CLCV 231- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 231
• Professor: K Kreindler

Document Summary

City populations are higher and denser than smaller settlements and countryside. Cities require management for resource procurement and administration. Feedback loop: specialization helps to create hierarchies (ruling class) solidifies hierarchies. Large populations put pressure on communities difficult to sustain large communities. Specialized tasks reinforce differences b/w city and countryside b/c countryside sustains city w/resources. Specialization requires different sorts of community participation helps inhabitants identify w/city. Specialized, discrete topographical features w/in cities that are often related to specialized institutions and state. Warehouses, civic offices, ad(cid:373)i(cid:374)istrative ce(cid:374)ters, religious structures, etc . Cities are difficult to define and are multifaceted. With transition from hunter-gather societies to farming, people had to settle down cities. Concentration of large population in a restricted area. Economic surplus and its appropriation by a central authority. The neolithic revolution (8,500 bce - 3,000 bce) Childe believes urban revolution = final neolithic revolution. Agriculture: includes cultivation and animal domestication and husbandry. Access to fresh water (important for survival and agriculture)