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Pre-History
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1. 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
New Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
Maadi
2. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Valley of Oaxaca
Initial Period
Badari
Second Intermediate Period
3. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Late Intermediate
Merimbda
Valley of Oaxaca
Formative
4. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Middle Horizon
Adena Complex
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Varna
5. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Early Woodland Period
V. Gordon Childe
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
6. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Middle Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Intermediate
Iron Age
7. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Woodland
Karl Wittfogel
Pristine (primary) state
8. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Merimbda
Beaker people
Samarra
Pristine (primary) state
9. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Moche State
Middle Woodland Period
Robert Carneiro
10. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Robert Carneiro
Samarra
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
11. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Late Harappan
Mississippian
Poverty Point
Second Intermediate Period
12. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Early Horizon
Mississippian
Basin of Mexico
13. 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.
Early Intermediate
Basin of Mexico
Early Horizon
Bronze Age
14. 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.
Early Horizon
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Maadi
Late Harappan
15. 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
Badari
Secondary State
Early Intermediate
16. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
New Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
Mature Harappan
Early Woodland Period
17. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Olmec
Late Harappan
Late Woodland
Second Intermediate Period
18. 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
Formative
Characteristics of state level societies
Secondary State
Early Intermediate
19. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Poverty Point
Samarra
Mississippian
20. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Horizon
Neolithic (Egypt)
Ubaid
21. Warfare and Circumscription
Ubaid
Robert Carneiro
Adena Complex
Preceramic
22. 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
Neolithic (Egypt)
Stratification
Preceramic
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
23. 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
Basin of Mexico
Mature Harappan
Valley of Oaxaca
Nagada
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
Characteristics of state level societies
Neolithic (Egypt)
V. Gordon Childe
Adena Complex
25. 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
Secondary State
Valley of Oaxaca
Early Woodland Period
Iron Age
26. Trade and Exchange
William Rathje
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Early Intermediate
Early Indus
27. 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
Bronze Age
Sumerian
Robert Carneiro
28. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Old Kingdom
First Intermediate Period
Pristine (primary) state
Middle Kingdom
29. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
First Intermediate Period
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
30. Decision making hierarchies
Religion
Johnson
Mississippian
Maritime villages
31. AD 800-1500 -European contact -maize based agriculture - still hunting/gathering - but dependent on agriculture - large - fortified settlements - ceremonial centers such as Cahokia and Etowah.
Middle Horizon
Late Horizon
Johnson
Mississippian
32. 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 Woodland Period
Preceramic
Sumerian
Neolithic (Egypt)
33. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Halafian
New Kingdom
Late Woodland
Nagada
34. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Karl Wittfogel
Nagada
Uruk
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
35. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Characteristics of state level societies
Late Intermediate
Samarra
Pristine (primary) state
36. 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
Iron Age
Early Indus
Mature Harappan
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
37. Hydraulic hypothesis
Uruk
Mississippian
Characteristics of state level societies
Karl Wittfogel
38. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Mature Harappan
Early Woodland Period
Middle Woodland Period
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
39. 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
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Second Intermediate Period
Maritime villages
40. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Middle Woodland Period
Late Intermediate
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Late Woodland
41. AD 800-1500 -European contact -maize based agriculture - still hunting/gathering - but dependent on agriculture - large - fortified settlements - ceremonial centers such as Cahokia and Etowah.
Mississippian
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Second Intermediate Period
Sumerian
42. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Preceramic
Badari
Basin of Mexico
Basin of Mexico
43. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Preceramic
Adena Complex
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Old Kingdom
44. Warfare and Circumscription
Maadi
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Pristine (primary) state
Robert Carneiro
45. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Johnson
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
46. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Badari
Early Intermediate
Second Intermediate Period
Olmec
47. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Stratification
Uruk
Pristine (primary) state
Moche State
48. Role of priesthood
Halafian
Early Woodland Period
Religion
Middle Horizon
49. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Early Horizon
Bronze Age
Initial Period
50. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Late Harappan
Iron Age
Civilization
Maritime villages