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Jiang’s name for the military-technological reversal after which civilization can conquer the steppe.
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Gunpowder turning point
Jiang’s name for the military-technological reversal after which civilization can conquer the steppe.
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"...steppes will be conquered by civilization. But this was the turning point in history, the invention of gunpowder. And so now what's going to..."
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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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