Episode 20 – The House of Succession

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the mid-seventh century BC, Nubia and Assyria struggled for control over Egypt before the kingdom regained independence under the pharaoh Psamtik I. King Gyges of Lydia drove the Cimmerians from western Anatolia and sent Greek mercenaries to reinforce the pharaoh’s armies. Ashurbanipal spent decades warring against the Empire’s enemies, including his older brother in Babylon, but his total destruction of the ancient kingdom of Elam sowed the seeds of Assyria’s downfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	Hi I'm Scott Chesworth, and welcome to the ancient world.
1:07.0	Episode 20, The House of Succession.
1:14.3	Asher Bonapal was 17 years old when he became ruler of the known world.
1:20.4	He'd never known a time when Nineveh wasn't the capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire,
1:25.0	or when the magnificent palace without rival hadn't towered over the southwest corner of the city.
1:31.0	His youth had been spent in the Bit Redutie, or House of Succession, the smaller
1:37.2	palace in the north of Nineveh that he inherited from his father, Esherhadden.
1:42.6	It was in this very house at the age of four that Asher Bonapal had his first hard
1:47.8	lesson in Assyrian politics.
1:50.5	His grandfather, Senakarib, had been praying in the bit redutie when two of his sons had brutally
1:56.6	murdered him, either by sword or by stone.
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