Unit 1: <600 BCE ? RIVER VALLEYS, NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION, INDEPENDENT INNOVATION Specialization of labor, agricultural economies (neolithic revolution), river valleys, social classes, system of writing (most), independent innovation. Hittite advantage ? horses/wheels, iron weapons. Pre-history: paleolithic societies ? natufian society. Neolithic ? jomon society, Jericho, chinook society Mesopotamia: Sumer, Akkad, Old Babylon, Hittites, Assyria, Chaldea. Phoenicians, Hebrews, Indo Europeans. Africa: Egypt, Nubia. Bantu migrations. India: Harappan society, Dravidians vs Aryan migration -> Vedic age China: Xia, Shang (bronze, fu hao), Zhou Americas: Olmec, Mayan (popol vuh/maize), Teotihuacan. Chavin cult, Mochica. Oceania: Austronesia seafarers -> Lapita
Units 1-5 Summary
Unit 1: <600 BCE ? RIVER VALLEYS, NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION, INDEPENDENT INNOVATION Specialization of labor, agricultural economies (neolithic revolution), river valleys, social classes, system of writing (most), independent innovation. Hittite advantage ? horses/wheels, iron weapons. Pre-history: paleolithic societies ? natufian society. Neolithic ? jomon society, Jericho, chinook society Mesopotamia: Sumer, Akkad, Old Babylon, Hittites, Assyria, Chaldea. Phoenicians, Hebrews, Indo Europeans. Africa: Egypt, Nubia. Bantu migrations. India: Harappan society, Dravidians vs Aryan migration -> Vedic age China: Xia, Shang (bronze, fu hao), Zhou Americas: Olmec, Mayan (popol vuh/maize), Teotihuacan. Chavin cult, Mochica. Oceania: Austronesia seafarers -> Lapita
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