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Jiang argues that traders who saw Mesopotamian war and Egyptian pyramids from the outside would be disgusted rather than impressed, especially by warfare.
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Jiang argues that traders who saw Mesopotamian war and Egyptian pyramids from the outside would be disgusted rather than impressed, especially by warfare.
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"So, we know for a fact they traded with Sumer and the Persian Gulf states because we have, we have artifacts from the IBC..."
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"They hurt. So think of David and Goliath. Okay? And if you're a trader, you know, you'll see this warfare going on. You'll see..."
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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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