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YSU Rise & Fall

test 1 YSU Rise & Fall of Civilization

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V. Gordon Childe's Trait list of Civilization cities, specialization, stratification, surplus, state
State unit with centralized government and professional ruling class
Cities Dense concentrations of human polulation
specialization full time specialist: complext systems of exchange and distribution
Morton Fried V Elman Service Conflict Theory V Integration
Morton Fried's typology: (4 types) Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, states
Thomas Hobbes' view of early life from Leviathan 1651 solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, short, and a constrnt struggle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau view from The Social Contract 1762 humans are compassionate & self sufficient but civilizations robs us of our freedomes, forces us to conform, and corrupts us
"Worst mistake in the history of the human race going from bands to tribes according to Jared Diamond
Original Affluent Society Marshall Sahlins
Myth of leisure time from Fred McCarthy and Margaret McArthur. lots of free time and healthy diets among bands
Bands (4 things) 15 to 70 people, hunter gatherers related by blood or marriage; no difference in wealth or power, 'leaders' have influence but no authority//egalitarian, women provide 2/3s of food, few posessions
Tribes small groups (in hundreds) more permanent villages, subsistance farming along with hunter gatherer, beginning of stratifications (small number of elite) elders get status but not necessarily wealth or power
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