Ancient Anatolia: The History of the Region’s Most Powerful Cities, Kingdoms, and Empires in Antiquity
Charles River Editors
During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the first true “global” systems in world history and also one of the most materially prosperous eras in antiquity.
Thus, the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age during the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE arguably changed the structure and course of world history more fundamentally than any period before or since, and at the center of this period of turmoil was a group of people known today as the Sea Peoples, the English translation of the name given to them by the Egyptians. Despite their prominent role in history, however, the Sea Peoples remain as mysterious as they were influential; while the Egyptians documented their presence and the wars against them, it has never been clear exactly where the Sea Peoples originated from, or what compelled them to invade various parts of the region with massive numbers. Whatever the reason, the Sea Peoples posed an existential threat to the people already living in the region, as noted by an Egyptian inscription: “The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off at one time. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them."
Duration - 17h 4m.
Author - Charles River Editors.
Narrator - Victoria Woodson.
Published Date - Monday, 23 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2023 Charles River Editors ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the first true “global” systems in world history and also one of the most materially prosperous eras in antiquity. Thus, the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age during the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE arguably changed the structure and course of world history more fundamentally than any period before or since, and at the center of this period of turmoil was a group of people known today as the Sea Peoples, the English translation of the name given to them by the Egyptians. Despite their prominent role in history, however, the Sea Peoples remain as mysterious as they were influential; while the Egyptians documented their presence and the wars against them, it has never been clear exactly where the Sea Peoples originated from, or what compelled them to invade various parts of the region with massive numbers. Whatever the reason, the Sea Peoples posed an existential threat to the people already living in the region, as noted by an Egyptian inscription: “The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off at one time. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them." Duration - 17h 4m. Author - Charles River Editors. Narrator - Victoria Woodson. Published Date - Monday, 23 January 2023. Copyright - © 2023 Charles River Editors ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:14
Introduction
Duration:00:21:20
Unmasking troy
Duration:00:24:53
The different troys
Duration:00:20:45
Hittite and assyrian trade networks
Duration:00:03:35
The origins of the hittites
Duration:00:04:54
The hittite old kingdom
Duration:00:12:48
The hittite new kingdom
Duration:00:32:09
Hittite literature and historiography
Duration:00:05:40
Hittite mythology and theology
Duration:00:08:55
The collapse of the hittite empire
Duration:00:09:11
The rise of arzawa
Duration:00:48:24
Arzawa's decline
Duration:00:19:33
The hurrians and the kingdom of mitanni
Duration:00:38:09
The height of mitanni power
Duration:00:17:24
The collapse of mitanni
Duration:00:19:42
The end of the bronze age
Duration:00:57:13
Early phrygian history
Duration:00:17:37
The height of the phyrgian kingdom
Duration:00:30:45
Phrygia's decline
Duration:00:19:46
The cultural background of the lydians
Duration:00:17:47
Lydian religion
Duration:00:17:49
Croesus
Duration:00:12:19
Lydia under the achaemenid persians
Duration:00:25:53
The foundation of the persian empire
Duration:00:44:35
Persian power
Duration:00:09:50
The end of the persian empire
Duration:00:38:58
Smyrna and the region
Duration:00:23:28
Greek smyrna
Duration:00:12:14
The occupation and liberation of smyrna
Duration:00:29:06
The ancient city of miletus
Duration:00:28:21
The occupation and liberation of miletus
Duration:00:20:53
The roman city of miletus
Duration:00:14:41
The legends of ephesus
Duration:00:58:02
The roman city of ephesus
Duration:00:23:52
The early history of halicarnassus
Duration:00:16:50
The peak of halicarnassus' power
Duration:00:31:07
The roman city of halicarnassus
Duration:00:13:35
The emergence of the kingdom of pergamon
Duration:01:00:01
The roman city of pergamon
Duration:00:08:34
The unlikely kingdom of pontus
Duration:01:00:44
The last of the greek rulers
Duration:00:42:19
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:14