Eric Cline

and that goes right here.

If you're a Canaanite and you want to go to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Babylonia, you want to go east-west, you have to go right through the Jezreel Valley.

So basically, all the highways met right there.

Megiddo is at the junction.

So at one point, Thutmose III, the Egyptian pharaoh that fights a battle there,

in 1479 BC, he said in his inscription, the capturing of Megiddo is like the capturing of a thousand cities.

And he wasn't exaggerating.

So basically, every invader that has come through that region has fought a battle at Megiddo unless the area simply gave in to them without a fight.

So we've got battles all the way

probably even back in the Neolithic already.

But certainly by the beginning of the second millennium, we've got Canaanites fighting there.

And then all the way through, I think the last battle per se that I documented was 1967, or maybe even 1973, there were some air skirmishes because one of the airfields is right there in the valley.

So they've been fighting there

For 4,000 years.

The geography is what dictates it, and that hasn't changed.

Just the people and the weapons have changed, but the fighting and the geography, that hasn't changed.

Yes, it is.

Next question.

Okay, fine.

No, no, I'm kidding.