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Jiang links compulsory public schooling to war societies, naming Sparta, the Aztecs, and Prussia as cases where schooling prepared people for military obedience and war-making.
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Jiang argues that disease, divine-mistake, and local-alliance explanations of the Spanish conquest do not fully explain how 500 conquistadors conquered the Aztec empire; game theory must recover player incentives and moves.
He argues that public mass killing has a recurring sacrificial form, citing Aztec, Phoenician/Carthaginian, and Roman examples before extending the pattern to Gaza.
Jiang links compulsory public schooling to war societies, naming Sparta, the Aztecs, and Prussia as cases where schooling prepared people for military obedience and war-making.
Sparta, the Aztecs, and Prussia are presented as early compulsory-schooling societies united by war-making.
Jiang's core thesis is that the religious beliefs and practices of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans made them vulnerable to Spanish conquest.
The Aztecs are compared to Romans because both are war-centered societies that build civilization around conquest, discipline, sacrifice, and expansion.
Aztec agriculture transformed swamp land into productive farm land, allowing population growth and prosperity despite difficult terrain.
For Jiang, Aztec human sacrifice functions as political terror: it terrorizes enemies, unites the people, and maintains a war society's religious order.
"and over time they will slowly kind of conquer everyone okay and they established the ethnic empire which rules over millions and millions and..."
"...of course disease uh people from spain had diseases and the aztecs were not did not the immune system to counter uh these these..."
"...happens quite often. Some of the most famous examples are the Aztecs. We've dug up temples of the Aztecs and inside the temples are..."
"...would commit mass murder of their enemies in public. So the Aztecs were really famous for this. The Phoenicians, specifically the Carthaginians. We will..."
"...us is, why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why do the Romans..."
"And that teacher would teach you. And then you would learn it, right? So school is not a place. It's not a place to..."
"...lot of human sacrifice as well. Okay? We learn about the Aztecs later on. Prussia. The Prussians, the greatest military in Europe. For centuries,..."
"Right? So school is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A..."
"Okay? That's Sparta. The second society was called the Aztecs. Aztecs. And they also provided free compulsory education to all its children. Really good,..."
"Prussia. The Prussians, the greatest military in Europe for centuries. They were engaged in war making as well. Okay, do you understand this? Why..."
"...This is my argument. The religious beliefs and practice of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans made them vulnerable to Spanish conquest."
"...quick picture to contrast the collision of civilizations. Okay? So the Aztec people, they're ferocious warriors, they love war, but they have wooden spears,..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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