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Centralized Power

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

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Historical interpretation of religious hierarchy formation.

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

Timestamped Evidence

The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism

2024-12-03, day precision · Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization

Transcript

"...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..."

Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart

2025-05-20, day precision · Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia

Transcript

"...interested in authority. They want to remove this feudal system and centralized power and all in their hands. Okay? Delusion of authority of church..."

The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

Transcript

"...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..."

The Pyramid That Tried To End History

2024-11-26, day precision · Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project

Transcript

"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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The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism

2024-12-03, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.

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