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Warring-states periods are the height of creativity because open competition forces innovation; Jiang names Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Greek classical culture as examples.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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He cites the Bronze Age collapse as a terrible event that nonetheless led to Israel, the Greeks, and Persia, which he describes as periods of tremendous human creativity.
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He says the Greek-Persian encounter follows the borderland pattern: Greeks learn Persian tactics as mercenaries, gain wealth through piracy, provoke invasion, and then defeat a much larger empire.
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Jiang credits Greek innovation to Homer, alphabetic writing, and the polis.
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Jiang's governing model is that military organization shapes political organization: hoplites tend toward oligarchy, navies toward democracy, cavalry toward monarchy, and Rome's replenishable allied manpower toward republican law and tradition.
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Jiang contrasts Greek civilization as maritime, trade-oriented, colonial, and open to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia with Roman civilization as inland, insular, conservative, and shaped by hostile neighbors.
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Rome is presented as unusually united, unlike Greece and Carthage, whose political factions undermine collective war-making.
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The North Korea/South Korea thought experiment supplies Jiang's model for why poor Macedon could conquer Greece: Macedon's people were hungry, united, and obedient.
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"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
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"Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated,..."
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"innovations happen when it happened during the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay..."
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"Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton..."
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"It led to the Greeks. It led to the rise of Persia. And these three different civilizations were pairs of tremendous creativity in the..."
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"And so he's very quickly able to overwhelm the other city -states. At this time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries,..."
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"...mercenaries will learn Persian war tactics and bring them back to Greece. But not only that, but with an empire, the Greeks have an..."
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"So, okay. So the Persians invade Greece. They get defeated. And now Greece becomes the center of the world or a major power, okay?..."
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"two years now alex knows it better than me i suppose how do we live it's a good question nikos"
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"Okay, so good morning. Today we are doing the gunpowder revolution. Specifically, we are going to ask the question, how did Europe, starting about..."
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"And hoplites were farmers who could afford their own armor, and weaponry, okay? Athens had a navy, and so it was a democracy. And..."
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"...All right. So, let's go over some basic military history. In Greece, when the Poles were fighting each other, in very much the same..."
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