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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-10-31, day precision Aliases: horse-wheel-language, horse-wheel-languages, language, languages, the-horse-the-wheel-and-languages

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you look at the lower caste people, they spoke the local language, Dravidian. Okay? Does that make sense? So depending on the circumstance, the..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you look at the lower caste people, they spoke the local language, Dravidian. Okay? Does that make sense? So depending on the circumstance, the..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History (2025-10-31, day precision).

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

Glossary

David Anthony book Jiang cites for Yamnaya culture and the dominance of Indo-European pastoralists.

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The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History

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Reading

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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