Chronological Overview

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Chronological Overview

• Periodization

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Paleolithic Age

• Hunters gatherers
• Nomadic lifestyle- Foraging
• Little possessions
• No written records
• Cave paintings
• burial objects
• No knowledge of farming
• Lacks complexity
• Little or no social stratification
• greater gender equality

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Neolithic Age

• Begins sometime between 10,000 8,000 BCE
• Revolution
• Development of farming
• Subsistence Level - Horticulture
• Settlement villages
• Increased
• Possessions
• Warfare
• population
• Patriarchy?
• Nomadic - Pastoralist lifestyle does not
  disappear

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Urban Revolution

• Begins 3,500 BCE
• Emergence of Civilization - Innovation
• Big Scale agriculture -Surplus Farming -
  irrigation
• 10 Point Model
• Complex government, religion, cities
• Writing systems
• Technology science
• Monumental architecture
• Specialization, class stratification
• Innovative or Diffusion?

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Classical Age

• Begins sometime around 600BCE
• Empires as dominant political structure
• Axial Age Development of World Belief Systems
• Impact of the Individual
• Political Leaders, thinkers
• Pace of Changespeeds up! (Diffusion)
• Beginning of regional trade networks
• Important developments golden age
• Crisis of Late Antiquity transition (Huns)

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Post Classical

• Begins 600CE - 1450
• Trade Routes long distance
• Silk road, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, South
  China Sea, trans-Saharan
• Regional Civilizations
• expansion of civilization into previous
  uncivilized areas
• expansion of World Religions
• Empires decline
• Arab-Muslim Influences
• Early Period Pax Islamica
• Later Period Pax Mongolica
• Impact of nomadic groups - migrations