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Culture of southern Mesopotamia at 6300B.P.
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Irrigation made agriculture possible, and larger settlements arose
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Religious Elite appears, wealth accumulates around the temples |
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Of southern Mesopotamia, between 5500 and 5200 B.P.
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The first culture to create settlements large enough to be called cities; a population over 10,000 |
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Indus culture from 4500 to to 4000 B.P.
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planned neighborhoods, citywide sewage system, bathhouses, and hundreds of connected farming towns |
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Culture of the Ohio River valley around 2800 BP
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Constructed conical mounds to bury elite members of society |
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Culture of the Ohio River Valley around 2200 BP
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Slowly replaced Adena over 200 years, similar but distinguishable through artifacts |
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| Emerged after AD 1000, complex societies led by chiefs pulling on surrounding food surplus to build large mounds with flat tops |
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Culture of northern Peru about 1700 BP
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Built pyramids, a large capital, and controlled trade all over western South America |
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South american culture centered in Peru around AD 1500
used its military to expand, had complex political system. |
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| The world's first city, supported a population of over 10k, Formed by influx of people from surrounding farming towns due to war |
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| Formed shortly after Uruk in Mesopotamia, population over 5k, with a temple and houses of a newly formed elite class |
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| A third city in Mesopotamia with a definite elite class seen through the cemetary |
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| A huge city in the Indus civilization, much like Harrappa. Showed an extreme amount of planning and centralized administration in its construction |
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| City of the Indus civilization, much like Mohenjo-Daro in every possible way. |
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| One of the first established settlements of the Indus Valley. It began small and grew to having domesticated wheat, barley, and goats. There is also clear evidence of trade to areas as far as 500km away |
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| A town on the Nile river that grew to a city because of its exportation of pottery |
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| A city of over 5000 people in Illinois surrounding Monks Mound |
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| A demonstration of Ancestral Puebloan complexity after AD 1000. Nine Great Houses were built, as large as 800 rooms and 5 stories tall |
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