ANT 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nebuchadnezzar Ii, Burmese Chronicles, Syracusia

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 2000
• Professor: Ann Laffey

Document Summary

Civilization type of society marked by the presence of cities, social classes, and the state. State autonomous political unit with centralized decision making over many communities with power to govern by force (i. e. collect taxes, draft military, and make/enforce laws) 4 culture changes: agricultural innovation (reliable food supply does not always mean agriculture, development of new farming methods (i. e. irrigation) that increased crop yield, archimedes screw. : earliest design was in the hanging gardens of. Babylon when king nebuchadnezzar ii ruled (600 bc), the. Archimedes machine"s first use was at the syracusia under greek king. Hieron ii (240 bc: this tool is a revolving screw shaped blade inside a cylinder. Required specialized knowledge to produce: emergence of centralized government provided authority to deal with complex problems associated with cities, evidence of central authority comes from law codes, temple records, royal chronicles.