Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse

In this Tuesday, November 4, 2025 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system, and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast.Notes and References:1. Debt by David Graeber2. 1177 BC by Eric H. Cline3. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely4. "Power Causes Brain Damage" in the Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...Please Support Professor Jiang:1. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehi...2. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/3. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang