10911117679 | Venus figurines-25,000 years ago Eurasia | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance | 0 | |
10911117680 | Clovis Culture 12,000 BCE New Mexico | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. | 1 | |
10911117681 | Megafanual Extinction | End of the last ice age when giant ice mammals went extinct. | 2 | |
10911117682 | Gobleki Tepe | religious structure built by hunter/gatherer societis, based on seasons and solstace, etc. 13,700-13,900 bce. located in Turkey. | 3 | |
10911117683 | Austronesian migrations | Groups in Southeast Asia, Oceania and east Africa that speak similar languages and populated the last continent. Brought domesticated plants and animals. | 4 | |
10911117684 | Bantu Migration | The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 | 5 | |
10911117685 | pastoral societies | societies whose subsistence derives from the rearing of domesticated animals | 6 | |
10911117686 | Catalhuyuk | one of the world's first villages, established in modern-day Turkey around 7000 B.C. | 7 | |
10911117687 | Agricultural Village Societies | were usually organized in terms of kinship groups or lineages. Very different from hunting and gathering. | 8 | |
10911117688 | Chiefdoms | Centralized political systems with authority vested in formal, usually hereditary, offices or titles | 9 | |
10914983573 | 250-200k BCE | First homosapian | 10 | |
10914983574 | 100k BCE | Left Africa | 11 | |
10914983575 | 70-45k BCE | 60k Australia 30-15k America's 3k-500 BCE austronesian | 12 | |
10930968864 | Agricultural Revolution | 12,000-4,000 BCE | 13 | |
10930968865 | Patriarchy | Emergence from large scale warfare with professionally led armies | 14 | |
10930968866 | Mother of all civilizations | Olmec | 15 | |
10930968867 | 7 major civilizations | Summer, Norte Chico, Indus Valley, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Oxus, Olmec, Nubian | 16 | |
10930968868 | Instability in Mesopotamia | The rivalries between independent city states that led to warefare | 17 | |
10930968869 | Agricultural revolution-america | Scarcity of animals that could be domesticated | 18 |
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