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April 16th, 1457, BC, and another

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remarkable event is about to be

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uncovered by Aria, Rebecca, and Ali.

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The Retro Specters! Now obviously one

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of our core values here today

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in history with the retrospectors is

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being date-specific but that is a

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little tricky when the date in

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question is not so much the

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16th of April as the 21st

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day of the first month of

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the third season of the year

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23 of the reign of Pharaoh

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Tupmo's the third but even if

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the date we've settled on today

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is arguable according to the record

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the event isn't the Battle of

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Magido, the first battle in history,

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to have been recorded in what

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historians accept to be relatively reliable

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detail? Yes, and this took place

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during what's called the New Kingdom era

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of ancient Egypt, during the reign of

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Tupmose III, he would go on to

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become known as Tupmose III. due to his

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military prowess and imperial expansion. He expanded ancient

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Egypt to its widest borders and this is

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seen some historians refer to him as the

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Napoleon of ancient Egypt and this is why

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we know so much about this battle and

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the battles that he would go on to

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fight. His achievements on the battlefield were painstaking

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recorded by his scribe on parchment every day

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throughout his reign. He was taking notes about

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how great topmose was and then the highlights

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were immortalised in the annals of topmose a

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third which is this 25 meter by 12

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meter stretch of wall in the temple. of

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a moon at the Karnak Temple Complex near

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Luxor. Yeah, so before he became the

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great version of himself, Tutmos was,

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you know, a newbie ferro. And

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as he took his seat, the

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world outside was becoming a very

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chaotic place. And specifically, the Canaanite

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city states, which were long under

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Egypt's way, they'd begun to rebel

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with this turn of leadership. And

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they'd thrown off as far as

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they could, the Egyptian yoke, and

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they were really being emboldened by

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the fact that there was a

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new... ruler and they were like

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okay well here's our chance and

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the city of Megido which was

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this ancient fortified city in the

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Jezreel Valley was a strategic hub

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and controlling the road from the

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coast of the Mediterranean to the

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Jordan River was like if you

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wanted to do that you needed

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to have Megido and so the

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city's rebellion had sparked the flames

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of at least the potential for

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war and they had allied with

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a bunch of neighbouring city states

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and gathered a coalition that threatened

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to weaken in Egypt. hold over

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its empire. So Tutmos was like,

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well now is the time to act.

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So he did, without any of this

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sort of caution he was being advised,

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but rather incredibly boldly in the way

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that came to typify his approach to

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military matters in general. Yeah, he put

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together 10,000 infantry and a thousand chariots,

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which roughly is akin to what the

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Kainenites had waiting for him when he

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got there. And I think they'd sort

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of miscalculated really. They thought, well, he's

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the new ferro on the block. he's

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not going to know how to respond

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to a challenge, but actually he'd been

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a co-rula before, he'd been brought up

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in this environment, he was not someone

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you could take advantage of and did

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have. a strong military presence. I'm smiling

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because I've always find it hard. Whenever

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we talk about, even like the Kings

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of Scotland and stuff, actually personally involved

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in battle, I find that hard to

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imagine as an analogy with our royalty,

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but like with pharaohs, because I literally

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imagine them as their replica gold statues

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because that's what I've seen. I forget

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that they were real men with weapons

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and awesome makeup. Do you know what

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I mean? And they were there on

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horseback themselves. And he took personal command

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of his forces, gathered this huge army

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of tens of thousands of people, and

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went to this fortress, which is in

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modern day Syria, in Tajaru. And he

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basically gave as good as he was

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going to get. Yeah, so his force

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was estimated of being up to

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20,000 foot soldiers, mounted arches, and

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charioteers. And after 10 days of

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marching, this force reached Gaza, which

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was an allied city at the

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time. Then they marched another 11

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days to Yema in northern, modern-day

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Israel, and now only the Carmel

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Mountain range separated from the plains

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around Megido. That's a long old march

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in the heat isn't it? Yeah, even nowadays

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with air conditioning you wouldn't fancy that would

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you? Yeah and now you're up against a

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mountain range. They knew the rebel army was

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on the other side but the rebels that

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assumed the Egyptians would take either the northern

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or the southern route through these the kind

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of wide roads through the foothills at either

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end. Topmost instead chose to take the shortest

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but most dangerous route, the Wadi Ara, which

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was a narrow ravine right through the range,

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they would have to travel single file, meaning

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if the enemy were lying in wait off

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to the side somewhere or at the end

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of the pass, they would be completely decimated.

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And as per the official record, the generals,

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you know, quite politely said, Let our

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victorious lord proceed according to the design

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of his heart, but do not cause

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us to march upon this impassable middle

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