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A survival posture Jiang attributes to steppe peoples: trade if trade benefits them, kill if killing benefits them.
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Opportunistic culture
A survival posture Jiang attributes to steppe peoples: trade if trade benefits them, kill if killing benefits them.
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"...forced to engage in cattle raiding. Okay? And over time, their culture became very aggressive, expansionist, and opportunistic. Opportunistic just means they'll do whatever..."
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"...it's my speculation. It is because of their interaction with other cultures that convinced them to pursue a peaceful and egalitarian lifestyle. Now, there..."
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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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