Features | Mesopotamia | Shang China | Community Development * Large settlements * Stable food supply * Trade and communication | Most of the settlements began along the borders of Mesopotamia and date from the 10th to the 9th millennium BC. Because of the dry climate and flooding of the river‚ farmers had to adapt and eventually began to grow crops of fruits and vegetables. | People settled towards the middle or lower parts of the Yellow River in places called urban centers. They
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The Olmecs 1) Migration to Mesoamerica a. Large wave of humans traveled from Siberia to Alaska around 13‚000 B.C.E. b. By 9500 B.C.E.‚ humans reached the southernmost part of South America c. As hunting became difficult‚ agriculture began (7500 B.C.E.) 2) Early
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SOUTH AMERICA - THE CHAVIN CULTURE. Early Andean society and the Chavín cult The Chavin society was the first civilization in the Andes and migrated to present-day Peru and Bolivia region by 12‚000 B.C.E. They were primarily hunters and gatherers. By 8000 B.C.E. they started to experiment with agriculture and developed complex societies as a result. The Main crops they cultivated include beans‚ sweet potatoes‚ cotton‚ and peanuts. Fishing also supplemented their agricultural harvests By 1800 B.C
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Olmecs in Mesoamerica- Among the various Mesoamerican Pre-Classic period (1200 BCE-400 BCE) groups‚ the Olmecs are the most well-known. The Olmec heartland was centered in La Venta in Tabasco‚ and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan and Laguna de los Cerros in Veracruz. 6. Chavin in Andean South America- The Chavín were a civilization developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 900 BC to 200 BC.[1][2] The Chavin were located in the Mosna Valley where the
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Chapter 2 AP World History Summery Each civilization faces challenges from politics to environment and everything in between. This chapter explains how each society became urbanized even though it was very tough. Nubia‚ China‚ Olmec‚ and Chavin are connected though each are separated by millions of miles and geological isolation. In China‚ dynasties rule all over the land; the Shang dynasty begins China’s history with the rise of power of it’s clans. It contains the earliest recorded writing
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8000 BCE to 600 BCE was a very important time in history. This period of only 7‚400 years held many great advances in technology‚ social interactions‚ government‚ and even economics. From the development of agriculture to the caste system of the Aryans‚ this era in time was one of great growth‚ development‚ and change in the earliest civilizations of our history. The beginning of all civilizations started with the migration of humans out of Africa. The hunters and gatherers inhabited almost every
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AP WORLD STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Before Civilization Around 10‚000 years ago‚ during the Neolithic Age‚ humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Although farming is often harder than hunting and gathering‚ agriculturalists‚ because of their capacity to increase their population‚ expanded across much of the planet at the expense of hunter-gatherers
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with sails. The earliest inhabitants of Oceania also migrated over land when sea levels were still low – to the Bismarcks‚ the Solomons‚ and other small island groups new New Guinea. 2. What traditions begun by the Olmecs were later adopted by other Mesoamerican societies? Olmecs made astronomical observations and created a calendar to help them keep track of the seasons. They also invented a system of writing‚ rituals involving human sacrifice and invented a distinctive ball game. Also‚ their
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east‚ bringing with them their languages‚ and their knowledge of agricultural and metallurgy . The Olmec civilization came to an end in 1400 B.C.E. Old ‚ middle and new‚it was during the kingdom that the ancient egyptian civilization reached its heigh. By 1400 B.C.E.‚ it stretched from the upper Nile River Through the eastern Mediterranean regions of Palestine and parts of Asia Minor. The Olmec civilization started in 1200 B.C.E. By 1100 B.C.E.‚ and for the next thousand years ancient Egypt
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Chapter 5: Worlds Turned Inside Out‚ 1000 – 350 BCE Introduction Leaders became thinkers and teacher‚ not kings “the axial age”- pivotal period between ancient empires and the successor empires Alternative Pathways and Ideas In Eastern Zhou China‚ large territorial states and had formulas for ordering human behavior In Greece and the Levant‚ dynamic city-states and new ideas about good governance East and South Asia‚ Caribbean coast of Mexico‚ coasts of Mediterranean have sacred categories
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