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The Spanish Empire's South American gold makes Spanish society lazy, allowing Dutch, British, and French industry and piracy to feed on Spanish wealth.
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The Spanish Empire's South American gold makes Spanish society lazy, allowing Dutch, British, and French industry and piracy to feed on Spanish wealth.
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Jefferson and Hamilton represent two competing American strands: individual-rights agrarian democracy versus strong central industrial empire.
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Jiang contrasts agricultural slave labor with industrial free labor, arguing that industry needs differentiated skills and markets while agriculture relies on coerced field labor.
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He locates the root of the Civil War in the ignored contradiction between Southern slave agriculture and Northern free-labor industry, not as a sudden issue appearing in 1861.
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Catholic otherworldliness, in Jiang's model, redirected Spanish wealth toward festivals, churches, and masses instead of industry, innovation, technology, and science.
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Europe surpassed the gunpowder empires because it adopted a whole-society approach to warfare that changed social structure: feudalism to nation-state, village agriculture to towns and industry, religion to science.
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Synchronicity means structuring society so people follow rules; Jiang names Germany and Japan as classic examples and links orderly lines to military and industrial effectiveness.
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Modern schooling comes from the Prussian military model: separate children from families, make them anxious and obedient, and train them for soldiering; industry later adopts the same system for factory workers.
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"world to be spies and to explore in order to set up new networks for Venice, because they don't really have a choice in..."
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"...gold is heading back to Spain. Another is just by providing industry for these people. These people don't want to work, so you just..."
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"...government. And in order to become an empire, it must have industry. Okay? So, some certain points. So, the colonists are fighting the British...."
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"...Second thing I want you guys to understand is, agriculture and industry, it's a different framework. Okay? It's a different economic framework. With agriculture,..."
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"...of slave labor from Africa. But, if your focus is in industry, you don't want slave labor. You want free labor. Okay? You want..."
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"Right? So, free labor just allows for more economic activity, and therefore, more wealth generation in society. All right? So, these are two competing..."
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"...money from the New World, and none of it goes into industry, and innovation, and technology, and science. All of it goes into religious..."
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"For example, religious festivals, churches, masses. And all this money is being wasted on these religious festivals. And the third thing is monarchy. So..."
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"was China who invented the gunpowder, and the four great gunpowder empires are the Ottomans, the Safavids, the Mughals, and the Chinese. But at..."
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"...focus on villages, on agriculture, to a focus on towns and industry, right? Because with gunpowder, you need specialized workers, you need engineers, you..."
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"Science is asking the question, how can we win this war? How can we make gunpowder much more effective? How can we kill more..."
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"So a concept that I want to introduce you today and we will go over a lot in this semester is the idea of..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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