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Uploaded: 14 Jul 2026 (3 months ago) · Shared: 17 Jul 2026
Duration: 29:00
Uploaded: 14 Jul 2026 (3 months ago) · Shared: 17 Jul 2026
Duration: 29:00
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Why have so many civilizations throughout history practiced ritual sacrifice? In this lecture, Professor Jiang Xueqin explores a controversial theoryconnecting war, ritual, group cohesion, psychology, religion, and the rise of powerful civilizations. Drawing from examples including the Aztecs, Romans, Phoenicians, Sparta, Thebes, and Macedonia, he examines how sacrifice, shared hardship, and extreme commitment have historically been linked to unity and military strength.
The lecture also discusses the ongoing Israel–Gaza conflict as part of a broader argument about war, symbolism, and human behavior. These claims reflect the speaker's interpretation and are presented for discussion and analysis.
If you're interested in history, psychology, geopolitics, military strategy, religion, and the evolution of civilization, this lecture offers a provocative perspective that challenges conventional thinking.
Topics Covered:
*Human sacrifice throughout history
*The psychology of war and cohesion
Sparta's military culture
*The Sacred Band of Thebes
*Alexander the Great and Macedonian strategy
*Rituals, leadership, and group identity
*Modern conflict through a historical lens
Watch until the end, you will never look at history the same way again.
#History #Psychology #Geopolitics #Sparta #AncientHistory #MilitaryStrategy #Civilization #Philosophy #War #ProfessorJiang
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Who is Jiang Xueqin?Jiang Xueqin (born 1976) is a Chinese-Canadian educator, writer, historian, and geopolitical theorist based in Beijing, China. He is known for his contributions to education reform in China. In particular promoting creativity, critical thinking, and global citizenship, as well as for his YouTube channel Predictive History, where he applies structural historical analysis, game theory, and concepts inspired by Isaac Asimov's fictional psychohistory to interpret and forecast major geopolitical developments.
What is Sacrifice?Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or worship. While sacrifice often implies the ritual killing of an animal, the term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of food or artifacts.
What is a Genocide?Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people. People are defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. The hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word genos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide ("act of killing"). The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". The Political Instability Task Force estimated that, between 1956 and 2016, a total of forty-three genocides took place, causing the death of about 50 million people. The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008. The Holocaust is a specific instance of genocide. It refers specifically to the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
