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Okay, so hi, my name is Dominic and I'm going to give you a little bit of an introduction to

Egyptian warfare. I'm going to specifically focus on the late Bronze Age, which is the period

roughly 1550 to 1250 BCE. I could go into much greater detail about like earlier periods and

later, especially with the Hellenistic era, but I've only got 45 minutes, so I'm just going to

condense everything. This will be very much sort of like an overview, every one of the slides

that I'm about to show you could basically be a lecture in itself. So if you have any questions

at the end, I'll try to finish a little bit early, but feel free to ask anything. Otherwise,

we will dive in a little bit. So just the various basics with an unfinished slide, good start.

So here's Egypt very broadly. It's a country, northeast Africa, but as you can see, it sort of

borders on the eastern Mediterranean leading up into Canaan, Syria, Turkey, and the Middle East.

Egypt's geographic position has always been excellent for trading and also for warfare and conquest.

And from the very earliest parts of their history, they are going down south into what is now

Sudan and also going north and east into what is now Israel, Syria, that kind of region.

And generally causing havoc, stealing stuff and taking whatever they can.

So basically through this lecture, I'm going to go through some very basic overview points,

the rough history of what the era we're talking about, the weapons, the Egyptians liked to use

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