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Jiang says the Indus Valley appears peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic, yet bronze status objects pull it into the same globalized system.
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Indus Valley
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Jiang speculates that the Indus Valley may have remained peaceful because it saw the violence of Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt and chose not to copy that system.
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Jiang treats the Indus Valley Civilization as an important exception: an urban system that remained peaceful, egalitarian, artistic, and relatively non-bureaucratic.
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Jiang previews an Indus Valley paradox: if geography is destiny, the Indus should resemble centralized Egypt or warlike Mesopotamia, yet it appears technologically advanced, prosperous, peaceful, and egalitarian.
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Jiang situates Egypt as the greatest civilization of the Bronze Age and tees up Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley as the next Bronze Age civilizations to study.
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"the major points the major trade routes will become cities themselves okay all right and now this world is globalized in order to facilitate..."
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"Okay? And this is something that we've not known before. We just assumed that Scandinavia didn't actually exist back then. It did exist. Okay?..."
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"...that did not work out like this is something called the Indus Valley Civilization which is modern day Pakistan. And we'll discuss this later..."
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"...sense? Any more questions? Okay, so next class we'll discuss the Indus Valley civilization, okay? And the Indus Valley civilization, if we just use..."
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"...an incredible achievement. But what is startling about the civilization, the Indus Valley civilization is, it's peaceful and it's egalitarian. So it's a complete..."
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"...the Bronze Age. Next class, we'll look at Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization. Okay? So there are three great Bronze Age civilizations, Egypt,..."
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"...on spiritual enlightenment. So you look at the Harappan civilization, the Indus Valley civilization, extremely peaceful, egalitarian, and spiritual. And so we're able to..."
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"...been a point of trade between the Levant, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilization. Okay? India. Okay? So, Arabia, they do a lot of..."
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"...okay so remember the four earliest civilizations are egypt mesopotamia uh indus valley and of course china and as we discussed the reason why..."
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"...as we discussed, these are the four major civilizations, right? China, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Okay? And they now, because they're at war,..."
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"...are, of course, Egypt, Mesopotamia, which is modern -day Iraq, the Indus Valley civilization. This is also referred to as the Harappan, okay? Harappan..."
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"...Mesopotamia is able to connect Anatolia, Asia, Central Asia, and then Indus Valley is able to do the same thing, okay? China is a..."
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