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Pre-History
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1. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
New Kingdom
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Basin of Mexico
Maritime villages
2. 3050-2134 BC -united under Narmer (look at Narmer Palette) - use of pyramids to legitimize authority - highly centralized government - priest/god/pharaoh - corvee labor. Royal tombs at Saqqara. Djoser and Imphotep.
Secondary State
Johnson
Late Woodland
Old Kingdom
3. 1400 BC -early farming. 650-300 BC -emergence of the state. Use of irrigation agriculture. Several competing regional centers including Cuicuilco and Teotihuacan -buffer zone between Cuicuilco and Teotihuacan. Cuicuilco buried by a volcano in 150 BC.
Late Woodland
Basin of Mexico
Maadi
Middle Horizon
4. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Maritime villages
William Rathje
Valley of Oaxaca
Civilization
5. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Karl Wittfogel
Varna
Late Horizon
6. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Secondary State
Neolithic (Egypt)
Maadi
Late Woodland
7. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Pristine (primary) state
Adena Complex
First Intermediate Period
Late Harappan
8. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Maadi
Beaker people
Sumerian
Early Intermediate
9. 3200-2600 BC -trade between lowland farmers and craft-producers in Indus Valley - villages located in the floodplain. Fortified towns with flood control. Site of Kot Diji.
Robert Carneiro
Early Indus
Ubaid
V. Gordon Childe
10. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Varna
Old Kingdom
Early Intermediate
Sumerian
11. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Merimbda
Varna
Moche State
Middle Horizon
12. 1500 BC -earliest farming communities. San Jose Mogote -initially a 7 ha site. Appears relatively egalitarian - religious/public structures -later (1150 BC) increase to 70 ha in size. Social differentiation indicated by house size and burials. more e
Valley of Oaxaca
Basin of Mexico
William Rathje
Late Woodland
13. 900-200 BC -site of Chavin de Huantar -'Mother Culture' -broad art style. change in textiles and metal working. Soldering of metal. continuance of U-shaped platform mounds. Llamas used for trade.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Early Horizon
Preceramic
Late Horizon
14. Trade and Exchange
Iron Age
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
William Rathje
Karl Wittfogel
15. 2600-1900 BC -several large - planned cities on artificial mounds (Harappa and Mohenjo Daro) - urban planning -citadels - grain storage facilities - markets - baths - etc. - local writing system - lack of monumental architecture typically associated
Mature Harappan
Hassuna
Bronze Age
Johnson
16. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Religion
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Middle Woodland Period
17. 2700-2000 BC -occupied large area of Europe -burial mounds with beakers and copper implements - small individual family dwellings. Stonehenge 2700 BC -predate Druids - calendrical devices
Beaker people
Varna
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
William Rathje
18. 2700-2000 BC -occupied large area of Europe -burial mounds with beakers and copper implements - small individual family dwellings. Stonehenge 2700 BC -predate Druids - calendrical devices
Late Woodland
V. Gordon Childe
Beaker people
Religion
19. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Merimbda
Late Woodland
Early Woodland Period
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
20. 2600-1900 BC -several large - planned cities on artificial mounds (Harappa and Mohenjo Daro) - urban planning -citadels - grain storage facilities - markets - baths - etc. - local writing system - lack of monumental architecture typically associated
New Kingdom
Stratification
Nagada
Mature Harappan
21. AD 1000-1476 - numerous - small competing kingdoms. Chimu -AD 1000-1476 - based in the Moche Valley - elaborate irrigation system -linked valleys - expansive roadways - site of Chan Chan.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Varna
Stratification
Late Intermediate
22. Role of priesthood
Early Indus
Religion
Mississippian
Poverty Point
23. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Valley of Oaxaca
Late Harappan
Iron Age
Civilization
24. Decision making hierarchies
William Rathje
Varna
Middle Horizon
Johnson
25. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Secondary State
Basin of Mexico
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
26. 3000-1800 BC -site of La Paloma -transition from hunters and gatherers to sedentary society. Site of Rio Seco -monumental architecture - social differentiation through house sizes.
Basin of Mexico
Preceramic
Pristine (primary) state
Middle Horizon
27. 2000-1350 BC -eventually consolidated under rule of Babylon - codification of law by Hammurabi in 2790 BC. Beginning to use Bronze. Standardized farm implements and weaponry.
Late Intermediate
Basin of Mexico
Karl Wittfogel
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
28. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Late Woodland
Mississippian
Adena Complex
Mature Harappan
29. Hydraulic hypothesis
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Karl Wittfogel
Adena Complex
Late Intermediate
30. 900-200 BC -site of Chavin de Huantar -'Mother Culture' -broad art style. change in textiles and metal working. Soldering of metal. continuance of U-shaped platform mounds. Llamas used for trade.
Initial Period
Early Horizon
Late Harappan
Badari
31. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Civilization
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Karl Wittfogel
Early Woodland Period
32. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Valley of Oaxaca
Maadi
Second Intermediate Period
33. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Characteristics of state level societies
Hassuna
Characteristics of state level societies
Early Woodland Period
34. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Stratification
Late Harappan
Karl Wittfogel
35. 5000-3500 BC- Located in arid delta of tigris and euphrates - hierarchical settlements - larger communities (2500-4000 people) ceremonial centers around temples. Communities linked through trade networks. More complex irrigation systems. Site of Erid
Olmec
Ubaid
New Kingdom
Poverty Point
36. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Middle Horizon
Stratification
Pristine (primary) state
Mississippian
37. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
V. Gordon Childe
Late Harappan
Late Woodland
New Kingdom
38. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Formative
Johnson
Badari
39. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Iron Age
Early Intermediate
Early Woodland Period
Early Indus
40. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Religion
Late Woodland
Middle Horizon
41. 1500-500 BC -Gulf Coast of Mexico. rich in subsistence materials (terrestrial and aquatic resources). significant variation in house size. trade in exotic goods. 'Mother Culture'. Sites of San Lorenzo and La Venta.
Formative
Uruk
Robert Carneiro
Olmec
42. Urbanized (rise of cities - settlement hierarchies) -Agri. Subsistence (irrigation common) -Craft Special. (full time - non food producing artisans) -Market Econ. (goods exchanged for profits - full time merchants) -Patron-Client relationships (elite
Sumerian
Beaker people
Basin of Mexico
Characteristics of state level societies
43. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Secondary State
Basin of Mexico
Maadi
Late Harappan
44. Urban Revolution
Moche State
Nagada
First Intermediate Period
V. Gordon Childe
45. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
New Kingdom
Maritime villages
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Middle Kingdom
46. AD 1476-1532- Inca -super state unifying highlands and lowlands - gradually added territory - massive architecture - split inheritance -pass position - but not wealth. Use of corvee labor - expansive roads - quipu. Sites of Cuzco and Machu Picchu
Civilization
Varna
Mature Harappan
Late Horizon
47. 3500-3100 BC -first cities and city-states such as Eridu - Ur - and Uruk - increasing social stratification and complexity - rapid population growth - role of temple (ziggurat) for ceremonial - bureaucratic - and redistribution centers - use of cunei
Varna
Uruk
Nagada
Bronze Age
48. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Karl Wittfogel
Late Harappan
Religion
Preceramic
49. 1500 BC -earliest farming communities. San Jose Mogote -initially a 7 ha site. Appears relatively egalitarian - religious/public structures -later (1150 BC) increase to 70 ha in size. Social differentiation indicated by house size and burials. more e
Valley of Oaxaca
Mississippian
Beaker people
First Intermediate Period
50. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
First Intermediate Period
Adena Complex
Characteristics of state level societies
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
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