NATS 1775 Lecture 2: Lecture Two Notes
5 Dec 2016
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At least six different centers around the world: mesopotamia (after 3500 bc); egypt (after 3400 bc); Indus river valley (after 2500 bc); yellow river in china (after 1800 bc); mesoamerica (500 bc); south. Characteristics: high populations, centralized political and economic authority, regional states, stratified societies, complex architecture, higher learning. A stratified or hierarchal society resembles a pyramid structure. At the very top you have the fewest people with the most power. At the very bottom of the pyramid you have the largest segment of your population with the least amount of. In the middle are those with some power usually because of family or occupation power. Larger populations required intensified agricultural production, as simple agriculture replaced by field agriculture. Large scale water management networks ( public works") were built and maintained by the corvee which were conscripted labor gangs. These projects were supervised by state employed engineers.
