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13 Cards in this Set
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state
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has a central government and division of society into classes
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what was the earliest known town?
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Jericho
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egalitarian society
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lacks status distinction except for based on age, gender, skills
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ranked societies
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tend to be ranked by genealogical distance from the chief
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chiefdoms
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societies in which relations among villages and individuals were unequal, some type of leader
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primary states
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states that arose on their own and not through contact with other states
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cuneiform
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"wege" writing,started on mesopotamia, 5600 BP
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metallurgy
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knowlege of the properties of metal
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example of an early state
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indus river valley (Harrapa)
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first chinese state
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3750 BP Shang Dynasty
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mayan decline
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over farming--erosion, civilization currently is dealing with the same problem, skulls show malnutrition
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mesopotamia decline
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change in climate, in tree rings
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anasaizi decline
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salinization
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