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Pre-History
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1. 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
Late Woodland
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Badari
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
2. 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
Sumerian
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
3. 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.
Characteristics of state level societies
Civilization
Stratification
Olmec
4. Hyksos invasion 1635-1517 BC
First Intermediate Period
Second Intermediate Period
Samarra
Uruk
5. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Uruk
Johnson
Adena Complex
First Intermediate Period
6. 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
Preceramic
Neolithic (Egypt)
Uruk
Mature Harappan
7. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Maadi
V. Gordon Childe
Formative
Neolithic (Egypt)
8. 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
Adena Complex
Samarra
Early Indus
Late Horizon
9. 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.
Early Intermediate
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Late Intermediate
Bronze Age
10. 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
Halafian
Hassuna
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
11. 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
Neolithic (Egypt)
Middle Horizon
Moche State
Formative
12. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Civilization
Uruk
Second Intermediate Period
Hassuna
13. Role of priesthood
Early Horizon
V. Gordon Childe
Adena Complex
Religion
14. Complex - state-level society- collection of specialized institutions that maintain stratification.
Civilization
Late Woodland
Neolithic (Egypt)
Middle Kingdom
15. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
New Kingdom
Pristine (primary) state
Poverty Point
Karl Wittfogel
16. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Merimbda
Samarra
Secondary State
Neolithic (Egypt)
17. 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
Maadi
Early Intermediate
Ubaid
Beaker people
18. 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
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Olmec
19. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Ubaid
Late Woodland
Nagada
Formative
20. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Middle Woodland Period
Early Woodland Period
Robert Carneiro
First Intermediate Period
21. 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
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Preceramic
Early Indus
22. Trade and Exchange
Valley of Oaxaca
William Rathje
Hassuna
Poverty Point
23. Urban Revolution
Middle Horizon
Secondary State
V. Gordon Childe
Early Horizon
24. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Valley of Oaxaca
Badari
Halafian
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
25. 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.
Early Indus
Olmec
Late Intermediate
Middle Kingdom
26. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Maadi
First Intermediate Period
Badari
27. 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.
Early Horizon
Old Kingdom
Uruk
Sumerian
28. 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.
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Late Intermediate
Merimbda
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
29. Warfare and Circumscription
Robert Carneiro
Old Kingdom
Moche State
Johnson
30. 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.
Robert Carneiro
Early Indus
Middle Woodland Period
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
31. 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
Merimbda
Religion
Beaker people
32. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Early Horizon
Middle Woodland Period
33. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Bronze Age
Preceramic
Stratification
Early Woodland Period
34. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
First Intermediate Period
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Poverty Point
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
35. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Middle Horizon
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Stratification
Karl Wittfogel
36. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Olmec
Characteristics of state level societies
Pristine (primary) state
V. Gordon Childe
37. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Pristine (primary) state
Mature Harappan
Moche State
Late Intermediate
38. 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
Maritime villages
Late Woodland
Stratification
39. 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
Initial Period
Old Kingdom
Bronze Age
Mature Harappan
40. 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
Moche State
Early Intermediate
Middle Woodland Period
Ubaid
41. 1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing populations. Site of Rojdi.
Preceramic
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Halafian
Late Harappan
42. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Nagada
Iron Age
Halafian
Early Woodland Period
43. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Poverty Point
Hassuna
Mature Harappan
44. 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.
William Rathje
Maritime villages
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Early Intermediate
45. 4800-4400 BC -24 ha village - semi-regular plan - storage units - domesticated dogs - pigs - and cattle.
Bronze Age
Merimbda
Mississippian
Halafian
46. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Late Harappan
Late Woodland
Early Indus
47. 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.
Samarra
Karl Wittfogel
Mississippian
Maritime villages
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.
Adena Complex
Sumerian
Moche State
Early Indus
49. 1530-1070 BC -imperial dynasty - Valley of the Kings.
New Kingdom
Mississippian
Robert Carneiro
Adena Complex
50. 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
Nagada
Poverty Point
Johnson