NATS 1775 Midterm: Unit 2 - September 21, 2017
25 Dec 2017
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Unit 2: technology is ancient and greco-roman civilizations: early civilization: At least six different centers around the world: Yellow river in china (after 1800 bc) Characteristics: high populated, centralized political and economic authority, regional states, stratified societies, complex architecture, higher learning. A stratified or hierarchical society resembles a pyramid structure. Bottom: has the most people with the least amount of power. Middle: varying levels of power between members, usually because of family or occupation. Top: very few people, who have the most power. Larger populations required intensified agricultural production; simple agriculture replaced by field agriculture. Large scale water management networks ( public works") were built and maintained by. The corvee (conscripted labour gangs) and supervised by state employee"s. Desire to figure out why these civilizations shared such commonalities and the development of these large scale water irrigation systems have led some researchers to propose the hydraulic hypothesis as an explanation for the rise in urban revolution.
