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

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

episode 19

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

These lands are quite mountainous and difficult to pass.

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

which means that anybody wishing to move around this coastal route

needed to negotiate this body of water. The Gulf of

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

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

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

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

to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle quite early on.

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

construction of Goodbeckley Tepey.

The site was around 250 kilometers away.

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

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

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

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

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

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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