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Doug's point, accepted by Jiang, is that written history is not universal; it comes especially through Greek and Roman habits and can constrain later empires.
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Written History
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"That is a great point. Thank you, Doug. So Doug's point is that the idea of history comes to us from the Greeks and..."
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"...was burned down and so we lost a lot of the written history. Okay? different versions of oral history. Okay? So there are different..."
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