Jesus Dominguez Ann Merville Anthropology 20 9 November 2013 Teotihuacan Teotihuacan, located in the highlands of central Mexico, is one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived there at its peak around 600 A.D., making it one of the ancient world's largest cities with an urban core covering some twenty square kilometers. Settlement began about 200 B.C. and the basic layout of the city was complete by the mid-second century A.D. Most of the major construction was accomplished within the next hundred years.
They originated in Northern and were considered to be the earlier inhabitants of the land. Their name was derived from the large amount of mounds that were built throughout America. The mounds people were primarily located east of the Mississippi river in states such as Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and also in the Cumberland area that consisted of the Great Lakes region and the Atlantic cost. The largest majority of these mounds were located in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Various types of societies, ranging from sedentary farmers to mobile hunter-gatherers, built these mounds over a long period of time.
Do you think that he could be successful? What unusual hobby did Montezuma have? Sun Falcon was buried during an elaborate rituals at Cahokia, the largest residential and ceremonial site in ancient North America. The largest surviving mound is “Monks Mound” is a huge terraced pyramid rising one hundred feet from a base that covers sixteen acres. More than 270 people had been buried in the mounds with Sun Falcon The first humans beings to arrive in the Western Hemisphere emigrated from Asia.
Lead was also mined. There was a plentiful supply of clay for pottery and marble was quarried from the mountains. (b) Who were the helots? (3 marks) The helots were the original inhabitants of Laconia and Messenia who were made agricultural slaves by the Dorian ancestors of the Spartans. Plutarch records that the ‘helots tilled the ground for them, and paid them yearly in kind the appointed quantity’.
AP REVIEW SHEET Important Happenings 8000 BCE. – 600CE SETTLING DOWN & CREATION OF CIVILIZATIONS Nomads to Pastoral Societies-Early humans traveled in nomadic groups of a few dozen hunter-gatherers. -formed around kinship and were fairly self-sufficient. -Exchanged ideas, valuable possessions, and mates with each other. Neolithic / Agricultural Revolution – Discovery of agriculture from experimenting with seeds -Used slash and burn technique and eventually learned about the breeding of animals.
The dating of the human remains is vital in not only establishing the age of the first Australians, but gaining a sense of their culture and society. ‘The skeletons are by far the earliest evidence found anywhere in the world of human remains being interred with burial rites’ (Grose, 2003). From a cultural perspective this implies a complex society that respected its dead and had some sense of spirituality and notion of an afterlife (Grose, 2003). The evidence gained at Lake Mungo has put a time frame on the climate change that occurred around 50,000 years ago allowing the commencement of occupation. The human occupation peaked during drying of the climate over the next 10,000 years.
They made burial sites for elite members. 22.) In the chiefdom tradition, a territory that had a population as large as 10,000 was ruled by a chief, a hereditary leader with both religious and secular responsibilities. Chiefs organized periodic rituals of feasting and gift giving that established bonds among diverse kinship groups and guaranteed access to specialized groups and guaranteed access to specialized crops and craft goods. They also managed long-distance trade, which provided luxury goods and additional food supplies.
Themes in US and World History Task # 1 Nina Valentin 1. Without the seasonal flooding of the Nile, hunter gatherers in the Predynastic period would never have settled into agricultural villages which would lead to the development of Egyptian culture (history.com). In Ancient Egyptian the majority of the population where farmers. The peasant population depended on the cyclical flooding of the Nile to fertilize the surrounding land for cultivation. Since the majority of the population was based in small farming villages along the Nile, agriculture was the basis for their economy (history.com).
Nile river- world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean sahara desert -A vast desert in North Africa that covers an area of about 3,500,000 square miles (9,065,000 sq km). Aquifers- A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. Niger delta-the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers desertification- The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. Aswan high dam- one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt carthage-An ancient city on the coast of North Africa near present-day Tunis. It fought with Rome during the Punic Wars and was finally destroyed... black gold-
NUBIA THROUGH THE AGES The earliest of the Nubian cultures (the A-Group and C-Group) were located in northern Nubia. Until recently it was thought that A-Group people were semi-nomadic herdsmen. However, new research suggests that a line of kings 1ived in Qustul in northern Nubia as early as, or perhaps even earlier than, the first pharaohs of Egypt. The people of these early cultures buried their dead in stone-lined pit graves, accompanied by pottery and cosmetic articles. At this time, Nubia was known to the Egyptians as "Ta Sety," the "Land of the Bow," because of the fame of Nubian archers.