Warfare In The Ancient Near East

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

4.4 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2008

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jasper is joined by Mark Schwartz and regular Murray Dahm to discuss the Campaigns of Caesar. Dur: 35min File: .mp3

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network.org.
0:05.7	For more information on Ancient Warfare magazine, go to www.com.
0:10.2	If you've got any comments, suggestions, questions or ideas, then feel free to get in touch
0:18.6	by emailing editor at ancient dash warfare.com.
0:24.6	Hello everyone. This is Ospreortized with Ancient Warfare Magazine, and it's our fifth podcast.
0:30.0	Today we're going to discuss warfare in the ancient near east to coincide with our previous issue,
0:36.4	Ancient Warfare Issue 25, which dealt with exactly that subject.
0:40.9	And joining me tonight are Murray Dom from Australia, as usual.
0:45.7	Hi, Murray.
0:46.3	And Mark Schwartz from the United States.
0:49.8	Hi, Mark.
0:50.3	Hi.
0:50.7	I don't think something that was really explained in this issue very extensively,
0:57.3	what the basic structure of the state was like. It was mentioned that the temple was the central
1:04.5	place and the whole society, but maybe you can illuminate what the relationship was between the temple and the high priest and the king.
1:13.5	Well, I mean, earlier on, it was, you know, in the Rook period,
1:17.3	in the 4th millennium BC, it was basically a temple state.
1:21.2	And then later on, the palace during the early dynastic period, became more and more prominent.
1:27.3	And so you had basically revenues going to the temple, but you also had revenues going to the palace.
1:34.4	And it looks like the palace was able to increase its power and its wealth by fighting other cities.
1:42.7	You know, and when citizens felt threatened, they would sort of put their, you know, more of their
1:50.0	allegiance towards the king, it looks like.
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