1. What is made possible by the agglomeration of people, services, and goods in a city that is not possible, or far more difficult, in rural areas?
A: The time to innovate is made possible by the agglomeration of people, services, and goods in a city that is not possible, or far more difficult, in rural areas.
2. Based on archaeological evidence, how long ago was the first city developed?
A: Archaeological evidence indicates that people established the first cities about 8000 years ago.
3. What is an egalitarian society?
A: An egalitarian society is a society where goods are shared in common among people. People are equal in an egalitarian society.
4. What differences exist between agricultural villages and cities?
A: Agricultural
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In early cities, the leadership class, or urban elite, consisted of a group of decision makers and organizers who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others. The urban elite controlled the food supply, including its production, storage, and distribution. Generating an agricultural surplus enabled some people to devote their efforts to pursuits besides agriculture. The urban elite, for instance, did not work the fields. Rather, they devoted time to other pursuits such as religion and philosophy. Out of such pursuits came the concepts of writing and recordkeeping. Writing made possible the codification of laws and the preservation of traditions. Urban elites defended themselves by constructing walls on the outskirts of the city. However, the leadership class collected taxes and tribute from people within their control beyond the city walls.
7. How is social inequality revealed in the cultural landscape of ancient Mesopotamian cities?
A: Studies of the cultural landscape and urban morphology of Mesopotamian cities have found signs of social inequality in the varying sizes and ornamentation of houses. Urban elite erected palaces, protected themselves with walls, and employed countless artisans to beautify their spaces. They also established a priest‐king class and developed a religious‐political ideology to support the priest‐kings. Rulers in the cities were both priests and kings, and they levied taxes and demanded tribute from the harvest brought by the agricultural laborers.
8. What building dominated the landscape of nearly every ancient Mesopotamian
Some historians argue that it started in 330 B.C.E., when Constantine became an emperor and founded a capital on Byzantium
All empires sought to foster an imperial identity that transcended more local identities and loyalties.
2. Using the evidence left from early human burial grounds and stone tools, anthropologists were able to infer that early human societies were egalitarian, hunter-gatherers, nomadic, easily adaptable, and developed sophisticated technologies.
An egalitarian is someone who believes that not only should women be equal to men, but everyone should be equal to everyone and the only thing that separates us is our merits and the things that we have worked to achieve in life. That is why I am and always will be an egalitarian.
I will be discussing the contact between various civilizations between 800 AD to 1400 AD. I will be looking closely at documents one, two, four and five. Document one discusses the trade in East Africa and the tribe the Zanj that live there. In Document four it discusses the trade goods in Gujarat India. Document two discusses the Jewish merchants. Document five is written by a Muslim traveler and he is talking about the journey from Zaya to Maqdasha. All of these documents talk about travel and trade between various civilizations between 800 AD to 1400 AD.
1. Consider how Baldric presents Pope Urban's reasons for calling for this holy war. If order of presentation and emphasis mean anything, what was, according to our chronicler, the pope's chief motive?
People in the city generally have much different ways of living and worldviews than people in the country. Adherence to rural customs may begin to slacken, groups of acquaintances and
During the course of this analytical paper, we will look at the impact of warfare on world societies and people's consciousness, during the period of the 1500s in world history, called the Early Modern Period; also, we will discuss the consequences of the Great War. Additionally, apart from studying the altering methods of warfare and their magnitude, we will look up to different motivations of statesmen and peoples who declare wars or engage in several types of violent actions towards certain societies. Throughout the paper, we will stretch any pertinent evidence at appropriate points of what war leaders, intellectuals and common citizens view war and violence, which they experience during their life. Some of the examples include the Arabs that vastly expanded the world of Islam, yet were traditionally predatory in nature, which benefited more from the taxation of the conquered than from their conversion. There are also examples like the Mongol Empire, which was too, predatory, but differently from the Arab
2. One of the leading innovators in the production and marketing of goods at the turn of the century was
Throughout history, the evolution of communities and societies has been influenced by the local and global economy. Large cities emerged from vibrant business activity and flow of products and services. For the most part
The Urban Revolution, written by V. Gordon Childe, is an intricate article that attempts to figure out when, where, and why the phenomenon of cities began. The article also gives a slight description of what a creates a city, mostly from a historical setting. “Throughout the Pleistocene period, all known human societies were savage in the foregoing sense, and a few savage tribes have survived out of the way parts to the present day.”(Childe 1950). Before the development of cities, the domination of farm lands existed. The largest villages in prehistoric Europe, comprised of about “...52 small one-roomed dwellings, but 16 to 30 houses was a more normal figure.” (Childe 1950). Something I find interesting in the article is that due to the small demographic, everyone in the prehistoric cities or villages had to contribute to the hunting. This was because the social surplus was not big enough to feed idle mouths. Childe went on to say that a city has a hierarchy. He stated that a city makes investments in the sciences and written system. One thing that stood out to me is when
Glimpse of world history features a span of perspective of the world as it develops throughout time to where it was presently at. Nehru while in prison tried to find a bound with his daughter. In order to connect to the outside world and be close with his daughter he decided to share his vast knowledge of the world through letters with his daughter. Nehru explores how time chases, how civilizations grew and prosper, how different leaders shape the world in negative and positive view points and in many other ways. Nehru wants his daughter and ultimately others reading his book to have an open mind to the different perspective.
(People) Discuss the role of the growth of towns AND/OR the city states in the social changes from the High Middle Ages.
Glimpse of World History, features a span of perspective of the world as it develops throughout time to where it was presented. Nehru, while in prison, tried to find a bond with his daughter. In order to connect to the outside world and be close with his daughter, he decided to share his vast knowledge of the world through letters with his daughter. Nehru explores how time chases, how civilizations grow and prosper, and how different leaders shape the world in negative and positive view points and in many other ways. Nehru wants his daughter and ultimately others reading his book to have an open mind to the different perspective.
These cities and state formed in larger agrarian civilisations which increased the scale of human interactions because they were so much bigger than earlier human communities, they brought in people, resources and ideas from great distances creating vast networks of exchange and therefor increasing the ability for collective learning. The establishment of trade between these