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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
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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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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"...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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"...the Hittite Empire rules Anatolia. Further south is a place called Canaan. Canaan is important. When we talk about Anatolia, we do the Bible..."
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"...of their population. Okay? The Hittite Empire? Destroyed. And even though Canaan disappeared, and even though Egypt was not destroyed, it ceased to be..."
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"...Age collapse, where the societies, much in Greece, high tides, Egypt, Canaan, they were, fundamentally, unstable, because, of, red seeking behavior. Okay? Same thing..."
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"...Greece did not collapse, we would not have, today. Also, because Canaan collapsed, a new society, came into being, called the Israelites. Okay? Israel...."
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