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The standard scholarly explanation for Spanish conquest is a three-factor model: epidemic disease, divide-and-conquer exploitation of internal conflicts, and European superiority in weapons and technology.
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The standard scholarly explanation for Spanish conquest is a three-factor model: epidemic disease, divide-and-conquer exploitation of internal conflicts, and European superiority in weapons and technology.
Jiang states the Roman message directly: love is a disease or plague on the world because Helen's love causes Troy and Dido's love causes Carthage's war with Rome.
Jiang argues that plague reduced Europe's population because farm life placed people near pigs, rats, garbage, and dense settled communities, while mobile steppe people were less exposed.
Jiang identifies the plague as bubonic plague spread by rats, known through DNA evidence, and says it had long been present across the connected world.
Jiang lists three costs of farming: harder work and population pressure, poorer nutrition than hunter-gatherers, and higher disease exposure from dense, dirty settlement with animals and waste.
"...contact with the Europeans. So the Europeans brought with them these diseases that the native people had no immunity against. Okay? And the four..."
"...is not subtle, okay? The message here is love is a disease, right? Love is a disease, a plague upon the world. It was..."
"...a lot of garbage around, okay? So it's very easy for diseases to spread, okay? So we believe two things happened to reduce the..."
"Now the thing is, though, the plague spread around the world. Okay? Because remember, what's important to remember is, these people in the steppes,..."
"...together. Do you understand? Because then it's easier to transmit the disease, okay? So if you live closely together, you're much more likely to..."
"this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals..."
"...in a very unclean place It's much more likely to contract disease and then die Okay."
Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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