Useful Information Resource for Mods

[Rhun ap Beli]

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_Classical_Age_states)

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

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

[Rhun ap Beli]

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/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/home.html

[Rhun ap Beli]

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/