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A speculative prehistorical category Jiang treats as plausible because recorded history seems too short for humanity's full civilizational past.
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lost civilizations
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know, okay? I'm very interested in the idea of lost Asian civilizations. They must exist, okay? It doesn't make sense to me that, you..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know, okay? I'm very interested in the idea of lost Asian civilizations. They must exist, okay? It doesn't make sense to me that, you..."
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Jiang says recorded human history is too short relative to the age of modern humanity for previous civilizations not to have existed, so he treats lost civilizations as plausible.
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He says places such as the Amazon, the Grand Canyon, and Antarctica give him reason to believe earlier civilizations may have existed before the present one.
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Jiang says sites such as Gobekli Tepe and the Amazon imply prior civilizations whose existence would destroy the conventional narrative if fully revealed.
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"...know, okay? I'm very interested in the idea of lost Asian civilizations. They must exist, okay? It doesn't make sense to me that, you..."
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"...the Amazon in Brazil, and how we're discovering how these ancient civilizations existed in the Amazon before, and also these ancient civilizations were the..."
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"...this time so it's it's entirely possible that we've had different civilizations before right so if you go to antarctica uh if you go..."
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"...I think it's safe to say that there have been other civilizations before us that were also advanced, but in a different way. Maybe..."
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"...like aliens came and built the pyramids okay or maybe the lost civilization of atlantis gave the technology to the egyptians to build the..."
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