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The Vikings knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the fact that wealth was now being concentrated whereas before it wasn't. Alright? So, monasteries. Then you had the idea of armored knights. So, the main military innovation in Europe at this time were these tanks called armored knights. And they were fantastic in battle. That's how Charlemagne was able to build the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? When you think about it, armored knights do not like water. They will drown in water. And so these rivers were completely unprotected. And the Vikings had these long ships that were perfect for river navigation. Okay? So that was another opportunity that presented itself. The armored knights would give rise to the idea of feudalism. Feudalism just basically means that these armored knights became land owner, land owning nobles that took advantage of farmers. 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Okay? So, for example, let's look at the Greeks. The Greeks, sorry, let me, let me do this. The Greeks believed that the community was a, was a polis. Okay? The polis. And that's where we get the word politics from. The polis is a place where people gather in order to discuss the political affairs of the community. Okay? That's what community was. It was where people came together to discuss politics. And as a result, the individual is someone who stands out. Okay? That's why we have the concepts erite and eudaimonia. In this community, you are an individual, you are the best individual if you can speak the best, if you can argue the best, if you can stand out. Okay? 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Today, we start the Vikings. We will do it over two classes. And the Vikings are extremely interesting. And I believe that they are one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood European cult..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 87.264, "end": 155.77, "time_label": "1:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay, so let's do a brief historical overview. So the Viking Age is what scholars term the period from the year 793 to 1066. 793 is when there was the first recorded, written down, incident of a Viking raid on a monaste..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 156.11, "end": 248.34, "time_label": "2:36", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And this is the last time that England would be conquered. 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So the three main invaders are the Vikings, who come in f..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 325.08, "end": 413.39, "time_label": "5:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. Same as the Huns. Same as the Goths. Same as the Germanic people. What's interesting about the Magyars is that they are mainly land people, meaning they ride horses into battle. And during the Viking Age, they wer..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 414.13, "end": 478.71, "time_label": "6:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. Northern and Central Europe. But over time, what they will do is they will extend over to the east as well, where they will found two major settlements. 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And these..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang argues that Viking-founded or Viking-influenced Germany, France, Britain, and Russia became the dominant civilizations of the last five centuries, then contrasts this big historical effect with the narrow modern image of Vikings as raiders.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 637.52, "end": 712.14, "time_label": "10:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And then he will give them land in Normandy. So Normandy means land of the Norse people. 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So th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 1029.35, "end": 1100.74, "time_label": "17:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "they would come in, and they would take these books, the Bible, rip out the pages, and keep the gold, and then leave. Okay? So you're a monk, and you see this. Right? 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This is called Longhouse. All right? And so because the weather in Scandinavia, it's very cold for most of the year, these are very social people. They live together. They spend most of..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1345.72, "end": 1414.36, "time_label": "22:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "We don't know who the captain is. There's a captain, but he's really not that different from the others. Okay? So the Viking culture is extremely egalitarian, which is important if you want cohesion on the battlefield...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1414.46, "end": 1492.84, "time_label": "23:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The Europeans had absolutely no way to counter this. Okay? Also, what's important for us to understand is, the Vikings had also many different designs. 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So the thing about the Viking ships is, they're extremely lean. And..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1493.14, "end": 1566.64, "time_label": "24:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That was the highlight of Athenian cultural life. What's interesting for us is that for the Vikings, the spectacle that they cared the most about was a funeral. Okay? Obviously not everyone would get an elaborate funera..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "In response to a student question about the slave trade, Jiang explains slavery as a normal part of medieval European life, driven by Byzantine and Arab demand and made profitable for pagan Vikings because co-religionists could not be enslaved.", "speaker_attribution": "Student question is mostly inaudible; Jiang restates and answers it.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1567.02, "end": 1650.82, "time_label": "26:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But before I do that, are there any questions about the Vikings? Yes. Okay. The slave trade, right? Okay. So the slave trade, it is just an integral, interesting part of life in Europe at this time. The population was v..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1651.04, "end": 1701.17, "time_label": "27:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because the Vikings were pagans. So in theory, they could be sold to anyone. Okay? So the Vikings basically enslaved other pagans and sold them to both the Byzantines and the Arabs. Okay? And look, look, the slave trade..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "Short acknowledgments indicate a brief inaudible classroom exchange before Jiang restates the next question about ship burials.", "speaker_attribution": "Audience/student turns are not captured; Jiang acknowledges them.", "confidence": "low", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1721.01, "end": 1727.18, "time_label": "28:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. That's right." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1729.69, "end": 1730.15, "time_label": "28:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That's right." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1734.25, "end": 1734.73, "time_label": "28:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Answering a question about graves, Jiang says ship burials show uniqueness, lineage, care, and a story of remembrance; the funeral process matters more than the grave itself.", "speaker_attribution": "Student question is reconstructed from Jiang's answer.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1737.15, "end": 1804.846, "time_label": "28:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, so the question then is, we found in the, like, archaeologists have found a lot of these ship burials, a lot of graves. And there's just a lot of them. And we've had a chance to study a lot of these graves. And here..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1804.846, "end": 1881.5, "time_label": "30:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So there seems to be a story going on in these burials. Okay? And the third thing about these graves that we've discovered is that there's been a lot of care and attention paid to how someone was buried. Okay? 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Any more qu..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1975.68, "end": 2037.3, "time_label": "32:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself will expand. Okay? And until it comes into conflict with the empire. And when this..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2038.95, "end": 2128.01, "time_label": "33:58", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's advantages and disadvantages. 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And Darius could have, when he lost that battle, he could have also..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2195.63, "end": 2271.25, "time_label": "36:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But because of the idea of death, Rome did not have to surrender. And Rome only won one battle against Hannibal in its history, but that battle was the only battle that really mattered. 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But if you're weaker than me, then I will steal from you. The idea here is opportunistic. You're shameless in taking advantage of those who you can. Okay? Does it make sense? So these are the three major advantag..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2424.35, "end": 2495.2, "time_label": "40:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "You know how to cook your own food. It means you know how to take care of animals. If a cow is about to give birth to a calf, you know how to do so. Okay? You know how to save the life of a horse. You know how to speak..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2495.42, "end": 2572.39, "time_label": "41:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And you'll be able to find yourself home. Okay? If I put you anywhere in the European world, you'll know how to navigate yourself as to find yourself home. Okay? And so, this builds the idea that the Vikings at age 16,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2572.39, "end": 2641.46, "time_label": "42:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "this, the reason why most smart societies are like this is they want to reduce your energy, right? They want to be able to control you. They want you to fit into a larger society. Does that make sense? So now you can se..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2643.05, "end": 2709.88, "time_label": "44:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? And I'm not joking, guys. If there was such a thing as a Viking school where you learned to be a Viking, I would send my kids to that school. Unfortunately, there isn't. Okay. Let's talk about the idea of opportu..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0043" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang identifies monasteries as the opportunity that began the Viking Age: post-Roman wealth became concentrated again under Charlemagne, and monasteries were wealthy, trusted, landholding, divinely protected targets.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2710.36, "end": 2801.18, "time_label": "45:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? The opportunity are monasteries. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, everyone believes that Europe became a lot poorer. Okay? And that's historical understanding. When you think about it, what really happened..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2801.58, "end": 2866.89, "time_label": "46:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? No one would dare steal from a monastery. Monks are extremely trustworthy. So these monasteries had a lot of gold and silver stored and hidden within their premises. Not only that, but the monasteries were landow..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "segment_id": "seg-0043", "start": 2867.25, "end": 2952.47, "time_label": "47:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? The Vikings knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the fact that wealth was now being concentrated whereas before it wasn't. Alright? 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And, of cours..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0048" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains the end of the Viking Age as co-optation: successful raiders became aristocrats, intermarried with European nobility, converted to Christianity, and supplied military support to the powers they had once attacked.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "segment_id": "seg-0047", "start": 3038.74, "end": 3108.982, "time_label": "50:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because they wanted to maintain their feudal system. Okay? 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It..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0050" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang contrasts modern and pre-modern selfhood: the modern nation-state claims to protect individuals against community, while most historical cultures believed the individual only exists inside the community that gives history, religion, mythology, and nourishment.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "segment_id": "seg-0049", "start": 3194.2, "end": 3272.87, "time_label": "53:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, there's a pre -modern understanding of the world and there's a modern understanding of the world. Okay. So, in the modern understanding of the world, in the world we live in today, the community is distinct fr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0050", "segment_id": "seg-0050", "start": 3274.09, "end": 3360.257, "time_label": "54:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, that's the modern We'll go into this later on in the semester towards the end because it's a very important concept. But first, I want to introduce it to you. Okay? Now, historically, most cultures have not be..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0053" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He compares three Indo-European concepts of individual and community: Greeks stand out in the polis, Romans show piety by extending tradition, and Vikings add to the communal story through adventure and exploration.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3360.257, "end": 3446.01, "time_label": "56:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Now, but within this tradition, within this understanding, there are different ways you can conceptualize the idea of the community and the individual. Okay? So, for example, let's look at the Greeks. The Greeks, sorry,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "segment_id": "seg-0052", "start": 3447.02, "end": 3534.7, "time_label": "57:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That is the Greek understanding. Then you have the Romans. The Romans define community as tradition and history and place. As long as you are in Rome and you believe in Roman history and practice Roman tradition, then y..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3535.06, "end": 3647.69, "time_label": "58:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "For them, community and the individual are very different. The community is are told over and over by the people inside the community. And as such, the individual has responsibility to add to the story. How do you add t..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Responding to a question about intermarriage, Jiang argues that race, ethnicity, borders, and nation-like cultural identity are modern categories; Viking identity was village- or tribe-based, fluid, alliance-driven, and open to Byzantine diplomatic intermarriage.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang answers a student question; the student wording is not captured.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3649.51, "end": 3746.68, "time_label": "1:00:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They all come from the same cultural origin which is the Proto -Indo -European culture, right? What's interesting is that as they came into Europe and they settled down in different geographic locations and they acted w..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3748.95, "end": 3814.18, "time_label": "1:02:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They didn't think we're Vikings, we are not Greeks, we're not Jews, we're not that way. The Germans broke the sorry, the Vikings their main political unit was the village or the tribe, right? And the way they fought war..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3814.18, "end": 3899.92, "time_label": "1:03:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "into European nobility then they did so. Okay? So for example the Byzantines. The Byzantine Empire was as we discussed a walled empire. So it was impossible to invade and conquer. The Europeans really conquered the Byza..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0058" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang finishes the intermarriage answer: royal wives represent political alliances, marriage into another elite means marriage into her faith, and conversion unfolds slowly because culture is persistent.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3900.42, "end": 3966.27, "time_label": "1:05:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? Because he's also fighting against the other Vikings in the area. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's the idea of intermarriage. To form a political alliance that benefits you. And ultimately if you are a rule..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "segment_id": "seg-0058", "start": 3967.08, "end": 3971.62, "time_label": "1:06:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? You understand? Great. Great question. Okay. Any more questions?" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0061" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "After an inaudible student prompt, Jiang restates the question as whether pre-modern pagan cultures were tolerant toward gays and minorities, then argues that modern superiority narratives are nation-state propaganda because pre-modern communities categorized people less rigidly.", "speaker_attribution": "Student question is not captured; Jiang restates and answers it.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3982.59, "end": 3983.15, "time_label": "1:06:22", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Yep." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 4007.48, "end": 4077.89, "time_label": "1:06:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay. So the question then is how were these pre -modern cultures these pagan cultures tolerant? How did they perceive gays and minorities? Okay. This is a propaganda from the nation state. Okay? This is what you're tau..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0061", "segment_id": "seg-0061", "start": 4077.89, "end": 4134.02, "time_label": "1:07:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "communities suppress the individual is something that we believe we have faith in it but it just is not historically true. Okay? Also remember there's a fluidity within these communities. So it's perfectly possible for..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0063", "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0064" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Answering a follow-up about banishment, Jiang says Viking and Athenian exile show the ancient assumption that identity comes from community; outside a community a person is treated like a ghost, and the first question is where one is from.", "speaker_attribution": "Student prompt is mostly inaudible; Jiang repeats enough to identify the topic.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "segment_id": "seg-0062", "start": 4134.6, "end": 4225.8, "time_label": "1:08:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? But this is only in the past 20 years and before we didn't have a concept of race. All right. Great question. Any more questions? Fluid. Yep. Okay. The Vikings? Okay. The Vikings their worst punishment is banishme..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0063", "segment_id": "seg-0063", "start": 4225.86, "end": 4275.2, "time_label": "1:10:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They always come back. Yes. So the Athenians banished a lot of people. Okay? And they always came back. And if they're banished they're always thinking about coming back because again there was no idea of the individual..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0064", "segment_id": "seg-0064", "start": 4276.86, "end": 4277.26, "time_label": "1:11:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay?" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0065" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang closes by previewing the next class: he will move from this historical overview into the Viking cultural system and worldview, especially the relation between community and individual.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0065", "segment_id": "seg-0065", "start": 4278.96, "end": 4298.61, "time_label": "1:11:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Great. Great. Any more questions? Great. Okay. So next class we will do the cultural system. The cultural world view of the Vikings. Okay? We'll take this we'll take the idea of community and the individual and expand i..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "speaker_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "note": "The actual student question is not captured; Jiang repeats it as 'The slave trade, right?' and then answers.", "suggested_speaker": "Student question reconstructed through Jiang's answer", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1567.02, "end": 1650.82, "time_label": "26:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But before I do that, are there any questions about the Vikings? Yes. Okay. The slave trade, right? Okay. So the slave trade, it is just an integral, interesting part of life in Europe at this time. 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So the slave trade, it is just an integral, interesting part of life in Europe at this time. The population was v..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1651.04, "end": 1701.17, "time_label": "27:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because the Vikings were pagans. So in theory, they could be sold to anyone. Okay? So the Vikings basically enslaved other pagans and sold them to both the Byzantines and the Arabs. Okay? 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So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because they wanted to maintain their feudal system. Okay? And, of cours..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3108.982, "end": 3194.1, "time_label": "51:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And, as Christians, they would convert their own followers and their own people as well. Remember, the spread of religion is usually a top -down process where you first convert the elite who then convert the people. 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What's interesting is that as they came into Europe and they settled down in different geographic locations and they acted w..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3748.95, "end": 3814.18, "time_label": "1:02:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They didn't think we're Vikings, we are not Greeks, we're not Jews, we're not that way. The Germans broke the sorry, the Vikings their main political unit was the village or the tribe, right? 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