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Students do not need to remember facts such as Mycenaean Greece or the Sea Peoples; they need to remember concepts and ideas.
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Jiang argues that Chinese writing resists transliteration and therefore makes foreign names and concepts harder to import and popularize quickly, which increases the burden of learning from the outside world.
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"years of methodically memorizing the characters and there's a lot of characters but there's at least 2 000 characters that you must memorize if..."
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"...can't transliterate the language it's very hard to bring in foreign concepts so for example the word cinema is translated as Dane in Chinese..."
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"...the Sea Peoples. But I do need you to remember, the concepts, and the ideas. Okay? How, the world, history, is constantly in competition,..."
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