Chapter 6 Study Guide: Commonalities and Variations: Americas and Africa - Less well-known civilization that thrived are the “Maya” and “Tiwanaku” from Mesoamerica‚ and “Meroë‚” “Axum‚” and “Niger River Valley‚” from Africa. - This Chapter explores their history “Continental Comparisons” - The 3 supercontinent where the Agricultural Revolution first took place were Eurasia‚ Africa‚ and the Americas - 80% of the world population was in Eurasia; 11% was in Africa; 5-7% was in the Americas
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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History‚ 4th Edition I. The Emergence of Human Communities‚ to 500 B.C.E. 1. Nature‚ Humanity‚ and History‚ to 3500 B.C.E. * African Genesis * History and Culture in the Ice Age * The Agricultural Revolutions * Life in Neolithic Communities * Diversity and Dominance: Cave Art * Environment and Technology: The Iceman 2. The First River-Valley Civilizations‚ 3500-1500 B.C.E. * Mesopotamia * Egypt * The Indus Valley Civilization
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Lowland Maya Civilization and the role of the Gulf Coast Olmec. There are speculations that the Gulf Coast Olmec had some type of influence on the lowland Maya Society. According to recent excavations‚ the growth of ceremonial space that turned into pyramid and plaza complexes have similar buildings in both Lowland Maya areas and in the center of the Olmec. Since Gulf Coast Olmec is considered the mother of culture‚ it could be assumed that the Olmec culture and political organization could have spread
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into a number of organized cultures‚ including the Chavìn and the Sechìn. The Chavìn are best known for their stylized religious iconography‚ which included striking figurative depictions of various animals (the jaguar in particular) and which exercised considerable influence over the entire coastal region. The Sechìn are remembered more for their military hegemony than for their cultural achievement.peru03.jpg (25202 bytes) The decline of the Chavìn and Sechìn cultures around the 5th century BC gave
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Studying Cognition in Prehistoric Societies 1. Unfortunately for archaeologists‚ Chavín was not a literate culture. Why does literacy provide archaeologists with such an important insight into the cognition of a society? Symbols of depiction provide us with perhaps our most direct insight into the cognition of an individual or a society for pre-literate periods. Among literate communities‚ however‚ written words – those deceptively direct symbols used to describe the world – inevitably dominate the
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Michaela Westington Mr. Duer AP World History‚ Period 7 9 September 2015 Chapter 6 Summary Early societies of Mesoamerica The Olmecs Early Agriculture in Mesoamerica Mesoamerican people began to cultivate manioc‚ beans‚ chili peppers‚ avocados‚ and gourds. By 4000 B.C.E.‚ maize had become the major staple crop of the region. Tomatoes were later added as a crop that they cultivated. By 3000 B.C.E.‚ agricultural villages started to appear and by 2000 B.C.E. agriculture spread amongst Mesoamerica
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and more accomplished than the rest among them were the Olmec‚ and the Teotihuacan cultures. Their artworks have helped us decipher the other artworks from other cultures before‚ during and after their times. The Olmec culture is one of the oldest cultures in Mesoamerica. The Olmecs were known as one of the oldest cultures‚ as well as‚ the mother culture of Mesoamerican cultures and were estimated to be around from 1000 to 500 BC. The name Olmec comes from the Mexica cultures that came after. It was
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visible in the origins of Latin American civilization from the Olmec people‚ a pre-Columbian civilization that thrived from 1200-400 BC (Cartwright‚ "Olmec Civilization"). The history of the Olmec people is rich with beliefs on human transformation. Their
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back to before 5000 BC the first settlement of Ubaid in southern Mesopotamia used these tools to run a functional community. These traits showed their importance by how they were carried all the way on to the first civilization of Olmec in Mesoamerica. Although the Olmecs revitalized certain aspects of what a perfect political power‚ religion or economy was‚ the dominant idea as a whole was repeated. The complex chiefdom of Ubaid lived under a three-tiered settlement hierarchy‚ and was small-scaled
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chronology of Mesoamerican culture is divided into three periods The Preclassic from 2000 BCE to 30 CE‚ The Classic from 300 to 900 CE and The Postclassic from 900 to Spanish conquest (Kleiner‚ 366). Some of the more famous pre-Columbian cultures are the Olmec‚ Teotihuacan‚ Maya and Aztec. All these cultures reached a high level of social complexity and technological developments as the construction of cities‚ roads‚ bridges and irrigation and drainage
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