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Pre-History
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1. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Late Woodland
Hassuna
Second Intermediate Period
Samarra
2. 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
Moche State
Uruk
Second Intermediate Period
3. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Early Indus
Pristine (primary) state
Maritime villages
William Rathje
4. 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
Secondary State
First Intermediate Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
5. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Bronze Age
Stratification
Beaker people
6. 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
New Kingdom
Late Harappan
Halafian
7. 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 Woodland
Late Horizon
William Rathje
New Kingdom
8. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Hassuna
Nagada
Iron Age
Halafian
9. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Halafian
Beaker people
Neolithic (Egypt)
Formative
10. Urban Revolution
Ubaid
V. Gordon Childe
Valley of Oaxaca
Uruk
11. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Merimbda
First Intermediate Period
Olmec
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
12. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Maadi
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
New Kingdom
Late Harappan
13. 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.
Early Indus
Varna
Olmec
Preceramic
14. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Characteristics of state level societies
Initial Period
Sumerian
New Kingdom
15. 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
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Basin of Mexico
16. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
V. Gordon Childe
Neolithic (Egypt)
Secondary State
Early Woodland Period
17. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Secondary State
Civilization
Robert Carneiro
Bronze Age
18. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Secondary State
Maritime villages
Nagada
Samarra
19. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Olmec
Iron Age
Karl Wittfogel
Sumerian
20. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
New Kingdom
New Kingdom
Neolithic (Egypt)
Early Intermediate
21. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Characteristics of state level societies
Varna
Late Horizon
Middle Woodland Period
22. 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
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Maadi
Early Woodland Period
23. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Formative
Pristine (primary) state
Preceramic
V. Gordon Childe
24. Decision making hierarchies
Beaker people
Johnson
Neolithic (Egypt)
Middle Kingdom
25. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Second Intermediate Period
Late Horizon
Late Intermediate
Sumerian
26. 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
Robert Carneiro
Bronze Age
Poverty Point
Beaker people
27. 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.
Secondary State
Mississippian
Late Intermediate
Maadi
28. 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.
Late Horizon
Preceramic
Basin of Mexico
Halafian
29. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Stratification
Nagada
New Kingdom
Initial Period
30. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Nagada
Hassuna
Middle Kingdom
31. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Secondary State
Bronze Age
Maadi
32. 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.
Uruk
Merimbda
Formative
Old Kingdom
33. Role of priesthood
Samarra
Religion
V. Gordon Childe
Ubaid
34. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Nagada
Early Woodland Period
Mature Harappan
Hassuna
35. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
First Intermediate Period
Iron Age
Nagada
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
36. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Early Indus
Secondary State
Late Horizon
Maadi
37. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Iron Age
Pristine (primary) state
Olmec
Second Intermediate Period
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.
Middle Kingdom
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Maritime villages
39. 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
Early Indus
Poverty Point
Ubaid
Late Horizon
40. 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
Sumerian
Late Woodland
Hassuna
Valley of Oaxaca
41. 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
Characteristics of state level societies
Moche State
Nagada
42. 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.
Nagada
Old Kingdom
Initial Period
Early Indus
43. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Formative
Johnson
Religion
Varna
44. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Poverty Point
Halafian
Poverty Point
Valley of Oaxaca
45. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Middle Horizon
Late Woodland
Late Harappan
Second Intermediate Period
46. 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
Early Woodland Period
Johnson
Robert Carneiro
47. 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.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Mississippian
Formative
Poverty Point
48. 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
Poverty Point
Robert Carneiro
Bronze Age
49. Trade and Exchange
William Rathje
Second Intermediate Period
Stratification
Uruk
50. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Maritime villages
Mature Harappan
Bronze Age
First Intermediate Period