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16 Cards in this Set
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Aztec
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Last indep. state in the Valley of Mexico;
captl was Tenochtitlan. Thrived bet. A.D. 1325 and 1520(Spanish Conquest) |
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bronze
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An alloy of arsenic and copper or of tin and copper
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chiefdom
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ranked society with unequal rel.s among individuals and villages;
smaller villages under authority of leaders in larger ones; has 2-level settlement hierarchy |
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cuneiform
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Early Mesopotamian writing;
used a stylus to write wedge-shaped impressns on raw clay; from Latin for wedge |
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egalitarian society
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found most typicly among hunter-gatherers, lacks status distinctions except for those based on age, gender, and individual qualities, talents, and achievements
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Halafian
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early (7.5k-6500 B.P.) and widespread pottery style, 1st found in N'ern Syria;
refers to a delicate ceramic style AND to the period when CHIEFDOMS FIRST EMERGED. |
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Mesopotamia
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area bet. Tigris and Euphrates;
now s'ern Iraq and sw'ern Iran; location of FIRST CITIES AND STATES |
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metallurgy
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knowledge of the properties of metals, incl. their extractn and processng and the manufacture of metal tools
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multivariate
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involving multiple factors, causes, or variables.
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primary states
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states that arise on their own (thru competition among chiefdoms), and not thru contact w/otr state societies.
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ranked society
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type of society w/hereditary inequality but NOT SOCIAL STRATIFICATION;
indiv.'s r ranked in terms of their genealogical closeness to the chief, but there is a continuum of status, w/many indiv.s and kin grps. ranked about equally. |
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settlement hierarchy
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ranked series of communities differing in size, fxn, and type of building;
a 3-lvl settlement hierarchy indicates STATE organization. |
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smelting
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the high-temperature process by which pure metal is produced from an ore
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state
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form of social and political organization with a FORMAL, CENTRAL GOV and division of society into CLASSES
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stratification
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stratified societies have SHARP SOCIAL DIVISIONS--strata--based on unequal access to wealth and power, e.g. into noble and commoner classes
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Teotihuacan
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A.D. 100 to 700;
FIRST STATE IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO and EARLIEST MAJOR MESOAMERICAN EMPIRE |
