ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Urban Revolution

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Francois Larose

Document Summary

Increased technology is controlled by a few and further accelerates the rise of inequalities: those gaining control over essential resources acquire wealth and greater power in society. Increased specialization: ecological models, large food surpluses and growing populations, diversified farming economies and trade networks, rise of trade specialization, in terms of what they produce food and farm wise. Irrigation agriculture and organization of labour: e. g. Before each family had individual farms and later accumulated the land and worked together to increase crop yields. New irrigation systems and social organization as people have more jobs: technology and trade, rise in technology and trade networks are centralized and produce interdependence (or dependence) between classes for access and redistribution of these resources. Storage of surpluses in a safe location contributing to increased specialization: leaders justify their authority through force and religous ideologies.