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Jiang uses the term for a large civilization with less visible hierarchy, no palaces or temples, public access, broadly shared food quality, and concern for citizens' well-being.
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Egalitarian civilization
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So as I said, the first thing that's interesting about their civilization is it was relatively peaceful, okay, compared with what's happening in Mesopotamia...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So as I said, the first thing that's interesting about their civilization is it was relatively peaceful, okay, compared with what's happening in Mesopotamia...."
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"...So as I said, the first thing that's interesting about their civilization is it was relatively peaceful, okay, compared with what's happening in Mesopotamia...."
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"...wasn't these disparities between people as you would find in other civilizations. At least half the people, we think, lived past the age of..."
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"...in Sumer and Egypt that made it into a peaceful and egalitarian civilization. So, what is this religion and why were they different? My..."
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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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