I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 469

Foreign groups enslave native groups, causing local groups to revolt—this kind of thing has happened many times in history.

Twenty years ago, when the Hittite King Mursiri succeeded to the throne, the Hittite Kingdom also had an uprising against the Hittites.

Roy was not surprised to hear that the Ebla people had launched an uprising in Ebla City and captured Ebla City.

"You people of Ebla dedicate the city of Ebla to me—"

Roy turned and looked at the messenger in Ebla City and said.

"I will not let the leaders of the rebel army in Ebla City get any official positions and powers. I will only give them some wealth as a reward. Can they accept such conditions?"

"can!"

The messenger of Ebla City said without hesitation.

"We Ebla people launched an uprising not to let the leaders gain power and wealth, but just to make the Ebla people no longer be enslaved and exploited by the Amorites."

"Then I will send people to take over Ebla City and let them implement the policy of the Athens Empire in Ebla City."

Roy said with a serious expression.

"I can assure you that in the future, under the rule of the Athenian Empire, the Ebla people will not be subject to any slavery and exploitation."

The cities of Samar and Alarah in the Yamhad area were conquered by the Hittite kingdom 25 years ago.

Only the cities of Emaar, Aleppo, Ebla, Hama, Ugarit, and Karkemesh in the Yamhad region were the most recent city-states conquered by the Hittite kingdom.

The entry of the cities of Emaar, Aleppo, and Ebla into the territory of the Athens Empire will inevitably have an impact on the cities of Hama, Ugarit, and Karkemes.

three days later.

News of the Ebola rebellion in Hama and Ugarit reached Aleppo.

"It seems that when the Hittite Kingdom conquered the Yamhad region, it did weaken the rule of the Amorites."

The successive uprisings of the Ebla people were obviously not because they could not bear the slavery and exploitation of the Amorites.

But because of the arrival of the Hittite Kingdom and the Athenian Empire, the strength of the Amorites was weakened time and time again.

If the military power of the Amorites is still strong, it is impossible for the Ebola to strike a stone with a pebble.

After sending people to take over the cities of Hama and Ugarit, Roy patiently waited for the city of Karkemes to enter the territory of the Athens Empire.

result--

Roy did not wait for the news that Karkemesh joined the Athens Empire, but waited for the news that Karkemesh took the initiative to join the Hurit Kingdom.

The Hurits originated from the Armenian Plateau connecting the Asia Minor Peninsula, the Mesopotamia, the Persian Plateau and the Caucasus.

After the Babylonian Kingdom fell apart, the Hurits expanded rapidly and captured some city-states that originally belonged to the Babylonian Kingdom and the Assyrian Kingdom.

In the future history, the Hurits and the Mitanni Kingdom they established will flourish for 400 years, and will eventually be completely wiped out by the Assyrian Kingdom.

Roy couldn't understand that the Amorites in Karkemesh would rather submit to the Hurit Kingdom than to the Athens Empire.

Because the Hurits are not a branch of the ancient Aryans.

They worshiped neither the ancient Aryan god of thunder nor the ancient Aryan god of the sun.

The king of gods worshiped by the Hurits is Kumarbi.

Because of the fusion of ethnic groups that worship the goddess of the earth, the goddess Shoska has a high status in the belief of the Hurits.

To put it simply, in the belief of the Hurits, Kumarbi, the king of the gods, is the strongest male god, and the goddess Sauska is the strongest goddess.

It was really a stupid decision for the Kingdom of Hurit to accept the Amorites from the city of Karkemesh.

Because according to the habits of the Amorites, even if the Amorites were a conquered ethnic group, they would fabricate myths and make the gods of the Amorites the king of the gods of the Hulites in the mythology.

In the history of another world, there is indeed a mythical story about the god of storm and thunder, Teshub [Zeus], ​​who was born from the head of Kumarbi, the king of the gods of the Hurits, and replaced Kumarbi as the king of the gods. .

The story of the birth of Teshub [Zeus] from Kumarbi's head is exactly the same as the story of Athena's birth from Zeus' head-this is certainly not accidental.

In Greek mythology, Zeus gave birth to Athena from Metis, the mother who swallowed Athena.

In the Hurit myth, it was also Kumarbi who swallowed Taishub's [mother] who gave birth to Taishub.

The Hurits nominally established a Hurit kingdom with an area and population that rivaled that of the Hittite kingdom.

In fact, the Hurits established three regimes: the Iswa Kingdom in the west, the Hurit Kingdom in the middle, and the Neri Kingdom in the east.

The nominally unified Hulit Kingdom is composed of three kingdoms.

Because the Hurit Kingdom was in a state of disunity and backward tribal civilization, the Hurit Kingdom could not even conquer the Assyrian Kingdom, which had only three remaining city-states.

In the history of another world, when the Hittite Kingdom was in turmoil, the Hurit Kingdom did not seize the territory of the Hittite Kingdom, not because they didn't want to, but because they couldn't do it at all.

It wasn't until the Hurits established a truly unified Mitanni Kingdom that they had the strength to fight against the Hittite Kingdom.

For the time being, Roy does not plan to pursue the robbing of the city of Karkemesh, which originally belonged to the Athens Empire, by the Kingdom of Hurit.

After all, the Athens Empire has declared war on the Hittite Kingdom with practical actions.

It would be too unwise to break out a war with the Hulit Kingdom at this time.

When the Hittite Kingdom became the territory of the Athenian Empire, the city of Karkemes could just become a legitimate reason for the Athenian Empire to conquer the Hurit Kingdom.

Samar city.

It is an important city in the northern part of Syria.

As the gateway for the Hittite Kingdom to enter the northern part of Syria, as long as the city of Samar belongs to the Athens Empire, the Hittite Kingdom can be driven out of the northern part of Syria and threaten the Kizuvatna region in the southeastern part of the Asia Minor peninsula.

Today is the festival of Samar City celebrating Nidabar, the patron saint of the city [Baal Zeus].

A girl who rode alone on a horse and completely concealed herself with a cloak and a hood came to the city of Samar from the west.

When the suspicious girl wanted to enter the city, the soldiers guarding the city naturally stopped her and wanted to check the suspicious girl.

"Little girl! You can ride a horse, so it looks like you came from a noble family. If you are not a spy sent by the Athenians, then you should openly reveal your identity."

"The Athenians are on the east side of Samar City, so it should be impossible for their spies to come from the west like me."

Facing the unreasonable entanglement of the guarding soldiers, the girl also understood that they actually wanted to ask for property.

In order to avoid trouble, the girl lifted a corner of the hood, revealing a strand of beautiful bee-colored blonde hair.

Seeing the girl's beautiful blonde hair, the defenders were immediately startled.

Because of this pure and beautiful blond hair, they had only seen it in priestesses who served the gods in the past.

Samar was a city ruled by the Hittite Kingdom.

This suspicious girl has such pure and beautiful blond hair, whether she is a Hittite or an Amorite, her status will be very noble and cannot be offended by the guards.

(End of this chapter)