The French Revolution set Europe ablaze.

It was an age of Enlightenment and progress, but also of tyranny and depression.

It was an age of glory and an age of tragedy.

One man stood above it all. This was the Age of Napoleon. I'm Everett Rummage, host of the

Age of Napoleon podcast. Join me as I examined the life and times of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic characters in modern history.

Look for the age of Napoleon wherever you find your podcasts.

Four hundred years ago, a trio of tiny kingdoms were perched on some damp islands off the coast of Europe.

Within three short centuries, these islands would become the center of an empire which ruled a quarter of the

globe and on which the sun never set. I'm Samuel Hume, a historian of the superpower. Hi, I'm Scott Chesworth, and welcome to the ancient world.

Episode 6, The New Kingdoms

We last left Egypt in the throes of the second intermediate period and under the thumb of the Hicksos, a Canaanite people who'd migrated into the eastern Nile Delta.

For long decades, the Hicksos and their 60th Dynasty puppet kings in the north ruled in

uneasy coexistence with the native 17th dynasty based in Thebes.

In 1560 BC, that coexistence finally came to an end.

When the 17th dynasty king, en re tau, dubbed the brave, declared open

revolt against the Hicksos domination of Egypt. Unfortunately second en re tau himself fell early in the conflict when he was captured and

ceremonially executed by the Hicksos King of Pepi.

His son and heir, Kamos, began his reign by launching a campaign against Nubia to the south.

The Nubian kings of Cush had taken advantage of the period of divided rule to drive the Egyptians back to the first

cataract of the Nile and now controlled all lands south of elephantine.

After reasserting Egyptian power in the region and securing his southern flank,

Camos turned his attention back to the north and began attacking the Hicks of

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