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The Akkadian and Persian examples show that the rise-and-fall pattern is consistent enough that game theory should ask how the rules, motivations, incentives, and strategies change over time.
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Persians
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang claims the Jews were invented by the Persians to control the Levant, with “Jew” framed as a Persian term replacing the earlier Israelite identity.
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The next lecture will show how the Greeks, Israelites, and Persians interact historically.
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Jews, Greeks, and Persians are presented as the three most creative peoples of the period and as pillars of Western civilization.
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By around 600 BCE, Lydians, Babylonians, and Medians check each other before the Persians emerge under Cyrus.
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Jiang says Persian and Shia historical memory, martyrdom, sacrifice, and eschatological belief make Iran a different kind of adversary than outsiders assume.
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"history the Persians are different people the person are not the Arabs okay the Shia Muslims are different people they are not the Sunni..."
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"and then traders are able to take the goods across to egypt okay and then you're able to go north to anatolia so why..."
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"...well and then you have people from the zagos mountains the persians basically come in and unify the entire area and create the persian..."
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"...we have the jews so the jews were invented by the persians to control the levant the jews is actually a persian term okay..."
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"...three major civilizations okay the greeks uh the israelites and the persians that that have come after Frühling or Br gewalt okay what i'm..."
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"...the Greeks, we've done the Jews. Next class, we'll do the Persians. Okay? And these are the three most creative peoples of this period,..."
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"But also by doing this, by creating the first empire, Sargon of Akkad will now unleash a cycle of violence. Okay? And so, over..."
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"...Around this time will emerge a new power center called the Persians. They were led by a great king named Cyrus the Great. Okay?..."
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"...his own vanity and glory, he decided to go conquer the Persian empire in the process. He kills millions of people. Okay. At least..."
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"...from the West. Iran draws on Kabbalah, martyrdom, Shia, and older Persian memory through the... All right, all right, let's skip to the last..."
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"...priests who long to return to Israel. And then what the Persians figure out is, hey, if we insert the Jews back into Israel,..."
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"...pattern will repeat itself throughout human history, okay? So after the Persians, the Romans come, and again, the Romans need to control this territory..."
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