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Using Harari's formulation, Jiang says humans thought they domesticated wheat, but wheat in effect domesticated humans by making them do the labor of its survival.
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Wheat
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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"...Okay, and so this is like this we did not domesticate wheat wheat Domesticated us. Okay, so we thought that we made wheat Okay,..."
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"this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals..."
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"...from uh Phrase which is where Athens gets most of its wheat okay so now Athens is going to starve so Athens surrenders and..."
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"...farmers together and had coffee, and they all had coffee, or wheat, or whatever, and then we can sell this to other countries?"
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"...of these very nutritious foods, and they're far more nutritious than wheat, you have a population explosion in Europe. Okay? So this is very..."
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"...Cain is a farmer so he offers I don't know like wheat or vegetables to God. God tastes both. And then God's like this..."
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"...for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so, when you have this, you can then give it..."
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"...we're all farmers, right? And, maybe you have, 100 bushels of wheat, maybe 20 bushels of corn. Okay?"
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"...two people, this family of two, will get two bushes of wheat from one tree, and two baskets of bread for their work today...."
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"...a farmer you're eating only what you grow which is mainly wheat and some vegetables Okay, so you're not getting that much nutrition then..."
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"...we're able to dig up seeds of crops, okay? Vegetables and wheat and barley, which meant that they had the capacity, the technology to..."
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