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The steppe’s first major innovations are lactose tolerance, horse domestication, and the wheel/wagon, each forced by the material demands of pastoral life.
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The steppe’s first major innovations are lactose tolerance, horse domestication, and the wheel/wagon, each forced by the material demands of pastoral life.
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"...major innovation that changed their history. The second major innovation is horse riding. Why? Because the steppes are a huge area and it's flat...."
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"...it, they managed to do it. Okay? And so with the horse riding, now you can have another invention, which is the wheel and..."
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"They're good at horse riding, they're good at archery, and they're good at telling the truth. The Persians find it abhorrent, hateful, to lie...."
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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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