4:00 The Austronesian peoples were the technocrats of their time.
8:00 Jews
14:00 Easter Island
21:00 The iconoclastic statue-toppling of the Easter Islanders
22:00 The Easter Islanders never lived in city-states and barely developed their writing. Literacy is key to allowing the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.
23:00 Europeans had the rule of law.
24:00 Successful imperialism can only exist with the rule of law based on a moral system.
25:00 Religion is a form of human organisation.
The amnesia and dementia of the Easter Islanders who had forgotten their origins and could no longer do what their ancestors did
26:00 Idolatry is its own punishment.
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