15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra

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In the deserts of Jordan, a city lies hidden for centuries in a valley of rose-red stone...
In this episode, we look at one of the most peculiar stories of civilizational survival to come down to us from the ancient world, the story of the Nabataeans. Find out how these once humble traders rose to become masters of the desert sands, and to defy empires. And discover what happened to finally bring down the empire of Nabataea.
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Jay Forrester
Shem Jacobs
Annie Kelly
Paul Casselle
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The Phoenicians never fell so....

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@@caniblmolstr4503 the fall of Carthage counts as their major fall- after that their people blended with others and faded as a civilization of their own. The sad thing is they contributed so much to mankind's learning yet so few of their words and writings are left to us.

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@@caniblmolstr4503 but remember the Normans sprung from the Vikings after their deal with the Franks. The Phoenicians' origins aren't as certain but they considered themselves (as well as the people around them) to be a distinct people from the rest, with a language and an important innovation in the form of the earliest alphabet.

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Beautiful and interesting. I tried to imagine what your next podcast could be about, but I must admit that Petra never crossed my mind. That city had to be really beautiful in its glory days. The Nabateans lived by trade and, at the end, they died by trade, when their city became irrelevant in the new order of the late Roman empire. The dismissal of Petra by the Romans reminds me of the similar behavior of the Spanish conquistadors in Peru. First they conquered Cuzco, and with it the Incan empire, then they built Lima as a new capital on the coast, because they couldn't endure the height of the Andes. Next time you could make a podcast about the Sassanid empire, Carthage or the Etruscans. They would all make interesting stories.

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Glad you think so! I am working on the video now - it will be released soon.

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