ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Environmental Determinism, Political Class

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nancy Barrickman

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New objects: textiles, glazed ceramics/pottery (plates), and furniture (chairs) Copper: 1st: fashioned pieces, turkey, 9kya, 2nd: smelting and casting, 6kya, iran. City: supported by a hinterland big, social-political-economic centers; urban centers that both support and are. State: governmental entity that persists by politically controlling a territory. Civilization: history, economic ties, and other shared cultural aspects larger social order that includes a state, and is related by language, traditions, Farmland surrounding a city, providing food for that specific area. Several different class hierarchies develop in many civilizations: social class hierarchy, political class hierarchy, economic class hierarchy. There is a large supporting class (the working class) (peasants/slaves/workers) Smaller number of mid-ranked people (artists, merchants, tradesmen, officials) Perfect area for metal collection, the dividing tectonic plates created a valley (more mineral exposure) The valley did provide water, there was some vegetation in the area. Death was more desirable than life prof robert adams.