Anthropology 110 UNL Chapter 11 Exam 2

Sumerian Civilization

By 3500 B.C.E. there were quite a few cities in this area. Most enclosed in a fortress wall and surrounded by an agricultural area By 3000 B.C.E., all unified under a central government and became an empire Iraq

formative era

Elman Service called the period from about 5000 B.C.E. to 3500 B.C.E. this development of cities and states

Monte Alban

Evidence of political unification by 500 B.C.E. in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico in this city

Teotihuacan

The formative period in the area around 1000 to 300 B.C.E. originally characterized by small, scattered farming villages

characteristics of civilization

first inscriptions or writing, cities, full-time-craft specialists, monumental architecture, differences in wealth and status, and centralized government (state)

Shang dynasty

northern China (1750 B.C.E.) one of the earliest state societies in the Far East. Stratified and specialized with religious, economic, and administrative unification;

Mesopotamia

southern Iraq and southwestern Iran Some archaeologists think that states first evolved around 3500 B.C.E.