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Pre-History
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1. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Early Intermediate
Religion
Halafian
Johnson
2. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Badari
Valley of Oaxaca
Varna
Maritime villages
3. Urban Revolution
Middle Horizon
First Intermediate Period
William Rathje
V. Gordon Childe
4. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Badari
Samarra
Pristine (primary) state
Varna
5. Trade and Exchange
Moche State
William Rathje
Old Kingdom
Beaker people
6. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Hassuna
Late Harappan
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
7. 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.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Karl Wittfogel
Old Kingdom
Bronze Age
8. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Sumerian
Badari
Maritime villages
Early Woodland Period
9. Urban Revolution
Samarra
V. Gordon Childe
Hassuna
Neolithic (Egypt)
10. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Mature Harappan
Civilization
First Intermediate Period
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
11. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Bronze Age
Neolithic (Egypt)
Sumerian
Johnson
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.
Hassuna
Maadi
Basin of Mexico
Mature Harappan
13. 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
Formative
Merimbda
Iron Age
14. 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
Ubaid
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Middle Kingdom
Middle Woodland Period
15. Role of priesthood
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Religion
Mississippian
Robert Carneiro
16. 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.
Badari
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Neolithic (Egypt)
Olmec
17. 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.
Mature Harappan
Robert Carneiro
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
William Rathje
18. Trade and Exchange
Early Intermediate
Old Kingdom
William Rathje
Initial Period
19. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Merimbda
Uruk
Sumerian
Ubaid
20. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Ubaid
Middle Horizon
Karl Wittfogel
Formative
21. 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 Horizon
Late Woodland
Uruk
Olmec
22. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Bronze Age
Middle Woodland Period
Pristine (primary) state
Olmec
23. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Iron Age
Karl Wittfogel
Nagada
Civilization
24. 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
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Moche State
Adena Complex
Characteristics of state level societies
25. 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
Mature Harappan
Valley of Oaxaca
Late Horizon
Poverty Point
26. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Ubaid
Characteristics of state level societies
Religion
Late Harappan
27. 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
Sumerian
Mississippian
Ubaid
28. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Basin of Mexico
New Kingdom
Early Woodland Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
29. Decision making hierarchies
Varna
Moche State
Johnson
Characteristics of state level societies
30. 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
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Uruk
Late Horizon
Mature Harappan
31. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Characteristics of state level societies
Early Woodland Period
Late Horizon
Nagada
32. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Early Intermediate
Hassuna
Moche State
Secondary State
33. Warfare and Circumscription
Karl Wittfogel
Beaker people
Neolithic (Egypt)
Robert Carneiro
34. 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.
Moche State
William Rathje
Mississippian
Late Intermediate
35. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
New Kingdom
Adena Complex
Middle Woodland Period
Stratification
36. 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 Horizon
William Rathje
New Kingdom
Mississippian
37. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Karl Wittfogel
V. Gordon Childe
Samarra
Late Woodland
38. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Uruk
Maritime villages
Civilization
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
39. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Basin of Mexico
Early Intermediate
Moche State
Karl Wittfogel
40. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Maritime villages
Robert Carneiro
Basin of Mexico
Halafian
41. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Valley of Oaxaca
Adena Complex
Merimbda
First Intermediate Period
42. 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
Maadi
Second Intermediate Period
Moche State
43. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Formative
Early Indus
Nagada
Civilization
44. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Early Indus
Civilization
Religion
Maadi
45. 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 Woodland Period
Preceramic
Beaker people
Middle Horizon
46. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Merimbda
Initial Period
Early Horizon
Uruk
47. 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
Merimbda
Ubaid
Moche State
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
48. 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.
Johnson
Olmec
Early Indus
Late Harappan
49. 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
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Karl Wittfogel
Early Intermediate
50. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Sumerian
Karl Wittfogel
Early Horizon
Civilization