through a lot. This is a lot of information, I apologize, but you will need to know this in order for us to go on in the course, okay? This is especially important for the Protestant Reformation, be..." } ] }, { "term": "indulgence", "usages": [ "A payment to the church that Jiang describes as reducing time in purgatory; he calls it spiritual bribery." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0013" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 823.4, "end": 883.43, "time_label": "13:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So what was really important was for the church to focus on spirituality. With power, the church slowly became more corrupted, okay? So let's look at some instances of corruption that were legal practices at this time,..." } ] }, { "term": "Knights Templar", "usages": [ "A crusader military order Jiang treats as a multinational bank and cosmopolitan free-thinking network." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0036" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2272.62, "end": 2342.22, "time_label": "37:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "want you guys to remember the Teutonic Knights because they will form the basis of Prussian society, which will then unite Germany, into modern -day Germany. They come from different places in Europe and that's why ther..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2411.157, "end": 2477.432, "time_label": "40:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So what the Knights Templars are doing is they're absorbing all this diverse religious belief. And as such, they become essentially free thinkers, okay? They become... A lot of the religion now is based on reason and lo..." } ] }, { "term": "Medieval Inquisition", "usages": [ "A written and interrogatory method for identifying heretics, more precise than crusade violence." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0046" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0046", "segment_id": "seg-0046", "start": 3074.44, "end": 3137.49, "time_label": "51:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But with the power of the pen, you're able to write everything down. If you're able to take testimony, think of a police interrogation, you know exactly who's lying and who's telling the truth. So they were really quick..." } ] }, { "term": "orthodoxy", "usages": [ "Right or correct thinking enforced by the church as the basis of institutional legitimacy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0015" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 949.31, "end": 1034.272, "time_label": "15:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the land in Christian Europe. And they didn't have to pay taxes to the nobility, to the prince. So..." } ] }, { "term": "religion as worldview", "usages": [ "Jiang's broad definition of religion as culture and belief system that organizes action." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0061" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 4025.54, "end": 4128.658, "time_label": "1:07:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, now that once the peasants have satisfied their anger on the Jews, they go back to work. Does that make sense, guys? All right. So, Echo, is that clear? Okay, great. Great question. Okay, any more questions? 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So the yellow are Crusader States. And as you can see, the white is all Muslim territory. All right. In 10..." } ] }, { "term": "scapegoating", "usages": [ "Redirecting social conflict away from elites onto a vulnerable group, especially Jews in Jiang's medieval Europe model.", "Blaming or sacrificing another group to redirect social anger away from the real conflict." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0059" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1173.93, "end": 1246.73, "time_label": "19:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Humans want to be with God. They want to serve God. But the Catholic Church says, no, we are the middleman. 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So how do we explain this contradictio..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 284.86, "end": 358.603, "time_label": "4:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And this allowed Europe to start trading with the rest of the world, primarily the Abbasid Caliphate, which we discussed last week. And as such, Europe was able to become increasingly wealthy. Okay? 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And thi..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "note": "The sequence runs from Muslim capture of Jerusalem in 638, to Seljuk pressure after 1071, to Urban II's 1095 call.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1394.66, "end": 1468.18, "time_label": "23:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. But before that, the Germans expelled the Jews in 1100, France in 1306. But before then, you have these massacres going on around Europe. 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