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Ancient World 2 Flashcards

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Clan/Lineage leaders that are usually charismatic

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“Big Men”

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A Pacific Island from 2000 BC that contained Lapita Culture with distinct pottery

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Melanesia

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At the center of Ancestral Pueblo and had dramatic cliffs

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Chaco Canyon

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Area in Arizona “those who have gone before” it was by a water source and rough territory “ball game” and Agave used and the Snaketown is here and the “Great House”

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Hohokam

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In the Four Corners area with evidence of social hierarchy and institutionalized leadership and possible Matrinlineal passing of power

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Ancestral Pueblo

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Lived in fertile swamps and showed major social and political changes and most elaborate prehistoric culture in America

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Mississipian Tradition

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In the Pacific known for the canoes that was used to carry obsidan and food long distances

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Lapita culture

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A Pacific Island along with Melanesia and Polynesia

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Micronesia

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In Polynesia and they were type of a temple

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marae

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large settlement and ceremonial center near gile river in Hohokam

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Snaketown

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distinctive religious ideology appeared in Ohio contains decorated bowls

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Hopewell

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A place in New Zealand that had marae and yam storehouses and war canoes that showed chiefdom power, constant warfare

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Maori

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A Pacific Island with shell and bone artifacts with food surpluses formed from social competition and had little metal

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Polynesia

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best-known great house in Chaco Culture in ancestral puebloans

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Pueblo Bonito

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Ohio Valley first to build extensive earthworks and ceremonial enclosures

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Adena

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appeared in Egypt and Mesopotamia and is a measure of decency and behavior of individual and civilizations

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State-organized society

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saw development of metallurgy and the appearance of a new social class of artisans and specialists who lived in cities

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Urban Revolution

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areas where irrigation was practiced and water was a form of control and power

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hydraulic civilizations

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coastal valleys in Peru to argue that warfare played a key role in state formation

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R. Carneiro

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“urban revolution” great importance in development of all world’s early cities

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V.G Childe

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21
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found that early meso irrigation consisted of cleaning natural river channels

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R. Adams

22
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distinctive art styles reminding society of a supreme ruler

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ideology

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believed in “hydraulic civilizations” and it was a bureauracy

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Karl Wittfogel

24
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archaeologist worked on radio-carbon dating

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C. Renfrew

25
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dirt in layers like “layer cakes”

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tell

26
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southern Meso, that had inhospitable climate and ecosystem and had irrigation, earliest habitants

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Ubaid

27
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pictures that represent vowel/consonant combonations

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syllabary

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found the royal cemetry of Ur in 1920s

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Leonard Woolley

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southern Meso, first attempt of an “empire” and had expansion of trade and population growth

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Sumeria

30
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A ruler that represented the semi mythical heroes

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Gilgamesh

31
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where the royal cemetery is and had 2000 burials and Queen Shubad, also had the Golden Age

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Ur

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legends of earliest city of all had large temples and assumed great importance

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Eridu

33
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first “city state”, three level settlements hierarchy, large scale ziggurat and writing and metallurgy developed

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Uruk

34
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small clay tablets with pictures of objects in the culture

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Cuneiform

35
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ruler of Babylon changed the language and controlled the first true Meso empire and “King of four corners”

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Sargon of Agade

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ruler of Ur, unifies Sumer and Akkad, emphasized art,lit and architecture

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Ur-Nammu

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Babylon’s earliest rulers and had famous code of law

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Hammurabi

38
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diplomatic, exercised enormous political influence in Southeast Asia and fought off Eyptians

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Hittites

39
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Palace of Knossos, sea faring culture, emphasized trade and had Phaistos Disk

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Minoan Civilization

40
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royal residence and showed power in Minoan Civilization

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Knossos

41
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had wealth from warriors skills and trading, had gold and decorated burials

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Mycenaen Civilization

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sea people, wasn’t a political unit, traded tyrian purple and collective group of traders

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Phoenicians

43
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dye like material to show a ruler’s power and was wanted by a lot of rulers

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Tyrian Purple

44
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expansion with absolute monarchs and palaces lived in splendor

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Assyrian

45
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conquered Meso and Lebanon, founded Nimrud and created the Nimrud Palace

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Assurnipal

46
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palace in Assyrian empire

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Nimrud

47
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last king, few literate King and created library of Nineveh and Cuneiform tablets

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Assurbinipal

48
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Assyrian capital that contained library and fell to Persia

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Nineveh

49
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ruled over Babylon and Meso, had elaborate gardens and conquered Jerusalem

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Nebuchadnezzar

50
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took Babylon in 539 BC

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Cyrus of Persia

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