Glossary
A linguistic-cultural label Jiang uses for the steppe/Yamnaya peoples whose language family spreads across Europe, Iran, and India.
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Proto-Indo-European
A linguistic-cultural label Jiang uses for the steppe/Yamnaya peoples whose language family spreads across Europe, Iran, and India.
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Glossary
The common language Jiang says connected the Yamnaya-derived world from Europe through India.
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Glossary
A reconstructed lost mother language behind many European, Iranian, and Indian languages.
definition
Jiang treats the Yamnaya, steppe peoples, and Proto-Indo-Europeans as overlapping usable names for this lecture’s pastoralist conqueror culture.
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Linguistic similarities across Indo-European languages and distinct vocabulary for wheels, dairy, horses, and non-farming life are used to infer a common Proto-Indo-European pastoralist culture from the steppes.
diagnosis
Jiang reads the Secret History account of Genghis Khan as suspiciously mythic because it follows the same structure as other Proto-Indo-European founding stories.
model
The conquest created a shared Proto-Indo-European language and common religion across India, Iran, the steppes, the Near East, and Europe.
evidence
Jiang says Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed mother language behind European, Iranian, and Indian languages, supported by cognates such as father, mother, and two.
model
The reconstructed vocabulary lets Jiang infer four traits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: wheels, dairy consumption, relatively few agricultural terms, and horse domestication.
evidence
Because wheel vocabulary belongs to Proto-Indo-European and wheels appear archaeologically around 3500 BCE, Jiang dates the first speakers after the invention of the wheel.
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"...we call the Yamnaya actually. So different names. They're portal Indo -Europeans. The Yamnaya, you can refer to them as any. Okay? Steps, Yamnaya,..."
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"...we know because we study the languages. Persian. Okay? Hindi and European languages, they're basically the same languages. So we know there had to..."
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"...all of them. And that's why we hypothesize about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. This is a more stark example. With a Proto -Indo -European,..."
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"...can see how it spreads to other languages in the Proto -Indo -European family so that you go from dua to twa to two..."
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"Okay? That's why we're able to figure out that these are nomadic pastoralists. Therefore, they must be from the steppes. Okay? And then through..."
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"When the father dies the tribe abandons the mother and her young children. So they're forced to fend for themselves. Eventually the mother finds..."
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"Genghis Khan kills him to achieve his dominance. And Genghis Khan will overthrow the existing Mongolian social order. Basically all these top chieftains, all..."
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"...which will eventually give rise to the greatest empire in the European world. Alright? So as you can see, the structures are very similar...."
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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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"They conquered England, okay? And then not only did they conquer Europe, then they went to conquer India and Iran. So this spread everywhere...."
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"...been lost to us. This is a language we call Proto -Indo -European. And through decades of strenuous research, linguists have been able to..."
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"...okay? So languages have been able to piece together this proto -Indo -European language. We've also been able to figure out how this language..."
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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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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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