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His secret power is imagination: he can imagine himself as different people at once, and therefore become different people at once.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0052" ], "marks": [ { "text": "avatar of the people", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3317.573, "end": 3401.38, "time_label": "55:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or they're able to accomplish great things in different aspects of society. The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is bold and disciplined. And he's fair, right? 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The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is bold and disciplined. And he's fair, right? That's why the soldiers follow him...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "segment_id": "seg-0052", "start": 3401.38, "end": 3482.7, "time_label": "56:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Regulation. And the person, you can say, is almost a systems design thinker. Very big picture, very macro, and trying to figure out how the different pieces fit together. If you think about it, these three individuals,..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "id": "friends-kill-003", "text": "That same imagination explains the assassination. Caesar is not killed by strangers. He is killed by men close to him: lieutenants, pardoned enemies, and someone he saw as a son. He is making Rome better, but he is changing Rome. Good reform can still create cognitive dissonance because it disrupts identity.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0054" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3484, "end": 3560.07, "time_label": "58:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And that's why he was able to accomplish so much. Okay? Does that make sense? And so he became a myth maker. The problem with being a myth maker is you ultimately have to change reality. 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The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this makes perfect sense. Not a problem, right? And once Rome buys out this land, it will then redistribute it to the poor so the poor will have like a social safety system. They'll be able to feed themselves. And they'll usually grow grain and other crops for sustenance, and this will enable the feeding of the Roman population in general. Okay? So this sounds very simple to us, but the rich didn't like this idea because they didn't like change in general. Okay? They liked the idea of piety, liberty, and republica, which means things must stay the way they are. And what's really important is the rich cannot be challenged by the poor because if that were the case, then the social system would be overhauled. Okay? 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And this contradiction cannot be internally resolved. All right? So any more questions? Any questions before I proceed on? I know this is a lot, and maybe I haven't organized it properly, but are there any confusions about this history so far? Again, I'm just providing some background and context before I move on to Julius Caesar. Yeah?", "word_count": 102, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0019-chunk-001", "start": 1166.46, "end": 1169.38, "text": "And most historians believe this is the beginning of the fall of", "word_count": 12 }, { "id": "seg-0019-chunk-002", "start": 1169.38, "end": 1174.3, "text": "the Roman Republic because it tells us that the system is incapable", "word_count": 12 }, { "id": "seg-0019-chunk-003", "start": 1174.3, "end": 1176.46, "text": "of change.", "word_count": 2 }, { "id": "seg-0019-chunk-004", "start": 1177.8, "end": 1181.31, "text": "Okay? 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What's the relationship between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in Rome. Okay? And so these people, the Ottomans and the popular leaders, all come from these 20 noble families. And they're like cousins of each other. Okay? So the Ottomans are maybe like the fathers and the grandfathers, and the popular leaders are like the sons. Does that make sense? Right? Because the fathers don't want any change, but the sons want political power. And so they're all related. They all grew up with each other. They all know each other. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. All right. Echo, are you good? Is this clear to you so far? All right. All right. So the first major conflict is the Gracchi brothers. Second major conflict that happens is something called a social war. And the social war is basically this. 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They're the ones who fight the war. And after Rome keeps on winning these wars, Rome refuses to grant citizenship to them. Okay? So these neighbors rebel, and there's a civil war going on in Rome, and Rome loses this war. And Rome is forced to grant citizenship to these neighbors. But the question then is, what is the nature of citizenship? Like, how much rights do you get? How much power do you get? Because Rome is a republic, and so one thing that's hard for us to understand is not all voters are equal. Okay? So if you're a rich voter, you have more power than if you are a poor voter. Okay? So the question then is, these new citizens of Rome, what sort of voting rights will they have? 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Then you have these slave revolts. What they call the Servile Wars. Okay? Then you have these piracy going on. So the Roman Republic is constantly in turmoil and in conflict. Okay? And the war between the optimists and the populars becomes so intense that ultimately they fight a civil war. Okay? A civil war means two armies killing each other. Okay? And so the civil war was between Sulla and Marius. And the civil war becomes so intense that both Sulla and Marius do the unthinkable and they march their armies into Rome and kill their enemies. This has never been done in Roman history before. As a general, you're not supposed to take your soldiers and march against your own government, against your own city, and kill your own people. Okay? 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They wanted to return that era, okay? And that's what motivated him. He didn't want to become king. And if he became king, he didn't want to stay as king. Remember, Sulla won the war and he could have made himself king. But he didn't do that. He implemented a lot of reforms and then retired because that was the Roman way, okay? That's what the ancestors did. And he wanted to be loyal to the gods, to the ancestors, and to Rome, okay? So Caesar didn't want to become king, he just wanted to save Rome. Second question then is how is he able to succeed? And this is a more difficult question, okay? So again, the argument is he's a myth maker. What does that mean? Okay. So. 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So the fact that Julius Caesar was a genius, that he was so brilliant and he was able to accomplish so much, it made them jealous, right? It made people jealous. But at the same time, it made them... It made him... It made him... It made them see him as a threat to the very stability of Rome. Does that make sense? Because people like Julius Caesar aren't supposed to exist. Rome does not need kings. In fact, Rome is anti -monarchy. Okay? So they were very much afraid that Julius Caesar thought of himself as a god and he would make himself king. And in fact, Julius Caesar, I mean, had hubris. Right? Obviously, if you believe that you by yourself can change Rome, you have hubris. But he was not showing enough deference to the Senate. He was creating a cult of personality. He was being very arrogant. It seemed very much like he wanted to become king.", "word_count": 162, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0056-chunk-001", "start": 3727.46, "end": 3733.89, "text": "Okay? 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Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his allies, by people he grew up with, by people he fought wars with, by people he pardoned and s..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0004" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains myth making through Steve Jobs, movies, and Donald Trump: each changes perception by making people participate in a constructed reality or narrative.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 144.32, "end": 214.69, "time_label": "2:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right, so this is a hard concept to understand, but let's use some examples to better understand this concept. So the first example let's look at is the idea of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a famous writer. Steve Jobs..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0004", "segment_id": "seg-0004", "start": 215.11, "end": 283.53, "time_label": "3:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So it's about technology, but it's also about lifestyle. It's also about attitude. And that's why we are all using Apple computers today, because we are trying to participate in this myth. Okay? Another example is..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang states the lecture's causal argument: Caesar's new myth of Rome created cognitive dissonance because it surpassed the old myth, so the old guard killed him.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 283.53, "end": 362.77, "time_label": "4:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Does that make sense? That's what a myth maker is. And that's why ultimately Julius Caesar was so successful. Okay? But the problem with being a myth maker is by creating new myths, you are disrupting old myths th..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang moves into the Hannibal background: Rome's myth of piety, liberty, and republica made rich and poor sacrifice together, but after victory the rich captured most rewards and common land.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 363.42, "end": 437.313, "time_label": "6:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And at this point, Rome should have surrendered or negotiated peace terms. But Rome instead chose to fought on. And it fought on because it had a mythology about itself that was based on three principles, right? The thr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 437.313, "end": 513.82, "time_label": "7:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Basically make the land unfarmable. So then your army has no access to food. Okay? And that's how the ultimate defeated Hannibal. Because they burned all the land and they couldn't grow food on the land and so Hannibal'..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 514.84, "end": 589.754, "time_label": "8:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The problem was this. The problem was that after Rome won the war, the question then is, who got the rewards? Right? Everyone made the sacrifice. The poor lost their land. The rich lost their land. The poor earned money..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0009" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang defines the post-146 BCE Roman contradiction: Rome has become an empire while keeping a republican political form, so piety, liberty, and republica become sources of instability.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 589.754, "end": 673.02, "time_label": "9:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But not only that, the remaining common land, the rich just pretended it was theirs. Okay? Meaning that they illegally occupied common land. They didn't pay for it, it wasn't theirs, but they just assumed it was theirs...." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0011" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains republica as public virtue and shows how imperial wealth turns competition for office into bribery, provincial extraction, unnecessary wars, and triumph-seeking.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 674.3, "end": 755.92, "time_label": "11:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Let's look at republica. Republica means public virtue in Latin. It's the idea that the best and brightest in Rome are in competition with each other to promote the Roman national welfare. Okay? To bring glory to Rome...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 756.04, "end": 812.38, "time_label": "12:36", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? But because you got into so much debt to win the political office, when you went to a province, you did two things. First of all, you exploited the local people. Okay? Because you need to get back that money that..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0013" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang tracks the poor's dispossession: long military service ruins farms, debt lets the rich buy land cheaply, cash-crop estates replace subsistence farming, and Rome becomes unable to feed itself.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 812.38, "end": 879.75, "time_label": "13:32", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they are much more likely to win political office, okay, in their careers. Okay? So the triumph is a very, very big thing. The problem is while the best and brightest were in competition with each other, the poor we..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 880.62, "end": 964.994, "time_label": "14:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And there's a problem because first of all, the poor didn't have any land in order to grow food. So they were forced into the cities. Okay? Their problem is the rich didn't want to grow food to feed the people. Right? T..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang names elite overproduction and the factional split between the upper nobility, the optimates, and lower nobles seeking power through the people, the populares.", "speaker_attribution": "Mostly Jiang; seg-0016 is an uncertain short backchannel.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 964.994, "end": 1026.88, "time_label": "16:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And it's usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? So upper nobility are people who are established. They're the wealthiest citizens in all of Rome. They're very happy with the system as it is. Th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1027.77, "end": 1035.72, "time_label": "17:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And these people, lower nobility, who want to change, they're called populaires. And that's where we get the term populist folk." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1037.54, "end": 1038.02, "time_label": "17:17", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Okay?" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0019" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang describes the Gracchi brothers as lower nobles proposing compensated land reform, then treats their assassination by the rich as the beginning of the Republic's fall because the system cannot change itself.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang, ending with a request for questions.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1038.69, "end": 1102.197, "time_label": "17:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So in 146 BCE, after Rome had become an empire and it had defeated all its enemies, these two factions start to emerge and they clash with each other. So historians normally believe the first clash happened with the Gra..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1102.197, "end": 1165.92, "time_label": "18:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this makes perfect sense. Not a problem, right? And once Rome buys out this land, it wi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1166.46, "end": 1213.92, "time_label": "19:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And most historians believe this is the beginning of the fall of the Roman Republic because it tells us that the system is incapable of change. Okay? The system as it's set up, which focuses on piety, liberty, and repub..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "After a brief unclear backchannel, Jiang answers a student question about the relationship between optimates and populares: they come from the same small noble network, like fathers and grandfathers resisting sons who want power.", "speaker_attribution": "Question is heard through Jiang's restatement; seg-0020 is an unclear short response.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1214.18, "end": 1214.66, "time_label": "20:14", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Okay." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1225.12, "end": 1296.565, "time_label": "20:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah, this is a great question, okay? What's the relationship between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in Rome. Okay? And so these people, the Ottomans and the popular leader..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang moves from the Social War and citizenship/voting-rights crisis to servile wars, piracy, and the Sulla-Marius civil war, where generals march armies into Rome.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1296.565, "end": 1357.13, "time_label": "21:36", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "People who live in the neighboring provinces. They're the ones who fight the war. And after Rome keeps on winning these wars, Rome refuses to grant citizenship to them. Okay? So these neighbors rebel, and there's a civi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1357.13, "end": 1430.48, "time_label": "22:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the social war. Then you have these slave revolts. What they call the Servile Wars. Okay? Then you have these piracy going on. So the Roman Republic is constantly in turmoil and in conflict. Okay? And the war between..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains Sulla's proscription as a public kill list that rewards state-sanctioned murder and property seizure, then introduces young Caesar as one of the proscribed.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1430.58, "end": 1502.88, "time_label": "23:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? There has to be a solution. And Sulla's solution is, well, you know, if the problem is the conflict between the populars and the optimists, let's just kill all the populars. And then the problem will be solved. Th..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang says Caesar survived Sulla through family wealth and bribery, then grew up inside the imperial-republic contradiction and saw himself as a man of destiny who would restore stability.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1503.18, "end": 1576.486, "time_label": "25:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And he's the nephew of Marius. And that's why he was, he was proscribed. Okay? Now, the good thing is, if you're rich, you can bribe your way out of these things. Okay? And Julius Caesar's family was extremely wealthy a..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0028" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang tells the pirate story as evidence of Caesar's early public-image craft: Caesar embellishes the ransom, the drinking friendship, and the crucifixion threat so the story becomes unforgettable.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1576.486, "end": 1649.346, "time_label": "26:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Any questions so far? Is this all clear to you guys? Okay? All right. So let's talk about the life of Julius Caesar. Okay? From an early age, Julius Caesar saw himself as special. But not only that, but from an early ag..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1649.346, "end": 1715.65, "time_label": "27:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They started to pay the ransom, and Julius Caesar was free to go. Okay? Now, very simple story. But what Julius Caesar did was he imbalanced a story. Okay? He made certain adjustments to the story that made it memorable..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1715.95, "end": 1773.01, "time_label": "28:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The pirates are like, that's really funny, man. Okay? So that's the second embellishment. The third embellishment is, Julius Caesar, after he was released, he set up a navy. He went and found every one of these pirates...." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang shows the optimates' hatred of Caesar: they see his charisma, stories, sexual reputation, and pursuit of glory as corruption rather than service to Rome.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1773.17, "end": 1845.29, "time_label": "29:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "These are like psychopaths. Right? He's like, I'm gonna come back and kill every one of you. Every one of you. Right? But again, that's a myth -making genius of Julius Caesar. So, again, as a young man, the greatest hon..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1845.37, "end": 1908.63, "time_label": "30:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? He's arrogant. He just brags all the time. He's appeasing the people. He's exactly, what Romans should not be. Okay? He's impious. He doesn't care for liberty. He doesn't care about the public good. All he cares a..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang describes the optimates' Caesar derangement, Caesar's surprising decision to give up a triumph for the consulship, and his later land-reform conflict when the Senate tries to keep him from glory in Gaul.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1908.63, "end": 1986.61, "time_label": "31:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they develop, you can use this phrase, Caesar derangement. Syndrome. Okay? They have decided that they will do whatever they can to destroy this guy. Okay? So, Caesar wants a triumph, and he wants to win the, and he..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1986.71, "end": 2051.19, "time_label": "33:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? They always underestimate him. Okay? So, Caesar is consul, and as consul, he wants to do what everyone wants to do, and promote stability in Rome. Okay? So, he's promoting land reform. And here, the optimists try..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang explains Caesar's unexpected alliance with Pompey and Crassus, the First Triumvirate, and the exchange that gives Caesar Gaul. 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He got into a lot of debt because he had to bribe a lot of people in order to secure his consulship. And he has to pay them off. Right? So he made a lot of money. The mon..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2238.27, "end": 2300.343, "time_label": "37:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So through this process, he created the most loyal and the most disciplined army in the world. And they're all loyal to him personally. Okay? Because he's the one rewarding them. And he's the one who brings victor..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2300.343, "end": 2377.72, "time_label": "38:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So for example, he attacked Germania. Germania, and Romans thought the Germans were so barbaric it was impossible to attack them. 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T..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014" ], "moment": "The optimates call themselves the best people.", "source_phrase": "Optimates just means best people", "why_it_matters": "The faction's name becomes a miniature ideology of inherited status.", "tone": "definition", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 964.994, "end": 1026.88, "time_label": "16:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And it's usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? So upper nobility are people who are established. They're the wealthiest citizens in all of Rome. They're very happy with the system as it is. Th..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "moment": "The rich cannot be challenged by the poor because that would overhaul the social system.", "source_phrase": "the rich cannot be challenged by the poor", "why_it_matters": "The lecture's class conflict becomes a defense of identity and order, not just wealth.", "tone": "definition", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1102.197, "end": 1165.92, "time_label": "18:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this makes perfect sense. Not a problem, right? 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The system as it's set up, which focuses on piety, liberty, and repub..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "moment": "Roman factional war is cousins fighting cousins, fathers and grandfathers against ambitious sons.", "source_phrase": "they're like cousins of each other", "why_it_matters": "Jiang shrinks the grand factional conflict into a family drama of elite succession.", "tone": "image", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1225.12, "end": 1296.565, "time_label": "20:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah, this is a great question, okay? What's the relationship between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in Rome. Okay? 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Th..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025" ], "moment": "Caesar grows up inside contradiction and imagines himself as the man of destiny who will save Rome.", "source_phrase": "the man of destiny to save the republic", "why_it_matters": "It links the lecture's myth-maker model to Caesar's own self-conception.", "tone": "definition", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1503.18, "end": 1576.486, "time_label": "25:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And he's the nephew of Marius. And that's why he was, he was proscribed. Okay? Now, the good thing is, if you're rich, you can bribe your way out of these things. Okay? And Julius Caesar's family was extremely wealthy a..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "moment": "Captured by pirates, Caesar is insulted by a low ransom and tells them to ask for more.", "source_phrase": "I'm worth at least 50", "why_it_matters": "The embellished insult condenses Caesar's self-myth into a comic, unforgettable act.", "tone": "image", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1649.346, "end": 1715.65, "time_label": "27:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They started to pay the ransom, and Julius Caesar was free to go. Okay? Now, very simple story. But what Julius Caesar did was he imbalanced a story. Okay? 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Let's just..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "moment": "People like Caesar are not supposed to exist in Rome.", "source_phrase": "people like Julius Caesar aren't supposed to exist", "why_it_matters": "The sentence captures why genius itself becomes a constitutional threat.", "tone": "reversal", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3727.46, "end": 3794.19, "time_label": "1:02:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the fact that Julius Caesar was a genius, that he was so brilliant and he was able to accomplish so much, it made them jealous, right? It made people jealous. But at the same time, it made them... 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So given these two advantages, the divisions within the ultimate opposition and given that Caesar has the world's greatest ar..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0046", "segment_id": "seg-0046", "start": 2944.722, "end": 3022.56, "time_label": "49:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "He basically said, Vinni, vedi, vici. Okay? Beautiful Latin. The most powerful Latin phrase ever spoken in human history. It means, I came, I saw, I conquered. Okay? And again, this captured the imagination of the Roman..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3093.415, "end": 3176.84, "time_label": "51:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The Julian calendar is what we still use today. Before Julius Caesar, the Romans used the lunar calendar. And then Julius Caesar, working with astronomers, they designed together the Julian calendar which is exactly wha..." } ] }, { "term": "cognitive dissonance", "usages": [ "The discomfort produced when a new myth disrupts the old myth people use to understand the world.", "Identity-disrupting discomfort caused by reform that changes the reality people live inside." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0054" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 283.53, "end": 362.77, "time_label": "4:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Does that make sense? That's what a myth maker is. And that's why ultimately Julius Caesar was so successful. Okay? But the problem with being a myth maker is by creating new myths, you are disrupting old myths th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3560.07, "end": 3656.96, "time_label": "59:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Caesar because even though Caesar was making Rome better, he was changing Rome, which caused them to feel uncomfortable and anxious about the future of Rome. Okay? Does that make sense? So an analogy is this. Let's just..." } ] }, { "term": "common land", "usages": [ "Newly conquered territory that could have been distributed broadly, especially to the poor, but was captured by the rich in Jiang's account." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 514.84, "end": 589.754, "time_label": "8:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The problem was this. The problem was that after Rome won the war, the question then is, who got the rewards? Right? Everyone made the sacrifice. The poor lost their land. The rich lost their land. The poor earned money..." } ] }, { "term": "consulship", "usages": [ "The elected office Caesar chooses over the triumph and uses to pursue land reform." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1908.63, "end": 1986.61, "time_label": "31:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they develop, you can use this phrase, Caesar derangement. Syndrome. Okay? They have decided that they will do whatever they can to destroy this guy. Okay? So, Caesar wants a triumph, and he wants to win the, and he..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1986.71, "end": 2051.19, "time_label": "33:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? They always underestimate him. Okay? So, Caesar is consul, and as consul, he wants to do what everyone wants to do, and promote stability in Rome. Okay? So, he's promoting land reform. And here, the optimists try..." } ] }, { "term": "containment strategy", "usages": [ "Pompey's strategy of waiting Caesar out by using control of food provinces and time." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0041" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2603.27, "end": 2675.15, "time_label": "43:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? That's a problem for Caesar because remember, Rome gets its food from the provinces. Okay? So in other words, all Pompey has to do is wait. This is what we call a containment strategy. Containment strategy. Look...." } ] }, { "term": "cult of personality", "usages": [ "The public elevation of Caesar through omnipresent busts, coinage, and personal genius.", "A personal political aura around Caesar that makes him seem above Rome and close to kingship." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3093.415, "end": 3176.84, "time_label": "51:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The Julian calendar is what we still use today. Before Julius Caesar, the Romans used the lunar calendar. And then Julius Caesar, working with astronomers, they designed together the Julian calendar which is exactly wha..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "segment_id": "seg-0049", "start": 3176.96, "end": 3253.82, "time_label": "52:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So he was basically creating what we call a cult of personality, okay? And he wanted to continue to expand the Roman Empire. His plan was to go fight a place called Parthia, which is the old Persian Empire, and then he..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3727.46, "end": 3794.19, "time_label": "1:02:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the fact that Julius Caesar was a genius, that he was so brilliant and he was able to accomplish so much, it made them jealous, right? It made people jealous. But at the same time, it made them... It made him....." } ] }, { "term": "elite overproduction", "usages": [ "Peter Turchin's term, used by Jiang for a cycle in which population growth and peace produce too many elites competing with one another." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0013" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 880.62, "end": 964.994, "time_label": "14:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And there's a problem because first of all, the poor didn't have any land in order to grow food. So they were forced into the cities. Okay? Their problem is the rich didn't want to grow food to feed the people. Right? T..." } ] }, { "term": "expediency", "usages": [ "The practical logic that lets enemies cooperate when each has blocked interests." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0060" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3837.67, "end": 3911.62, "time_label": "1:03:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Oh. Okay. So Pompey and Crassus and Caesar, how did they form their alliance? Right? Okay. So the first thing to understand is Pompey and Crassus were both optimists. Okay? They were supporters of Sulla. Remember, Sulla..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 3911.78, "end": 3928.58, "time_label": "1:05:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Pompey and Crassus were his enemies. They were politically at odds with him. But Caesar was able to put aside political differences and form an alliance for the sake of interest and expediency. Okay? Does that mak..." } ] }, { "term": "First Triumvirate", "usages": [ "The secret alliance of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus that lets each bypass Senate obstruction and gives Caesar Gaul." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "segment_id": "seg-0033", "start": 2051.35, "end": 2108.64, "time_label": "34:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? We're not gonna let him go fight wars in Gaul. That's for sure. Caesar knows about this, and he does something that's really unexpected. He forms an alliance with two other individuals that the Senate hates. Okay?..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2108.64, "end": 2178.35, "time_label": "35:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So Caesar, as counsel, will help settle the veterans of Pompey. He'll promote some tax reform that Crassus wants. And in return, Pompey and Crassus will give him Gaul as the promise that he will take over once he..." } ] }, { "term": "Gaul", "usages": [ "The northern province where Caesar wages years of war, earns wealth, builds an army, and constructs his conqueror myth." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2108.64, "end": 2178.35, "time_label": "35:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So Caesar, as counsel, will help settle the veterans of Pompey. He'll promote some tax reform that Crassus wants. And in return, Pompey and Crassus will give him Gaul as the promise that he will take over once he..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2300.343, "end": 2377.72, "time_label": "38:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So for example, he attacked Germania. Germania, and Romans thought the Germans were so barbaric it was impossible to attack them. The second thing that, that Caesar did to capture the imagination of Romans is he invaded..." } ] }, { "term": "general", "usages": [ "In Jiang's typology, a bold, disciplined, fair organizer of military power and logistics." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3317.573, "end": 3401.38, "time_label": "55:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or they're able to accomplish great things in different aspects of society. The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is bold and disciplined. And he's fair, right? That's why the soldiers follow him...." } ] }, { "term": "Gracchi brothers", "usages": [ "Lower-noble reformers whose land-reform proposal and assassination mark, for Jiang, the start of the Republic's fall." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1038.69, "end": 1102.197, "time_label": "17:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So in 146 BCE, after Rome had become an empire and it had defeated all its enemies, these two factions start to emerge and they clash with each other. So historians normally believe the first clash happened with the Gra..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1102.197, "end": 1165.92, "time_label": "18:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this makes perfect sense. Not a problem, right? And once Rome buys out this land, it wi..." } ] }, { "term": "hubris", "usages": [ "The arrogance implied by believing one can personally change Rome." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3727.46, "end": 3794.19, "time_label": "1:02:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So the fact that Julius Caesar was a genius, that he was so brilliant and he was able to accomplish so much, it made them jealous, right? It made people jealous. But at the same time, it made them... It made him....." } ] }, { "term": "imperial republic", "usages": [ "Jiang's phrase for Rome after conquest: an empire whose political form remains a republic." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0009" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 589.754, "end": 673.02, "time_label": "9:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But not only that, the remaining common land, the rich just pretended it was theirs. Okay? Meaning that they illegally occupied common land. They didn't pay for it, it wasn't theirs, but they just assumed it was theirs...." } ] }, { "term": "Julian calendar", "usages": [ "A calendar reform Caesar creates with astronomers to replace Rome's lunar calendar." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "segment_id": "seg-0047", "start": 3022.56, "end": 3093.415, "time_label": "50:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "to ensure they can't fight back again okay the last battle is in Spain at the month Manda and here the enemy is on a hill and you're not supposed to fight uphill okay you're not supposed to go up a hill and fight your e..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3093.415, "end": 3176.84, "time_label": "51:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The Julian calendar is what we still use today. Before Julius Caesar, the Romans used the lunar calendar. And then Julius Caesar, working with astronomers, they designed together the Julian calendar which is exactly wha..." } ] }, { "term": "libertine", "usages": [ "A reputation the optimates attach to Caesar, meaning sexual license and moral looseness." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1845.37, "end": 1908.63, "time_label": "30:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? He's arrogant. He just brags all the time. He's appeasing the people. He's exactly, what Romans should not be. Okay? He's impious. He doesn't care for liberty. He doesn't care about the public good. All he cares a..." } ] }, { "term": "man of destiny", "usages": [ "Jiang's phrase for Caesar's self-understanding as the figure destined to save the Republic through reform." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1503.18, "end": 1576.486, "time_label": "25:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And he's the nephew of Marius. And that's why he was, he was proscribed. Okay? Now, the good thing is, if you're rich, you can bribe your way out of these things. Okay? And Julius Caesar's family was extremely wealthy a..." } ] }, { "term": "myth maker", "usages": [ "A person who sees himself as destined to change the world and constructs a new reality that absorbs and alters the old one." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 59.233, "end": 143.04, "time_label": "0:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "In only... 55 years. And the last question is, why did they kill him? Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his allies, by people he grew up with, by people he fought wars with, by people he pardoned and s..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 283.53, "end": 362.77, "time_label": "4:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Does that make sense? That's what a myth maker is. And that's why ultimately Julius Caesar was so successful. Okay? But the problem with being a myth maker is by creating new myths, you are disrupting old myths th..." } ] }, { "term": "myth-making genius", "usages": [ "Caesar's ability to shape public memory through vivid, retellable stories regardless of factual certainty." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0028" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1576.486, "end": 1649.346, "time_label": "26:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Any questions so far? Is this all clear to you guys? Okay? All right. So let's talk about the life of Julius Caesar. Okay? From an early age, Julius Caesar saw himself as special. But not only that, but from an early ag..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1715.95, "end": 1773.01, "time_label": "28:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The pirates are like, that's really funny, man. Okay? So that's the second embellishment. The third embellishment is, Julius Caesar, after he was released, he set up a navy. He went and found every one of these pirates...." } ] }, { "term": "optimates", "usages": [ "The upper nobility who defend Rome's existing order and the tradition of piety, liberty, and republica.", "The conservative faction Jiang says Pompey and Crassus belonged to as supporters of Sulla." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 964.994, "end": 1026.88, "time_label": "16:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And it's usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? So upper nobility are people who are established. They're the wealthiest citizens in all of Rome. They're very happy with the system as it is. Th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3837.67, "end": 3911.62, "time_label": "1:03:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Oh. Okay. So Pompey and Crassus and Caesar, how did they form their alliance? Right? Okay. So the first thing to understand is Pompey and Crassus were both optimists. Okay? They were supporters of Sulla. Remember, Sulla..." } ] }, { "term": "Pharsalus", "usages": [ "The August 48 BCE battle where Pompey and Caesar meet and Caesar's army defeats Pompey's strategy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0045" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "segment_id": "seg-0044", "start": 2811.32, "end": 2871.902, "time_label": "46:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? All right? But that's what Julius Caesar is doing. He's winning these wars against his opponents and he's letting them go. He's forgiving them. So that's the first thing. That Caesar does. And then he marches to G..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2871.902, "end": 2944.722, "time_label": "47:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Pompey chooses to use the anvil and hammer strategy. Remember what the anvil and hammer strategy is, where your infantry locks the enemy, the enemy army into place. Okay? It locks in place. And then from behind, the cav..." } ] }, { "term": "piety, liberty, and republica", "usages": [ "The three principles Jiang says formed Rome's Hannibal-era mythology of sacrifice." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 363.42, "end": 437.313, "time_label": "6:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And at this point, Rome should have surrendered or negotiated peace terms. But Rome instead chose to fought on. And it fought on because it had a mythology about itself that was based on three principles, right? The thr..." } ] }, { "term": "politician", "usages": [ "In Jiang's typology, an avatar of the people who captures emotions and longings through charisma and story." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3317.573, "end": 3401.38, "time_label": "55:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or they're able to accomplish great things in different aspects of society. The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is bold and disciplined. And he's fair, right? That's why the soldiers follow him...." } ] }, { "term": "populare", "usages": [ "Caesar's factional position in contrast to Pompey and Crassus as optimates." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3837.67, "end": 3911.62, "time_label": "1:03:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Oh. Okay. So Pompey and Crassus and Caesar, how did they form their alliance? Right? Okay. So the first thing to understand is Pompey and Crassus were both optimists. Okay? They were supporters of Sulla. Remember, Sulla..." } ] }, { "term": "populares", "usages": [ "Lower nobility seeking political change and power through alignment with the people." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0015" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1027.77, "end": 1035.72, "time_label": "17:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And these people, lower nobility, who want to change, they're called populaires. And that's where we get the term populist folk." } ] }, { "term": "praetor", "usages": [ "A Roman office Caesar wins before going to Spain to fight wars and seek a triumph." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1773.17, "end": 1845.29, "time_label": "29:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "These are like psychopaths. Right? He's like, I'm gonna come back and kill every one of you. Every one of you. Right? But again, that's a myth -making genius of Julius Caesar. 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