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Vol 3 Ep 19 - BATTLE - The Battle of Issus ( 333 BCE )

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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4.8971 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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333 BCE - Alexander the Great had ventured deeper into Persian territory than any other invader. So Darius decided to make a surprise move to cut him off from his supply lines entrapping him in a narrow mountain pass. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:00.0

This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

0:14.0

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

0:20.0

episode 19

0:22.0

The Battle of ISIS. Oh, The coastal route from Anatolia to the Levant is not particularly straightforward.

0:58.4

These lands are quite mountainous and difficult to pass.

1:03.0

There is also a body of water which extends into the land,

1:07.0

which means that anybody wishing to move around this coastal route

1:11.0

needed to negotiate this body of water. The Gulf of

1:16.4

water creates a bay which is hugged by the Nore Mountains. The body of water is called the Gulf of Alexandria and it would

1:27.3

represent a crossroads of cultures. If we go far enough back in history we can recognize that the lands around the Gulf of

1:36.1

Alexandria are considered to be a part of the fertile crescent, so societies

1:41.8

who lived around this area of the world would have been introduced

1:46.0

to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle quite early on.

1:51.3

In fact, anybody that lived near to the Gulf may well have been aware of the spiritual

1:57.1

construction of Goodbeckley Tepey.

2:00.3

The site was around 250 kilometers away.

2:05.0

We can be fairly confident that civilization in this area of the world was quite advanced.

2:13.2

Nearby the kingdom of Ebla would emerge during the 3rd millennium

2:18.0

B.C. around the same time as the earliest Egyptian dynasties and the first recorded history societies of Mesopotamia.

2:27.6

Eblah probably represented a vital trade route from the silver-rich areas of the mountains to the north and the

2:35.2

agriculturally rich societies to the south. The Eblahites would become the rivals of the city state of the Mari on the Euphrates River.

2:47.6

But they would soon be subject to the might of the Acadian Empire under the mighty Sargon the Great, who may well have

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