CT203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Immunosuppression, Antonine Plague, Ancient Greek Medicine
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We don"t tend to think that africa has civilizations but they have the most. Civilization happened along with the development of the state, which had: control of territory. Act in a way to defend the territory. Associate themselves with a bigger group: rule of law (personified by an [often-deified] leader) Say that the laws came from the gods. Have a strong man leader: small group to control the bigger group. Divine right of kings: social stratification, disobey the king, you are also disobeying god. Able to free up other people to do other things. For example: military, religion, art, architecture, science, etc. There is a connection between civilizations and urbanization: to say that someone is living in an urbanized area suggests that they are civilized. Civilization was well-established in mesopotamia by ~3,000 bce: we tend to view mesopotamia as the first civilizations but there were other civilizations around mesopotamia, others followed across the globe:
