What years did agricultural societies become more complex with irrigation and larger scale farming?
7,000-5,000 years ago
What are stratefied societies?
One where people are divided into a hierarchy of socioeconomic classes or tiers, with different levels of wealth, power, and prestige
Why were cities built in certian areas?
- Location
- Major river valleys
- Close to water
- Close to cultivable land
Where is mesopotamia and when was it most inhabited?
- Present day Iraq
- 4,000BC
- Land between rivers (Tigris and Euphrates river) inbetween persian gulf and Mediterranean Sea
- 15 city-states created relied on religion as power
Where is Nile Valley and when was it most inhabited?
Present day Egypt
3,000BC
Where is Indus Valley and when was it most inhabited?
- Present day India
- 2,500BC
- Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were two of the first cities over 50,000 people
Where is Huang He Valley and when was it most inhabited?
Present day China
2,000BC
Where is Mesoamerica and when was it most inhabited?
- Mexico/Central america
- 200BC
- Myan and Aztek civilizations
- Theocratic
- Corn/Bean
- Astronomy/Calander
Where is Gobekli Tepe and when was it most inhabited?
Turkey
9,500BCE
What is a hearth?
Geographic area where new idea starts
What is antiquity?
The time we started to record things
What is a necropolis?
Cities of dead people - cemetary
Importance of Ancient Egypt?
- religion is powerful
- Pyramids constructed in capital cities
When were the greeks in most power from?
750-490BC
When were the romans in most power from?
~100BC-600AD
When were the medieval cities in most power from?
450-1300AD
When were the mercantile cities in most power from?
1400- present
When were the colonial cities in most power from?
1500-1850
When were the industrial cities in most power from?
1800-present
When were the post industrial in most power from?
1950-present
Who is Hippodamus of Miletus?
-Inventor of formal city planning
- Made hippodamian plan/grid city to maximize winds in summer and minimize in winter
- geometric arranged style
- Worked on Piraeus port and alexandria
What is the importance of diffusion of urbanization in Greece?
- Network of more than 500 cities and town by 500 BC
- Athens was largest with 250,000 in world
- Each Greek city had an acropolis, blow was agora
Why was the roman empire so relevant in 29bc - 393 ad?
- Excelled in military science and engineering
- Designs and inventions looked at improving transport and military strategies
- Rome was first city with 1 million inhabitants
- Engineered sewerage, canals hydraulics
How did the roman empire start to fall?
Socio-political events resulted to religious divisions, absence of military discipline, murder, and citizen unrest
- Moral decay!!
