Jiang says Proto-Indo-Iranians centralized power through Hinduism by placing themselves in the priest class.
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Centralized power
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Simon suggests Saudi investment decisions likely run through centralized sovereign-wealth and consultation processes oriented toward broader strategic unification, even if he cannot explain The Line in detail.
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"...they do this via an investment committee, but obviously it's a centralized power structure, which is. It's why they're able to make strategic investments..."
"...Proto -Indo -Iranians. And so basically the Proto -Indo -Iranians accumulated centralized power through the idea of Hinduism. Okay? They're the priest class. So..."
"...interested in authority. They want to remove this feudal system and centralized power and all in their hands. Okay? Delusion of authority of church..."
"...open cooperation now switches from the Han, which has become a centralized power, to the steppe people. So within these people, and there's quite..."
"is to take all the centralized powers of the pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which..."
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