Ancient+Empires+Winter

= Ancient Empires Wiki (Winter 2010) =


 * Note: See the discussion section (second tab above) for logistics.**

Hello, class. Here's how this will work. Put your name down next to items to indicate that you will write those wiki pages. We want some redundancy, so there should be two people covering each page, except for the Big Ideas section, where there should be three people per page (of course, feel free to edit pages that aren't "yours"). Sign up for as many items as you can, seeing as we have a lot of material to cover (almost 90 wiki pages). Having done the math, I'd say, given that we have about 15 people in our class, each of us should be working on an average of 12 pages. If it seems daunting, don't fret -- it's really not as bad as it appears. Many of these are quite small, and the larger ones have an extra person writing them.


 * Pages should be completed by Monday (morning), as per consensus of the section.**

__**Why**__ is it significant?
 * When writing a page, please make sure to cover the following:**
 * Who** are the relevant people and empires?
 * What** is it?
 * When** are the relevant dates and periods?
 * Where** was it?

Note: Where relevant, please give a source and page/section numbers, so we can study further if we should have need. Also, if an artifact of some sort is involved, please source it (Pritchard), or even better, find a picture on the internet and add it to the page.

Terms

 * 1) Achaemenid -- Aki, Duncan
 * 2) agricultural surplus -- Aki
 * 3) Ahuramazda -- Michael, Duncan
 * 4) Apis Bull -- Andrea, Kyle
 * 5) Ashur -- Aki,Kyle
 * 6) “Axial Age” -- Andrea, Nathan
 * 7) Constitutional Debate (democracy, oligarchy, monarchy) -- Andrea --Kyle
 * 8) Delphi -- Andrea, Nathan
 * 9) Documentary Hypothesis (J,P,E,D &R) -- Frank
 * 10) helots -- Jesse, Michael
 * 11) hoplite/phalanx -- Sarah, Duncan
 * 12) Ionian Enlightenment -- Jesse
 * 13) Irrigation -- Aki
 * 14) Temple of Jerusalem (Solomon) -- Will
 * 15) mâr banûti (Sons of Creation) -- Frank, Michael
 * 16) Marduk -- Aki
 * 17) Mediterranean climate and agriculture -- Frank
 * 18) Mytilenian Debate -- Will, Duncan
 * 19) monotheism -- Andrea, Duncan
 * 20) ostracism -- Andrea, Michael
 * 21) polis (pl. poleis) -- Jesse, Nathan
 * 22) Sacred Band of Thebes -- Sarah, Nathan
 * 23) secondary state formation -- Andrea
 * 24) satrap -- Jesse

People

 * 1) Alexander the Great -- Jesse--Kyle
 * 2) Aristagoras of Miletus -- Frank, Duncan
 * 3) Artemisia -- Michael, Duncan
 * 4) Atossa -- Will, Duncan
 * 5) Cambyses -- Aki, Michael
 * 6) Croesus -- Will, Duncan
 * 7) Cyrus -- Andrea
 * 8) David -- Caroline
 * 9) Darius -- Aki--Kyle
 * 10) Herodotus -- Jesse,Kyle
 * 11) Hezekiah -- Caroline
 * 12) Jehu -- Caroline
 * 13) Josiah -- Caroline
 * 14) Leonidas -- Sarah <<
 * 15) Nebuchadnezzar -- Aki, Duncan
 * 16) Phillip of Macedon -- Andrea--Kyle
 * 17) Pythagoras -- Aki, Sarah <<
 * 18) Ramses III -- Aki
 * 19) Sennacherib -- Jesse
 * 20) Shalmaneser -- Frank
 * 21) Smerdis/false Smerdis -- Andrea, Duncan
 * 22) Solomon -- Caroline, Michael
 * 23) Themistocles -- Jesse
 * 24) Tiglath Pileser III -- Frank
 * 25) Xerxes -- Jesse

Events

 * 1) Sack of Jerusalem (Babylonian) -- Caroline, Frank
 * 2) Siege of Jerusalem (Assyrian) -- Caroline, Frank
 * 3) United Monarchy -- Will
 * 4) Collapse of the Bronze Age -- Will
 * 5) Fall of Babylon (Cyrus) -- Frank, Nathan
 * 6) Babylonian Captivity -- Michael, Nathan
 * 7) Ionian Revolt -- Will
 * 8) Battle of Marathon -- Sarah, Nathan
 * 9) Battle of Thermopylae -- Sarah, Nathan
 * 10) Battle of Artemisium -- Sarah
 * 11) Battle of Salamis -- Sarah
 * 12) Battle of Plataea -- Sarah
 * 13) Battle of Gaugamela -- Sarah
 * 14) Battle of Issus -- Sarah

Big Ideas

 * 1) Elite Replacement -- Andrea
 * 2) Mann’s model (IEMP) -- Andrea, Kyle
 * 3) Kingship (legitimacy, succession) -- Will
 * 4) Religion and Empire -- <<
 * 5) Imperial Multiculturalism (incorporation and assimilation) -- Will
 * 6) Empire (administration, reforms, expansion and collapse) -- Kyle
 * 7) Military Strategy and Technology -- Sarah <<
 * 8) Source Criticism -- <<

Regarding the map, I must admit that I am at a bit of a loss for how to make this work. Perhaps some of us could neatly draw and label a map by hand, and then scan and upload it? Update: Andrea seems to have the map in hand. If anyone wants to help with it, she's the one to talk to. Update #2: Didn't see this update.. I went ahead and did the map. It's created by hand and so is a bit rough. [|Wiki's map] might also be helpful--Frank