Ancient Sumer & the First Professional Armies

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The cities of Ancient Sumer provide the world’s first examples of urban centers with significant populations. Food surpluses made it possible to free of people from their farms and create divisions of labor. This led to the creation of the “violence specialist”. These violence specialist produced the most sophisticated armies of the Bronze Age. Today we discuss the rise of civilization and the birth of the first professional armies. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory Episode #174 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Michael Medved.
0:02.0	Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, once said that God offers special protection
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0:14.6	We'll explore that special protection
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0:50.0	What's going on guys? Welcome to another episode of Bro history, it's Henry Zamoda, and my friend, Danny Adeljar.
1:00.0	What's up, Danny? How's it hanging bro?
1:04.0	It's hanging low man, chilling as per usual. How about yourself?
1:07.0	I'm doing pretty well. I can never complain. It snowed yesterday in New York.
1:12.0	Yeah, a little bit of a flurry. other than that. I'm just I'm just I'm just surviving
1:19.3	So what are we talking about today?
1:22.6	Let's just cut to the chase.
1:23.7	Yeah, sure.
1:24.8	We're talking today about ancient Sumer and a con.
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