CGS SS 101 Lecture 7: Social Evolution
15 Jan 2019
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Summer; urbanism and centralized authority: new settlement and demographic patterns. The bronze age: metal tools and weapons. Makes individual people more and more dependent on the organization of everything. Centralized politics more direct political control over larger and larger areas. Faustian ethos/value/ideology instead of accepting things as the way things are supposed to be, they wonder whether the world can be changed for the better and don"t just accept the status quo. Individualism when it first appeared it was a radical idea that stated individual people matters, We all have this ethos, you would not be able to get by without it in our society. not just the whole group. This lead to the idea that liberalism and freedom for the individual is a good idea. the same time. --> self reinforcing cycle of change. Explain how these things interact with each other. In the mediterranean world all of these arose at.
