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The Jin Dynasty - Did you love it? Did you hate it? What would you rate it?

@@goodenoughhistory The Jin is interestingly underated, possibly because it's overshadowed by its Han-ruled neighbour in the South. Jurchen rulers slept in tents in the cities, while also constructing an inumerable number of Tang-style buildings anyway. They ended up geting hanified regardless like every other foreign force/conquest dynasty that tried to rule the Han culture, but this allowed for Ci poetry to develop and a form of confuscianism separate from the Song to flourish. 7/10 just for the tents alone.

Thanks! I started making these for an online university course and wanted to share them more widely. My thinking was that online students deserved the full version of my in-person lectures. I'm very glad others are enjoying them as well!

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Yep. I repeated a typo in my source material. I fixed it for the in-class versions. Eventually I need to fix it here. Thanks for watching so closely!

My understanding is that he got the name after the Second Punic War, and then Rome named the province Africa (or kept the name) in his honor. I'll clarify this the next time I give the lecture in class. Thanks!

presentation. Surprised you do not, yet!, have 10s of thousands of subscribers. Ancient history of humanity & its organizational structures, both political & spiritual, related to today's world & clearly voiced. Thank you!

If you have a good source for an earlier date, I'm happy to incorporate it into the in-person version of this lecture for my classes. You might need to also clarify what you mean by society. I don't think I claim there was no society before 5000BCE - just 5000BCE is a good place to start. There is a previous lecture about pre-historical humans. After recording that lecture I saw an article with evidence that writing for calendars occurred far earlier than normally claimed.

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Thanks, David! These are the embarrassments of having to teach outside one's field. I'll look smart getting it correct in my in-person lectures.

Why ask buddhists when there is direct answer from the Buddha himself? -) Enlightenment (bodhi) is the gaining of supermundane knowledge that destroys 3 core mental defilements (greed, hatred, delusion) which equates to the full liberation / release from samsaric round of endless rebirths.

Sort of, yeah. There's always a threat of violence behind the state. I would just add that the pre-modern state also enables the livelihoods of its subjects. It builds irrigation projects and that sort of thing to make sure there's always a steady supply of lunch money (in the form of a grain tax!).

Thanks for the great question & comment! My name is Nick, and I'm a visiting professor at Kennesaw State University. This lecture is posted here so I can link it to my online courses. It isn't totally clear what your criticism is, but I'll say the sources for this lecture are the course textbook (Voyages in World History) and the translation of the Dhammapada available at dhammatalks.org along with the commentary included with the translation. I'm a China historian by training. Most of my knowledge of Buddhism comes from coursework I had to do to complete that training and from colleagues (Western & [mostly] Thai) who've dedicated themselves to the study of Buddhist traditions. I hope this helps. p.s. Where do I get the free beer and can I change it for whiskey? My stomach can't handle beer anymore.

I really don't know. But on the note of things this lecture misses, check out this article on the probability of a lunar calendar and writing already existing during the period covered here.... www.vice.com/en/article/pkg95v/a-total-amateur-may-have-just-rewritten-human-history-with-bombshell-discovery