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Pre-History
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1. 4500-3000 BC -reliance upon ocean resources. Examine Moseley's Maritime Hypothesis.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Badari
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Maritime villages
2. 4200-4000 BC -rich cemetery - copper metallurgy - metal not utilitarian -a sumptuary good -used within a social (prestige) context.
Varna
Middle Horizon
Early Horizon
Late Harappan
3. 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
Mississippian
First Intermediate Period
Ubaid
Initial Period
4. 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
Neolithic (Egypt)
Old Kingdom
William Rathje
5. 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
Late Horizon
Nagada
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
6. Role of priesthood
Basin of Mexico
Merimbda
Religion
Halafian
7. 3650 BC -13 ha. village - simple burials
Mississippian
Stratification
Ubaid
Maadi
8. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Late Intermediate
Varna
Badari
Second Intermediate Period
9. 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
Early Woodland Period
Middle Horizon
Secondary State
Initial Period
10. Decision making hierarchies
Early Indus
Maadi
Johnson
Late Intermediate
11. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Woodland Period
Adena Complex
Middle Horizon
Late Intermediate
12. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Uruk
Poverty Point
Maritime villages
First Intermediate Period
13. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Formative
Basin of Mexico
Mature Harappan
William Rathje
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
Uruk
Beaker people
Maadi
Late Horizon
15. 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.
Early Indus
Maadi
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
Late Horizon
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
Late Intermediate
Pristine (primary) state
William Rathje
Late Horizon
17. 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
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Nagada
Second Intermediate Period
18. Warfare and Circumscription
Robert Carneiro
Early Horizon
Characteristics of state level societies
Valley of Oaxaca
19. 6000-5250 BC- northern tigris river valley- dry farming - pottery common
Middle Kingdom
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Hassuna
Early Indus
20. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Adena Complex
Moche State
Early Intermediate
Late Harappan
21. 1000-200 BC -growing trade in exotic goods - increasingly elaborate burials.
Early Intermediate
Karl Wittfogel
Early Woodland Period
Pre-Dynastic Kingdoms
22. 2900-2000 BC -highly urbanized (80% of pop. in urban settings) - increasing rivalry among cities - division of secular and religious power - copper smelting.
Valley of Oaxaca
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
Early Intermediate
Sumerian
23. 200 BC -AD 600 -Nazca -importance of textiles and ceramics -sites of Paracas and Cahuachi.
Middle Kingdom
Halafian
Early Intermediate
William Rathje
24. Floodplain agriculture - domesticated cattle - sheep - goats - and pigs - growing populations - shift to rectangular buildings - craft specialization.
Preceramic
Pristine (primary) state
Maadi
Nagada
25. 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
Moche State
William Rathje
Formative
26. 3000 BC -edge of steppe -cord marked pottery - megalithic tombs - single family dwellings replace long-houses - chariots - copper axes (no surprise considering the name).
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Late Intermediate
Pristine (primary) state
New Kingdom
27. 2134-1941 BC -shift to local power
William Rathje
First Intermediate Period
Late Harappan
Civilization
28. Contemporary with Merimbda -mud brick architecture - emmer wheat and barley - elaborate ceremonial burials.
Preceramic
William Rathje
Mature Harappan
Badari
29. 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
Varna
Bronze Age
Characteristics of state level societies
30. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
Maadi
Middle Horizon
Iron Age
Formative
31. 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.
Characteristics of state level societies
Early Indus
Pristine (primary) state
Early Intermediate
32. 5200 BC -Fayum depression - small farming villages - domesticated sheep and goats - flint sickles and weapons - baskets.
Nagada
William Rathje
Religion
Neolithic (Egypt)
33. Where members of the same sex and age status do not have the same access to capital resources.
Stratification
Poverty Point
Late Horizon
Late Intermediate
34. 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
Second Intermediate Period
Valley of Oaxaca
Poverty Point
Early Intermediate
35. 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
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Mature Harappan
Beaker people
36. First unified political group in region with centralized political authority - consolidation of several river valleys - intricate ceramics - sumptuary goods - large temple complex.
Late Woodland
Moche State
Late Intermediate
Robert Carneiro
37. 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.
Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Mississippian
Moche State
Olmec
38. 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 Woodland Period
Uruk
Initial Period
Neolithic (Indus Valley)
39. 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.
Old Kingdom
Maritime villages
Basin of Mexico
Merimbda
40. These are indigenous states -meaning they developed without influence from other states. Examples include Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Badari
Initial Period
Pristine (primary) state
Mayan Lowlands and Highlands
41. 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
Late Horizon
Valley of Oaxaca
Basin of Mexico
Early Indus
42. 5500-4700 BC- from Turkey to the zagros mountains- replaced hassuna - small villages linked to regional chiefdoms - widespead ceramic forms - luxury/status good.
Stratification
Battle Axe (Kurgan)
Halafian
Hassuna
43. 800-0 BC -importance of trade - salt - grain - gold and pottery. Ability to increase agricultural production; continuing warfare.
William Rathje
Iron Age
Middle Woodland Period
Karl Wittfogel
44. These are states that emerged through contact with other states. examples include the roman empire - united states.
Merimbda
Neolithic (Egypt)
Robert Carneiro
Secondary State
45. 5500-4400 BC- middle tigris river valley- wheat - barley - and linseed - floodwater irrigation.
Mature Harappan
Late Intermediate
Robert Carneiro
Samarra
46. 1600-600 BC -Miss. floodplain -still hunters and gatherers - large earthworks and population - long-distance trade.
Secondary State
Poverty Point
Early Horizon
V. Gordon Childe
47. 1800-900 BC -inland villages - beginning of irrigation agriculture. public architecture. U-shaped platform mounds. Site of El Paraiso -probably ceremonial centers. fine textiles.
Uruk
Uruk
Mississippian
Initial Period
48. 200 BC -AD 400 -widespread trade networks - development of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.
Stratification
Samarra
Mature Harappan
Middle Woodland Period
49. 2000 BC -AD 250- early sedentary farming villages; slash and burn agriculture - local elites; appearance of monumental architecture.
Moche State
Formative
Secondary State
Adena Complex
50. 700 BC -AD 800 -Ohio Valley -mix of hunting/gathering and agriculture - known for trade - burials mounds - and ceremonial elaboration.
Adena Complex
Second Intermediate Period
Early Intermediate
Preceramic