Clashing Empires in the Late Bronze Age

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The late Bronze Age was a time of powerful empires and intense competition between them. Never before had true states covered such a large area, or had such resources to devote to politicking and fighting with one another. The result was war on a scale never before seen in human history.

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0:05.6	They had come to this place from the distant reaches of the known world, bearing sickle-shaped
0:22.0	swords, long spears, wicked axes, and powerful bows, clad an armor of leather and glimmering
0:28.0	bronze.
0:29.8	Some came from Nubia, far to the south along the Nile.
0:33.2	Others came from Arzawa, along the shores of the Aegean, or the high pastures of Central
0:37.3	Anatolia, subject to an allies of the Hittite King.
0:41.6	Some came from the desert, Majai.
0:44.1	Others were seafaring peoples from the far west, Shertet, sworn to the service of Egypt's
0:49.0	ruler.
0:50.0	Few were strangers to the dull clash of bronze on bronze, the whistle of streaking arrows
0:55.0	and thrown spears, the cries of the wounded and the sickling crunch, when a charging cherry
0:59.8	had collided with a solid mass of humanity.
1:03.1	The Pharaoh of Egypt and the King of the land of Hati had called, and they had answered,
1:08.1	covering hundreds of miles to get here, to the city of Kadesh in southern Syria in the
1:12.4	year 1274 BC.
1:15.8	The great mound of the city rose above the marsh, the river, and the surrounding plains.
1:20.5	Soon, this land would be filled with the wreckage of a great and terrible battle, strewn
1:24.9	with the corpses of the slain and soon to be dead, injured horses, destroyed chariots,
1:29.5	and discarded weapons.
1:34.0	Surprise belonged to the Hittite King Mutawali and his allies.
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