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Horse plus wheel creates the wagon, and the wagon makes a nomadic pastoral economy possible because herders can move with their cattle as grass is consumed.
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Wheel
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The reconstructed vocabulary lets Jiang infer four traits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: wheels, dairy consumption, relatively few agricultural terms, and horse domestication.
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Because wheel vocabulary belongs to Proto-Indo-European and wheels appear archaeologically around 3500 BCE, Jiang dates the first speakers after the invention of the wheel.
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"...ride horses. That's the third big innovation. Then they invented the wheel. Okay? And what is important is if you have the horse and..."
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"So any questions so far? All right. Now, the problem for linguists is how do you piece together the language, okay? Because this language..."
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"...is that unlike other cultures, these people have a word for wheel. In fact, they have five different words for wheel. And what this..."
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"So these people, not only did they invent the wheel, but they changed their system, biological system, so that they became lactose tolerant. They..."
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"...who they were. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, wheels. Okay? So again, they have five different words for wheels, and we're..."
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"...till it smashes him and leaves his body squalidly undone. Those wheels, and here he looked up at the sky, do not have long..."
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"...world so that, may pure in light, they reach the starry wheels. Ah, so may justice and compassion soon burden you so that your..."
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"...water ever ran so fast along a sluice to turn the wheels of a land mill, not even when its flow approached the paddles,..."
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"...you have the betrayal of guests okay so again the steering wheel divine comedy is it's full of paradoxes if you actually look at..."
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"...when a heavy fog is blowing thick, a windmill seems to wheel when seen far off. So then I seem to see that sort..."
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"...no new pledge in that prediction. Therefore let fortune turn her wheel as she may please and let the peasant turn his mattock. At..."
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"...ancient wail again and when they reached us, they formed a wheel, all three of them together. As champions, naked oiled, we'll always do..."
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