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Pre-History
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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.
Late Intermediate
Beaker people
Poverty Point
Late Harappan
2. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Early Indus
Robert Carneiro
Valley of Oaxaca
Iron Age
3. 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
Middle Woodland Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Varna
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
4. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Varna
Adena Complex
Middle Kingdom
5. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Adena Complex
Secondary State
Stratification
6. 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
Pristine (primary) state
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Second Intermediate Period
7. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
First Intermediate Period
Samarra
Mature Harappan
Karl Wittfogel
8. 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
Middle Woodland Period
Late Intermediate
Pristine (primary) state
9. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Hassuna
Badari
Beaker people
Early Woodland Period
10. 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
Maritime villages
Late Intermediate
Middle Horizon
Olmec
11. 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.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Varna
Pristine (primary) state
12. 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 Woodland Period
Religion
Stratification
Bronze Age
13. 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
Early Horizon
Second Intermediate Period
Mississippian
Late Horizon
14. 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
Late Intermediate
Civilization
Religion
15. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Poverty Point
Preceramic
Characteristics of state level societies
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
16. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Iron Age
Maadi
Johnson
Late Intermediate
17. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Mississippian
Maritime villages
Maadi
Second Intermediate Period
18. 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
Nagada
Merimbda
Uruk
Sumerian
19. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Iron Age
Sumerian
Adena Complex
20. Urban Revolution
Middle Kingdom
Old Kingdom
William Rathje
V. Gordon Childe
21. 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 Horizon
Preceramic
Merimbda
Hassuna
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).
Adena Complex
Characteristics of state level societies
Early Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
23. 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
Valley of Oaxaca
Neolithic (Egypt)
Preceramic
24. 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
First Intermediate Period
Varna
Late Horizon
Ubaid
25. 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
Civilization
Ubaid
Samarra
Late Woodland
26. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Mississippian
Middle Woodland Period
Sumerian
Olmec
27. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Beaker people
Samarra
Characteristics of state level societies
28. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
First Intermediate Period
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Hassuna
Civilization
29. 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.
Early Horizon
Late Woodland
New Kingdom
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
30. 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.
Hassuna
Basin of Mexico
Pristine (primary) state
Johnson
31. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Pristine (primary) state
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Intermediate
Badari
32. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Hassuna
Halafian
Valley of Oaxaca
33. 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
Bronze Age
Robert Carneiro
Adena Complex
Late Horizon
34. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Robert Carneiro
Halafian
Civilization
Uruk
35. Decision making hierarchies
Beaker people
Johnson
Sumerian
Basin of Mexico
36. 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.
Mississippian
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Badari
37. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Moche State
Middle Kingdom
Moche State
First Intermediate Period
38. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Initial Period
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
V. Gordon Childe
Merimbda
39. 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.
Maritime villages
Late Harappan
Preceramic
Secondary State
40. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Second Intermediate Period
Maritime villages
Early Horizon
Halafian
41. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Maadi
Early Woodland Period
Religion
Early Intermediate
42. 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
Adena Complex
Mature Harappan
Second Intermediate Period
Preceramic
43. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Mature Harappan
First Intermediate Period
Sumerian
Bronze Age
44. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Stratification
Poverty Point
Middle Woodland Period
Middle Kingdom
45. 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
Bronze Age
Middle Kingdom
Adena Complex
46. 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.
First Intermediate Period
Mississippian
Late Harappan
Karl Wittfogel
47. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Iron Age
First Intermediate Period
Johnson
48. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Bronze Age
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Secondary State
Samarra
49. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Early Horizon
Stratification
Preceramic
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
50. 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
Middle Woodland Period
Early Intermediate
Mature Harappan