GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Herding, Social Inequality, Dry Summer
Document Summary
1491-> ingredients of power concentrated in old world. State govt -> army, tax-gathering bureaucrats, social inequality, centralized power. Widespread in eurasia, also north africa & mexico. 50,000 years ago humans got to australia & new guinea. Farming produces more food per acre than hunting & gathering. Nomadic hunter gatherers have to carry baby when moving around (until age of ) That would make no sense for nomadic peoples. Hence association of agriculture w/ explosion of tech. Farming allowed people to dedicate time to thinking about things other than securing food. Farming prerequisite for for ingredients of power seen in 1491. Only place w/ remaining hunter-gatherers in modern day. But also places that became suitable for farming w/ crops from elsewhere. Also case 7000 bc, turkish farmers drove out/killed original hunter-gatherers of europe. South east asia, chinese farmers conquered & intermarried original hunter-gatherers. 2000 years ago farmers from west africa conquered original hunter-gatherers from south equatorial africa.
