ANTH106 Flashcards
Human origins and civilisations (19 cards)
Where is the Yellow River located/date/crops
North China/6000BC/Foxtail Millet
Where is the Yangtze River located/crops
South China/abundant water for wet rice cultivation
What are the markers of the Neolithic Revolution (Gordon Childe)
permanent Settlements
Domestication (pig, dog)
Agriculture
When was Early pottery discovered in China?
20,000 years ago, Xienrendong Cavem
Describe the Yangshao period
Neolithic - 5000-3000BC
- Central plains were the cradle for civilisation, river basins of yellow river, wei and fen came together which led to regional connections and transformations for state emergence
Where did the Shang civilisation deveop
contacts with Europe
What is the Longshan period also known as?
the Black Pottery Culture
Where is the Longshan located?
Yellow river basin middle and lower Yangzte - end of this period was the beginning of urban development and state emergence
What are the 3 possibilities of the start of the Bronze Age?
Xia - 2100-1600BC
Shang - 1600-1100BC
Zhou - (West - 1100-700BC0
(East - 700-256BC)
Was is Xia known as
Eritolou culture - excavations at Eritolou found the first level state society - South of the yellow river and river in Henan
What was ANYANG?
a late Shang state. Yin (ANYANG) It was important in history as the site of the ancient city of Yin, the capital of the Shang dynasty.
When did the Chinese civil war begin?
1930
What environmental challenges did the Egyptians face?
Flooding of the Nile river - destruction of crops
What did the Narmer Palette represent?
Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
What is the ‘Book of the Dead’?
the belief in afterlife - depiction of the deceased
What did Giovanni Belzoni do?
Wrote the first sizeable account of the antiquities of Egypt
What is the fertile crescent?
Near the Mediterranean crescent - start of civilisations - Euphrates/Tigris flow through it
What is Mesopotamia?
Land between the rivers - known for unpredictable flooding, no natural barries and limitied natural resources
What did the first Pharoah do?
Unification of upper and lower egypt plus heiroglyphic writing.
