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Jiang broadens Western civilization beyond Europe and America to include Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley because those regions were in long-running trade contact and jointly built its foundations.
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Indus
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Jiang says Western society was integrated through trade and communication from the beginning, so Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus cannot be understood as isolated civilizations.
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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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"So you may have thought that Western civilization is just Europe and America, that's not true. Okay, if you just look at the history,..."
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"But these three areas, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, you can see how close they are to each other and how they can..."
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"It's where all civilizations meet. But as you can also see, it's also extremely fertile, okay? So this has historically been the wealthiest part..."
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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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"...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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"...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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"...Arabian Sea, which goes into the Indian Ocean. And so the Indus is the same situation, okay? Goes in the Arabian Sea and then..."
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"...these four societies that first came into being are China, the Indus Valley civilization, the Harappan civilization, which is now northern India. Mesopotamia, which..."
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