History · 5 · Ahab and Jezebel

Chariots were like Athens' warships

Chariots drove Israel's state centralization, much as shipbuilding drove Athens' rise in the fifth century BCE.

Military technology shapes societies.

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Horses required huge amounts of food and water. Stables at Megiddo and elsewhere support accounts of Ahab's might.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 74

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