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So this is a process of social evolution that has created the most innovation in human history. So in Chinese history, this most resembles what period in Chinese history? In Chinese history. Which part of Chinese history does this process where you have many different people in open competition with each other but still learning from each other? This period in Chinese history is called? Exactly, right? And that's where most of Chinese innovation and creativity came from, from that period. Confucius came from that period. Laozi, okay? A lot of major intellectual breakthroughs came from that period, okay? But not only the of China. As we move on, we will also look at two other major periods where there was a major outburst of innovation and then very similar social structure as like this, okay? So we will also be studying the Greek city -states. 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And when we look at the Greek city -states, you will discover the system they had back then is very similar to this system, okay? We will also look at the Sumerian city -states, okay? Which is very similar to the Greek city -states. Yes, okay? So we will be studying these different periods, okay? But I want you to remember the first important principle is whenever there is an open cooperative competition, tremendous innovation happens, okay? That's the first principle I want you to remember. The second principle I want you to remember is eventually someone triumphs in this competition, okay? 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They are the most ruthless in adopting all innovations for the sole purpose of destroying others and becoming the sole hegemon, okay? So we saw this with the Greek city -states where for hundreds of years they were in competition with each other. And then there was a people called the Macedonians who weren't actually Greek, okay? They were marginal. They were marginal to the Greek city -states. And the Greeks didn't really consider the Macedonians part of their civilization. But they were on the outskirts and they observed all the innovations that the Greek city -states were creating, especially in terms of military innovation, adopted all innovations for their purposes, and then conquered the city -states before they moved on and conquered Persia and Egypt, okay? And the leader of the Macedonians was called, do you guys know? 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Who's the most famous Greek you've heard of? Yeah, he was actually Macedonian, okay? Alexander the Great, okay? And what's amazing is we see the same pattern play out with the Sumerian city -states where for hundreds of years the city -states were in competition with each other. They were all trying to conquer each other without success. And then an outside people, a neighbor called the Akkadians, the Akkadians, they adopted all the innovation and technology of the Sumerian city -states and then they conquered the Sumerian city -states and established the first great world empire called the Akkadian Empire. And the founder of that empire, we will learn, is called Sargon the Great, okay? Sargon the Great. And Sargon the Great is considered the world's very first empire builder. 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Then one outside group came in, adopted all the innovations, and then conquered everyone, okay? And these people are what we call the Anaya, who originated, we believe, in Ukraine, okay? So let's now discuss the innovations that these people created, okay? And the innovations were pretty incredible because they forever transformed human history. Okay, so the first innovation they adopted was a pastoral economy, okay? A pastoral economy, basically raising cattle, raising or herding cattle, or cows. All right, so we cannot eat grass, okay? 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So because of these two innovations, the people in the steppes were on average, okay, just average, 20 centimeters taller than the farmers in the Near East and in Europe. 20 centimeters is a lot, guys, okay? The reason why is the farmers didn't drink milk, they could not eat meat, mostly, and they could not drink milk. They ate vegetables, okay? So the third big innovation is the domestication of the horse. The reason why is the grassland is huge and they needed to travel huge distances to trade, to communicate, okay? So they started to domesticate the horse. And it's very hard to domesticate the horse because horses are trained, or horses are programmed, hardwired, to run away from humans, right? If they see a threat, they run away. 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The second change is whereas the mother goddess gave us everything, right? Nature. The Sky Father gave us cows, cattle, money, and wealth, okay? So the third change is whereas the mother goddess asked us to love everything and protect everything, the Sky Father asked us to fight each other for the right to have wealth. Does it make sense? That's now their new religion, okay? And so they adopt this new religion. Okay, so these are all major changes and major innovations, okay? And again, the one group who comes in and adopts all these innovations are called the Yamnaya. And so if you're a group and you adopt most of these innovations but not all these innovations, then you're going to lose to the group called the Yamnaya who adopt all the innovations, okay? Does that make sense to you guys? 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And so this is a people who are obsessed with collecting wealth and fighting wars and expanding into new territories. And so what happens is over a process of a few thousand years, they conquer the steppes, okay? Their culture spreads throughout the steppes. It doesn't mean they're one people. It means they're one culture. They practice the same beliefs, okay? Does that make sense? Any questions so far? So these are the Yamnaya people. This is what they believe. This is where they came from. This is how they behave. Next thing I'm going to look at is, fine, how do these people conquer Europe, okay? Now, I already said the Yamnaya are stronger and bigger and more militaristic than the farmers of old Europe, right? But what advantage do the people of Europe have? 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Because you can't grow crops. And it's bad for you if you live in the steppes because a lot of your crops will die, but not as bad, okay? And the other thing is that now, the ice age, because of climate change, people in the steppes are now forced to expand further into Europe, okay? So this is what we think happened. Three things, okay? That destroyed Europe. The first thing is the plague. That's actually the most important thing because it wiped out most of the people, okay? So think of when Europe conquered North and South America. 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Europeans had these diseases they brought over and that killed most of the local population, okay? So the plague was the main culprit that destroyed all Europe. Then climate change, and then finally the Yemenite people who came into Europe and started to colonize Europe and destroy the local population, okay? So let me now explain why the Yemenites decided to kill Europe. The people, the farmers of Europe, okay? So let's just say that in Europe you have a village. Maybe a hundred men, a hundred women. You have a hundred men, young men, who have no wealth and no wives, okay? So what do they want to do? If you're a young man and you have no wife and you have no wealth, what do you want to do? Yeah, you want to steal other people's wife and property, right? 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It's a culture of people. And they adopted different strategies. Some of them decided to come in and said, listen, we'll take all the women and we'll let the men go. And what did these men do in return, in response? What would you do? Yeah, so they went to get their neighbors, got a thousand of them, came back and killed everyone, okay? So this was actually a violent process with violence on both sides, okay? But eventually, what happened was the Yemenite conquered all of Europe, okay? 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Why could they conquer China? If you have horses, okay? You can't cross the Himalayas, okay? So that's what saved China, the geography. Also, China had a huge population, right? So even if the Yemenite came, the population could have repulsed the attack, okay? But China was not conquered by the Yemenite. So China, for most of its history, was isolated from the rest of the world, okay? Does that make sense? 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And the reason why farming was founded in the Near East is, for the longest time, there's an ice..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 174.65, "end": 235.88, "time_label": "2:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because the geography of Europe was not that different from the geography of the Near East. So they could take their religion, they could take their technology, move over to Europe, and still be about the same, okay? Th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0004", "segment_id": "seg-0004", "start": 236.06, "end": 298.22, "time_label": "3:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "We should protect nature because it's all the Mother Goddess, okay? We're all the children of the Mother Goddess. So we also believe in balance and harmony. 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They were peaceful. They really didn't have to fight each other because they felt their resources was enough..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 381.99, "end": 464.884, "time_label": "6:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So you may have heard the term evolution. I want to explain what the term evolution means for our class, because we will refer to it a lot as we progress through human history, okay? So for us, evolution means open, coo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 464.884, "end": 546.36, "time_label": "7:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Maybe they'll exchange wives, exchange presents, okay? So this is a process of social evolution that has created the most innovation in human history. So in Chinese history, this most resembles what period in Chinese hi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 546.36, "end": 639.5, "time_label": "9:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "lot of time on the Greek city -states like Athens and Sparta and Thebes because before, we actually thought the origin of Western civilization were the Greek city -states, okay? We no longer believe that, but for the lo..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "Jiang illustrates the winner-takes-innovation principle through Macedon and Akkad; he prompts students to name Alexander and then compares Alexander and Sargon as outside conquerors who absorbed city-state military innovations.", "speaker_attribution": "Mostly Jiang; brief student answer to the Alexander prompt is implied but not independently transcribed.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 639.5, "end": 707.69, "time_label": "10:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Does that make sense? They are the most ruthless in adopting all innovations for the sole purpose of destroying others and becoming the sole hegemon, okay? So we saw this with the Greek city -states where for hundreds o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 708.89, "end": 781.5, "time_label": "11:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I'm sure you know who he is, but you may not know he was Macedonian. Who's the most famous Greek you've heard of? Yeah, he was actually Macedonian, okay? Alexander the Great, okay? 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So what we realized what these people realized is they can take the cows, the goats and the sheep, from the farmers, okay? Because there was a lot of trading back then, and then raise them in the s..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 935.16, "end": 1010.373, "time_label": "15:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "What happens to your body? Exactly, okay? You become very tall, very strong, okay? So because of these two innovations, the people in the steppes were on average, okay, just average, 20 centimeters taller than the farme..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 1010.373, "end": 1070.16, "time_label": "16:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But they kept on trying because the ability to ride horses was very important for their society and their economy. And so now they have the ability to ride horses. 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Because you are now in competition for what we call grazing rights. Grazing rights. If your cows go into a gr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1162.14, "end": 1244.54, "time_label": "19:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So women were more important. But in this society, where there's a lot of violence, there's a lot of conflict, men became more important, okay? 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The eldest son, why? Exactly, okay? So we need 100 cattle to survive as a fami..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1323.83, "end": 1401.5, "time_label": "22:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "You have to go build your own wealth. And that means basically stealing cows from other people, okay? So this creates a war culture, a war culture, right? So does that make sense? That's your society. This is a society..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0020" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang completes the religious inversion: the Sky Father gives cattle, money, and wealth and asks people to fight for wealth; the Yamnaya win because they adopt the whole economy-society-religion package and spread it across the steppes as a culture rather than a single people.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang lecture with rhetorical checks.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1402.23, "end": 1469.242, "time_label": "23:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "That's the first change. The second change is whereas the mother goddess gave us everything, right? Nature. The Sky Father gave us cows, cattle, money, and wealth, okay? So the third change is whereas the mother goddess..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1469.242, "end": 1539.285, "time_label": "24:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And when they adopt all these innovations, then what happens is their religion becomes aligned with their society, which becomes aligned with their economy, okay? And so this is a people who are obsessed with collecting..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "Jiang asks how the Yamnaya conquered more populous Europe and leads the class through plague, sedentary farming, climate change, and the motives of landless, wifeless young men as the conquest mechanism.", "speaker_attribution": "Mostly Jiang; some student answers are heard only through Jiang's repetition such as 'plague' and stealing wives and property.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1539.285, "end": 1643.706, "time_label": "25:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "What's the major advantage that Europe has? If you have farming, what happens to your population? It grows very fast, right? So in other words, Europe has more population than the steppes. Does that make sense? Okay? So..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1643.706, "end": 1711.39, "time_label": "27:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Now the thing is, though, the plague spread around the world. Okay? Because remember, what's important to remember is, these people in the steppes, in the Near East, in Europe, were all in contact with each other becaus..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1711.87, "end": 1781.19, "time_label": "28:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So that's the first thing that happened in Europe. The second thing that happened in Europe is what we call climate change. So about four, sorry, yeah, about, let me do the math, about 5,000, 6,000 years ago, there was..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1781.21, "end": 1846.29, "time_label": "29:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Was actually the plague, right? Europeans had these diseases they brought over and that killed most of the local population, okay? So the plague was the main culprit that destroyed all Europe. Then climate change, and t..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0026" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "Jiang narrates the conquest village by village: killing men, taking women, retaliatory violence, eventual spread to Europe and England, and then explains why China was not conquered through Himalayas, geography, and population.", "speaker_attribution": "Mostly Jiang; answers to his classroom prompts are implied by his restatement.", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1846.71, "end": 1918.668, "time_label": "30:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And what do they do? You have a hundred men and a hundred women in this village. So what do you do? No, yeah, but... Yeah, they kill the men, okay, guys? Okay? And then they married all the women. And that's what happen..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1918.668, "end": 2007.532, "time_label": "31:58", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They conquered England, okay? And then not only did they conquer Europe, then they went to conquer India and Iran. So this spread everywhere. And even Mongolia, okay? But not to China. Why didn't it impact China? 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