Jiang says Proto-Indo-Iranians centralized power through Hinduism by placing themselves in the priest class.
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Jiang says Proto-Indo-Iranians centralized power through Hinduism by placing themselves in the priest class.
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"...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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