HIST 107 Lecture 18: Hist 107 - 18th class
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Less competition, weaker merchants, less collective learning. Competition is important for red queen effect stage of state development. Commercial city-states: are still dependent on agriculture for food, but they. Horticulturalists: agricultural peoples that haven"t developed a state yet, it"s a derive more money from the network business around them chiefdom level organization, like many native american societies. The sahara desert prevents a lot, and only north africa has the access to. Have crops and cattle that give them advantages from over their neighbors. They start expanding south and adapt to different environments. They just move in and establish themselves as elites in new places. State level organization figured out on their own. The huge heads, usually a sign of state level civ. They become isolated from other societies in polynesia. There aren"t any trees on it anymore, because they were all used, making it inhospitable. Kamehameha 1 unifies the islands by conquering.
