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The problem is that this creates a misunderstanding. And we can't really explain why is it that throughout human history, the steps people have been the greatest conquerors. Okay, so the classic example is Genghis Khan. How is it that Genghis Khan was able to not only conquer China, okay? Which is one consider. One of the greatest civilization in the world, but also Baghdad, another great civilization, okay? But what's interesting is that throughout human history, this has been a consistent pattern where the barbarians conquered the civilized people, okay? So this is a problem. 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The steppe people or the pastoralists. Pastoralists just means that they don't farm for a living. They raise sheep, goats, and cows for a living. Okay? They come and they take over the empire. Why is this the case? Because these people are the best fighters in the world. They have horses. They have archers. Okay? So they're the best fighters in the world. So what often happens is one faction invites them to be mercenaries in the struggle. And eventually they recognize, you know what? We don't have to fight for the prince. We can take over ourselves. Another thing that happens. Another thing that happens is the faction that invites the mercenaries don't have enough money to pay them off. So the mercenaries are just like, screw this. 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And what's important to understand is that throughout all this the pastoralists are always in control of the empire through three things. Okay? Through trade. Through pillaging. So the pastoralists come and steal from the people. And through being mercenaries. Okay? So this is a pattern throughout human history. So another question we have to ask is why are the pastoralists so different from people of civilization and empire? And the reason is geography. What I will show you is that people who are pastoralists grow up in a different environment than the people of civilization and empire. And therefore they have developed a different economy as well as mythology as well as culture. Okay? Alright? Alright, let's continue. We're clear so far, right? Okay. So in the beginning we had agriculture. Why did we have agriculture? Because as we discussed before people came together for religious purposes. They built temples. 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And these are the Vestas, which is the Bible of Zoroastrianism. In India, they, of course, gave birth to Hinduism. And these are the Vedas, which is the Bible of Hinduism. We'll discuss this later on in the semester, but I want you to be aware of this. Okay? So again, we know that this happened at first because of linguistic differences. So let's look at linguistic studies. When we look at different languages, we discover there are common words to them. So let's look at father. Okay? When Latin is pater, Greek, patris, Persian, padar, Hindi, pita. Pretty similar. Okay? Similar with mother. Mother, matar, mitra, madar, mat. So from different linguistic studies, we know there had to be a common language to all of them. And that's why we hypothesize about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. This is a more stark example. With a Proto -Indo -European, tu is dua.", "word_count": 152, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0033-chunk-001", "start": 1983.49, "end": 1985.15, "text": "Okay? 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B..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang describes empire from below as war, debt, immobility, and elite overproduction; revolutions are framed not as spontaneous popular uprisings but as elite factions mobilizing people against other elite factions.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 635.52, "end": 704.84, "time_label": "10:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? It really sucks because you're essentially a slave. Why? Well first of all the empire goes to war a lot in order to protect its advantages. Okay? So they can at any time just take you to war and you get killed. 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Can you speak to the mic, please?" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0026" ], "kind": "question", "summary": "A student asks whether inheritance must go to the oldest son or whether steppe peoples had a system for choosing the best son.", "speaker_attribution": "student", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1735.45, "end": 1765.98, "time_label": "28:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So earlier you said that... These people, they inherit to their oldest son, right? So my question is, is it necessary for... 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It does not matter. Okay? All right. All right. So legacy of the steps. All right. So as I discussed, what's happening is that Europe at first was just hunter gatherer. Okay? And they were spread out...." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang contrasts farmers moving as families with Yamnaya pastoralists moving mostly as young men, using DNA, language, and migration maps to argue for violent replacement in Europe and later religious transformations in Iran and India.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1852.71, "end": 1909.49, "time_label": "30:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "the... Farmers. What's really important for our purpose to understand is this. When the farmers went to Europe, they went as families. Husband, wife, children. And so they integrate into Europe pretty peacefully. Okay?..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1910.07, "end": 1910.63, "time_label": "31:50", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Okay?" }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1913.04, "end": 1983.41, "time_label": "31:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right. Yeah. So this is another map that shows the same thing. What you need to understand is this. This movement is global. Okay? So the farmers went to Europe, but they also went to India and Iran. Okay? 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Participation in long -distance trade, gift exchange, and a new set of codes requiring public sacrifices and feasting became the foundation for a new kind o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3075.386, "end": 3129.772, "time_label": "51:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Now you owe me a meal. If I take you out for a meal, I'm now your big brother, okay? And that's what keeps the society cohesive. And this is important. This is important because if no one's a slave and everyone's free,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3129.772, "end": 3192.54, "time_label": "52:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Praise poetry at public feasts encouraged patrons to be generous and validated the language, the songs as a vehicle for communication with the gods who regulated everything, okay? 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So the book looks at the Malaysian people where they practice sexual freedom..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0044" ], "note": "ASR says Black Death for ancient plague; preserve Jiang’s plague analogy but avoid implying medieval Black Death chronology unless the public read distinguishes it.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "segment_id": "seg-0044", "start": 2559.9, "end": 2612.39, "time_label": "42:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "We can measure the level of carbon dioxide in the air. We know that about the year 3000 BCE, the population collapsed. Okay? All right. It collapsed everywhere in Europe. Why did this happen? The plague, guys. Okay? 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This is important because if no one's a slave and everyone's free,..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0058" ], "note": "Several names are ASR-damaged or approximate, including Timberlane/Tamerlane and possibly “ethically Chinese” for ethnically Chinese; preserve the argument without leaning on damaged spellings.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3317.2, "end": 3373.223, "time_label": "55:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Why? Because they are ethically Chinese, and they're proud of who they are. So what they're going to do is they're going to try to destroy the steppe people once and for all. Okay? So they move a huge army into the step..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "segment_id": "seg-0058", "start": 3373.223, "end": 3436.19, "time_label": "56:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Then you have the Turks emerge. This is the Mongol Empire. And as you can see, they conquer basically most of the world. And because they conquer most of the world, and the world is unified, then you have the Black Deat..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ] }