ASIA1025 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erlitou Culture, Hoabinhian, Fish Hook
Document Summary
Asia 1025: asia & the pacific: power, diversity and change. States and nationalism: the world is now organized into states, lt: archaeology. Polynesia: summary of archaeology of states, primary states develop occasionally, our region: erlitou, indus valley, tonga, elsewhere : Erlitou (yellow: (bronze plate with turquoise inlay) Population with shared myths, history, culture, rights and duties: nation-states depend upon nationalism, devotion to the interests and culture of one(cid:495)s nation, aim: nation-state becomes indistinguishable from nation. Rather than to clan, local ruler, religious organization, ethnicity etc: origin of nation-states, primary nation-state development: 3 key events/processes, treaty of westphalia: ad1648. : ruler can do whatever he wants within his territory (state legitimacy derived from the will of the people - election: american and french revolutions, modernity break down the old allegiances (capitalism/bureaucracy/industrialisation/urbanisation/secularism/mass. Most old allegiances decline, nationalism increases (allegiance to your nation) (your nation is your nation-state if you fit the dominant ethnicity: secondary nation-states, violence.
