Portal talk:Ancient Near East/Topics
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A copy of what I put on the portal discusion page ...
Looks nice. A few things:
1) The Cradle of civilization seems to have been hijacked by a bunch of other early civilizations. The ANE only has a couple paragraphs in it now. You might think about either cutting out the pointer or else changing the line to "a cradle" as opposed to "the cradle"
2) Under Akkad, I think you want Naram-Sin rather than Naram-Suen. Different guy.
3) The article may be a bit too wide. I had to expand firefox CONSIDERABLY to read it.
4) Fertile Crescent. I'm almost certain that it doesn't include Egypt. For example see http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/east/ ok, not your portal but I thought I'd mention it. :-)
5) Timeline of ancient Mesopotamia has been renamed History of Mesopotamia
6) Hm, I don't seem to remember the Assyrians being Amorites. Don't be fooled by Shamsi-Adad, an (presumed) Amorite who ruled Ashur for a bit and whom the Assyrians then tacked into their King List for cred. I'm pretty sure the Chaldeans aren't Amorites either. On the other hand, the Mari became Amorite eventually and then Kassite. And Isin became Kassite later too. I guess maybe I'm saying that the division into cultural groups may not be a good idea. On the other hand, since the Amorite babylonian empire ran til 1531, the end date on Amorites should be at leaast that.
7) As for the Persia section, I don't think there is any data for where the heck the Guti came from. At the very least, use the article Guti (Mesopotamia) as a pointer instead of Gutium. No one is really sure where the Kassites came from either but I don't want to get into that argument. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ploversegg (talk • contribs) 20:49, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Went ahead and fixed Naram-Sin, Timeline, and the Amorite end date since they were clearcut. Ploversegg (talk) 20:56, 8 May 2008 (UTC)ploversegg
