Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire - Oldest Stories Podcast

From a refugee in Babylon to the king of the largest empire Mesopotamia has seen since the fall of Ur, and the first Assyrian empire at that, Shamshi-Adad's life is a roller coaster of ups and downs. This week we watch as he builds up his northern empire and begins to develop and handle it in a distinctively empire-like way. The fact that it wouldn't survive his death is almost beside the point.

Notes for the episode are on the webpage at oldeststories.net

The Oldest Stories podcast tells the history and myth of bronze age Mesopotamia beginning with the first written clay tablets circa 3000 BCE. Using their stories and histories, we can learn a great deal about the people of Sumer and see how the people of the very first civilization were not all that different from us nowadays, except of course for the places where they were very different. The past is a foreign country after all.

This youtube channel is an extension of the Oldest Stories podcast, and is also available on any good podcasting app, or at the website http://oldeststories.net. Also, I hang out over at a mythology discord with some good folks who know quite a lot about a broad range of topics   / discord  . New episodes release will be once a week each Wednesday.