ANTH 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Teotihuacan, Ruling Class, Shang Dynasty
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Chiefdom is a polity with hereditary leaders and a permeant political structure. State is a society with a central government administration specialization and social classes. Primary states are states arising through competition among chiefdoms. Many factors have played a role in state formation: regulation of hydraulic economies (managing systems of irrigation, drainage and flood control), regional trade, population, war and circumscription boundaries that cut off from surrounding areas and confine it. More villages meant more competition and rivalry that would produce more profit. Empires are a mature state that is large, multiethnic, militaristic, and expansive. Neolithic revolution describes the origin and impact of food production. Metallurgy is the extraction and processing of metals to make tools. Smelting is high temp extraction of metal from ore. The invention of smelting brought about the bronze. Bronze is an alloy of copper and arsenic or copper and tin. Zapotec is a state is the first mesoamerican state in the valley of oaxaca.
