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Pre-History
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1. 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
Johnson
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Middle Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
2. 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
Formative
First Intermediate Period
Early Woodland Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
3. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Nagada
Hassuna
Basin of Mexico
Samarra
4. 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.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Sumerian
Uruk
5. 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
Late Horizon
Uruk
Nagada
Early Woodland Period
6. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Iron Age
Hassuna
Badari
Robert Carneiro
7. 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.
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Early Horizon
Badari
8. Decision making hierarchies
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Johnson
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Late Horizon
9. 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
Moche State
Beaker people
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Nagada
10. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
First Intermediate Period
Iron Age
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Iron Age
11. 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
Early Indus
Late Harappan
Moche State
12. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Stratification
Halafian
Bronze Age
Second Intermediate Period
13. 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
Late Woodland
Bronze Age
Sumerian
Basin of Mexico
14. 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
Civilization
Characteristics of state level societies
Poverty Point
Karl Wittfogel
15. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Secondary State
Beaker people
Middle Woodland Period
Middle Horizon
16. 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.
Formative
Sumerian
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Characteristics of state level societies
17. 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.
Secondary State
Early Woodland Period
Nagada
Preceramic
18. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Uruk
Late Harappan
New Kingdom
19. Hydraulic hypothesis
Karl Wittfogel
Middle Kingdom
Ubaid
Old Kingdom
20. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Varna
Early Woodland Period
Adena Complex
Initial Period
21. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Merimbda
Poverty Point
Halafian
Late Woodland
22. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Late Horizon
Characteristics of state level societies
Pristine (primary) state
Valley of Oaxaca
23. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Poverty Point
Late Harappan
Pristine (primary) state
Initial Period
24. 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
Uruk
Civilization
Olmec
Stratification
25. Trade and Exchange
Religion
Nagada
William Rathje
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
26. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Bronze Age
Formative
Late Intermediate
Nagada
27. 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
Middle Horizon
Valley of Oaxaca
Late Horizon
Pristine (primary) state
28. 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
Nagada
Late Intermediate
New Kingdom
29. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Late Horizon
Middle Woodland Period
Olmec
30. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Middle Kingdom
Badari
Sumerian
Adena Complex
31. 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.
Late Intermediate
Secondary State
Olmec
Formative
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.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
New Kingdom
Preceramic
Moche State
33. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Middle Kingdom
Pristine (primary) state
Poverty Point
Late Intermediate
34. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Secondary State
Middle Woodland Period
Characteristics of state level societies
Halafian
35. 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.
Early Indus
William Rathje
Nagada
Mississippian
36. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Formative
Robert Carneiro
Late Horizon
Moche State
37. Role of priesthood
Religion
Beaker people
Old Kingdom
Maadi
38. 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
Middle Woodland Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Mature Harappan
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
39. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Late Intermediate
Secondary State
Late Woodland
Hassuna
40. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Maadi
Iron Age
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Badari
41. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Mature Harappan
Early Woodland Period
Stratification
Early Indus
42. 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.
Halafian
Maritime villages
Old Kingdom
Early Indus
43. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Characteristics of state level societies
Second Intermediate Period
Late Harappan
Maadi
44. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Middle Horizon
Characteristics of state level societies
Varna
Valley of Oaxaca
45. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Maadi
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Sumerian
46. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Basin of Mexico
Samarra
Pristine (primary) state
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
Early Intermediate
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Middle Woodland Period
48. 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.
Characteristics of state level societies
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Early Horizon
Mature Harappan
49. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Old Kingdom
Early Woodland Period
Bronze Age
Badari
50. 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
Johnson
William Rathje
Badari