history 009 Flashcards
civilization
complex, urbanized (complex), metaculture
core and periphery
large metacultures
integration, consolidation and expansion
of things in society
contraction and dispersion
disease? maybe
continuity and change
things (diseases)- will continue and change as time progresses
endogenous and exogenous forces of change
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tradition
-1787- continuity
1347/48
black death- continuity (traditsio)
exchange, migration, invasion
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natural factors
disease, climate, geological
geography
resources (kinds, availability and scarcity)
chronology
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empire
breakdown
religion
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course limits!!!
chronological: c- 4000 b.c. to 1500 AD
Geographical: mostly afro- eurasia
through with some attention to western hemisphere
focus on
core civilizations, interactions between these civilizations and interactions between core civilizations and non-sedentary peoples
-material basis of culture
cultural materialism