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And this creates what we call the Hellenistic Age, okay? The world of the Greeks. And what is special about this world is now all three major cultures that came after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians, come together in what we call syncretism. Syncretism just means a combining of religions to create the basis for Western civilization, okay? The syncretism will also give birth to a new religion that forever changes the world, and it is called Christianity, okay? So Christianity comes from a merger of these three major worldviews, okay? Now, once the Greeks conquer the world, they have a problem, which is there's not that many of them. Okay? So how do they control the world? Well, they control the world through religion, through culture. 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And so what will happen next is that the so yeah the Athenians destroy the Persian navy. What happened next is the Spartans will not will not destroy the remaining Persian forces in Greece. Okay? This is why you don't do I can't I'm sorry. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Okay? They won the war and they screwed it up. Okay? Once you lose the navy you can't resupply. Once you can't resupply you've lost the war. All right? So this is from Herodotus. All right? So what's going to happen is the war the battle of Salamis is lost. And but you know the Persians still have this huge army in Greece. And so the Athenian sorry the Persian king Xerxes he's like I'm out of here man. You know I came here to burn down Athens. I've done that. I'm going to go home now. 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from uh Athenian encroachment so this..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0063", "segment_id": "seg-0063", "start": 3189.23, "end": 3234.78, "time_label": "53:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "is land forces in Sparta and let the helots rise up but Athens doesn't want to do that because they want to destroy the equilibrium okay you don't know what would happen the helots were to take control of Sparta they mi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0064", "segment_id": "seg-0064", "start": 3234.78, "end": 3301.26, "time_label": "53:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "way okay they're not trying to destroy each other they're trying to maintain the balance of power what happened is that Sparta will eventually defeat Athens but it's just not to destroy Athens because if you destroy Ath..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "claim": "Philip II creates the Macedonian war machine by 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"segment_id": "seg-0078", "start": 3744.52, "end": 3804.01, "time_label": "1:02:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "the Persians have their horse archers the Athenians and the Spartans have their hoplites okay I'm sorry but what I can do is I can take all these major innovations together and combine them into one military package and..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0079", "segment_id": "seg-0079", "start": 3804.01, "end": 3849.38, "time_label": "1:03:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "is doing a good job you promote him if a soldier is doing a bad job you demote him and you think that's easy but it's not because what it means is it will overturn the social hierarchy okay because the aristocrats are j..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "claim": "The anvil-and-hammer tactic locks the enemy with infantry and smashes it with cavalry, enabling Alexander’s conquest of Persia.", "refs": [ 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At this time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries, the Akkadians, who will come and conquer the entire region, okay? And establish an..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 715.92, "end": 779.763, "time_label": "11:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And these mercenaries will learn Persian war tactics and bring them back to Greece. But not only that, but with an empire, the Greeks have an opportunity to get wealthy. How? Through piracy, right? Piracy. 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Okay, so what happened is that Alexander the Great will conquer the Persian..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1331.4, "end": 1397.39, "time_label": "22:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So he was very quickly able to bulldoze. Also remember that when you reach an equilibrium, you become lazy, stupid, and arrogant, right? So this guy Darius, he is now the king of kings, okay? 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Oka..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2267.53, "end": 2316.97, "time_label": "37:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay? And that this is considered a major insult to the Greeks. Then what they will do is they will go to Athens which is here and they will burn down Athens. And at this point the war should be over right? 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