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Domestication

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Human interference with the reproduction of another species, resulting in those specific plants and animals becoming more useful to people and dependent on them.

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Consequences (good and bad) of plant and animal domestication?

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  • increased/stabilized food supply
  • less territory needed (at first)
  • heavier toolkit
  • concept of property
  • permanent homes with storage
  • nutrition/health changes
  • high population densities
3
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How do archaeologists think humans domesticated plants and animals?

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  • Ecological
    • environment changing
  • population pressure
    • more people -> more food
  • social complexity and competition
    • power struggles
  • storage
    • storing food in case something happens
4
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Major domesticated plants of the indigenous American societies

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Beans, squash, maize, amaranth, gourds, sunflowers, cotton, potatoes

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Ascribed status

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Something you inherit from your parents

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Achieved status

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Social positions people obtain as the result of their own efforts

7
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What are the major theories that attempt to explain why state societies develop?

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State societies=civilizations

  • Urban revolution
    - specialists living in cities-> fed by agriculturalists->demand for more food->agriculture/Irrigation->more government to pick where things were built
  • Ecology and Irrigation
    • early states in places with flood banks
  • Technology and Trade
    - have to organize to travel far distances
  • Warfare
    - taking land to grow food least to war
  • Cultural systems
    - all above theories together (not one singular)
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Why state societies developed?

Urban revolution

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Development of cities

Specialists->fed by agriculturists->demand for surplus of food->more food->need for government to pick and choose what and where things were built

9
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Why state societies developed?

Ecology and Irrigation

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Early states emerged in places with flood banks

More food->need for organized distribution

10
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Why state societies developed?

Technology and trade

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Have to organize to travel far distances for things you want/need

11
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Why state societies developed?

Warfare

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Taking more land to grow food leads to war

War created need for organization

12
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Why state societies developed?

Cultural systems

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A combination of all of the other theories of why state societies develop.

No one explanation

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Social stratification

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Societal ranking into a hierarchy based on wealth, power, and prestige

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Occupational specialization

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Specialization in various different occupations or in new social roles

Only in socially complex societies

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Class

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Ranked groups within a hierarchy whose membership is defined in terms of wealth, occupation, and other economic criteria.

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The Inca

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  • Cuzco constructed around 1,000CE
  • rigid class system
  • detailed bureaucracy
  • Quipu (detailed record keeping with chords and knots)
  • maintained roads and bridges
  • masonry (stonework=walls)
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Why is writing important? Examples of early writing?

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Used for:

  • record keeping
  • communicating messages
  • recording history
  • manipulating recordings of history
  • poetry
  • stories

Minoan=Linear A
Mycenaean=Linear B

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Harappan civilization

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-State society=connected by culture, government, material culture, and city layout

  • Indus valley (India)
  • used Indus River for Irrigation
  • writing (undeciphered)
  • flourishing middle class
  • trade routes
  • seems to have been a social hierarchy
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Niche construction

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When an organism alters their environment in ways that have an effect on their evolution

20
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Mutualism

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Relationship between two species where they mutually benefit from one another

21
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Development of plant and animal domestication

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Human interference with the reproduction of another species

Resulting in:

Those specific plants and animals become more useful to people and dependent on them

22
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Agroecology

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A systematically modified environment becomes the only environment where a domesticated species can flourish