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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-10-29, day precision Aliases: people, peoples, steppe-people

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steppe peoples

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we're going to do is we will talk about the steps people okay the people in the steps this is civilization so people who..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we're going to do is we will talk about the steps people okay the people in the steps this is civilization so people who..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda (2025-10-29, day precision).

Most connected source reading: The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda.

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steppe peoples

Glossary

The mobile peoples previewed for the next class, contrasted with settled agricultural civilization and associated with major conquerors.

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Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda

2025-10-29, day precision · glossary, semantic-ref

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...

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