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A new culture Jiang says emerged from merger after IVC decline and later moved toward both Iran/Persia and India.
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Proto-Indo-Iranian
A new culture Jiang says emerged from merger after IVC decline and later moved toward both Iran/Persia and India.
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Jiang says the merging of internal IVC culture and incoming steppe/related culture created Proto-Indo-Iranian culture.
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Jiang says Proto-Indo-Iranian movements into the Iranian plateau eventually produced Persian people and Zoroastrianism.
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Jiang says Proto-Indo-Iranians centralized power through Hinduism by placing themselves in the priest class.
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"...merge this creates a new civilization a new culture called Proto Indo Iranian."
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"...now what they will do is they'll go south to the Iranian plateau and they will become eventually the Persian people. Okay? And they..."
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"And as we know Zoroastrianism does use a lot of fire rituals. The last is horse sacrifice. Meaning that warriors are buried with their..."
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"Right? Remember the Proto -Indo -Iranians they have white skin. The IVC culture the people who call the Proto -Dravinians no sorry the Proto..."
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"...this trading bloc and think to themselves, wow, these guys, Russians, Iranians, and Chinese, they use gold as their medium of exchange. Gold is..."
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"...the culture. He paid no attention to the history of the Iranian people. He had up to no respect for the nation. And when..."
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"...got wrong is how vulnerable the global economy is, because the Iranians control something called the Shirtle Moose, okay? And as you can see..."
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"...done, which Trump did not expect. He didn't expect that the Iranians would close off the Strait of Hormuz. And how the Iranians were..."
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"...Americans call sharpen all. And the point is to force the Iranians to come out. To call uncle. But that's not what happened. To..."
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"...nation states to obey it? Okay. So Trump recognizes that the Iranians have closed off the circle of moves, but not only that, but..."
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"...discuss what the Americans will do in order to force the Iranians to capitulate, okay? So I would say there's a three -point strategy...."
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"...into cannon fodder. You have to force a response from the Iranian military. Right? So if they come in with the army in order..."
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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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