SOCB42H3 Lecture : Lecture 4
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more surplus, more manufacturing goods: town develops as the agriculture develops. In europe, this development is completely backwards y only to the point that the farmers nearby let it. Inhibitors: faudalism, mercantilism: fall of rome, up until that point, rome was the peak of human civilization. Large cities, dense populations, extensive roads, advanced culture, etc: trades stopped completely, roads were gone, literacy disappeared very uncertain world, warlord landgrab, took land barons, became petty princes. Lands were not a means of economic development; it was a means for power and protection from other warlords: key laws of the period: entails: illegal to sell your property out of your family into smaller units y economically, breaking up the land would be a smart thing to do: patron-client /clientelist society. Loyalty and personal authority defines the patron client (personalistic relationship: king lords barons + peasants knights. mobilize massive amounts of human instruction across personal social relations.
