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🗓️ 25 May 2023
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0:00.0 | There are a number of factors that go into the outcome of a battle. |
0:03.4 | The number of soldiers, training, supplies, the weather and the train the battle is fought on |
0:08.4 | all play a part in determining the outcome. |
0:10.7 | However, the biggest factor is one that no one can control. Luck. And there's never |
0:16.2 | been a battle where luck played a greater role than one that took place over 2,000 |
0:20.6 | years ago. Learn more about the astronomical event |
0:23.8 | that determine the outcome of a battle |
0:25.7 | on this episode centers on was absolutely incredibly improbable. |
0:49.0 | If you were to run the history of the world over from scratch, |
0:52.0 | the odds that such an event was |
0:53.6 | to happen again would be likely close to zero. However, as far as we know, the events |
0:59.4 | I'm about to describe actually did happen. The story takes place during the Third |
1:05.2 | Mythridatic War. As I'm guessing most of you have no idea what the Third Mythridatic |
1:10.2 | war was, I should probably explain that first. The Third Mythridic War was the third Mithradic War |
1:15.0 | the final of three wars that took place between King Mithridades the 6th of |
1:19.1 | Pontus and the Roman Republic. |
1:22.0 | The Kingdom of Pontus was a Hellenistic kingdom located on the northeast coast of modern day |
1:26.5 | Turkey along the Baltic Sea. |
1:28.6 | Mithridades the 6th Upeator, also known as Mithridades the Great, was arguably the greatest leader of Pontus in its history. |
1:36.4 | He was actually a very significant person in the history of the ancient Mediterranean. |
1:41.3 | Pontus, like many kingdoms in the region, found themselves butting up against the growing power of the Roman Republic. |
1:47.0 | Rome had conquered the western half of Asia Minor and dubbed it the province of Asia. |
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