NATS 1775 Lecture 2: Unit 2 - Technology in Ancient and Greco-Roman Civilizations
23 Jan 2019
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Happened in least six different centers around the world: mesopotamia (after 3500 bc); Egypt (after 3400 bc); indus river valley (after 2500 bc); yellow river in china (after. 1800 bc); mesoamerica (500 bc); south america (after 300 bc) In the middle are those with some power usually because of family or occupation: at the very bottom of the pyramid you have the largest segment of your population with the least amount of power. Larger populations required intensified agricultural production, as simple agriculture replaced by field agriculture. Large scale water management networks ( public works") were built and maintained by. These projects were supervised by state employed engineers. Wittfogel and steward proposed this theory in the 1960s. The fact that all these early civilizations (stratified societies and hierarchy) required large-scale hydraulic engineering projects (or water irrigation systems) has led some scholars to explain this phenomena as the hydraulic hypothesis.
