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 8, Look Upon My Works. upon my works.

Two episodes back, we discussed how in the latter half of the second millennium BC, the

Near East was essentially an interconnected system of large states of roughly

equivalent size and power.

Since we covered the western states of Egypt, Matani, and Hathi in that episode, it's time to

turn our attention to the eastern states of the

period, mainly Babylonia and Assyria, and see how they interacted with one

another and with the other great powers. Let's start with Babylonia.

Following the Hittite conquest of Babylon in 1595 BC,

control of Babylonia passed to the Cassites,

relatively recent immigrants from the East.

The first Cassite king was Bernaburias the First, who took power a few short decades after

the fall of the Amorites. Under his rule,

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