HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Peter Turchin, Feedback, Social Equality
13 Nov 2020
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Independent cities formed in the entire mediterranean region. Invention and use of coins sped up trade and wholesale and retail, greek cities became marketplaces. India and china and caravans as well as shipping over rivers: greek polis lost their autonomy to the romans and spread as less autonomous cities into. Egypt and mesopotamia, but their lifestyle had a far-reaching impact: with the inauguration of the roma empire 30 bce citizens lost their participation in the political sphere, but already before oligarchies had been installed. 1: epidemiological and social adjustment to cities not complete in 200ce, reactions to the outside, 1. Borrow and adapt from what made enemies powerful: 2. A theory for formation of large empires peter turchin in journal of global history. Abstract: model for formation of an empire: antagonistic interactions between nomads and settled agriculturalists that led to a scale-up in the political and military size, correlation: proximity to steppe frontiers.
