HIST103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Longshan Culture, Liangzhu Culture, Majiabang Culture
22 Mar 2017
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As the climate warms, the large mammals go extinct and the steppe shrinks back. Steppe nomads form a truce with agriculturalists. Origins: central asian farmers and horse breeders. Royal family hoarded gold/silver, assimilation of 70+ ethnic groups, hundreds of city temple cults, 30 provinces under zoroastrian religion. Hundreds of thousands of years of signs of human occupation on these hills. Phase 1: 30-10 kya hunter gatherer people. Phase 2: 10-4 kya new hunting technology expressed in these paintings; targeting smaller animals; emergence of the bow and arrow. Phase 3: 4-3 kya human beings on horseback with weapons; some sort of invasion added to the khyber pass (hoses/chariots, castes, vedic texts- sanskrit) Spread of agriculture into indian about 9-4 kya (wheat/barley/sheep/goats/cattle) Planned cities from the beginning gridded streets. Relatively comfortable lives in terms of hygiene. Some level of famine and violence struck this area. Manufacturing center that sent out trinkets in exchange for grain. Lappas blue stone jewelry, etc.
