ENVI 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fertile Crescent, Mesoamerica
8 Sep 2016
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1st major change in human social organization o. 2nd major change in human social organization o. Craft specialization: people who do something entirely other than growing. Store a surplus of food: can promise people that if something bad happens that they have backup provisions o. Social structure: slaves, serfs, lower-class, middle-class, upper-class, those in charge o. Political organization: hierarchical people in charge can make and enforce laws. Writing: very first writing was from mesopotamia (modern day iraq) o o o o. All pristine states arose from pre-state agricultural villages, The pristine state not all pre-state agricultural villages developed into states. Present in all pre-state agricultural villages as well as all pristine states o o. Three mandatory characteristics for the development of a pristine state (all 3 must be present) o. Storable grains- can promise people that in times of catastrophe they can feed the people and a way to pay a military: hereditary redistributor o.
