Jiang treats cuneiform's clay-tablet durability as a reason Mesopotamia is more legible to historians than places whose writing materials decayed.
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"But one thing that you learn in this class is that when humans come together for religious purposes, they're capable of doing amazing stuff...."
"They just took clay from the riverbeds, okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a reed, and you write down some marks..."
"And that's why they wrote stuff down, for propaganda purposes. Now what's interesting is that, there's different writing systems around the world. So in..."
"...so um my understanding is that if you look at the historical evidence jesus was probably crucified by the romans because why would you..."
"...like I mentioned it to you as well. Like we have historical evidence, albeit only three years ago when the West took Russia off..."
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