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The Gordian Knot - Alexander The Great - Gordius - Alexander - Gordian Knot - 1 views

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    just an overview and discription about alexander and the gordian knot. not particularly reliable, but its correct.
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The Encyclopedia of Warfare- Google Book Search - 0 views

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    really excellent easy to understand source, also reliable!
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The Book of the Acts - Google Book Search - 0 views

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    In a couple of sources it mentions that on alexanders date of birth a temple burnt down. a powerful symbol and great publicity for alexander (to add to his long line of related gods). this source simply corroborates this.
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    what was Solon?
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Ancient Greece: Athens - 0 views

shared by Letitia Dall on 26 Jul 08 - Cached
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      This site is great for finding out what the Topic A's statement is talking about, it has information on Solon and Cleisthenes.
  • The Reforms of Solon   But history takes strange turns sometimes. Recognizing the danger of the situation, in 594 BC, the Areopagus and the people of Athens agreed to hand over all political power to a single individual, Solon. In effect a tyrant, Solon's mission was to reform the government to stem the tide of privation and exploitation and set up a system to guarantee that Athens didn't slip into such a situation again.   Solon immediately dismissed all outstanding debts, and he freed as many Athenians as he could from the slavery they had sold themselves into. He banned any loans that are secured by a promise to enter into slavery if the loan is defaulted, and he tried to bring people who had been sold into slavery abroad back to Athens. In addition, he encouraged the development of olive and wine production, so that by the end of the century, most of Athenian land was dedicated to these lucrative crops.   As far as government is concerned, he divided Athenian society into four classes based on wealth. The two wealthiest classes were allowed to serve on the Areopagus. The third class were allowed to serve on an elected council of four hundred people. This council was organized according to the four tribes making up the Athenian people; each tribe was allowed to elect one hundred representatives from this third class. This council of four hundred served as a kind of balance or check to the power of the Areopagus. The fourth class, the poorest class, was allowed to participate in an assembly; this assembly voted on affairs brought to it by the council of four hundred, and even elected local magistrates. This class also participated in a new judicial court that gradually drew civil and military cases out of the hands of the wealthiest people, the Areopagus.
  • Cleisthenes   The Spartans followed their usual practice and entered into a truce with Athens and installed their own hand-picked Athenians to lead the government. The Spartans, however, were too clever for their own good. They chose an individual, Isagoras, whom they felt was the most loyal to Sparta; Isagoras, however, was a bitter rival of the Alcmaeonids, who had been the original allies of Sparta. Isagoras, for his part, set about restoring the Solonic government, but he also set about "purifying" Athenian citizenship. Under Solon and later Peisistratus, a number of people had been enfranchised as citizens even though they weren't Athenian or who were doubtfully Athenian. For in the Greek world, you could only be the citizen of a city-state if you could trace your ancestorship back to the original inhabitants of the state. Isagoras, however, began to throw people off the citizenship rolls in great numbers. Cleisthenes, an Alcmaeonid noble, rallied popular support and threatened the power of Isagoras, who promptly called for the Spartans again. The Spartans invaded a second time, and Cleisthenes was expelled, but soon a popular uprising swept Isagoras from power and installed Cleisthenes.   From 508 to 502 BC, Cleisthenes began a series of major reforms that would produce Athenian democracy. He enfranchised as citizens all free men living in Athens and Attica (the area surrounding Athens). He established a council which would be the chief arm of government with all executive and administrative control. Every citizen over the age of thirty was eligible to sit on this council; each year the members of the council would be chosen by lot. The Assembly, which included all male citizens, was allowed to veto any of the council's proposals and was the only branch of government that could declare war. In 487, long after Cleisthenes, the Athenians added the final aspect of Athenian democracy proper: ostracism. The Assembly could vote (voting was done on potsherds called ostra ) on expelling citizens from the state for a period of ten years. This ostracism would guarantee that individuals who were contemplating seizing power would be removed from the country before they got too powerful.   So by 502 BC, Athens had pretty much established its culture and political structure, just as Sparta had pretty much established its culture and political structure by 550 BC. Athens was more or less a democracy; it had become primarily a trading and commercial center; a large part of the Athenian economy focussed on cash crops for export and crafts; it had become a center of art and literature; the city had become architecturally rich because of the building projects of Peisistratus—an architectural richness that far outshone other Greek city-states; and Athenian religious fesitivals were largely in place. The next one hundred years would be politically and culturally dominated by Athens; the event that would catapult Athens to the center of the Greek world was the invasion of the Persians in 490 BC.
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Astronomy and Ancient Religion - 0 views

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      This has good information, but a bit complicated and difficult to understand.
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The Mayas - 0 views

shared by Letitia Dall on 23 May 08 - Cached
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      good find alex! yay! it has alot of good USEFUL information, thanks for the heads up.
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Yucatán Peninsula - 0 views

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      Just gives a helpful hint so that identifying where maya was, is easier.
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Beans Around The World - Tikal, Guatemala - 0 views

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      I am.... shocked. I don't think that this site has much to do with ancient Maya... Possibly the worst site i have yet to find.
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Maya King Unearthed - 0 views

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      Now i know how Ancient Mayan Kings were buried! yay! thumbs up for this site!
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      Now i know how Ancient Mayan kings were buried! thumbs up for this site!
  • The king was found lying on his back, adorned with a green jadeite necklace bearing the carved head of a vulture, and ear spools inlaid with obsidian. A jadeite bead the size of a cherry was found in the king's mouth. The green stone was an ancient Maya metaphor for life and breath.
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  • "The jadeite vulture pendant is particularly significant,"
  • "The bird is the quintessential sign of kingship in the ancient Maya world. We also believe that this is a royal tomb from the sheer complexity of the burial ritual."
  • Unlike most royal burials, however, the La Milpa tomb was not built within a pyramid, but dug into the site's main plaza. Because of its location the tomb escaped the notice of looters who ravaged the site in the 1970s
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Mayan Civilization - 0 views

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      great information for mayan culture and general history. but not so good for divine kings. keep looking, this is not good site for our research... :(
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Ancient Maya Mural at San Bartolo, Guatemala Tell Story of Myths and Kings - 0 views

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      This site isn't very good, but it has a few small interesting facts, but mostly of no use.
  • Before the excavation of the vividly painted mural, there was scant evidence of the existence of early Maya kings or of their use of elaborate art and writing to establish their right to rule.
  • ancient Maya art that reveals the story of creation, the mythology of kingship and the divine right of a king.
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