GLST 392 Lecture 7: Free farmers couldn’t compete w
29 Sep 2016
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Free farmers couldn"t compete w/ slave/tenant labor: hurt technological innovation behind india/china in production technologyd. Tight family structure women inferior/diff. laws not as bad as china, but infanticidee. Not the period of human race was most happy or prosperous idealized in western world: urban achievements not everything. The fall of rome fell in parts, not all at once a. No central religion: classical mediterranean life not fully carried on. Outsiders as barbarians: alexander the great expanded3. some romans saw greek literature/philosophical focus as a waste of time 4. Germanic tribes trade/war: tolerant of local customs, but built roman monuments 5. Believed there was little to learn from beyond their own borders. All have agricultural economy, empires: secular medit. similar to confucian2. Each had social hierarchy and laws to justify/protect upper class: aristocracy india priests, china bureaucrats, medit. Aristocrats: social mobility, india"s caste little, china few talented bureaucrats could move up, medit. Some non-aristocrats could move up, military 6.
