Glossary
The period whose economy is organized around bronze as a basic material produced from scarce copper and tin.
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Bronze Age
The war on Iran is the visible spark.
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The war on Iran is the visible spark.
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War, patriarchy, property, and capital are interlinked Bronze Age institutions that produce slavery, corruption, violence, and the prophetic need to remember the Monad.
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Jiang estimates Zarathustra between 2000 and 1000 BCE and suspects the late Bronze Age because mature capital had produced slavery, debt, corruption, misery, and desire for another voice.
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Empires in the Bronze Age are not modern nation-states but networks of aligned trading points that control trade routes.
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Jiang locates the historical problem around 1200 BCE in the Levant, which he calls a crossroads or nexus where Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia meet.
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Jiang says the Bronze Age was already a sophisticated globalized world 5,000 years ago, making trade inherent to human nature rather than a modern invention.
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Uruk prospered because it sat at the center of a trade world connecting the Indus Valley, Arabia, Anatolia, and the Zagros Mountains, making it a multicultural and multilingual trading community.
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Jiang situates Egypt as the greatest civilization of the Bronze Age and tees up Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley as the next Bronze Age civilizations to study.
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Jiang describes the Bronze Age world around 1200 BCE as an interconnected trade zone linking Mycenaean Greece, Anatolia, Canaan, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Mediterranean, Iberia, and Britain.
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"And if you did a lot of bad things, then you stay in the lower realm. Okay? And this is the idea of heaven..."
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"...to the idea of capital. Remember, when we last discussed the Bronze Age, the Bronze Age was the height of capital. Okay? And therefore,..."
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"And he is a port prophet, just like Homer and the Yahwehs, and he's dealing with a situation. Okay? We've entered a system where..."
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"...between the year 2000 BCE to about 1000 BCE. That's the Bronze Age. All right? I suspect he lived towards the end of the..."
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"...Okay? All right. So, again, we know about globalization during the Bronze Age because of shipwrecks. Okay? So, this is a very famous shipwreck..."
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"...year 1200 BCE. And this is... Towards the end of the Bronze Age, right? We're about to enter the Bronze Age collapse, which lasts..."
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"This is where human civilization first developed mathematics. Writing. Astronomy. Architecture, okay? And up here are the Hittites, or Anatolia. Anatolia, again, is extremely..."
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"much more concrete because it was experiencing a reality in Mesopotamia and Egypt that was abhorrent to the people experiencing that. Okay? War goes..."
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",000 years ago. Extremely sophisticated, complex, globalized world. So, I think that's what makes us fundamentally human. Okay? And you can say this is..."
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"...these civilizations we know traded with each other. Because it's the Bronze Age. Right? Because to make bronze, you need to create an alloy..."
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"Right? Because these traders from Arabia, Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains. Also, let's not forget about the Yemeni, okay? Who are up here in the..."
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"...this begins a broad age. Okay? This is part of the Bronze Age. Egypt is the greatest civilization of the Bronze Age. Next class,..."
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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