Notable Places

Al-Mina, Syria (All Facts)

• Was a major channel for the exchange of all sorts of commodities, it was located at the mouth of the Orontes River and established around 825 BCE

• Here, Greeks from the island of Euboea, near Attica, met other Greeks and Phoenicians from Cyprus and the Levant, to trade with each other

  • They traded slaves, metals, cloth, perfumes, and other valuable goods

  • Contact with other peoples for the exchange of goods at this site also entailed an exchange of ideas

• Here, the use of the Phoenician-style alphabet first occurred to the Greeks

• Here, the Aegean world met the oriental with its literature, philosophy, and social customs, such as reclining while eating and drinking

Termit Massif, Lake Victoria (All Facts)

• The smelting and use of iron and copper and the making of pottery spread rapdily among farmers in this area of East Africa around 680 BCE

• Up until 680 BCE, they had melted copper in open pots

205 BCE - Ancient Namibia (All Facts)

• Place in which

  • cattle, sheep, and a new way of life spread towards the southernmost tip of the continent

    • Cattle and sheep were brought from East Africa and were adopted with enthusiasm by the hunting and fishing peoples around the marshes of the northern Kalahari

    • These developments had occurred because the great lake covering the Okavango and Makgadikgadi areas began to dry up, having revealed lush pastures for grazing animals

    • People began to herd domestic livestock, as well as fish and hunt zebra, hippo, gnu, and antelope

  • the human and livestock populations of its pastures swelled in size and were moving southwards in search of new pastures

    • some indigenous people in the south have joined them, adopting the language and lifestyle of the northerners

  • herding people made pottery for the first time in southern Africa

El Paraiso, Peru (All Facts)

• Site in which the Temple at Chuquitanta was built 3500 BCE - 1800 BCE

Las Aldas, Peru (All Facts)

• Site in which the namesake temple was built 1800 BCE - 1000 BCE

• Site in which immigrants from Mexico came to the dry coastal strip of the namesake region and built the namesake temple

Teotihuacan (All Facts)

• Largest and most populous city in the Americas by 170 BCE

• City of 5-10K inhabitants

• Covered 3.5 square miles

• Was cut into two by one grand avenue leading to its Pyramids of the Sun and Moon

  • The avenue was lined with lesser pyramids and palaces where the ruling caste of priests lived

    • The palaces were build around courtyards, with walls of stone bright with murals

      • The vast wall paintings depicted jaguars as priests and other mythical beings, and priests recited sacred texts

• Its wealth was based on making knives and tools from obsidian, the hard volcanic rock

Cholula (All Facts)

• City that prospered in Mexico around 170 BCE

Remojadas (All Facts)

• City that prospered in Mexico around 170 BCE