NATS 1840 Lecture 1: Midterm notes
26 Feb 2016
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Social strati cation, labor management due to environmental circumscription? priests and scribes, educational institutions, taxes, centralized government , armies, slave and. 1 specialized labor. dams, dikes, reservoirs, land drainage, arti cial lakes, canals. 3500 bc, mesopotamia, 3400 bc, egypt,2500 bc, indus river valley,1800 bc, yellow river,600 bc. Ionia, greece (hellenic), 500 bc, mesoamerica, 300 bc, south america decorative ornaments, metal currency, specialized labour and crafts production, large engineering. 4 projects, domesticated animals and ox-plough, beer from bread, slavery. 5 centralized control of water regimes using hydraulic engineering leads to autocratic government. 8 use of technology to solve a problem vs. changing the way people use technology marshland below sea level, heavy rainfall, limited farming land, disease, warfare, starvation. oxen and. 9 horse (iron shod, horse collar), crop rotation, fallowing, manure. Use of canals to drain the marshland draining one area led to ooding in another, draining led to lowering of land further below sea level.
