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1
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What are the 4 horseman

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Mass mobilization warfare
Transformative revolution
State failure/state collapse
Pandemics

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What happens in state failure

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Wealthy people are no longer wealthy

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Gini coefficient 1

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perfect inequality

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4
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Gini coefficient 0

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perfect equality

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5
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Charts the distribution of income

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Lorenz curve

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The closer the curve is to the line of equality, the lower the gini coefficient is

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lorenz curve

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7
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Tools used by scheidel to help explain his broad theme of income inequality

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Gini coefficient
Lorenz curve

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Based on the share of total resources held by particular segments of the population

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Relative Inequality

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focused on the difference in the amount of resources between these segments

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Absolute Inequality

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10
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Does scheidel think there is an easy solution to any type of economic inequality

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no

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11
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What empire brought millions of conquered people back to nenevah

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Neo-Assyrian Empire

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12
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What empire had canal system increased agricultural production

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Neo-Assyrian Empire

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13
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What empire had war with the neighboring city of Umma

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Lagash

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What was the empire where leaders took land from temples and foreclosed on farmers

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Lagash

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15
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What empire replaced nobles with slaves to keep them from becoming too powerful

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Ottoman

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16
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What empire guaranteed rights to private property in 1839

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Ottoman

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17
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evolution of equality (trees)

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The biggest and strongest were always at the top
Not very equal

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Evolution of Equality (coming down)

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new developments, such as weapons, tools, and speech, made brute strength less dominating
more equal

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19
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Was the evolution of equality (trees) equal or not

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not very equal

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20
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Was the coming down from the trees equal or not

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More equal

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Evolution of equality (early communities)

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The earliest communities were egalitarian communities with hierarchies where people didn’t have any material posessions

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22
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Was the evolution of equality (early communities) equal?

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pretty equal

23
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Evolution of equality (horticulture)

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Hand-planting crops meant that women were just as effective as men

24
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Was the evolution of equality (horticulture) equal?

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very equal

25
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Land grants that divided up conquered territory between conquistadores

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Encomiendas

26
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Estates under the control of despotic landlords

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haciendas

27
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scavengers, took resources from one another, little or no inequality

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Hazda

28
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Early example of hereditary inequality, man and children buried with elaborative and prestigious items

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Sungir

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Favorable environment, 1/2 buried with possessions, 8 buried with impressive decorative shells

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natufian

30
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Pastoralist warrior society with high inequality

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Comanche

31
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Local leaders take control of temple assets, taking advantage of financial tools to take advantage of the fortuneless

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Lagash

32
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Record of different sized fish bones in differing caste layers

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Keatley Creek

33
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Neolithic Anatolian site of large population with little inequality

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Catal Huyuk

34
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Gini coefficient for horticulturalists and hunter-gathers

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.25-.27

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Gini coefficient for herders

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.42

36
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gini coefficient for agriculturalists

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.48

37
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Material wealth difference for foragers

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.36

38
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Material wealth difference for all others

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.51-.57

39
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Military, administrative, clerical, and at times commercial ruling classes, and then producers

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Agrarian society

40
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specific harvest time and ability for long-term storage made it easier for elites to control surplus, state development related to agricultural developments

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Importance of cereals

41
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A Hurrian myth translated to Hittite that describes a king pleading with a council of nobles for the freeing of indebted slaves, a god present at the meeting, nobles overpower kings will and keep enslaved.

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Song of release

42
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first “true” empire, kings became “gods”, local rulers replaced by governors

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Akkadian Kingdom

43
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forcible resettlement of conquered into the heartland, slaves used for large state projects, such as canals.

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Neo-Assyrian Empire

44
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Dealt with human interaction and property

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Hammurabi Laws

45
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poor farmers had to take out high interest loans which when they were unable to pay back resulted in the confiscation of their land.

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Emperor Wendi

46
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Established expansive military mobilization programs and state monopolies on salt and iron. Under him, taxes were raised on commercial property and many large fortunes were wiped out.

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Emperor Wudi

47
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Attributed with ending the slave trade and attempted to nationalize the distribution of land. Wanted to bring down the established elite.

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Wand Mang

48
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ad more landlords converting freeholders into landless tenants, more solidified ruling class, and stable elite.

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Eastern Han

49
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Emperor more controlling of elites

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Western Han

50
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Showed less households during a time of expansion.

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Tax registers

51
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Freeholders became tenants, peasant households didn’t show up on landowner’s tax registers allowing the elites to lie and pay less taxes

A

Tax registers

52
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Euphiletos

A

guy who killed man that cheated on wife

53
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eratosthenes

A

man who got killed by euphiletos

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