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So this is basically like a very primitive computer or calculator. What's left of the Incas is Machu Picchu. If you ever have a chance to visit there, it's beautiful. It's a hike. I want to visit one day with my kids. Okay. The Incas were conquered by... by another conquered student named Francisco Pizarro, okay? The emperor he defeated was Ata Huapá. Sorry, I'm not going to pronounce his name properly. And what happened was that Ata Huapá had just fought a civil war, and now he's the divine emperor. And the legend is that Pizarro fought a battle with Ata Huapá. Ata Huapá had 40,000 soldiers. Francisco Pizarro had 200 soldiers. And Pizarro won and captured Ata Huapá as a hostage. This story is probably not true, okay? 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So today we are doing the European conquest of the New World, meaning North and South America. And so these people who start to conquer the New World are called the conquistadors, which is Spanish fo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 82.37, "end": 159.1, "time_label": "1:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's become very wealthy, very cosmopolitan because of this. This globalized trade becomes much more concentrated, becomes much more rapid during the Mongolian conquests, okay? And because of the Mongolian Empire, the P..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 159.28, "end": 220.58, "time_label": "2:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's always been globalized, so we can assume that even before the Vikings, there were some encounters between the old world and the new world. 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And so you can see that during the 16th century, there's a lot of exploration going on. There's a lot of contacts being made. The Portuguese are really the first. The first to establish the m..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 375.49, "end": 452.32, "time_label": "6:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the Spanish and the Portuguese, they ended up in North America, which was cold..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 452.62, "end": 511.49, "time_label": "7:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? It's a very long process. And corn allowed for the man civilization to flourish. So corn is an extremely important nutrient that's easy to produce, cheap, and very nutritious. So is the potato. Okay? The potato, o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 511.49, "end": 576.55, "time_label": "8:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "this morning is, how did a few thousand conquistadors, Spanish mercenaries, basically, how were they able to conquer millions and millions, millions of indigenous people in South America? 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We're talking about millions and millions of people. The second major factor is that, there were these internal conflicts, tribal warfare, among the native peo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 644.48, "end": 707.69, "time_label": "10:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Our God made us conquerors. It was a divine mission from God. Okay? And the second is, we were so powerful that the natives bowed before us. They saw us as gods. That was the standard explanation of the Spanish at that..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 708.15, "end": 775.957, "time_label": "11:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the ultimate weakness of these people was their religion. Okay? You're not allowed to say this today in university because it's not completely correct. 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But after they reach a peak, okay, this is really important,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1075.28, "end": 1134.47, "time_label": "17:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? That's a causation. I... But some other scholars argue it is correlation, and the reason why is that Mayans are really famous for their ecological management. They're masters at being able to... 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In China, there's something called lying flat, tongue -pin..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1187.96, "end": 1253.53, "time_label": "19:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They are symbiotic. They work together. And they all spell the end of civilization. Okay? This is true for Rome. This is true for the Mayans. This has been true also for China throughout its history. 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Yo..." } ] }, { "term": "heroic twins", "usages": [ "Mayan savior figures whose mythic sacrifice and revival are used by Jiang to explain later ritual sacrifice." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0033" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2056.76, "end": 2114.38, "time_label": "34:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "a few passages to figure out their underlying belief system and how it governs their society all right okay so this is a story of the heroic twins so the Mayans worship the heroic twins as the savers of humanity so what..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2114.38, "end": 2159.72, "time_label": "35:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "say hey look at us we can play this game where we can't cure ourselves we cut our heart and we come back alive okay and the demons are like yeah we want to play this game as well and they all end up end up killing thems..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "segment_id": "seg-0033", "start": 2159.72, "end": 2213.81, "time_label": "35:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "dead then this one death next they grab seven death but they didn't revive them thus the Zabavans took their heels when they saw that the Lord's had died so they killed all the Lord's and then they killed all the demons..." } ] }, { "term": "pantheon of gods", "usages": [ "Inca imperial religious order in which conquered gods are incorporated under the supremacy of the Inca god." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1782.142, "end": 1847.01, "time_label": "29:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So this results in the issue of elite overproduction. But it also makes your society extremely unstable because it's too spread out and too many enemies, okay? The way that the Incas conquered other people is, when they..." } ] }, { "term": "Popol Vuh", "usages": [ "Mayan mythic text Jiang uses to reconstruct the religious worldview behind creation, sacrifice, obedience, and divine hierarchy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1988.64, "end": 2056.76, "time_label": "33:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And that's what he did. Okay. All right. So another question is, how did this happen? How was it possible that the Aztecs and Incas were defeated by just a few hundred conquisters very quickly okay in a few decades and..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 2056.76, "end": 2114.38, "time_label": "34:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "a few passages to figure out their underlying belief system and how it governs their society all right okay so this is a story of the heroic twins so the Mayans worship the heroic twins as the savers of humanity so what..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2114.38, "end": 2159.72, "time_label": "35:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "say hey look at us we can play this game where we can't cure ourselves we cut our heart and we come back alive okay and the demons are like yeah we want to play this game as well and they all end up end up killing thems..." } ] }, { "term": "priest-king", "usages": [ "Sacral ruler who is obeyed because he is believed to speak with the gods, see future events, and transmit sacred authority." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2585.16, "end": 2637.6, "time_label": "43:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because the gods tell them. 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Yo..." } ] }, { "term": "Tenochtitlan", "usages": [ "Aztec city on the site of modern Mexico City; Jiang uses it as evidence of Aztec agricultural adaptation, scale, and urban sophistication." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1253.87, "end": 1315.818, "time_label": "20:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they're very similar to the Romans. So if you think Aztec, think Romans as well. The main similarity is that both the Aztecs and the Romans are societies that are very similar. It's based on war. They love war, all..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1315.818, "end": 1387.86, "time_label": "21:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So Mexico City, if you have a chance to visit there, it is actually on the site of Teno -Teclen, which is a city that the Aztecs founded. And remember, back then, it was all, basically, swamp land. And so something mira..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1507.57, "end": 1575.55, "time_label": "25:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So they were the main partners. The Aztec civilization was, like the Romans, extremely advanced. They had hierarchy. They had priests. They had universal schooling, okay? 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So the corn will provide the struc..." } ] }, { "term": "Tohil", "usages": [ "Mayan fire god in Jiang's account; the myth of failed rebellion against Tohil teaches humans to obey the gods." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0039" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2395.2, "end": 2472.29, "time_label": "39:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "of these religions where we have to believe that the gods created us in order to serve them. We are slaves to the gods, all right? And again, this is very similar to the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, where..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2472.67, "end": 2524.72, "time_label": "41:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the humans decide to rebel against him, okay? They try many tricks to rebel against him, okay? They all fail because he's smarter than us. So eventually, humans decide to get together and to fight him, okay? But they..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2525, "end": 2585.06, "time_label": "42:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Thus, all the nations were humiliated and begged humbly before the faces of Balaam, Kitsa, Balaam, Akka, and Mohakkata. Pity us, do not kill us, they said. Very well then, certainly you shall become obedient. You shall..." } ] }, { "term": "triumph", "usages": [ "A Roman victory parade that Jiang interprets as ending in ritual killing before Jupiter, functionally a form of human sacrifice." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0022" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1387.86, "end": 1447.63, "time_label": "23:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the Aztecs were known for the most grotesque forms of human sacrifice. They would sacrifice 1,000 people at once. They would also sacrifice you while you were alive. So they would strap you up and then cut out your h..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1447.63, "end": 1507.55, "time_label": "24:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they would parade their war captives across the Rome. And then these war captives were taken to the Temple of Jupiter where the parade would end, and then they would be strangled to death in front of Jupiter. 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This is cal..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "segment_id": "seg-0047", "start": 3046.805, "end": 3123.25, "time_label": "50:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And what he did was, he perfected siege warfare to break down the walls. And before, it was thought impossible that you could break down these city walls, but he did so. And so this created escalation dominance, terror,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3123.35, "end": 3209.68, "time_label": "52:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because of human sacrifice. And they had the aura of inevitability, and invincibility. This is how they're able to control millions of people, even though they themselves had a very limited population. 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Which means what? Which means now, the Spanish are gods. Right? Does that make sense? So, this is what happened. It's game t..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0004" ], "note": "The 2025-04-08 lecture explicitly links prior classes on the Islamic Golden Age, Mongols, Vikings, and next class on the gunpowder revolution into the conquest sequence.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 82.37, "end": 159.1, "time_label": "1:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's become very wealthy, very cosmopolitan because of this. This globalized trade becomes much more concentrated, becomes much more rapid during the Mongolian conquests, okay? 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