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Pre-History
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1. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Sumerian
New Kingdom
Basin of Mexico
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
Iron Age
Olmec
Ubaid
Beaker people
3. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Maadi
Moche State
Early Intermediate
Neolithic (Egypt)
4. 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
Civilization
Early Indus
Uruk
Adena Complex
5. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Late Horizon
Bronze Age
Early Indus
Iron Age
6. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
New Kingdom
Merimbda
Nagada
7. 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
Middle Woodland Period
Samarra
Middle Horizon
Old Kingdom
8. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Late Woodland
Second Intermediate Period
Pristine (primary) state
Valley of Oaxaca
9. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Initial Period
Formative
10. 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
Mature Harappan
Samarra
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Old Kingdom
11. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Adena Complex
New Kingdom
Moche State
Middle Kingdom
12. 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.
Secondary State
Initial Period
Johnson
Basin of Mexico
13. 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.
Initial Period
Late Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Hassuna
14. 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
Early Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
15. 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
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Badari
Early Indus
Olmec
16. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Hassuna
Early Indus
Middle Kingdom
Stratification
17. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Badari
Varna
Initial Period
18. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Middle Kingdom
Poverty Point
Early Woodland Period
Beaker people
19. 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.
Preceramic
Beaker people
Neolithic (Egypt)
Early Woodland Period
20. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Intermediate
First Intermediate Period
Late Horizon
21. Trade and Exchange
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Old Kingdom
Hassuna
William Rathje
22. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Secondary State
Pristine (primary) state
Formative
Hassuna
23. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Middle Woodland Period
Late Woodland
Initial Period
Iron Age
24. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Olmec
Pristine (primary) state
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Varna
25. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Ubaid
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Early Horizon
26. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Merimbda
Badari
Second Intermediate Period
Beaker people
27. Role of priesthood
Middle Horizon
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Religion
Middle Woodland Period
28. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Early Indus
Bronze Age
Robert Carneiro
First Intermediate Period
29. Hydraulic hypothesis
Karl Wittfogel
Uruk
Early Intermediate
Civilization
30. Warfare and Circumscription
Iron Age
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Robert Carneiro
Middle Woodland Period
31. 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.
Late Intermediate
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Early Indus
Uruk
32. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Formative
Late Horizon
Moche State
Early Intermediate
33. Warfare and Circumscription
Robert Carneiro
Beaker people
Early Indus
Mature Harappan
34. 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.
Second Intermediate Period
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Early Indus
Halafian
35. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Johnson
Merimbda
Mature Harappan
Maadi
36. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Early Horizon
Early Indus
Sumerian
Secondary State
37. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Valley of Oaxaca
Nagada
Samarra
Stratification
38. 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
Pristine (primary) state
Valley of Oaxaca
Late Horizon
Secondary State
39. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Early Intermediate
Badari
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Poverty Point
40. AD 1000-1476 - numerous - small competing kingdoms. Chimu -AD 1000-1476 - based in the Moche Valley - elaborate irrigation system -linked valleys - expansive roadways - site of Chan Chan.
Late Horizon
Late Intermediate
Halafian
Iron Age
41. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Olmec
Civilization
Uruk
Initial Period
42. 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
Basin of Mexico
Early Indus
Secondary State
43. 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.
Badari
Samarra
Late Intermediate
Old Kingdom
44. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Stratification
Ubaid
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Badari
45. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Characteristics of state level societies
Maadi
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Maritime villages
46. 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
Old Kingdom
Basin of Mexico
Characteristics of state level societies
Ubaid
47. 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
Old Kingdom
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Varna
Late Horizon
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
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
William Rathje
Pristine (primary) state
Uruk
49. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
William Rathje
Early Woodland Period
Late Harappan
Old Kingdom
50. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Late Harappan
Early Woodland Period
Middle Kingdom
Secondary State