VART 1101 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - City, Peru, Outstrip
12 Oct 2018
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The emergence of cities marked the beginnings of a distinct civilization. => sets of preconditions that agriculture and warfare were responsible. Exceptional capacity for complex planning, centralized decision making and the mobilization of sizeable labor force. Indeed, the social, political and ceremonial system founded at caral probably the provided the ancestral roots for the civilization of the incas, who ruled the andes some 4,000 years later. It is the earliest known urban centre in the americas -> founding stone of the civilization. + however, there is no evidence that warfare provoked its development. Carals then discovered pottery, which enable people to store water and cook food. Store milk for babies => shorter birth intervals, more babies and more people. Thus, pottery is likely to have contributed significantly to an acceleration of the population growth rate, with crucial implications for the development of cities and civilization.
