Warriors of the Nile: Conflict in ancient Egypt

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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

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🗓️ 13 December 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jasper, Josho, Murray and Lindsay are joined by Egyptologist Arianna Sacco to discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine VII.1 Warriors of the Nile, Conflict in ancient Egypt.

"One of the earliest civilizations in the world, the culture of ancient Egypt blossomed along the banks of the River Nile. Around 3000 BC, the country was already a unified kingdom ruled by a single king. Its powerful rulers built impressive monuments in the form of the famous pyramids during the so-called Old and Middle Kingdoms, many of which still endure to this day. Egyptian civilization would reach even greater heights during the New Kingdom (1549–1069 BC), when its warrior-kings ventured more boldly beyond the safety of their own borders to forge an actual empire." more

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
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0:24.3	You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:32.9	Hello everyone. We're back with another Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast.
0:36.4	This time we're discussing Issue 7-1, Warriors of the Nile, Conflict in Ancient
0:41.2	Egypt.
0:42.8	With me today are Lindsay Powell, Marie Daim, Joshua Browers and Ariana Sacco.
0:49.2	Welcome everyone.
0:51.5	In this issue we have Ancient Egypt, a huge big topic which was discussed in quite a few,
0:59.0	sometimes shorter articles about the sources, something about the interaction between Egypt and
1:05.0	the Hixos, fortifications, weaponry, the diplomacy between the various kings in the ancient near East and Egypt, and
1:15.7	of course a battle, this time the Battle of Kadesh. For the topic, as always, we go to a short
1:22.2	introduction by Michael Taylor. Egypt was one of the earliest and most splendid civilizations to flourish in the ancient
1:29.7	Mediterranean.
1:31.2	The rise of Egypt owed almost entirely to geography.
1:35.1	First, the Nile, with its annual silt depositing floods, produced incredible agricultural
1:40.8	fertility, with yields that were 15 to 20 times as bountiful as crop yields elsewhere
1:46.3	in the Mediterranean. This fertility, however, was highly concentrated, within a few miles of the
1:52.7	river itself, making Egypt a tax collector's dream. Administrators could easily use the river as a
1:59.4	highway to access dense populations and extract their ample agricultural surplus.
2:05.6	The geography that allowed state power to flourish at an early period, also limited military expansion.
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