BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Iroquois, Archaic Humans, Natural Experiment
Topic 23: Aircraft, missiles and the rise of the pan-global human coalition
Notes:
1) Aircraft, missiles and the rise of the pan-global human coalition
a) Weapons allowed majority coalitions under appropriate circumstances to seize back control
i) Gunpowder handguns → LARGE adaptive revolution aka modern democratic state
1) Early democratizing revolutions
a) There are no true democracies
b) Franklin and Adams → North
c) Jefferson and Washington → South
i) Less democratizes than north, had slaves
d) American Revolution 1776
e) Explosive increase in adaptive sophistication (per capita GDP) after gunpowder handguns were
introduced and democratization of the modern state
2) The aidetal irease i deoratizatio ith the irth of the North Aeria state
a) Founded by relatively democratized UK
b) American revolution → constitution
c) North and south separated in a climate way
d) Battle of Gettysburg
i) Liol’s address
3) Japan—a atural eperiet i deoratizatio of the oder state
a) Get gunpowder → early modern state aka tokagaku
b) Local policing were still done with shock weapons
c) Americans show up try to trade
i) Japan took the new weapons → explosive civil war with substantially democratized
(1) if ou do’t let us partiipate e taki oa part of the fie oaths
4) Improvements in handguns—rifling, cartridges and rapid loading
a) Flintlock
i) Made by local gunsmiths
5) Sexual equality in humans—its ancient history and its re-emergence in the modern democratic state
a) Ancient human condition was much more equal before, and In the last 5000 year elite dominant males
changed it
b) Those who hold decisive coercive threat are the interests
c) Interests of all in the cooperative group contributing to decisive coercive threat would have been
served—democracy (in early social units)
d) Once we got to archaic states, elites were able to threaten
e) Handgun→ began re-democratization of the state aka social unit
f) Entrenched power:
i) Confluence of interest to over throw this, allowed by the handgun but not everyone had handguns
(1) Women marched together to help their starving children, equipped with anything they could
ii) Whe, here, ad h did oe’s rights first stik?
(1) Where was there no entrenched power?
g) Iroquois confederation
i) Democracy based on the consent of the governed—the Great Law of Peace
ii) Leaders—Servants of the people, NOT their masters
iii) Impeachment
iv) Political participation by WOMEN
v) Redistribution of wealth
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