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Jiang's genetic definition: conquest kills or displaces people so their genes do not survive into the present.
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Conquest
Jiang's genetic definition: conquest kills or displaces people so their genes do not survive into the present.
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Key Notes
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Borderland tribes gain their path to conquest because imperial factions invite them in as mercenaries, giving them wealth, technology, weapons, and political access.
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Jiang says Frank portrays Moses, David, Solomon, and prior religious pillars as slaves who could not see or conquer the true structure of the world.
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Conquest lets winners impose history and identity because the defeated are no longer allowed to speak or think for themselves.
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The steppe mythology replaces mother-goddess harmony with a sky-god religion of conquest, exploitation, killing, and stealing.
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Horse archers are presented as the ultimate weapon for most of human history and a central reason steppe peoples repeatedly conquered empires.
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Jiang presents the steppes as the most innovative, open, aggressive, and courageous zone, which is why steppe peoples were repeatedly among history’s greatest conquerors.
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The next lecture will move from agricultural civilization to steppe peoples, since many major conquerors came from the steppes.
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The early British Isles are presented as a recurring destruction-and-replacement sequence, from agricultural religious builders through Yamnaya, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans.
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"Now we understand why ultimately the Borderlands, the tribes in the Borderlands, are able to conquer the Empire, or the equilibrium, okay? Does that..."
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"So they'll trade with you, but they'll also steal from you, and they'll also come and fight for you, okay? What's important is that..."
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"Same thing happened with the Macedonians, right? The Macedonians came in and helped one city -state, then they conquered one city -state and moved..."
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"Keep on reading, Alan. That place to where I go all have knocked so that the door be opened to them. The patriarchs, the..."
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"Yeah, so he's saying the Jewish religion, you worship Moses and David and Solomon, but you know what? At the same time, they were..."
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"The wife won't thank you. The wife won't hate you. But, do you care? You don't care. Okay? The winners write the history. Do..."
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"And that's why they're such good fighters. Okay? All right? So these three things are major innovations. But now that you have these innovations,..."
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"Okay? The institution of the moribund, the warrior brotherhood of young men bound by oath to one another and to their ancestors during a..."
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"You could not defend against a horse archer. They were fast, they were strong, and these were the best warriors in the world. So..."
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"Then you have the Turks emerge. This is the Mongol Empire. And as you can see, they conquer basically most of the world. And..."
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"sense and next class what we're going to do is we will talk about the steps people okay the people in the steps this..."
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"But they will also go to Australia and New Zealand. So even though the Dutch were the first to discover and settle Australia and..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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