in real life the hittites were no more than twice the size if not the same size as the egyptians but the 20,000 egyptians like to exaggerate the victory saying the hittites had an army of 5 million infantry and 1 mllion horses and 314 kings and enoguh archers to block out the sun.
The Egyptians of the Kadesh period were not really "fully" Semitized.(the Hyksos dynasty was Semitic).
Also The Hittites of Kadesh themselves were not the same as the original IndoEuropean Hitttes either (after mutting around with Hurrians and Semites). Maybe you can use that as an excuse for their lacluster preformance :)
Finally, The Semites were fighting on both sides of the conflict as slaves and foot soldiers. After Kadesh the Semitic states gained independence
And the war didn't stop here Ramesses returned later and conquered kadesh and sevral other cities to the north. However every time the egyptian army returned to egypt the hittites would attack the newly conqured cities and Ramesses had to return to conquer them again, thats why the treaty was made to end an inconclusive war that was wasting the treasury of both empires. they also did this so they could concentrate on their new enemies the assyrians to the hitites and the lybians to the egyptians
They always portray the Ancient Egyptians with Arabs and everybody knows that the ancient egyptians were black people. KEMET
madkeyra 10 months ago
a horse pulling a chariot isn't going to willingly charge into an enemy phalanx.
chariots were used mainly as mobile archer platforms to harass enemy lines.
vjd55 2 years ago
in real life the hittites were no more than twice the size if not the same size as the egyptians but the 20,000 egyptians like to exaggerate the victory saying the hittites had an army of 5 million infantry and 1 mllion horses and 314 kings and enoguh archers to block out the sun.
ultradumbass 3 years ago
they were usually used to get the infantry out of formation to have an advantage
mikeyboy777777 3 years ago
It was not conquered, lets say defated, because they nerver really lost their independence to the assyrians, they actually became allies.
EnerjakKnuckles 3 years ago 2
egypt was conquered by the assyrians before the persians conquered it.
tempest705 3 years ago
chariots could be extremely devstating to anenemy line back then if used properly
tempest705 3 years ago
Nice video BTW
HistoryCentral 3 years ago
Blueuser,
The Egyptians of the Kadesh period were not really "fully" Semitized.(the Hyksos dynasty was Semitic).
Also The Hittites of Kadesh themselves were not the same as the original IndoEuropean Hitttes either (after mutting around with Hurrians and Semites). Maybe you can use that as an excuse for their lacluster preformance :)
Finally, The Semites were fighting on both sides of the conflict as slaves and foot soldiers. After Kadesh the Semitic states gained independence
HistoryCentral 3 years ago
And the war didn't stop here Ramesses returned later and conquered kadesh and sevral other cities to the north. However every time the egyptian army returned to egypt the hittites would attack the newly conqured cities and Ramesses had to return to conquer them again, thats why the treaty was made to end an inconclusive war that was wasting the treasury of both empires. they also did this so they could concentrate on their new enemies the assyrians to the hitites and the lybians to the egyptians
EnerjakKnuckles 3 years ago