The other democracy: Medes in the Iron Age

该项目旨在利用考古学和历史文献中的证据来开发一种新的 对扎格罗斯山脉梅底斯人以共识为基础的政治制度的第一次理解 公元前千年。尽管米德人在古希腊和希腊的历史文献中长期存在 近东，这项研究项目将是解决中位数性质的第一个主要学术项目 社区。这项研究试图创建一个新的模型，研究这些农牧群体如何 对亚述帝国的帝国入侵作出回应。它的目标是通过发展更好的 理解民主制度如何发展，以灵活应对外部压力。

This project aims to use evidence from archaeology and historical texts to develop a new understanding of the consensus-based political system of the Medes of the Zagros Mountains in the first millennium BCE. In spite of the enduring presence of the Medes in the historical texts of Ancient Greece and the Near East, this research project would be the first major piece of scholarship to address the nature of Median communities. This research seeks to create a new model for how these agro-pastoral groups may have responded to imperial incursions by the Assyrian Empire. Its goal is to benefit scholarship by developing a better understanding of how democratic systems can develop as a flexible response to external pressures.