HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hit Network, Cosmopolitanism, Major Religious Groups
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Low and slow > control of land and labor is important. How do networks operate different from hierarchies. Extensive (covers a large distance, and the further you reach, the more powerful. Urban foundation (center of it is in the city, that"s where most of the exchange the merchant is) happens, and enough people to make a market) Political=coercive (can enforce it without being fair) Intensive (elites become better at extracting wealth and monopolizing violence in. Rural foundation (don"t need cities to exist [yup not even a capitol] you can extract wealth & monopolize violence in the countryside bc that"s where the wealth is) one area to make the hierarchy stronger) These comparisons will be on the test. Network connections within a hierarchy elites) and in major provincial cities (here with local elites) There are nodes of a network in independent city. Center of the network though is in the capitol (interaction happens here with.
