POL114H5 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 from Global Politics
Document Summary
The rise and fall of civilizations and empires. Patterns in the history of war and peace: The reoccurrence of war and conflict between civilizations, peoples and empires. The recorded political history of the world is primarily the history of the activities of great civilizations, empires, and states. The development of an intellectual tradition of statecraft, drawn from historical experience. The rise of political geography and geopolitics. Civilizations and war have a symbolic relationship; once individuals settled in a given area, and their survival becomes tied to the land around them, the idea of ownership and the protective instinct become very strong. After it fell, northern and southern european countries took over other countries. Feudal system/feudalism: the legal and social system that evolved in. Western europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve them in war.
