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Cattle and sheep transformed hostile grasslands into food, clothing, shelter, currency, debt, social status, and the beginning of money and property.
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Cattle and sheep transformed hostile grasslands into food, clothing, shelter, currency, debt, social status, and the beginning of money and property.
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"...have the beginning of money and property. Right? And they were grass processors. They converted plains of grass, useless, and even hostile to humans..."
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"...problem with steppes is you cannot grow food because it's all grass land. Okay? You cannot farm. So now you have to change your..."
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"...move around it a lot. Also remember, cows and sheep eat grass."
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"...they eat this in this pasture and they finish all their grass, they have to move somewhere else. Okay? So the only way to..."
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"...The other thing that's really interesting is that when you try, grass when you break a taboo you feel empowered you feel liberated and..."
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"...is. Now the problem with the grassland is people can't eat grass. And you cannot grow crops on grassland that easily, okay? So the..."
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"...or herding cattle, or cows. All right, so we cannot eat grass, okay? But cows and sheep and goats can eat grass, and then..."
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"...then raise them in the steppes, and because there's so much grass, they'll grow very fast, and then you can use that as the..."
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"...have a lot of cows, they're going to eat all the grass, right? Okay? Now you have to move somewhere else for them to..."
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"...from place to place and the cows are eating all the grass, what happens usually? Conflict, right? Because you are now in competition for..."
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"...cows and the sheep from place to place to eat the grass right and they're able to do that because they're able to put..."
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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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