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Pre-History
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1. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Maritime villages
Johnson
2. 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.
Civilization
Mature Harappan
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
New Kingdom
3. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Poverty Point
Halafian
Early Indus
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
4. 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.
V. Gordon Childe
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Robert Carneiro
Early Indus
5. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Stratification
Badari
Basin of Mexico
Beaker people
6. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Preceramic
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Halafian
Robert Carneiro
7. Decision making hierarchies
Johnson
Poverty Point
Poverty Point
Moche State
8. 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.
Basin of Mexico
Preceramic
Late Harappan
Valley of Oaxaca
9. 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
Nagada
Bronze Age
Late Horizon
Late Intermediate
10. 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
Poverty Point
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Preceramic
Moche State
11. 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.
Ubaid
Late Intermediate
Halafian
Robert Carneiro
12. 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.
Poverty Point
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Old Kingdom
Johnson
13. AD 400-800 -initial adoption of maize agriculture.
Late Woodland
Olmec
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
14. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Early Woodland Period
Stratification
Early Indus
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
15. 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.
Merimbda
Religion
Mississippian
Formative
16. 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
Late Horizon
Olmec
Late Harappan
17. Hydraulic hypothesis
First Intermediate Period
Karl Wittfogel
Middle Woodland Period
Badari
18. Warfare and Circumscription
Poverty Point
Robert Carneiro
Iron Age
Olmec
19. 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
Merimbda
Hassuna
New Kingdom
Bronze Age
20. 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.
Adena Complex
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Early Indus
Preceramic
21. 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
Early Horizon
Middle Woodland Period
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
22. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Olmec
Pristine (primary) state
Sumerian
Late Intermediate
23. Role of priesthood
Varna
Beaker people
Religion
Sumerian
24. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Halafian
Pristine (primary) state
Middle Kingdom
Uruk
25. 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
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Early Horizon
Old Kingdom
26. 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
Valley of Oaxaca
Early Indus
Old Kingdom
27. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Merimbda
Poverty Point
Pristine (primary) state
Formative
28. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Uruk
Early Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
29. 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
Merimbda
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Early Horizon
30. 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
Secondary State
Early Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
31. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Maritime villages
Robert Carneiro
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
32. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
New Kingdom
Pristine (primary) state
Mature Harappan
Second Intermediate Period
33. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Basin of Mexico
Early Horizon
Maadi
Stratification
34. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Poverty Point
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Pristine (primary) state
35. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Mississippian
Uruk
Neolithic (Egypt)
Secondary State
36. 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
Valley of Oaxaca
Early Woodland Period
Halafian
37. Hydraulic hypothesis
Robert Carneiro
Second Intermediate Period
Nagada
Karl Wittfogel
38. Urban Revolution
Early Intermediate
Halafian
V. Gordon Childe
Iron Age
39. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Early Indus
Uruk
Samarra
Middle Woodland Period
40. 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
Second Intermediate Period
Pristine (primary) state
Iron Age
Uruk
41. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Samarra
Neolithic (Egypt)
V. Gordon Childe
42. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Middle Woodland Period
Late Horizon
Mississippian
Maritime villages
43. 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
Maritime villages
Mature Harappan
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Old Kingdom
44. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Badari
First Intermediate Period
Varna
Valley of Oaxaca
45. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Adena Complex
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
First Intermediate Period
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
46. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Nagada
Maadi
Pristine (primary) state
Badari
47. 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
Neolithic (Egypt)
Iron Age
Civilization
Characteristics of state level societies
48. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Late Harappan
V. Gordon Childe
New Kingdom
49. 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
Karl Wittfogel
Second Intermediate Period
Uruk
Basin of Mexico
50. 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
Formative
Valley of Oaxaca
Maritime villages
Mature Harappan