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Post-Bronze-Age Canaan is described as chaotic and multiethnic, requiring the Bible to create cohesion from Bedouins, hill people, city refugees, Egyptian priests, mercenaries, and sea peoples.
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Canaan
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The Levant is described as a dependent edge-of-empire zone and melting pot where traders, local elites, foreign mercenaries, nomads, hill people, Canaanites, and Egyptian priests coexist.
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"...as we discussed, after the Bronze Age collapsed, the land of Canaan was in complete chaos."
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"You had all these different groups within Canaan. You had the nomads from the desert, okay? The Bedouins. You had the hill people of..."
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"This is where human civilization first developed mathematics. Writing. Astronomy. Architecture, okay? And up here are the Hittites, or Anatolia. Anatolia, again, is extremely..."
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"So the Levant was really the center of the world for most of its history. And so it was a meeting place, mainly for..."
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"Lots of nomads, people we call the Bedouins. You also had people living in the hills of the Levant, the hill people. And you..."
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"...historical points. Like, for example, I believe that the battle of Canaan didn't really exist. Okay. And there's this Roman historian who said this..."
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"...Pharaoh and living in the wilderness and then ultimately marching into Canaan. Establishing a kingdom at some point. And going through all sorts of..."
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"...stories throughout the Bible, obviously there's David's kingdom. There's Triumph and Canaan. But Genesis, most all of Exodus, it's about persecution. They're used to..."
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"...that january 3rd gilbert arizona desert monks brewing also january 3rd canaan new hampshire at poor house barbecue january 10th the raleigh brewing company..."
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"...have used double -envelopment strategy, basically, you have the Battle of Canaan. Okay, we have that. But the next one is 1940."
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"...Empire. So, this is a guy who invented the Battle of Canaan. Why? To justify the burning of Carthage. Right? Because the Romans are..."
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"...feed your soldiers. And what Rome did after the Battle of Canaan was they recognized this fact. They recognized that Hannibal's main problem was..."
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