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Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. So, the Vikings were in Europe, and the Mongols are near China, okay? And I have to say, like, I think if I wanted to be a Viking or a..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3659.2, "end": 3725.08, "time_label": "1:00:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "based in East Asia, and they did ultimately adopt a belief that people are an infinite resource. And they had tremendous contempt for Chinese culture, okay? And that changes you as a person. When you believe that people..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 3725.92, "end": 3777.62, "time_label": "1:02:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, I would much prefer to be a Viking. I would much prefer to be enslaved by a Viking than a Mongol. 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The Mongols, as you know, they are a steppe people. The steppe are divided into the Western steppes and the Eastern steppes. And they basically go from Hungary in Europe. Europe all the way to what is modern -day Mongolia. And as we discussed, steppe culture is very different from agricultural culture that we find in the La Vange, in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and in China. In the grasslands, the economy is what we call nomadic pastoral, meaning they were... 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They are extremely violent. Their society, their culture is based around violence. And there's a lot of competition within these certain groups. So rather than thinking... Rather than think of these people as a nation or a race of people, it's better to think of them as a culture, okay? And for the longest time throughout human history, they have been divided among many different tribes. Throughout human history, the nomadic pastoral people of the steppes have always been in conflict with the agricultural empires. So... In response, the agricultural empires, China and the Persians, they have built walls and fortifications to counter their threat, okay? So as you can see, the Mongols will eventually come south and invade most of China. And historically, the response has been the Great Wall of China, okay? 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Of the life and times of Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei. Alright? Now the story in The Secret History is suspicious. And it's suspicious because it fits very well into the structure of Proto -Indo -European myth. Alright? So let me show you how it's similar. Okay. In The Secret History. Genghis Khan. His mother. And you know again they are in the Mongolian grasslands. His mother is about to be wed to her husband. So she's in her carriage. And she's along the way to her husband's tribe. But along the way she is ambushed and kidnapped. That's a very common thing in that culture. The way that you obtain a wife is by stealing someone else's wife. And so she's forced to marry a stranger. But this stranger. Genghis Khan's eventual wife. Genghis Khan's eventual father. 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And that's the very idea, foundational idea of Christianity. And so what Christianity is doing, and it's very clever, is it's seeking the collective subconscious that is embedded in every individual and then planting a new idea within the subconscious that grows and grows. Okay? It's almost like a virus until people recognize that violence is bad. Proto -Enduro -European mythology celebrates violence. Right? Christianity believes violence is the worst thing. Okay? So let's, sorry, this is a bit, okay. All right. Anyway, I'll just read it to you. Okay? So this is the ending of Mark. Okay? Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. Okay? So he's been sacrificed. He's died. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The temple is the... The second temple in Jerusalem where Yahweh is. 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Great. Okay. All right. So, let's talk about mythology. All right. So, again, if you're actually studying mythology... What you recognize is there's a structure that's very similar across many different cultures. Right? So, if you look at Greek, if you look at Roman, Norse, Mongolian... Okay? And I could go on and on and on. There is a very similar structure, even though the characters might be different. Okay? But it's a mythology that celebrates violence and individualism as a way to remake the world. Okay? It's about strength, individualism, violence. So, why is that the case? And it's about culture, cultural values. So, as I discussed in this class, cultural values are the most persistent part of who you are. Why? Because it's part of your subconscious. Okay? There's a conscious you, and there's a subconscious. And ultimately, you are your subconscious. And subconscious is composed of your cultural values. Okay? 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Today we will do Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Conquest. Now, as you know, the Mongols have a terrible reputation for their brutality, for their atrocities. Today, I want to make the argument to you that..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 99.793, "end": 180.77, "time_label": "1:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And because of their economy, they have developed a certain culture. They are extremely violent. Their society, their culture is based around violence. And there's a lot of competition within these certain groups. 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Yup." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3556.32, "end": 3557.58, "time_label": "59:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3557.58, "end": 3561.26, "time_label": "59:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. 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Meaning God is now released into the world, which means that everyone now has access t..." } ] }, { "term": "Human wave attacks", "usages": [ "Jiang's term for Chinese warfare that throws peasant armies at opponents and replaces them when they die, teaching the Mongols that people are expendable." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0063" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "segment_id": "seg-0062", "start": 3869.82, "end": 3922.94, "time_label": "1:04:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "The Mongols are working as either mercenaries for dynasties in China. Or they are trading. Okay? Or they're raiding and pillaging. Okay? So, for centuries, there's been contact between China and the Mongols. So, where d..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0063", "segment_id": "seg-0063", "start": 3924.08, "end": 3942.18, "time_label": "1:05:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Right? So, if you're the Mongols and you're fighting this enemy and they're just throwing these peasants at you and you're killing them all but no one cares because then, like, a month later, another peasant army comes..." } ] }, { "term": "Nomadic pastoral", "usages": [ "The grassland economy of raising cattle and moving wherever there is grassland; Jiang links it to steppe cultural formation." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0001" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0, "end": 99.793, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Good morning. Today we will do Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Conquest. Now, as you know, the Mongols have a terrible reputation for their brutality, for their atrocities. Today, I want to make the argument to you that..." } ] }, { "term": "Optimal strategy", "usages": [ "Given the constraints of a circumstance, the best way for an actor to win." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2345.06, "end": 2419.82, "time_label": "39:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "All right. Let's continue. Okay. So now I want to discuss why the Mongols did what they did. Okay? All right. Why did the Mongols commit so many atrocities? What was the logic or reasoning behind their brutality? All ri..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2419.82, "end": 2473.84, "time_label": "40:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So if you're the big guy, okay? This is the big guy. He wants the game to be fair, which is like, let's just arrange to fight at a certain time. And we'll fight. Okay? And he wants to use this strategy because he is mos..." } ] }, { "term": "Pax Mongolica", "usages": [ "The Mongol Peace; Jiang uses it to describe Mongol-enabled trade, travel, taxation, and globalization across the empire." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0009" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 655.3, "end": 730.74, "time_label": "10:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? And these four major empires themselves will assimilate and integrate into the local culture. The Golden Horde will eventually give rise to the Russian Empire. The Yuan Dynasty will eventually fall and give rise t..." } ] }, { "term": "People are an infinite resource", "usages": [ "Jiang's name for the idea that people can be massacred or spent because more people can always be found; he treats it as a Chinese-derived concept the Mongols universalized." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0048" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "segment_id": "seg-0047", "start": 3226.27, "end": 3301.267, "time_label": "53:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So this is a culture that values freedom, egalitarianism, and self -reliance. And therefore, it makes great warriors. The problem, though, is the cultures they conquer were extreme hierarchies. Where you have maybe the..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3301.267, "end": 3376.93, "time_label": "55:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "People are an infinite resource. So throughout most of human history, people were the most valuable resource. There was not many people around. Therefore, you have to do this. You have to treat people nicely if you want..." } ] }, { "term": "Professional army", "usages": [ "A full-time army paid by taxes rather than a seasonal farmer levy; Jiang names Sargon as the first major example in this sequence." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2207.58, "end": 2270.78, "time_label": "36:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Their goal is not to conquer the world. Their goal is to change the world for the better. As demanded by the gods. Does that make sense? That's the only way we can understand this. Each in their own way believe they are..." } ] }, { "term": "Proto-Indo-European soul", "usages": [ "Jiang's metaphor for cultural continuity beneath changed environment, appearance, clothing, and language." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0068" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "segment_id": "seg-0068", "start": 4085.73, "end": 4160.09, "time_label": "1:08:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, even though the Proto -Indo -Europeans, they were going into different environments, and they were assimilating themselves into different environments, and they looked physically different, culturally, subconsciousl..." } ] }, { "term": "Psychological warfare", "usages": [ "Terror practices used against conquered people and Mongol soldiers themselves to prevent rebellion, flight, and resistance." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0044" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2887.74, "end": 2948.01, "time_label": "48:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "In response, Genghis Khan would send his army to his country and he would kill all the people in the city. He would destroy the entire city, burn down the city, and kill everyone. Okay? This is the idea of escalation do..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "segment_id": "seg-0043", "start": 2948.17, "end": 3010.6, "time_label": "49:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? And this is one soldier, and there might be a thousand villagers. And then what this Mongol soldier will do is randomly kill some villagers. He'll say, hey, you guys come over here, line up, and he starts killing..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "segment_id": "seg-0044", "start": 3010.9, "end": 3084.487, "time_label": "50:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? So this gives everyone incentive to make sure your fellow soldiers are safe. Your fellow soldier does not run away. Okay? So the Mongols had psychological warfare not just for other people but also for themselves...." } ] }, { "term": "Steppe people", "usages": [ "A culture rather than a race or nation, repeatedly in conflict with agricultural empires and appearing in many historical iterations." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 99.793, "end": 180.77, "time_label": "1:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And because of their economy, they have developed a certain culture. They are extremely violent. Their society, their culture is based around violence. And there's a lot of competition within these certain groups. So ra..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 560.96, "end": 655.1, "time_label": "9:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And they will sweep down and they will become the Seljuk Turks. Which will take over Mesopotamia. And then eventually you will have emerged the Ottoman Empire from these people. So in other words, the Mongols are just t..." } ] }, { "term": "Subconscious", "usages": [ "The deeper self composed of cultural values; Jiang contrasts it with the conscious self." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0067" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0067", "segment_id": "seg-0067", "start": 4010.12, "end": 4085.53, "time_label": "1:06:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Great. Okay. All right. So, let's talk about mythology. All right. So, again, if you're actually studying mythology... What you recognize is there's a structure that's very similar across many different cultures...." } ] }, { "term": "The Secret History of the Mongols", "usages": [ "The oral-history source Jiang uses for Genghis Khan, while warning that its mythic fit makes it suspicious." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1095.21, "end": 1167.36, "time_label": "18:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "But when they try to conquer Egypt. They run into a people called the Mamluks. Who fight very similarly to the Mongols. In fact the Mamluks are originally from the steppes as well. And for the first time. The Mongols wi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1167.66, "end": 1234.32, "time_label": "19:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So it is an oral history. Of the life and times of Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei. Alright? Now the story in The Secret History is suspicious. And it's suspicious because it fits very well into the structure of Proto -..." } ] }, { "term": "Viking respect", "usages": [ "The comparative quality Jiang attributes to Vikings: curiosity about opponents and willingness to learn from other cultures." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0060" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "segment_id": "seg-0058", "start": 3561.26, "end": 3659.2, "time_label": "59:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. So, the Vikings were in Europe, and the Mongols are near China, okay? And I have to say, like, I think if I wanted to be a Viking or a..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 3725.92, "end": 3777.62, "time_label": "1:02:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, I would much prefer to be a Viking. I would much prefer to be enslaved by a Viking than a Mongol. Like, if I were a slave, I would much rather be a slave to a Viking than a Mongol. Okay? If I were a slave to a Vikin..." } ] }, { "term": "World shatterer", "usages": [ "The mythic role of the divinely sent man who destroys the old world so a new one can be built." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1571.28, "end": 1646.22, "time_label": "26:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "He kills his best friend Jamukha. Okay? And you think, okay, what's the big deal? Well, in that culture, when two warriors are best friends, they're not just friends. Okay? They're basically lovers. They have sex with e..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1646.32, "end": 1694.02, "time_label": "27:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? That is the divine mission. The gods do not like this world. They want a flood to destroy this world in order for the world to be made anew. And this man, the Messiah, he is the one. He is the man who will shatter..." } ] }, { "term": "Yuan class system", "usages": [ "Jiang's example of Mongol contempt in China: Mongols at the top, Chinese at the bottom, foreigners in between." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0049" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "segment_id": "seg-0049", "start": 3379.22, "end": 3443.28, "time_label": "56:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "But if you believe that people are an infinite resource, then you don't want them as slaves. You want to kill as many people as possible in order to inflict terror. So that's the issue with the Mongols. First of all, th..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "note": "This 2025-03-18 lecture follows prior classes on the Han and Vikings and uses those earlier positions as live course context.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 413.71, "end": 493.4, "time_label": "6:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "To the Yamnaya than they are to the Chinese. Even though genetically, the Mongols may be more similar to the Chinese, okay? In this class, we focus on cultural values rather than genetic affinity. Okay. So over time, wh..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 560.96, "end": 655.1, "time_label": "9:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And they will sweep down and they will become the Seljuk Turks. Which will take over Mesopotamia. And then eventually you will have emerged the Ottoman Empire from these people. 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And the reason why is sanitat..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "note": "This lecture reuses earlier course material on Aeneas, Romulus, Achilles, and Jesus to frame the Mongol lecture; later synthesis should preserve the dated 2025-03-18 connection.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1310.537, "end": 1378.1, "time_label": "21:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Genghis Khan kills him to achieve his dominance. And Genghis Khan will overthrow the existing Mongolian social order. Basically all these top chieftains, all these top shamans he will kill. 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You have to treat people nicely if you want..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0050" ], "note": "This packet contains the lecture's explicit collapse explanation for Yuan/Mongol rule and should anchor any later corpus-impact note on conquest logic becoming governance failure.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0049", "segment_id": "seg-0049", "start": 3379.22, "end": 3443.28, "time_label": "56:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "But if you believe that people are an infinite resource, then you don't want them as slaves. You want to kill as many people as possible in order to inflict terror. So that's the issue with the Mongols. 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The..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0060" ], "note": "This lecture explicitly compares Mongols to the prior Viking episode; later corpus work should connect these two processed episodes rather than treating the comparison as incidental.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": true, "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "segment_id": "seg-0058", "start": 3561.26, "end": 3659.2, "time_label": "59:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. So, the Vikings were in Europe, and the Mongols are near China, okay? 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