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The pre-Yamnaya European agricultural culture Jiang presents, through Gimbutas, as peaceful, artistic, egalitarian, and mother-goddess centered.
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Old Europe
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Jiang uses old Europe for the pre-Yamnaya European agricultural society he describes as Mother Goddess-oriented, egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic.
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Maria Gimbutas's term, as Jiang presents it, for the high point of the pre-conquest Mother Goddess civilization in Europe. The pre-Yamnaya farming civilization Gimbutas described as women-governed, artistic, peaceful, and egalitarian. The pre-conquest European civilization whose loss frames the lecture's Paradise Lost structure.
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Jiang credits Maria Gimbutas with arguing that Old Europe was peaceful, woman-honoring, egalitarian, artistic, and later conquered by aggressive patriarchal Yamnaya culture.
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Old agricultural Europe collapses because static agriculture, disease, and climate change reduce population and create an opening for Yamnaya invasion.
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Jiang frames old Europe as having been, for most of its history, egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic before conquest by a warlike people he identifies as the Yamnaya.
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He connects old Europe's egalitarian and peaceful politics to this religion: women were elevated because they gave birth, resources felt sufficient, and intellectual energy went into art celebrating the Mother Goddess.
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He names plague, climate change, and Yamnaya colonization as the three things that destroyed old Europe, with plague as the most important.
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Jiang presents early human religion as animistic: humans, animals, and plants all come from one Mother Goddess source, which grounds an egalitarian and compassionate social order.
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The migrating farming families brought Mother Goddess religion into Europe, and Jiang links that religion to egalitarian, peaceful, artistic society.
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Jiang attributes to Gimbutas the claim that Old Europe was women-ruled, peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic for about 4000 years before conquest.
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"...of the way they use words. Okay? So, let's talk about old Europe before the Yemenite come and conquer them. Okay? So, this is..."
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"Okay? So, if you have a chance, please do study her work. And so, let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the..."
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"Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long..."
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"...from each other. Okay? All right. So we know that in Europe, the farmer communities, the population went, collapsed. Okay? So this is the..."
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"...BCE, the population collapsed. Okay? All right. It collapsed everywhere in Europe. Why did this happen? The plague, guys. Okay? There's a problem with..."
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"...this huge drop in the population because of Black Death in Europe. Okay? That's number one. Number two is climate change. So we know..."
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"...argument that for the longest time, for most of its history, Europe was egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic. But today, we are a patriarchy, there's..."
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"...Does that make sense, guys? So this is the religion of old Europe. And because of this religion, they were egalitarian, meaning there was..."
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"...So the people in the Near East and the people of Europe were very similar, okay? The problem starts when these people went off..."
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"So that's the first thing that happened in Europe. The second thing that happened in Europe is what we call climate change. So about..."
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"...okay? So the plague was the main culprit that destroyed all Europe. Then climate change, and then finally the Yemenite people who came into..."
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"...we started to spread around the world, okay? We went into Europe, then into Asia, then we crossed the Bering Strait into North America,..."
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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