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Borderlands are intersections of empires, such as Mongolia for China and Arabia for Byzantine and Sassanian empires.
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Mongolia
In response to an implied audience question, Jiang says Mongolian people descend from the Yamnaya and resemble them as nomadic pastoral and warlike peoples; he also says Genghis Khan adopted similar policies.
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Jiang says the Yamnaya eventually conquered all of Europe, reached England, and spread into India, Iran, and Mongolia.
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In response to an implied audience question, Jiang says Mongolian people descend from the Yamnaya and resemble them as nomadic pastoral and warlike peoples; he also says Genghis Khan adopted similar policies.
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"...are just places that are the intersections of empires. Okay? So Mongolia is the borderland of the Chinese Empire. Right? Arabia is the borderland..."
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"And what do they do? You have a hundred men and a hundred women in this village. So what do you do? No, yeah,..."
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"...to conquer India and Iran. So this spread everywhere. And even Mongolia, okay? But not to China. Why didn't it impact China? What were..."
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"This language is what we call Proto -Indo -European. That's a language they spoke, okay? Now they have a common religion. So from this..."
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"...in Europe. Europe all the way to what is modern -day Mongolia. And as we discussed, steppe culture is very different from agricultural culture..."
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"...grassland, this ocean of grassland that basically extends from Hungary to Mongolia. Okay? And then you have China, India. Okay? So there are these..."
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"...true throughout the borderlands. If we were to go back to Mongolia during the time of Genghis Khan, if we were to go back..."
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"...a huge ocean of grassland that basically extends from Europe into Mongolia, okay? And you know, the Chinese word for this is. Now the..."
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"...call nomadic pastures pastoralists okay so have you guys been to mongolia have you guys been to mongolia to me yes same okay but..."
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