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Jiang identifies indigo dye, handicrafts, jewelry, Persian Gulf colonies, large ships, navigation, tin, and lapis lazuli as parts of the IVC's long-distance trade position.
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Persian Gulf
Jiang identifies indigo dye, handicrafts, jewelry, Persian Gulf colonies, large ships, navigation, tin, and lapis lazuli as parts of the IVC's long-distance trade position.
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Jiang says IVC artifacts in Sumer and Persian Gulf states prove trade with those regions, while trade with Egypt and China is more speculative and based on technology and network reach.
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"...and Dubai, okay? And they actually had a colony by the Persian Gulf. This civilization was so good at trading that we believe they..."
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"So tin was really sought after, but there was also another stone called lapis lazula, which is really sought after by the Egyptians for..."
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"...we know for a fact they traded with Sumer and the Persian Gulf states because we have, we have artifacts from the IBC in..."
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"...set up a foreign operating base in the desert, halfway between Persian Gulf and Tehran. When they landed in their base, there was a..."
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"...at this the urk uh allows you to access uh the persian gulf which gives you access to india okay what we call the..."
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"...1991, Saddam Hussein fought a war against America called the first Persian Gulf War. Okay? Operation Desert Storm. And his army got destroyed by..."
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"Whereas in the Persian Gulf War, led by the father, right, George Herbert Walker Bush, the first and only goal was to remove Saddam..."
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"...shipping lanes. Okay? The U.S. military, in 1991, during the first Persian Gulf War, had 2 million soldiers. Today, it has 1.3 million. 3..."
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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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