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Jiang calls the process not a military conquest or invasion but a possible cultural genocide in which aggressive newcomers eventually take over by mixed strategies, including intermarriage, killing, enslavement, and peaceful assimilation.
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Jiang calls the process not a military conquest or invasion but a possible cultural genocide in which aggressive newcomers eventually take over by mixed strategies, including intermarriage, killing, enslavement, and peaceful assimilation.
"Okay? And as the IBC pushes south this will create a new religion called Buddhism. Okay? Alright? But Buddhism is just the major one...."
"Okay? And this is where we get the caste system from in India. Alright? So this is a more subtle explanation of the Indo..."
"...merge this creates a new civilization a new culture called Proto Indo Iranian."
"...the same gods. There are three distinct characteristics of the Proto Indo Iranian culture that becomes salient in the new Zoroastrian religion. Okay? The..."
"...from Zoroastrianism and that's kind of strange because they're both Proto -Indo -Iranian religions right? But let's look very quickly at Hinduism. Hinduism believes..."
"Right? Remember the Proto -Indo -Iranians they have white skin. The IVC culture the people who call the Proto -Dravinians no sorry the Proto..."
"...is if you look at Zoroastrianism and you look at Proto -Indo -Iranian the religion there are a lot of similarities. Okay? And Zoroastrianism..."
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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