ANTH 1002 Lecture 3: Lecture 4 Review PDF
25 Aug 2016
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Lecture 4: economics - from food to fantasy. Agriculture and states: served as a solution to the struggle of society, struggle for status (a universal in societies, struggle against scarcity of food. 2: struggle for protection between societies, ties between agriculture and religion, need to control labour, planting cycles and centralizing land and spiritual control. Water as power: waterwheels used extensively by romans in the 2nd century, power sources other than human allow people to do other things than farming, built universities, studied agriculture. Land and wealth in the medieval period: what were the three levels of ownership, slaves, free peasants, lords, technological change, wheeled plow, pooled oxen use. Late middle age economic change: more people went and worked in the cities because there were more job opportunities, paid labour vs. fed labour, people want money for their work instead of food.
