Geography, Resources, and Chronology
Early Villages
Budding Inequalities
The Birth of Urbanism
Statehood
100
The land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The wall at Jericho can be explained in these two ways.
What are defense and flood protection?
100
These two periods occur simultaneously in Mesopotamia.
What are the Ubaid in the south, and the Halaf in the north?
100
The birth of ethnic identities happens during this period.
What is the Uruk?
100
This period is classified as brief and poorly understood.
What is Jemdet Nasr?
200
The modern countries that make up Mesopotamia.
What are Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
200
This neolithic site is an example of massive coordinated labor, but is not a village.
What is Gobekli Tepe?
200
This site exhibits the beginnings of craft specialization.
What is Tel Tawaila?
200
This site started out as a series of small settlements around a mound and expanded to a population of 17,000 people by the middle Uruk.
What is Tell Brak?
200
A radical shift in settlement structure during the Early Dynastic Period occurred for these reasons.
What is widespread conflicts and water declining?
300
This important event in human history happen first in Mesopotamia around 10,500 BCE.
What is the origins of agriculture?
300
The largest neolithic site known.
What is Catalhoyuk?
300
This feature of Tel Tawila is indicative of the beginning of hereditary status differentiation.
What is a child burial with grave goods?
300
Guillermo Algaze is a proponent of this theory of political organization of the Uruk
What is state formation at Uruk site and spreading through the entire region to form one large state?
300
"wedge-shaped"
What is cuneiform?
400
Mesopotamia is lacking these two key resources.
What is stone and metal?
400
Catalhoyuk is missing this common attribute of a village settlement.
What is public architecture or gathering places?
400
This key technology appears at the end of the Ubaid period.
What is the potters wheel?
400
The presence of wall cones in cites and towns exclusively is indicative of this characteristic of the Uruk period
What is settlement hierarchy?
400
This form of economic organization, relying on dependent labor, developed during the Early Dynastic Period.
What is Oikos? (Not the yogurt brand)
500
Pastoralists made use of the Zargros valley for pasturing their flock beginning in this period.
What is the Uruk?
500
The population of the largest Neolithic village.
What is 5,000-8,000 people?
500
The Ubaid period was characterized by these three key features
What is canal irrigation, settlement hierarchy, and rapid population growth?
500
The large cities of the Uruk period lack these types of buildings.
What is palaces/elite housing.
500
These three subsets of society made up simultaneous hierarchies.
What is Palaces/Kings, Temples/Priests, and Estates/Nobility?
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