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The steppe economy of moving sheep, goats, and cattle across grasslands, which Jiang says produced aggressive mobile groups.
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nomadic pastoralism
The steppe economy of moving sheep, goats, and cattle across grasslands, which Jiang says produced aggressive mobile groups.
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He defines steppe society as nomadic pastoral rather than agricultural, and says that economy produces a violent competitive culture.
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Horse plus wheel creates the wagon, and the wagon makes a nomadic pastoral economy possible because herders can move with their cattle as grass is consumed.
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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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"...hard to farm there. So they developed a new economy called nomadic pastoralism, which is to say that they raised sheep, goat, and cows,..."
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"Good morning. Today we will do Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Conquest. Now, as you know, the Mongols have a terrible reputation for their..."
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"And because of their economy, they have developed a certain culture. They are extremely violent. Their society, their culture is based around violence. And..."
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"But they kept on trying because the ability to ride horses was very important for their society and their economy. And so now they..."
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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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