ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mughal Empire, Cotton Gin, Lewis H. Morgan
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Chapter 2: the meaning of progress and development. 10,000 years ago humans were sedentary a mode of livelihood characterized by permanent or semi-permanent settlements. Progress the idea the human history is the story of a steady advance from a life dependent on the whims of nature to a life of control and domination over natural forces. Cultural change the changes in meanings that a people ascribe to experience and changes in their way of life. There were no leaders but special people had spiritual powers for healing. Eventually people became sedentary, living in permanent settlements of up to 2000 people where they grew crops and domesticated animals. Eventually leaders organize labor to construct public works (highways, the great wall of china, pyramids), hereditary leaders emerged, and settlements grew into cities, competitions between groups for available resources lead to armies. Technological developments led to specific skills requirement, increased trade, evolution of the merchant class and development into large-scale industrializes state.
