ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Narmer Palette, Hor-Aha, Menes
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Beneficial response to the need to organize people. Resource competition: if you have something people want/need, you might have control over people b/c of that. Ideology: a few people manipulated ideology to convince those at the bottom that the elite should run things. All of these things probably operated together regarding the emergence of complex societies. Sumerian culture, 4000-2350 bce (when sargon united mesopotamia) Egyptian culture, 3100-1070 bce (when egypt stopped being a largely independent polity) Uruk, iraq population estimated around 40,000 at its height. Tigris and euphrates flooded often leading to fertile soil agriculture. Lists of kings, abydos king list (1309-1219 bce) and karnak king list (1490- 1436 bce) and weld-blundell prism (ca 1763-1753 bce) Big monumental architecture that is dedicated to a person. Being buried with items made of rare material. If when you die, a bunch of people have to die too (sacrifice), it indicates importance of that person.
