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China's post-Song decline in creativity is the central explanatory problem of the lecture because earlier China had produced paper, printmaking, the compass, and gunpowder.
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Song dynasty
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He claims that after this trauma Chinese states repeatedly preferred bribing threats or keeping the military inward-facing over building an outward, autonomous war machine.
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"And after that, after that, the main lesson is you can never allow a general to be great and to be independent. It is..."
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"One is that they lose this war, in which case the people will rebel against you, okay? You lose authority. You lose the man..."
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"Okay, good morning today we do China Obviously we are in China and we will we know a lot of Chinese history So I..."
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"...modernity possible including the compass paper printmaking gunpowder Okay, but after Song dynasty, which is about the year 1200 trying to stop being creative..."
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"...historical figures like this as well. So the founder of the Song Dynasty was this sort of person. The problem though is that once..."
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"...later on, okay? The Tang Dynasty will give rise to the Song Dynasty, and"
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"the Song Dynasty will adopt a policy of diplomacy to build assimilation with the northern tribes, okay? They're trying to avoid the trap of..."
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"...question, again, we're looking at is, why is it that the Song Dynasty is the last creative dynasty, all right? And if we use..."
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"...okay? So the idea of open competitive competition died with the Song Dynasty. And that's why after the Song, China stopped being creative, okay?"
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"...Dynasty started to use it. Okay? But it was really the Song Dynasty. That really systemized and promoted it. Okay? Basically, the Song Dynasty..."
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"...in this rebellion. When you remove the aristocracy, this gives the Song Dynasty room to implement a new policy and ensure that nobility cannot..."
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"...when families are united nationally. But when you get to the Song Dynasty, what you will see is that the center has been localized,..."
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