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    Hi I am new here and posted my intial question in the entrance hall and was advised to post in the relevant mods forums I came across a number of useful resources anyone may wish to take a look at. On wikipedia it appears someone has attempted to centralise a list of tables for Ancient states from the Bronze Age through to the Middle Ages in individual articles for each period 1200+ states are listed in all they include the state name, state type, capital city and there duration period. Each article has a brief about the development of states a short brief about the particular period and a list of state types by definition. Each table is broken down by global geographical regions for example. Africa, America's, Europe North and West, Europe South and East, Eurasian Steppe, East Asia, South Asia, West Asia. The table contents then link to the relevant state page.

    They are as follows:-

    • List of Bronze Age states 3300 to 1200 BC (100+)
    • List of Iron Age states 1200 to 600 BC (300+)
    • List of Classical Age states 600 BC to 200 AD (330+)
    • List of states during Late Antquity 200 to 700 AD (250+)
    • List of Middle Age states 700 to 1500 AD (300+)


    Links are here

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bronze_Age_states

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iron_Age_states

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of Classical Age states

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of states during Late Antiquity

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of states during the Middle Ages

    I have also found these other resources and useful links

    Regnal Chronologies

    Regnal chronology specifically, is a site about the study of of king lists, sequences of governance in the history of a state, and the organizing of such data. The author has extended the idea to intrude upon political geography as well, giving a representation of political eras within certain global geographic regions. They have included information culled from traditional and mythological eras - clearly labelled as such - to provide a foundation and context for what particular cultures regard as their roots. This site/study, therefore, inhabits a frontier region located somewhere near the intersection of political science, history, archeology, and geography - with a sprinkling of heraldry, genealogy, numismatics, epigraphy, and religion mixed in. This is a very good site.

    Link here:-

    http://my.raex.com/~obsidian/regindex.html

    Click on the General Index to explore by geographic location that lists hundreds of ancient states, polity's etc and dynasty's, rulers, timelines etc.

    Finally the last one

    A Chronology of World Poltical History from the 4th Millenium BC to present day

    Introduction from the site

    This chronology outlines the political development of the nations in the world. The main theme of this timeline is about political history. In general, this timeline does not include data of economic history, social hitory or cultural history. As the world political history involves a great number of regimes, dynasties, historical figures and historical events, it is not possible to include all the data. Thus only the most important events are recorded in this chronology. For those historical periods when there emerged a large number of local regimes in a certain country (such as the Sixteen Kingdoms of China, the Medieval German states, etc.), The author does not intend to give a detailed account of the rise and fall of these regimes.

    Divided as follows
    CONTENT

    • 4th Millennium - 501 B.C.E.
    • 500 - 1 B.C.E.
    • 1 - 500 C.E.
    • 501 - 800 C.E.
    • 801 - 1000 C.E.
    • 1001 - 1200 C.E.
    • 1201 - 1400 C.E.
    • 1401 - 1500 C.E.
    • 1501 - 1600 C.E.
    • 1601 - 1700 C.E.
    • 1701 - 1800 C.E.
    • 1801 - 1850 C.E.
    • 1851 - 1900 C.E.
    • 1901 - 1920 C.E.
    • 1921 - 1940 C.E.
    • 1941 - 1960 C.E.
    • 1961 - 1980 C.E.
    • 1981 - 2000 C.E.
    • 2001 C.E. -


    Link here:_

    http://chowkafat.net/Chrone.html

    I hope anyone will find these resources very useful in getting information more quickly.
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    Default Re: Useful Information Resource for Mods

    Another on-line resource for mods looking for geographic descriptions of Ancient Lands is The University of Chicago's Lacus Curtius Project they have translated Strabo's Geography into English sample from the site below of description for the land of Ariana:

    This webpage reproduces a section of
    The Geography
    of
    Strabo
    published in Vol. VII
    of the Loeb Classical Library edition,
    1932


    The text is in the public domain.

    This page has been carefully proofread

    Strabo
    Geography
    p129 Book XV, Chapter 2


    1 After India one comes to Ariana, the first portion of the country subject to the Persians after the Indus River and of the upper satrapies situated outside the Taurus. Ariana is bounded on the south and on the north by the same sea and the same mountains as India, as also by the same river, the Indus, which flows between itself and India; and from this river it extends towards the west as far as the line drawn from the Caspian Gates to Carmania, so that its shape is quadrilateral. Now the southern side begins at the outlets of the Indus and at Patalenê, and ends at Carmania and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, where it has a promontory that projects considerably towards the south; and then it takes a bend into the gulf in the direction of Persis. Ariana is inhabited first by the Arbies, whose name is like that of the River Arbis, which forms the boundary between them and the next tribe, the Oreitae; and the Arbies have a seaboard about one thousand stadia in length, as Nearchus says; but this too is a portion of India. Then one comes to the Oreitae, an autonomous tribe. The coasting voyage along the country of this tribe is one thousand eight hundred stadia in length, and the next, along that of the Ichthyophagi, seven thousand four hundred, and that along the country of the Carmanians as far as Persis, three thousand seven hundred, so that the total voyage is twelve thousand nine hundred stadia.

    2 The country of the Ichthyophagi is on the sea-level; and most of it is without trees, except palms and a kind of thorn and the tamarisk; and there is a scarcity both of water and of foods produced by cultivation; and both the people and their cattle use fish for food and drink waters supplied by rains and wells; and the meat of their cattle smells like fish; and they build their dwellings mostly with the bones of whales and with oyster-shells, using the ribs of whales as beams and supports, and the jawbones as doorposts; and they use the vertebral bones of whales as mortars, in which they pound the fish after roasting them in the sun; and then they make bread of this, mixing a small amount of flour with it, for they have grinding-mills, although they have no iron. And this is indeed not so surprising, for they could import grinding-mills from other places; but how do they cut them anew when worn smooth? Why, with the same stones, they say, with which they sharpen arrows and javelins that have been hardened in fire. As for fish, they bake some in covered earthen vessels, but for the most part eat them raw; and they catch them, among other ways, with nets made of palm-bark.

    3 Above the country of the Ichthyophagi is situated Gedrosia, a country less torrid than India, but more torrid than the rest of Asia; and since it is in lack of fruits and water, except in summer, it is not much better than the country of the Ichthyophagi. But it produces spices, in particular nard plants and myrrh trees, so that Alexander's army on their march used these for tent-coverings and bedding, at the same time enjoying thereby sweet odours and a more salubrious atmosphere; and they made their return from India in the summer on purpose, for at that time Gedrosia has rains, and the rivers and the wells are filled, though in winter they fail, and the rains fall in the upper regions towards the north and near the mountains; and when the rivers are filled the plains near the sea are watered and the wells are full. And the king sent persons before him into the desert country to dig wells and to prepare stations for himself and his fleet.

    4 For he divided his forces into three parts, and himself set out with one division through Gedrosia. He kept away from the sea no more than five hundred stadia at most, in order that he might at the same time equip the seaboard for the reception of his fleet; and he often closely approached the sea, although its shores were hard to traverse and rugged. The second division he sent forward through the interior under the command of Craterus, who at the same time was to subdue Ariana and also to advance to the same region whither Alexander was directing his march. The fleet he gave over to Nearchus and Onesicritus, the latter his master pilot, giving them orders to take an appropriate position, and to follow, and sail alongside, his line of march.

    Index for Strabo's Geography as follows:

    Subject page numbers



    I.1: Strabo's preface, on the scope and usefulness of geography
    1‑14 I: 3

    III.1: Iberia
    136‑141 II: 3

    III.2: Iberia
    141‑151 19

    III.3: Iberia
    151‑156 61

    III.4: Iberia
    156‑167 79

    III.5: The islands of Iberia: Baleares, Cassiterides, Gades
    167‑176 123
    4

    IV.1: Transalpine Gaul: Narbonensis
    176‑189 163

    IV.2: Transalpine Gaul: Aquitania
    189‑191 213

    IV.3: Transalpine Gaul: Lugdunensis
    191‑194 221

    IV.4: Transalpine Gaul: W Lugdunensis and Belgica
    194‑199 235

    IV.5: Britain, Ireland, and Thule
    199‑201 253

    IV.6: Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy)
    201‑209 263
    5

    V.1: Northern Italy proper (roughly Emilia-Romagna)
    209‑218 299

    V.2: Tyrrhenia and Umbria (Tuscany, Umbria, and the N Marche)
    218‑228 333

    V.3: The Sabine lands and Latium
    228‑240 375

    V.4: Picenum (S Marche) and Campania
    240‑251 427
    6

    VI.1: zzz
    252‑265 III: 3

    VI.2: Sicily
    265‑277 55

    VI.3: Iapygia
    277‑285 103

    VI.4: Summary remarks on Italy and the expansion of Rome
    285‑288 137
    7

    VII.1: Germany
    289‑292 151

    VII.2: Germans and the Cimbri or Cimmerians
    292‑294 165

    VII.3: Mysia, Dacia, and the Danube (SE Europe)
    294‑308 173

    VII.4: The Tauric Chersonese (Crimea)
    308‑312 229

    VII.5: Illyria and Pannonia
    312‑318 249

    VII.6: Eastern Dacia and the north shore of the Propontis
    318‑320 275

    VII.7: Epirus
    320‑329 285

    Fragments
    329‑331 321
    8

    VIII.1: Greece, generalities
    332‑334 IV: 3

    VIII.2: The Peloponnesus
    335‑336 13

    VIII.3: Elea
    336‑358 19

    VIII.4: Messenia
    358‑362 107

    VIII.5: Laconia
    362‑368 125

    VIII.6: Argolis
    368‑383 149

    VIII.7: Ionia
    383‑388 207

    VIII.8: Arcadia
    388‑389 227
    9

    IX.1: Attica
    390‑400 239

    IX.2: Boeotia
    400‑416 277

    IX.3: Phocis
    416‑425 341

    IX.4: Locris
    425‑429 377

    IX.5: Thessaly
    429‑444 395
    10

    X.1: Euboea
    444‑449 V: 3

    X.2: Acarnania
    449‑462 23

    X.3: Aetolia
    462‑474 75

    X.4: Crete
    474‑484 121

    X.5: The Greek islands (Sporades and Cyclades)
    484‑489 161
    11

    XI.1: Preliminary remarks about Asia
    490‑492 183

    XI.2: The shore of the Black Sea from the Maeotian Lake to Colchis
    492‑499 191

    XI.3: Asian Iberia
    499‑501 217

    XI.4: (Asian) Albania
    501‑503 223

    XI.5: The Caucasus and the country of the Amazons
    503‑506 233

    XI.6: The western approaches to the Caspian Sea
    506‑508 243

    XI.7: Hyrcania
    508‑510 249

    XI.8: East of the Caspian Sea: the Sacae and the Massagetae
    510‑514 259

    XI.9: Parthia proper
    514‑515 271

    XI.10: Aria and Margiana
    515‑516 277

    XI.11: Bactria
    516‑520 279

    XI.12: Cis-Tauran Asia and the Taurus
    520‑522 295

    XI.13: Media
    522‑526 303

    XI.14: Armenia
    526‑533 317
    12

    XII.1: Cappadocia
    533‑535 345

    XII.2: Cataonia and Melitene
    535‑540 351

    XII.3: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Lesser Armenia
    540‑563 371

    XII.4: Bithynia
    563‑566 455

    XII.5: Galatia
    566‑568 467

    XII.6: Lycaonia
    568‑569 473

    XII.7: Pisidia
    569‑571 479

    XII.8: Arcadia
    571‑580 485
    13

    XIII.1.1‑27: The Troad and Ilium
    581‑595 VI: 3

    XIII.1.28‑45: Dardania; Ilium again
    595‑603 59

    XIII.1.46‑70: The Achaeium, Scepsis, Assus, Adramyttium, Teuthrania
    604‑616 91

    XIII.2: Lesbos and its minor islands
    616‑619 139

    XIII.3: The Aeolian cities
    619‑623 149

    XIII.4: Pergamum, Sardis, Catacecaumene, Hierapolis
    623‑631 163
    14

    XIV.1: Ionia
    632‑650 197

    XIV.2: Caria
    650‑664 263

    XIV.3: Lycia
    664‑667 311

    XIV.4: Pamphylia
    667‑668 323

    XIV.5: Cilicia
    668‑681 327

    XIV.6: Cyprus
    681‑685 373
    15

    XV.1.1‑25: India, basic geography
    685‑696 VII: 3

    XV.1.26‑38: India, animals
    696‑703 43

    XV.1.39‑73: India, people
    703‑720 67

    XV.2: Ariana, Gedrosia, and Carmania
    720‑727 129

    XV.3: Persia proper
    727‑736 155
    16

    XVI.1: Leucania
    736‑749 193

    XVI.2: Syria — Commagene, Syria proper, Seleucia, Coelesyria (Palestine), Phoenicia
    749‑765 239

    XVI.3: zzz
    765‑767 299

    XVI.4: zzz
    767‑785 307
    17

    XVII.1.1‑10: Egypt and Ethiopia
    785‑795 VIII: 3

    XVII.1.11‑24: Egypt, continued
    795‑804 43

    XVII.1.25‑54: Egypt, continued
    804‑821 77

    XVII.2: Ethiopia and Egypt, conclusion
    821‑824 141

    XVII.3: Libya (North Africa)
    824‑840 155

    Link is here: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...rabo/home.html
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    Default Re: Useful Information Resource for Mods

    Last one today another useful site is livius.org information from the site:

    The Livius.org website offers articles on ancient history. We are currently improving the site, which used to have more than 3653 pages. At the moment, there are 632 articles in the new style. You can search to find what you are looking for or browse through the articles using categories or tags. The pages that were most recently converted to the new style, are listed below.


    About Livius.org

    Livius is a website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering. It started on a different URL; the present one has been in use since 2000. The website is not for profit; with a couple of exceptions that have been indicated, you can use every photo and text, provided that you refer back to Livius and do not make profit either.

    Common categories

    Roman Empire (240)
    Greece (148)
    Museums (111)
    Persia (94)
    Roman Republic (72)
    Germania Inferior (57)
    Anatolia (47)
    Greater Iran (46)
    Egypt (36)
    Indus Civilization (34)

    Link is here:http://www.livius.org/

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