I was a priest in the city-state era

Foreign ethnic groups enslaved local ethnic groups, causing local ethnic groups to revolt and rebel - this kind of thing is not uncommon in history.

Twenty years ago, when the Hittite King Mursili inherited the throne, the Hittite Kingdom also had an uprising of the Hattes against the Hittites.

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

"You Ebla people want to give Ebla City to me-"

Roy turned and looked at the envoy of Ebla City and said.

"I will not let the leader of the rebel army in Ebla City get any official position or power, but only give them some wealth as a reward. Can they accept such conditions?"

"Yes!"

The envoy of Ebla City said without hesitation.

"We Ebla people launched an uprising not to let the leader get power and wealth, but just to prevent the Ebla people from being enslaved and exploited by the Amorites."

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

Roy said with a serious expression.

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

The cities of Samar and Alalach in the Yamhad region were conquered by the Hittite Kingdom 25 years ago.

Only the cities of Emar, Aleppo, Ebla, Hama, Ugarit, and Carchemish in the Yamhad region were the city-states recently conquered by the Hittite Kingdom.

The entry of Emar, Aleppo, and Ebla into the territory of the Athenian Empire will inevitably have an impact on Hama, Ugarit, and Carchemish.

Three days later.

The news that the Ebla people launched a 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 Ebla people launched uprisings one after another, obviously not because they could not tolerate the slavery and exploitation of the Amorites.

It was because of the arrival of the Hittite Kingdom and the Athenian Empire that the strength of the Amorites was weakened again and again.

If the military strength of the Amorites was still strong, the Ebla people would not be able to fight against the stone with an egg.

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

Result-

Roy did not wait for the news that the city of Carchemish joined the Athenian Empire, but waited for the news that the city of Carchemish took the initiative to join the Hurrian Kingdom.

The Hurrites originated from the Armenian Plateau connecting the Anatolian Peninsula, the Mesopotamian Basin, the Persian Plateau and the Caucasus.

After the Babylonian Kingdom was broken into pieces, the Hurrians' territory expanded rapidly and seized some city-states that originally belonged to the Babylonian Kingdom and the Assyrian Kingdom.

In the future history, the Hurrites and the Mitanni Kingdom they established will prosper for four hundred years and will eventually be completely destroyed by the Assyrian Kingdom.

Roy could not understand why the Amorites in Carchemish preferred to submit to the Hurrian Kingdom rather than to the Athenian Empire.

Because the Hurrians were not a branch of the ancient Aryans.

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

The king of gods worshipped by the Hurrians was Kumarbi.

Because of the integration of the tribes that worshipped the goddess of the earth, the goddess Shoshka had a high status in the Hurrians' beliefs.

Simply put, in the Hurrians' beliefs, the king of gods, Kumarbi, was the strongest male god, and the goddess Shoshka was the strongest goddess.

It was a stupid decision for the Hurrians to choose to accept the Amorites in Carchemish.

Because according to the Amorites' custom, even if the Amorites were a conquered tribe, they would make up myths and make the gods of the Amorites the king of the gods of the Hurrians in the myths.

In the history of another world, there is indeed a mythological story that the storm god Taishub [Zeus] was born from the head of Kumarbi, the king of the gods of the Hurrians, and replaced Kumarbi as the king of the gods.

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

In Greek mythology, Zeus swallowed Athena's mother Metis to give birth to Athena.

In Hurrian mythology, it was Kumarbi who swallowed Taishub's [mother] to give birth to Taishub.

The Hurrians nominally established a Hurrian Kingdom with an area and population that was enough to rival the Hittite Kingdom.

In fact, the Hurrians established three regimes: the Kingdom of Isuwa in the west, the Kingdom of Hurrians in the middle, and the Kingdom of Nairi in the east.

The nominally unified Hurrian Kingdom was composed of three kingdoms.

Because the Hurrian Kingdom was a mess and in a backward tribal civilization, it could not even conquer the Assyrian Kingdom, which had only three city-states left.

In the history of another world, when the Hittite Kingdom was in turmoil, the Hurrian Kingdom did not seize the Hittite Kingdom's territory, not because they did not want to, but because they simply could not do it.

It was not until the Hurrians established a truly unified Mitanni Kingdom that they had the strength to fight against the Hittite Kingdom.

Roy did not intend to pursue the fact that the Hurrian Kingdom had taken away the city of Carchemish, which originally belonged to the Athenian Empire.

After all, the Athenian Empire had already declared war on the Hittite Kingdom with actual actions.

It would be too unwise to start a war with the Hurrian Kingdom at this time.

When the Hittite Kingdom becomes part of the Athenian Empire, Carchemish will become a legitimate reason for the Athenian Empire to conquer the Hurrian Kingdom.

Samar City.

This 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 Samar City belongs to the Athenian Empire, the Hittite Kingdom can be driven out of the northern part of Syria and threaten the Kizuvatna region in the southeast of the Anatolian Peninsula.

Today is the festival of Samar City to celebrate the city's patron saint Nidabar [Baal Zeus].

A girl who rode alone and completely hid herself with a cloak and a hood came to Samar City from the west.

When this 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 you look like you are from a noble family. If you are not a spy sent by the Athenians, then you should openly state your identity."

"The Athenians are in the east of Samar, and their spies should not come from the west like me."

Faced with the unreasonable entanglement of the soldiers guarding the city, the girl also understood that they actually wanted to ask for money.

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

Seeing the girl's beautiful golden hair, the soldiers guarding the city were immediately frightened.

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

Samar was a city ruled by the Hittite Kingdom.

This suspicious girl had such pure and beautiful golden hair. Whether she was a Hittite or an Amorite, her identity would be very noble and not something that the soldiers guarding the city could offend.