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Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Thomas Preston Floyd

The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and tragedies

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37:09

The Dalma, the Jeitun, and the start of the Anau

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/01/06

Happy New Year! We start off 2025 by talking about the Dalma culture and its spread from the banks of Lake Urmia. We discuss their pottery, mixed life ways, their settlements, and their trade. We also cover the end of the final part of the Jeitun culture. The spread of their sites and speculate on their influence and trade with their neighbors. Finally we cover the abandonment of Jeitun itself, and the establishment of several site around the same time including Anau, which will grow into another

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27:59

Chogha Mish and the Susian Culture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/12/24

This week we talk about the Susian culture and its start at the start at the site of Chogha Mish. The devastation it faced in the early 5th millennium and it's continuation after this near disaster. We also talk about the expansion of copper artefacts and tools the is happening all along the Iranian Plateau but particularly in Susa itself. Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/6DQoIYhXW7s

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29:26

The Caspian Neolithic and Zagros Mountain Cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/12/16

This week we talk about the shift in the life style of the peoples living along the Caspian Sea and in the Zagros Mountains. How they differed from each other and their Southern Caucasus cousins. We also talk about their closest neighbors and their trade relations.Twitter: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/eY-Rh57wp3c

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37:33

The Neolithic Caucasus and the Shulaveri–Shomu culture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/12/09

This week we're back to more historical and archeological information. We're going over the arrival of agriculture and people who made the foundations of the Shulaveri-Shomu culture. That culture's characteristics advancements and its eventual decline. YouTube: https://youtu.be/pQ5Phf11zZwTwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod

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48:09

Back from Vacation with some Etymology

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/12/02

I am back after a couple of weeks off! Today I'm easing myself back into the swing of things by going over some etymology of the mountains and rivers in the areas we will be talking about the next couple of episode and some small facts about each of them. Join me as we talk about the Caucasus and Zagros mountains as well as some smaller neighboring ranges. We also talk about the salt lake Urmia and a couple of rivers including the Kura.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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58:02

Eridu Genesis and Debate between Summer and Winter

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/11/11

In our final episode on Sumerian mythology this season we cover the tablets containing the Eridu Genesis and the Debate between Summer and Winter. The Genesis covers the creation of cities, kingship, the gods plan to wipe out humanity, and their survival thanks to the sage king Ziusudra thanks to the intervention of Enki. We also cover the birth of the defied Summer and Winter, Emesh and Enten and the roll these two forces played in the cycle of life in Sumer. Twitter/X:

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39:11

The Sumerian King List Before the Flood

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/11/04

This week we go over some points from last week that I wanted to make and then we move onto the Sumerian King List. What it says about history up to the flood and just after and how much it can be trusted.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/vV3a16TJ7tg

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38:04

The Top of the Sumerian Pantheon

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/10/28

This week we go over the state and origin of most of our Sumerian religious and mythological sources. We then go over the most important gods of the Sumerian pantheon, their roles, domains, their relations to each other, and their primary cities and temples. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/BpF9EP33An0

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44:36

Ubaid Follow Up and Uruk and Sumerian Origins

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/10/21

This week I go into more detail on some Ubiad points I went over last week. Including statuary, linguistics, and warfare. I also talk about some more potential advancements they potentially made when it came to wool and fishing.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/xKIHp2wOI5I

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44:10

The Ubaid Period

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/10/14

This week we talk about the Ubaid culture of southern Mesopotamia. Beginning with their discovery and then going over their evolution from simple settlements of reed huts to early cities of up to 5000 people and spread out of the south to cover areas that belonged to the cultures that we discussed the last few weeks.Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/plOvDcc9gEY

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39:33

The Roots of Mesopotamian Civilization: Hassuna and...

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/10/07

This week we talk about two material cultures that emerge in the Tigris River Valley, the Hassuna and Samarra. We go over what made them unique and what they have in common and the areas they overlapped with each other and the Halaf. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/tKrS1xrUElE

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37:03

The Halaf Culture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/09/30

This week we give an overview of the Halaf culture that established itself in the upper Tigris River Valley and spread to occupy land to it's West, North, and Southeast. Not to mention spreading it's material culture well outside of these bounds. We go over what we believe made the Halaf the Halaf, their pottery, statuary, agriculture, and architecture. Their innovations in burial and religious practices are also covered. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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31:15

Ugarit and Adana

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/09/23

This week sees us finish our overview of the northern Levantine coast by talking about the foundations of Ugarit and Adana, the mystery of who founded them, and the differences between them. We also talk about a couple of smaller sites in the border regions between the two. Twitter: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/mommI-xQlOg

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33:31

Geography of the Northern Levant and Cilicia

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/09/16

This week's episode is focused on the geography and some etymology of the regions we talked about in our central Levant episode and the places we will be discussing for the next week or two. I had some questions come in about several of the places and I though this might be a good time to slow down a bit and talk about it. Next week's episode we see us shift back to discussing in more depth the people and sites occupying the places I talk about this week.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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27:20

Ceramic Cyprus

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/09/09

This week we talk about the end of the Aceramic period on Cyprus and the apparent disappearance of the people and culture of that period, the Khirokitia. Then we turn to the arrival of the Sotira people and the arrival of the pottery before they to contract and set the stage for the arrival of the Cacholithic age and people.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/1asscgZxvPw

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27:19

The Central Levant

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/08/26

This week we talk about the central Levant and why they were able to more quickly urbanize and the early sites of Byblos and Beirut. We also discuss Damascus, the Beqaa Valley, and Qarqar. As well as who the people inhabiting the sites may have been. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/KfmKH9iptBM

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37:01

Cultures of the Southern Levant

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/08/19

This week we cover the "end" of the Yarmukian Culter, and the emergence of neighboring cultures to it's south and in some of it's old sites. This includes the Lodian, Nizzanim, and Wadi Rabah. We also talk about the arrival of the chalcolithic age in the levant with the Wadi Rabah and Ghassulian. We also talk about some etymology briefly.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/YKk2FWDSys4

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38:31

Departures, Arrivals, and Changes in the Levant

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/08/12

This week we move into the Levant to recap and talk about changes happening at Jericho (Tell Es Sultan) this season. We also talk about the spread of pottery and the invention of the earliest (or second earliest) pottery wheel. We also talk about the Western Semitic Languages and the contacts between the region, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/I0eDDwwt-eA

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34:16

Mustatils

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/08/05

This week I had planned to start covering the eastern Mediterranean coast and the Levant, but I remembered I had one important aspect left to discuss about life in Arabia for this season. The structures known as Mustatils. We talk about their numbers, construction, and what they may have been used for. I also had some viewer feedback to go over. X/Twitter: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/unL0TQxLIFw

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36:53

The Arabian Neolithic

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2024/07/29

This week we move into Asia. The first stop for the continent this season is the Arabian Peninsula. We cover the expansion of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family into this region as well as the etymology associated with that naming convention. We talk about links between Eastern Arabia and southern Mesopotamia and what products drew said connections. We also go over the wild fauna and climate people are dealing with at this time. I also speculate about the birth of falconry

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