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In this lecture, the connected Yamnaya-derived world from Europe to India, contrasted with isolated China and later expressed through Greeks and Romans.
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the West
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...so much of the mountain that now we headed straight into the west. Then I could feel my vision overcome by radiance greater than..."
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"...people, and gods, okay? And this is what we call today the West, okay? And it's distinct from China, which was isolated from this..."
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"And then they stole the technology. They killed the people, and they learned the technology, okay? Once they had the technology, then they sailed..."
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"...so much of the mountain that now we headed straight into the west. Then I could feel my vision overcome by radiance greater than..."
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"...said, O you who have crossed a hundred thousand dangers, reach the west to this brief waking. Time that still is left unto your..."
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"...mists of dawn, glows red above the water's plain, low in the west, so there appeared to me, and may I see it again,..."
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"...him when uglier in deeds will come a lawless shepherd from the west worthy to cover him and cover me he'll be a second..."
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"...me a lot of uh the chinese uh novel journey to the west in the way that it's first of all they're both a..."
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"...dominic okay keep on going verse 46 in that part of the west"
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"...lightning like it fell on juba and then it hurried to the west of you where it could hear the trumpet of pompeii okay..."
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"...a bridge that unites Christians in the East and Christians in the West. So basically she's a Catholic, um, and, and Russia is Orthodox...."
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"...who are involved in the game or people who are posing the west um yeah but i would argue that that's how the world..."
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"...with a spiritual and historical meaning, and a mission distinct from the West. Iran draws on Kabbalah, martyrdom, Shia, and older Persian memory through..."
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