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= ​ ​ Your group will be assigned a major classical empire. You are to study the empire extensively and then complete the following: = = = Your group will have an opportunity to share this wiki in class!
 * "Persian Chart"
 * Map(s) of Empire
 * Timeline of Empire
 * Pictures of Key Innovations, Individuals, etc.
 * An assessment of how your empire adheres to the Conrad-Demarest Model of Empire

//**Your grade will be based on the following:**//


 * Historical accuracy
 * Thoroughness
 * Overall quality of response
 * Group dynamics

__ The Conrad Demarest Model of Empire: Basic Principles __


 * I. Necessary preconditions for the rise of empires:**
 * state-level government
 * high agricultural potential in the area
 * an environmental mosaic
 * several small states with no clearly dominant state (power vacuum)
 * mutual antagonisms among those states
 * adequate military resources
 * II. The primary reason a state succeeded in empire building** was an ideology supporting personal identification with the state, empire, conquest, and militarism.
 * III. The major rewards of empire:**
 * economic rewards, reaped especially in the early years and redistributed to the elite and often to all levels of the citizenry
 * population increase, often supported by the government and its ideology
 * IV. Empires fall because:**
 * 1) the ideology of expansion and conquest fueled attempts at conquest beyond practical limits
 * 2) failure to continue conquest indefinitely and to continue to bring home its economic fruits eroded faith in the ideology that supported the empire
 * 3) revolutions toppled the empire