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Pre-History
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1. 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.
Samarra
Early Indus
Maadi
Late Intermediate
2. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Badari
Secondary State
Religion
3. 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
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Basin of Mexico
Middle Horizon
Mature Harappan
4. 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
Early Intermediate
Sumerian
Mature Harappan
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
5. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Woodland
Pristine (primary) state
6. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Adena Complex
Iron Age
Maritime villages
7. 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
Ubaid
Late Horizon
Robert Carneiro
Middle Woodland Period
8. 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
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Beaker people
Nagada
Bronze Age
9. Warfare and Circumscription
Preceramic
Pristine (primary) state
First Intermediate Period
Robert Carneiro
10. Urban Revolution
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Ubaid
Maritime villages
V. Gordon Childe
11. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Late Harappan
Maadi
Late Intermediate
Hassuna
12. Role of priesthood
Religion
Old Kingdom
Middle Horizon
Early Horizon
13. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Beaker people
Merimbda
Varna
Nagada
14. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Uruk
Basin of Mexico
15. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Late Harappan
Iron Age
Maadi
Second Intermediate Period
16. Urban Revolution
Samarra
Johnson
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
V. Gordon Childe
17. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Late Harappan
Middle Woodland Period
Early Intermediate
Maritime villages
18. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Harappan
Early Intermediate
Halafian
19. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Formative
Pristine (primary) state
Middle Woodland Period
Preceramic
20. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Beaker people
Valley of Oaxaca
Pristine (primary) state
Samarra
21. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Maadi
Pristine (primary) state
Formative
Varna
22. Hydraulic hypothesis
Ubaid
Samarra
Karl Wittfogel
Late Horizon
23. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Samarra
William Rathje
Merimbda
Iron Age
24. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Formative
Late Woodland
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Second Intermediate Period
25. 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)
Badari
Old Kingdom
Neolithic (Egypt)
26. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Halafian
Bronze Age
William Rathje
Secondary State
27. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Early Horizon
Initial Period
Halafian
Mature Harappan
28. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Stratification
Adena Complex
Late Woodland
29. 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.
Middle Horizon
Early Horizon
Pristine (primary) state
New Kingdom
30. 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.
Maadi
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Middle Horizon
Characteristics of state level societies
31. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
Olmec
Early Woodland Period
New Kingdom
Iron Age
32. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Initial Period
Old Kingdom
Ubaid
Hassuna
33. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Middle Horizon
Olmec
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Maadi
34. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Civilization
Religion
Middle Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
35. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Old Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
William Rathje
Early Woodland Period
36. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Maadi
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Maritime villages
37. 1941-1736 BC -shift of power south to Thebes - conquered Nubia - spread of trade networks farther into Africa.
Halafian
Middle Kingdom
Robert Carneiro
Early Horizon
38. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Varna
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Nagada
Stratification
39. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Samarra
Valley of Oaxaca
Second Intermediate Period
Middle Woodland Period
40. 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
William Rathje
Pristine (primary) state
Ubaid
41. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Characteristics of state level societies
Adena Complex
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Horizon
42. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Middle Kingdom
Badari
V. Gordon Childe
V. Gordon Childe
43. 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
Late Intermediate
Valley of Oaxaca
Neolithic (Egypt)
New Kingdom
44. 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.
Old Kingdom
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Maritime villages
Olmec
45. Hydraulic hypothesis
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Late Harappan
William Rathje
Karl Wittfogel
46. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Neolithic (Egypt)
Late Harappan
Robert Carneiro
Pristine (primary) state
47. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Late Intermediate
Stratification
Uruk
Mississippian
48. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Nagada
Varna
Characteristics of state level societies
New Kingdom
49. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Moche State
Ubaid
Badari
Maritime villages
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
Late Harappan
Valley of Oaxaca
Robert Carneiro
Samarra