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Jiang says steppe societies could be egalitarian, cohesive, open, and militarily powerful because respect, gods, contracts, praise poetry, and guest-host obligations made outsiders incorporable without permanent shaming.
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Praise Poetry
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Now you owe me a meal. If I take you out for a meal, I'm now your big brother, okay? And that's what keeps..."
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"Now you owe me a meal. If I take you out for a meal, I'm now your big brother, okay? And that's what keeps..."
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"Praise poetry at public feasts encouraged patrons to be generous and validated the language, the songs as a vehicle for communication with the gods..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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