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Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
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Nomads
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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"how was it possible for the Arabs to defeat both the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire? And the answer is this. What..."
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"...had to first send their goods to Arabia. And then the nomads would transport the goods into Egypt. Okay? So what does it mean..."
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"...it could not sustain a large population. And most were desert nomads engaged in trade. But Pax Americana changed all that because Pax Americana..."
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"...to do is to sail into Muscat. And then have Arabian nomads carry the goods all the way to Mecca and then go into..."
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"...lived in the hills they farmed you also had nomadic pastoralists nomads because this place was a center of trade so you had bandits..."
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"...they are the mercenaries they should please the hill people the nomads they're forced to come together as a new alliance to fend off..."
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"...have the Egyptian priests, you have the missionaries, you have the nomads, you have the hill people, okay? So Egyptian priests get explained away..."
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"But like what you just mentioned, that Nomad has two meanings to either..."
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"No, no, no, the Nomad does not have two meanings. It has one, it has different names, but one meaning, okay? This is really..."
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"So Plato defines Nomad as knowledge, and Dantène defines Nomad as love."
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"...and Dante are debating is how do you return to the Nomad, okay? So for Plato, it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you..."
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"...So Plato and Danteng just gives us the way to approach Nomad, right?"
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