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1. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Late Intermediate
Civilization
Samarra
Maritime villages
2. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Old Kingdom
Stratification
Halafian
Karl Wittfogel
3. 2500 BC in Czech Republic -early part-time specialists -use of a smelting kin. Gradual accumulation of changes - 2200 BC -plow agriculture - increased clearing of forests - increasing populations and social complexity - 1300 BC -many local centers us
First Intermediate Period
Ubaid
Middle Kingdom
Bronze Age
4. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Poverty Point
Second Intermediate Period
Stratification
Mississippian
5. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Initial Period
Uruk
Middle Woodland Period
Early Horizon
6. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Early Woodland Period
New Kingdom
Samarra
Civilization
7. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Second Intermediate Period
Mature Harappan
Uruk
8. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Initial Period
Formative
Early Horizon
Valley of Oaxaca
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.
Early Indus
Moche State
Robert Carneiro
Maritime villages
10. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Late Woodland
Early Intermediate
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
11. 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
Characteristics of state level societies
Secondary State
Johnson
Nagada
12. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Robert Carneiro
Mature Harappan
Characteristics of state level societies
Sumerian
13. 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.
Old Kingdom
Iron Age
Late Horizon
Early Indus
14. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Middle Kingdom
Badari
Civilization
Samarra
15. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Maritime villages
Badari
Early Intermediate
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
16. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Middle Horizon
Johnson
Middle Kingdom
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
17. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Hassuna
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Varna
Late Intermediate
18. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Nagada
Middle Horizon
Secondary State
Stratification
19. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Secondary State
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Preceramic
Early Horizon
20. 6300-5300 BC -mud brick farming villages in the hilly flanks and along trade routes. Early domestication of cattle - water buffaloes - pigs - and sheep. Plants such as peas - barley - and lentils. Trade of copper items (primarily prestige goods). Sit
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Badari
Civilization
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
21. 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
V. Gordon Childe
Robert Carneiro
Uruk
First Intermediate Period
22. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Hassuna
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Preceramic
Badari
23. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Middle Woodland Period
Secondary State
Neolithic (Egypt)
Mature Harappan
24. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Sumerian
Second Intermediate Period
Karl Wittfogel
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
25. 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.
V. Gordon Childe
Maadi
Adena Complex
Old Kingdom
26. Hydraulic hypothesis
Poverty Point
Valley of Oaxaca
Initial Period
Karl Wittfogel
27. 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.
Olmec
Halafian
Nagada
Badari
28. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Pristine (primary) state
Maadi
Early Woodland Period
29. 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)
Johnson
Stratification
Hassuna
30. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Early Indus
First Intermediate Period
Late Woodland
Beaker people
31. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Olmec
Poverty Point
Middle Kingdom
Late Harappan
32. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Maadi
Late Intermediate
Late Woodland
Basin of Mexico
33. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Karl Wittfogel
Nagada
Late Harappan
Initial Period
34. 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.
Early Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Johnson
Preceramic
35. 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.
Maritime villages
Johnson
Preceramic
Mississippian
36. 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.
Pristine (primary) state
Early Woodland Period
V. Gordon Childe
Basin of Mexico
37. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Second Intermediate Period
Early Intermediate
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Secondary State
38. Trade and Exchange
William Rathje
Moche State
Stratification
Late Woodland
39. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Beaker people
Characteristics of state level societies
Adena Complex
Badari
40. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Merimbda
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Preceramic
Basin of Mexico
41. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Iron Age
Early Indus
V. Gordon Childe
Late Horizon
42. Urban Revolution
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Samarra
V. Gordon Childe
Religion
43. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Late Woodland
Merimbda
Stratification
Karl Wittfogel
44. AD 600-1000 - state of Tiwanku in southern Peru - utilized raised field agriculture - in the highland area - large llama herds - massive stone architecture and large trade in copper. Huari -located in the highlands - monumental architecture - investm
Middle Horizon
Pristine (primary) state
Moche State
Nagada
45. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Late Harappan
Sumerian
Karl Wittfogel
Pristine (primary) state
46. 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
Religion
First Intermediate Period
Maritime villages
Mature Harappan
47. Hierakonpolis - Nagada - and This -increasing complexity and stratification - irrigation - bureaucracy - hieroglyphic writing. Know the difference between Upper Egyptian (southern) and Lower Egyptian (north) kingdoms. Dynastic Unification- 3050 BC -U
First Intermediate Period
New Kingdom
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Maritime villages
48. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Early Horizon
Mississippian
Late Woodland
49. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Maritime villages
Moche State
Initial Period
Hassuna
50. 2500 BC in Czech Republic -early part-time specialists -use of a smelting kin. Gradual accumulation of changes - 2200 BC -plow agriculture - increased clearing of forests - increasing populations and social complexity - 1300 BC -many local centers us
New Kingdom
Early Intermediate
Beaker people
Bronze Age
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