ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Soil Fertility, Grave Goods
20 Apr 2016
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Warfare: competition for resources, strength in numbers. Uruk, iraq ca 40,000 people at its height. Amarna, egypt ca 20,000 people at its height. Emergence of writing (people to write/read, be scribes) Burials with many grave goods and evidence of kings/rulers/pharaohs. Managerial model: people in large groups need someone to manage them and. Resource concentration: the control of particular resources allowed some people to exert. Ideology: a few people manipulated others to convince those at the bottom to serve the effectively run a society control over others elites.
