ANTH 2050 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Second Intermediate Period Of Egypt, Social Stratification, Hieratic
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Small rural communities clustered around larger towns. Eridu- ceremonial center, temples, mother goddess, rebuilt 13 times: there is farming in northern mesopotamia, hassuna culture. 5,000 bc: sumer civilization, agriculture begins in neolithic egypt. 4,000 bc: ubaid period ends, uruk period begins. In irak, city-states, settlement hierarchy, innovations: plow, wheeled carts, potter"s wheel, early writing, city-states. 3,600 bc: uruk expansion in middle uruk. 3,500 bc: gerzean period in egypt begins. In egypt, period of social change contemporary with middle/late uruk. Warfare between kingdoms begins in egypt due to increasing social and economic inequality. 10,000 people in hierakonpolis: size difference in houses suggests social inequality, densely packed rectangular mud-brick houses, major center of pottery production. 3,400 bc: uruk expansion in middle uruk ends. 3,200 bc: uruk largest city in mesopotamia. Ziggurats monumental building, legitimization of rulership, large-scale mobilization of resources and labor. 3,100 bc: gerzean period in egypt ends, mummification begins after this date.
