MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fertile Crescent, Social Stratification, Conspicuous Consumption

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

Outline lecture four roots of urbanization and social stratification in the neolithic: gradual and reluctant shift to the neolithic. Why would people give hunter-gatherer lifestyle to planting: staying in one place because they want to change ways of life: Issues about abandonment, leaving family members: problem with the term agricultural revolution a. i) distinction between horticulture and agriculture (a. i. 1) Advent of scratch plows around 6,000 b. c. e. (a. i. 1. a) (a. i. 1. b) Agriculture (~6000 bce) tiling the soil, spreading seeds a. ii) very gradual process starting with horticulture around 9000 b. c. e. (a. ii. 1) In the hilly flanks of the tigris-euphrates plains the fertile crescent (a. ii. 1. a) Horticulture (9000 bce) cultivating plants, poking holes, watering plants, not complicated (a. ii. 1. a. i) home gardening (a. ii. 1. b) Shift to horticulture initially as a supplement to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (a. ii. 1. b. i) out of necessity: expansion of horticulture to agriculture b. i) population increased 16-fold between 9000 and 4000 b. c. e. b. ii) demographics behind shift to agriculture b. iii)