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Pre-History
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1. Urban Revolution
V. Gordon Childe
Middle Kingdom
Late Horizon
Second Intermediate Period
2. 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
Early Intermediate
Ubaid
Late Horizon
3. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Badari
Basin of Mexico
Secondary State
4. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
New Kingdom
Formative
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Maritime villages
5. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
New Kingdom
Pristine (primary) state
Middle Woodland Period
Nagada
6. 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
Maritime villages
Characteristics of state level societies
Initial Period
Uruk
7. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Maadi
Late Harappan
Johnson
Pristine (primary) state
8. 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
Ubaid
Iron Age
Badari
V. Gordon Childe
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.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Iron Age
Halafian
Initial Period
10. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Varna
Halafian
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
First Intermediate Period
11. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Merimbda
Karl Wittfogel
Hassuna
12. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
New Kingdom
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Secondary State
Adena Complex
13. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
Valley of Oaxaca
Neolithic (Egypt)
14. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Beaker people
Moche State
Robert Carneiro
15. 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
Early Woodland Period
Uruk
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Samarra
16. 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.
Basin of Mexico
Mississippian
Moche State
Late Woodland
17. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
First Intermediate Period
Ubaid
Sumerian
Robert Carneiro
18. 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
New Kingdom
Formative
Initial Period
Late Horizon
19. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Maritime villages
Late Intermediate
Samarra
Early Intermediate
20. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
William Rathje
First Intermediate Period
Late Horizon
Second Intermediate Period
21. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Early Horizon
Hassuna
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Adena Complex
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).
Pristine (primary) state
Olmec
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Maritime villages
23. 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
Robert Carneiro
Middle Horizon
Mature Harappan
Maadi
24. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Old Kingdom
Stratification
Middle Woodland Period
Early Intermediate
25. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Mississippian
Badari
Second Intermediate Period
V. Gordon Childe
26. 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
Formative
Maadi
Adena Complex
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
27. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Maritime villages
Nagada
Late Horizon
Late Harappan
28. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Nagada
Sumerian
Moche State
29. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Mississippian
Robert Carneiro
Late Woodland
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.
Basin of Mexico
V. Gordon Childe
Samarra
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
31. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Maritime villages
New Kingdom
Johnson
32. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
First Intermediate Period
Early Horizon
Halafian
Late Woodland
33. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Ubaid
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Late Horizon
34. Decision making hierarchies
Johnson
Early Intermediate
Preceramic
Middle Horizon
35. 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
Late Woodland
Iron Age
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
36. 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.
Varna
Early Horizon
Mississippian
Second Intermediate Period
37. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Late Intermediate
Valley of Oaxaca
Early Woodland Period
Sumerian
38. 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
Late Harappan
Ubaid
William Rathje
Nagada
39. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Iron Age
Beaker people
Late Intermediate
Maritime villages
40. 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
Badari
Adena Complex
Samarra
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
41. 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.
Late Horizon
Middle Woodland Period
Ubaid
Old Kingdom
42. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Robert Carneiro
Formative
Old Kingdom
V. Gordon Childe
43. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Iron Age
Old Kingdom
Late Harappan
Middle Horizon
44. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Late Horizon
Ubaid
Basin of Mexico
45. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Merimbda
Halafian
Ubaid
Religion
46. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Varna
Early Horizon
New Kingdom
Sumerian
47. 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.
Religion
Poverty Point
Iron Age
Late Intermediate
48. 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
Merimbda
Robert Carneiro
49. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Poverty Point
Johnson
Adena Complex
William Rathje
50. Hydraulic hypothesis
Early Intermediate
Preceramic
Samarra
Karl Wittfogel