The History of the World podcast Magazine - 22nd January 2024

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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MASTERS OF WAR (1) - Looking back at some of the greatest military commanders and leaders in history. This week we review Egyptian Pharoah Ramesses II, Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III, Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great and Athenian General Themistocles.

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0:00.0	The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.
0:17.0	Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, you know, you know. Oh, you know.
0:34.0	Oh, I have.
0:35.0	Oh, you know.
0:37.0	Oh, you know.
0:38.0	Oh, you know.
0:40.0	Oh, you know.
0:41.0	Oh, you know. I hope you had a great week. Now I did take some time this
0:56.2	week to decide on what the subject would be, but I did find something and it's going to be the Masters of War. So this one we're probably going to have a lot of parts to this but I probably won't do them all at once. So this week will be the first
1:17.1	of our series about the Masters of War so we're going to pick out some of the great military generals that we've covered in the
1:26.8	History of the World Podcast Library. We're going to start with the Egyptian Pharaoh, Rameses the second. Now, Rameses a second, we have to go back
1:38.8	to ancient Egypt, the New Kingdom and the 19th dynasty. He was born at the end of the 14th century
1:47.2	B.C. and the Pharaoh Ramesses II had an epic rain and his great reputation may have been based on
1:55.4	his own propaganda as much as it is on his own achievements. His most memorable
2:02.3	exchange was with the Hittites in the Levant.
2:06.5	Ramesses was now Ramesses II, the Pharaoh of the Egyptian kingdom, and he would instigate
2:18.4	a number of construction projects to stamp his mark on the kingdom. Temples would have been erected at Thebes, Memphis, Karnak and Abu
2:29.8	Sibel. However, despite all of the attempts by Ramesses to leave a lasting legacy and
2:37.3	honour the deities of the land, the land still had to be protected and provided for. So military defense and offense were both vitally
2:47.6	important as soon as Ramesses became the Pharaoh. The construction projects would initially have to wait.
2:55.0	Firstly, it appears that the Mediterranean coast of Egypt was being subjected to raids.
3:02.0	The raids were being conducted by seafarers,
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