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He treats England as an exception to continental revolutionary pressure because colonies gave unhappy people an exit option unavailable to most Europeans.
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The earliest major civilizations share agricultural latitude, major rivers, and sea access; trade location allows cities to grow and then colonize upstream and downstream.
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The earliest major civilizations share agricultural latitude, major rivers, and sea access; trade location allows cities to grow and then colonize upstream and downstream.
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Jiang says IVC traders solved piracy and banditry risk through colonies, trading partners, and local security arrangements rather than by building their own war-making culture.
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"...revolutions is England and the reason why is that England has colonies where if you're not happy you can go somewhere else like Canada..."
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"All right, so having said that, let's look at the four earliest major civilizations in our history. And they are, of course, Egypt, Mesopotamia,..."
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"...that as the city becomes larger and larger, they will develop colonies upstream and downstream of the river, okay?"
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"...the same time trade? And the solution is they set up colonies and trade partners in order to facilitate trade. Okay? So we know..."
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"So these are their main trading partners. And so you would think their trading partners were the ones who were responsible for local security...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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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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