HIST 1001 : History Notes Test 1
Document Summary
India: harappa and mohenjo-daro: the neolithic revolution in india, mehrgarh, harappa and mohenjo-daro, source problems, political system, achievements, harappan decline. China: xia, shang, and zhou: yangshou society, xia, the yellow river and king yu, shang, new technologies, oracle bones, political organization, zhou, zhou conquest, mandate of heaven, zhou fragmentation and decline. Bantu migrations: overview, bantu language family, course and chronology of migrations, conquest or migration, examples or acculturation. Out of the ashes: phoenicians, hebrews, assyrians, and greeks: phoenicians, canaanites->phoenicians, phoenician trade network, the phoenician alphabet, hebrews, hebrew political history, the origin of judaism, assyrians , greeks . Early societies in the americas and oceania: neolithic america. Ice age migrations: the olmecs, the earliest complex society in the americas, difference with hydraulic civilization, the mayans , populating the pacific . The past , referred as a genre of literature: comes from greek historian herodotus, 5th century bce, worked in athens, wrote history of the persian wars.
