ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Inequality, Conflict Theories, Environmental Degradation
Document Summary
Final exam: april 14th 1-3 pm in ib110, mc and short answer, option 3. Origins of states: evidence from old world, mesopotammia, egpy o, doing it autonomously - indigensouly. Information management: increaees in admin technolog in chiefdoms, further increases in admin tech in early states, increase in exotix material in chiefdoms, ultimate causes may still be warfare, circumscription and local forces. Shared characterisitcs: intensive agriculture, may not be pop increase immediately before state formation - somewhat complex (by the time state is formed, you have a nucleation period. Irrigation: complex socs preceeded by some sort of intensification of agriculture, slash and burn followed by raise and burn o. Floating gardens expand area"s ability to produce food: occupation specialization, no metallurgy, only stone work in the new world, potting, scribes, architects, merchants - regulated and controlled. Symmetircal, organized and planned (clear urban layout: monumental architecture, ball game. Oriented along a particular axis to have some lighting effect during.
