Clashing Empires in the Late Bronze Age
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K 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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