ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Babylonian Astronomy, Maya Rulers, Social Stratification
20 Sep 2016
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Lecture april 12, 2016: gordon childe"s 10 criteria of state-level society, aggregation of people into cities (teotihuacan, valley of mexico, aztec city) machu picchu, peru (inca city, development of nonagricultural specialization of labor (egyptian scribe, egyptian musicians, Egyptian soldiers: production and concentration of surpluses. (egyptian granary, chimu city (peru) with storerooms, administrator"s rooms, emergence of clearly defined social stratification or class distinctions (stratified egyptian. Society: construction of monumental architecture/works (pyramid at chichen itza (mayan city) and. Long distance trade networks (mayan trade: mayan traders carrying grains, exotic obsidian mirror acquired from mountains of central america: creation of an elite art style (mesopotamian birdman, nefertiti, mayan king, gudea, egyptian. Priestess coffin: development of writing, (mayan glyphs, olmec glyph, development of mathematics and astronomy, (shang dynasty math, babylonian astronomer"s account of lunar eclipse, inca observation station, non-kin-based membership in the society (citizenship)
