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1. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Poverty Point
Late Harappan
First Intermediate Period
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
2. 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
Late Horizon
Middle Kingdom
Early Horizon
Ubaid
3. 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.
Religion
Early Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Horizon
4. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Early Intermediate
Valley of Oaxaca
Secondary State
5. 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
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
William Rathje
Badari
Samarra
6. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Nagada
New Kingdom
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Characteristics of state level societies
7. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Mississippian
Valley of Oaxaca
8. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Middle Woodland Period
V. Gordon Childe
Stratification
Maadi
9. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Preceramic
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Iron Age
Halafian
10. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
William Rathje
Second Intermediate Period
Secondary State
Late Intermediate
11. 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.
Hassuna
Old Kingdom
Mississippian
Badari
12. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Poverty Point
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Halafian
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
13. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Formative
Initial Period
Pristine (primary) state
Moche State
14. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Bronze Age
Maadi
Late Horizon
Early Horizon
15. 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.
Civilization
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Civilization
Middle Kingdom
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.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Basin of Mexico
17. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Varna
Nagada
Hassuna
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
18. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Late Woodland
Iron Age
Late Horizon
Karl Wittfogel
19. 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.
Early Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Second Intermediate Period
Late Horizon
20. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Adena Complex
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Civilization
Initial Period
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
Maritime villages
Ubaid
Uruk
Late Woodland
22. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Religion
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Intermediate
Moche State
23. 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.
Merimbda
Poverty Point
Bronze Age
Preceramic
24. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Middle Horizon
Badari
Religion
25. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Preceramic
Samarra
Sumerian
Basin of Mexico
26. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Civilization
Neolithic (Egypt)
Secondary State
Robert Carneiro
27. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Robert Carneiro
Middle Woodland Period
Early Horizon
Moche State
28. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
New Kingdom
Early Indus
Karl Wittfogel
Mature Harappan
29. Decision making hierarchies
Initial Period
Neolithic (Egypt)
Iron Age
Johnson
30. 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.
Uruk
New Kingdom
Mississippian
William Rathje
31. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Early Intermediate
Old Kingdom
Maadi
32. Trade and Exchange
Characteristics of state level societies
William Rathje
Civilization
Olmec
33. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Mississippian
Johnson
Old Kingdom
Early Woodland Period
34. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Johnson
Middle Woodland Period
Maadi
Secondary State
35. 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
Robert Carneiro
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Characteristics of state level societies
36. 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
First Intermediate Period
Early Indus
Olmec
37. 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
Early Woodland Period
Samarra
Uruk
Characteristics of state level societies
38. 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.
Uruk
Iron Age
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Second Intermediate Period
39. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Middle Kingdom
Middle Woodland Period
Sumerian
Poverty Point
40. 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
Beaker people
Mature Harappan
Badari
Merimbda
41. 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
Neolithic (Egypt)
Secondary State
Late Intermediate
42. 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.
Ubaid
Robert Carneiro
Nagada
Preceramic
43. Hydraulic hypothesis
Karl Wittfogel
Poverty Point
Civilization
Second Intermediate Period
44. 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
Varna
Middle Woodland Period
Ubaid
Middle Horizon
45. 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.
New Kingdom
Early Indus
Halafian
Merimbda
46. 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
Samarra
Early Woodland Period
Hassuna
Bronze Age
47. 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
Bronze Age
New Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
48. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Valley of Oaxaca
Ubaid
Pristine (primary) state
Merimbda
49. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Early Intermediate
First Intermediate Period
Olmec
Middle Kingdom
50. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Second Intermediate Period
Beaker people
Old Kingdom
Samarra
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