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Jiang clarifies that stopping pyramid construction was not the end of Egypt: the civilization continued for roughly 2,000 years, remained powerful, and later Middle and New Kingdom periods had their own glory.
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Jiang clarifies that stopping pyramid construction was not the end of Egypt: the civilization continued for roughly 2,000 years, remained powerful, and later Middle and New Kingdom periods had their own glory.
"...they... The Old Kingdom focused on building the pyramids, but the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom would also have a lot of glory as..."
"...do grand strategy. China is called 中国, okay? 中国 means the middle kingdom. The idea of the middle kingdom is that we are a..."
"...concerned with themselves, and that's about it. So China, means the Middle Kingdom. And so the understanding is that China is the center of..."
"...three would become the Empire they would unite the entire um Middle Kingdom because they had access"
"...questions? Okay. So next class what what we'll do is the Middle Kingdom China. Okay? The reason why is at this stage in history..."
"...the Mongols. Okay? So so next class will be on the Middle Kingdom China and after that we will do the Mongols. And after..."
A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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