Jiang says there was no single spark for agriculture; the transition from hunter-gathering to farming took thousands of years.
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"...or one moment when this happened. We think it took thousands of years over time. Because ultimately, the hunter -gatherer lifestyle was so much..."
"...religions and all the Buddhism, all that thing, dating back in thousands years ago, but now like I don't, it's a small portion of..."
"...inspiration to millions around the world? And it's persisted for thousands of years. So, the Bible itself is proof that God must exist. If..."
"...like, if you're in heaven and you've been there for thousands of years and all you've experienced is joy and happiness, where does this..."
"...we don't know we we've been having that medicine for thousands of years okay and also like we don't even know how they came..."
"So this is a really important idea where, for thousands, thousands of years, humans have come to an understanding, which is the world works..."
"...is, it's not religion. What it is, is it takes thousands of years of human history, tens of thousands of years of human history...."
"...Bible. And the question that plagued many religious scholars for thousands of years is, why did they screw up?"
"Because religion, it just basically takes thousands, tens of thousands of years of human history, and it distills them into parables or myths that..."
"...stone ages iran has been an empire for how long thousands of years but the american empire has been around for less than 250..."
"...has been through much change and tumult. In these past thousands of years that China has stayed consistent. So I think that, uh, Chinese..."
"...of its ideas through personal experience, through history. Okay? From thousands of years ago. Right? And geopolitics, economics drives historical forces. So, another way..."
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