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A society organized around warfare, expansion, sacrifice, and the social love of fighting; used here for both Aztecs and Romans.
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war society
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And they're very similar to the Romans. So if you think Aztec, think Romans as well. The main similarity is that both the Aztecs..."
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The Aztecs are compared to Romans because both are war-centered societies that build civilization around conquest, discipline, sacrifice, and expansion.
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Because Arabia was a clan war society and supplied mercenaries to Byzantium and Persia, its fighters learned advanced military doctrine from the two empires.
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"And they're very similar to the Romans. So if you think Aztec, think Romans as well. The main similarity is that both the Aztecs..."
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"...And, what's really important for us to remember is that all war societies, including the Romans, the Vikings, and the Aztecs, practice a form..."
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"And they would parade their war captives across the Rome. And then these war captives were taken to the Temple of Jupiter where the..."
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"...The second thing about the Arabian Peninsula is that it's a war society. You don't have cities. You don't have centralized control. It's all..."
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"...states. All right? So that's the second thing. This is a war society. Okay? Who know how to fight. The third thing that makes..."
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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