ANTH 1135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Iron Mountain Mine, George Perkins Marsh, Alamogordo, New Mexico
29 Oct 2016
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Urban: of the city; elegant or sophisticated. Catal huyuk: 9500 bp-7600 bp, 5-7000 pop, honeycomb style houses, hunting/farming, no social classes. Rome (753 bc-present), 1. 6 million pop: terracotta army, alexander the great, center of learning, capital moved to constantinople in 330 ad. Merv (2600 bp-1221 (destroyed by mongols)), 500,000 pop. Cahokia, 10-20,000 pop: evidence of class system (burial for elites, ceremonial mounds) Great zimbabwe (1000 ad-1450 ad), 18,000 pop. Cultural development: writing and mathematics (7 day week, 360 degree circle, 24 hours) Reasons for the rise and fall of cities: overpopulation, resource overuse, warfare, global economics. Concentration of services (command points in the organization of the world economy) About technological innovation, charts of what makes humans more savage or civilized. Increase productivity, surplus value (cid:498)the destructiveness of man(cid:499) in (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:888)(cid:886) (cid:498)the land ethic(cid:499) in (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:886)(cid:891: enlarging the boundaries of the community (soils, water, plants, animals) George cuvier (1769-1832: credited with fueling environmental revolution, discussed ddt and pesticides.
