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All right, okay so coercion While it is true that with gorillas, there's an alpha male Who controls everything? The problem is that if you look at gorillas the alpha male is huge, okay? Okay? And males are a lot bigger than females. So it's possible for one gorilla to exert force and pressure on the others, okay? 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Or religious leaders that help us bridge our world with the animal world and the spirit world, okay? So, these are shamans. Okay? And so, Gobekli Tepe is a place of religious worship. Now, what's interesting about Gobekli Tepe is that the religious site is the oldest, but we also find houses that are built later on, okay? So, what we think might have happened here is that hunter -gatherers will come to a place now and then to practice religion. Because ultimately, as human beings, and we discussed this last class, we have a yearning, or we have a need to understand why, and religion solves this problem for us. 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And so, this sort of religious center, it's a great time to come and practice your religion, but it's also a great time to feast and to meet someone you can marry and have children with, okay? So, that was the original function of the temple. Now, these places are often led by shamans, and what makes them special is that they are charismatic leaders, okay? Charismatic leaders. Charismatic leaders are people like Mao Zedong, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, okay? They're people who, for whatever reason, people just love them and want to follow them, okay? And so, maybe what happened was that these charismatic leaders, they built this place, and they became like celebrities, and people came from all over to meet them, to hear the religion, and to meet other people. 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And so, this place became a temple, okay? Does that make sense? So, that's one theory about Kobletepe. There are other theories, okay? There are some people who will tell you that, okay? Space aliens came down and built this place because it's so sophisticated, okay? But, so there are different theories, but the one that scholars most agree with today, okay, is that it was a religious center. Any questions before I move on to, before I move on? Okay, so that's a great question, okay? Where does religion come from? And this is something that we will look at very closely next class. And the answer is, is this, okay? 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Faith. Does that make sense? Okay? And again, throughout human history, we've seen this, right? So, think of Christians. Think of Buddhists. Think of Muslims. Religious faith. So, that's what built this, okay? So, does that answer your question? Okay. Any more questions before I continue? Yeah? Okay. So, that's a good question. Why is a temple structured like this, okay? And the answer is that, there's cosmological significance to the structure, meaning that on a certain time of the year, what will happen is that the sun will hit this place in a certain way. So, it's almost like a clock. Does that make sense to you guys? They designed this in a way so they can tell time. But their intention was not to tell time. Their intention was to connect with the outer world, right? Does that make sense to you guys? 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So next class, we'll look at Ice Cave Paintings. That goes back 40,000 years. Meaning that they practiced this sort of religion, or something like this religion, 40 to 50,000 years ago. And we know through Ice Cave Paintings. Okay. So, questions before we finish class. Is this clear to you guys? Okay? Anything you're confused about? Any questions? Before we conclude? Okay. Can you say it more clearly? And again, this is all on the internet, by the way. So if you're interested, you can go online and just read up more on Catahoyac. Okay? These places are very famous. We'll be discussing these places throughout the semester. Okay? Cabobo Tepe, Jericho, and Catahoyac. Excuse me? We discussed all three. Okay? But I'm introducing you to these three places. In future classes, we'll go more in depth into these places. Okay? Because Cabobo Tepe is a very interesting place. Okay? 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They're always fighting each other so the argument here is tha..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 760.004, "end": 841.917, "time_label": "12:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So that's a third theory the last theory is religion okay, meaning that we settle down in order to celebrate a religion to practice a religion and Just to be clear There's evidence and arguments for all four theories an..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0013" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He rejects coercion as a primary explanation by contrasting gorilla domination with human cooperation: even a giant boss can be resisted, tricked, poisoned, or escaped.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang lecture voice", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 760.004, "end": 841.917, "time_label": "12:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So that's a third theory the last theory is religion okay, meaning that we settle down in order to celebrate a religion to practice a religion and Just to be clear There's evidence and arguments for all four theories an..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 841.917, "end": 900.85, "time_label": "14:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because let's just say a nine foot giant human being comes into this room and is like, I'm now your boss, you have to grow fruit for me, you have to give me all your woman, okay? 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And so, this place became a temple, okay? Does that make sense? So, that's one theory about Kobletepe. There are other theories, okay..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1434.41, "end": 1506.19, "time_label": "23:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, who these charismatic leaders are, are people who have visions or dreams of God or the spirit world, okay? And then, they present their visions to other people. 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They're always fighting each other so the argument here is tha..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 994.95, "end": 1064.78, "time_label": "16:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "We don't find that. So, war, we don't really think is a possibility. Now, it's possible that in the future, we'll find evidence. But I'm just saying that right now, in archeology and anthropology, we do not have any evi..." } ] }, { "term": "Sedentary", "usages": [ "Staying in one place rather than roaming, even while still living primarily as hunter-gatherers." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0026" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1863.64, "end": 1941.69, "time_label": "31:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Does that make sense? 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