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Pre-History
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1. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Secondary State
Pristine (primary) state
Johnson
Second Intermediate Period
2. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Middle Woodland Period
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Religion
Maritime villages
3. 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
William Rathje
Adena Complex
Karl Wittfogel
Valley of Oaxaca
4. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Pristine (primary) state
Uruk
Initial Period
5. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
First Intermediate Period
Mississippian
Late Harappan
Mature Harappan
6. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Hassuna
Mississippian
Valley of Oaxaca
Second Intermediate Period
7. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Early Indus
First Intermediate Period
Olmec
8. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Karl Wittfogel
Mature Harappan
Poverty Point
Middle Kingdom
9. 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.
Middle Woodland Period
Preceramic
Uruk
Johnson
10. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Late Horizon
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
New Kingdom
Poverty Point
11. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Samarra
Halafian
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
12. Hydraulic hypothesis
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Karl Wittfogel
Secondary State
Maritime villages
13. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Late Woodland
Merimbda
Formative
Moche State
14. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Late Horizon
Ubaid
Moche State
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
15. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Sumerian
Maritime villages
Iron Age
Halafian
16. 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.
Basin of Mexico
Late Harappan
Sumerian
Iron Age
17. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Varna
Adena Complex
Neolithic (Egypt)
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
18. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Uruk
Stratification
Early Woodland Period
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
19. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Karl Wittfogel
Adena Complex
Preceramic
Badari
20. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Late Woodland
Middle Kingdom
Early Intermediate
Pristine (primary) state
21. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Secondary State
Nagada
Middle Woodland Period
Late Intermediate
22. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Middle Woodland Period
Late Harappan
Johnson
Late Intermediate
23. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
First Intermediate Period
Ubaid
Iron Age
Stratification
24. 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
Adena Complex
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Characteristics of state level societies
Hassuna
25. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Ubaid
Civilization
Formative
Neolithic (Egypt)
26. Role of priesthood
Second Intermediate Period
Religion
Beaker people
Olmec
27. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Second Intermediate Period
Late Harappan
Formative
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
28. Urban Revolution
Maadi
Late Woodland
Stratification
V. Gordon Childe
29. 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.
Moche State
Basin of Mexico
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Middle Kingdom
30. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Karl Wittfogel
Secondary State
Maadi
31. Hydraulic hypothesis
Sumerian
Poverty Point
William Rathje
Karl Wittfogel
32. 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
Religion
Valley of Oaxaca
Second Intermediate Period
Neolithic (Egypt)
33. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Old Kingdom
Stratification
Basin of Mexico
Karl Wittfogel
34. Warfare and Circumscription
Late Woodland
Robert Carneiro
Merimbda
Early Intermediate
35. 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.
Ubaid
Late Intermediate
Varna
Samarra
36. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Johnson
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Poverty Point
37. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Neolithic (Egypt)
Early Woodland Period
Maritime villages
Hassuna
38. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Robert Carneiro
Mississippian
Valley of Oaxaca
39. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Early Woodland Period
Badari
Varna
Sumerian
40. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Sumerian
Basin of Mexico
Basin of Mexico
41. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Initial Period
Early Horizon
Middle Kingdom
Pristine (primary) state
42. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Late Harappan
Mature Harappan
Poverty Point
Early Intermediate
43. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Basin of Mexico
Middle Kingdom
Robert Carneiro
44. 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
Middle Kingdom
Characteristics of state level societies
Formative
Bronze Age
45. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Valley of Oaxaca
Civilization
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Uruk
46. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Moche State
Robert Carneiro
Formative
Basin of Mexico
47. 1000 BC -evidence of shared religious ideologies. trade network. AD 250-900 -emergence of numerous. small competing centers. Sites of Palenque and Tikal. AD 900 -Maya collapse in the south and shift north to the Yucatan.
Hassuna
Johnson
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Religion
48. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Adena Complex
Formative
Merimbda
Stratification
49. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Mississippian
First Intermediate Period
Late Woodland
Nagada
50. 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
Characteristics of state level societies
Halafian
Late Harappan