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ANSC 101 Final
Question | Answer |
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Why SW Asia? | Agriculturally rich Cross-roads for culture Mesopotamia and Fertile Crescent-Tigris and Euphrates Irrigation Canals Tells |
'Ubaid Period | 6000-3700 BC More complex |
Eridu | Residential and non-residential architecture Possible early temple Some social differentiation at end |
Mesopotamia | Uruk period: 4100-3000 BC Sumerian period: 3000-350 BC |
Uruk | 5800 BP: FIRST CITY Standardized Supported by hinterlands Monumental architecture: ziggurat Wheel, plow, metallurgy |
Ur | Social stratification Elaborate burial of elites |
Temples in Mesopotamian Cities | Religious and economic Ziggurat Storage and redistribution Social Stratification:rules were temple elite |
Early writing systems | Clay tokens/bullae/tables Ideographs Used for economic/trade transactions Sumerian-Cunieform |
Indus Valley | Mohenjo-Daro and Harrappa |
Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa | Well Planned Public buildings Less social stratification Sewer system Craft specialization Cities tied together:cities planned similarly Trade networks:wheeled carts/caravan routes |
Badarian Period | Egypt:Earliest phase Small tent structures Grave goods Painted dead Dead buried in circular/rectangular pits covered with mats |
Amratian period | Naquada/This/Hierakonopolis Much more developed craft industries: Copperworking |
Caral, Peru | 4500 ya Oldest monumental architecture in New World |
Chavin | Shared iconography |
Moche | 1900 ya, Peru Pyramids of sun and moon Sipan: elaborate burials |
Tiwanaku | Peak at 400 AD Lake titicaca, bolivia trade colonies very powerful king |
Inca | 1470-1534 AD Ecuador to S. Chile Specialists Quipu Army, State religion, state language Ethnically diverse Inca road |
Adaptation | functional response to environmental conditions in an organism that improves that organisms chance of survival |
Types of adaptation | behavioral cultural physiological genetic |
Genetic adaptations | long term evolutionary changes that characterize all individuals in the environment-INHERITED |
Genetic adaptation type | Skin color/melanin |
Gloger's Rule | Populations living in warmer climates have more melanin than do populations of the same species living in cooler climates |
Clinal distribution | gradual change in the frequency of a single allele in populations dispersed over geographical space |
Bergmann's rule | Larger bodied organisms found in colder climates/vice versa |
Allen's Rule | Organisms in colder climates have shorter limbs |
Nose Form | Long-narrow nose=dry arid Short-wide=hot/humid |