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Temples become civilizational nuclei because religious gathering sites need farming, attract trade, occupy valuable real estate, and eventually turn into temple economies that tax and redistribute food.
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Temples become civilizational nuclei because religious gathering sites need farming, attract trade, occupy valuable real estate, and eventually turn into temple economies that tax and redistribute food.
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Jiang argues that early people became farmers for religious settlement around gods and charismatic leaders, not because farming was healthier or easier than hunting and gathering.
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Europe's main advantage against the Yamnaya should have been population, because farming allows population to grow quickly.
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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.
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Farmers were more vulnerable to plague because they lived densely with animals, pigs, and rats, while steppe people lived farther apart, were more hygienic in Jiang's account, and were physically stronger from milk and exercise.
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Jiang says settled communities depleted nearby forest resources, which meant they had to farm.
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Jiang says the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was easier and more attractive than farming, but farming offered the benefit of religion, which is why people ultimately chose it.
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"...these temples, you have 전통교회, the memorial of those development of farming in order to sustain these temples, in order to practice the religion...."
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"Rather than being elected by the people, rather than serve the people, they become hereditary, okay? They engage in rent -seeking. And so what..."
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"And because of this economy, now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets..."
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"...settle down permanently for decades now in school you're taught that farming because it allowed us to access more food and so we can..."
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"you so sorry if you're kind of gatherer you have access to lots of different food, right? Meats, and getting the food is actually..."
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"And when they adopt all these innovations, then what happens is their religion becomes aligned with their society, which becomes aligned with their economy,..."
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"What's the major advantage that Europe has? If you have farming, what happens to your population? It grows very fast, right? So in other..."
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"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,..."
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"Okay, let's talk about the plague, okay? The plague, yes. It killed most Europeans, yes. Because Europeans were living on farms, right? So they..."
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"And there's like 10,000 people who might live on a farm, okay? That's a lot of people who live very closely together. They're also..."
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"Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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