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Jiang says Rome’s western fall is less meaningful than it appears because power had already shifted from empire to Church, and post-Roman warlords still considered themselves heirs of Rome.
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Warlords
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Now let's talk about the Western Empire, okay? Because that's where our focus will be for the next semester. First of all, Islam. In..."
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Jiang says that while teaching civilization and studying figures such as Sargon, Caesar, and Napoleon, he concluded that transformative warlords see themselves as historical agents who came to change the world.
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"Now let's talk about the Western Empire, okay? Because that's where our focus will be for the next semester. First of all, Islam. In..."
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"...okay? But from their perspective, the empire never fell because these warlords think that I'm the empire now, okay? And so what's going to..."
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"...calling sarkon of aked Julius Caesar okay like all the great warlords of human history and I was trying to figure out what drives..."
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"the movement of human history it does provide me with some answers with some clarity and so i i start to recognize that the..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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