Jiang defines the Levant as the historic junction of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Mediterranean sea trade, and says whoever controls that region controls global trade access.
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"...then you go, you go to the sea of the Aegean Mediterranean. And this part of the world, it has historically been the wealthiest..."
"...America wins this war, then they can still vacation in the Mediterranean and feel good about themselves, okay? So the baby boomers are a..."
"...Carthage fought for about a hundred years for control of the Mediterranean. Ultimately, Rome will triumph over Carthage. And they will destroy Carthage as..."
"...then Gerald Ford is now forced to retreat back into the Mediterranean. And apparently the rumor"
"...Romans will conquer the Greeks. The Romans will conquer the entire Mediterranean. And they will create the Roman Empire. The Romans are nothing like..."
"...issue project and being able to control trade uh throughout the mediterranean um the middle east and africa um in east asia there'll be..."
"...Romans started off as a tribal people, which then built the Mediterranean Empire. Then you have the Aztecs, you have the Vikings. So this..."
"...written 2,500 years ago by this guy, Homer, living in the Mediterranean, the Aegean. Right? Different culture, different time, but the Iliad is able..."
"...and over here you have the persians over here is the mediterranean okay as you can see basically all roads lead to jerusalem so..."
"...so, over time, they became the most dominant society. In the Mediterranean, they defeated Carthage, they defeated the Greeks. But now that they're an..."
"...the Arabian desert, okay? It's the same impacts as Europe, the Mediterranean, and Egypt through the Arabian desert, okay? Okay, so what's going to..."
"...empire this great empire that you've built that ranges across the mediterranean it's a corpse it's dying it's dead it's nothing all right and..."
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