Political Economy

Question 1

What are the four modes of subsistence ?

Answer 1

1. Foraging
2. Modifying Landscape
3. Chayanov’s rule

Question 2

What are the four basic social classification?

Answer 2

1. Bands
2. Tribes
3. Cheifdoms
4. City-States

Question 3

Bands

Answer 3

1. Typically foraging group
2. Largely egalitarian
3. Have less than 100 people
4. Vote with their feet

Question 4

King San

Answer 4

1. Oldest inhabitants of southern asia & are a band society & are hunter gathers
2. Also maintained egalitarianism

Question 5

Tribes

Answer 5

1. Typically foraging or horticulture
2. Have less than 5000 people
3. Temporary achieved status
4. Reciprocity & “Big men”

Question 6

Kula Ring

Answer 6

Example of reciprocity where it was an island that traded arm bands & necklaces between people on island (symbolic value)

Question 7

Coastal culture in SEUS

Answer 7

5o shells in a ring & evidence of trading & interactions

Question 8

Coastal Shell Midden

Answer 8

4000 yr old trade route between SEUS & great lakes

Question 9

The first temple was found where?

Answer 9

Gobekli Tepe, Turkey (was not a city)

Question 10

Chiefdoms

Answer 10

1. Typically relies on domestication
2. Have up 20k people
3. Ascribe & achieve status
4. Redistribution system

Question 11

Calusa, southwest Florida

Answer 11

Highest pre-Columbian population in south Florida & they were sedentary fisher & horticulturalists

Question 12

City States

Answer 12

1. Required agriculture
2. Have 20k people
3. Extensive road systems
4. Maintain power
5. Greek, Egyptian renown

Question 13

Aztec Chinampas

Answer 13

1. Tenochtitlan in a lake wit 200k people

2. Had floating gardens

Question 14

Aztec Power distribution

Answer 14

1. Centralized city states led by emperors
2. Emperor Itzcoatl (expanded empire & established feudal system
3. Ritual

Question 15

Catalhoyuk, Turkey

Answer 15

1. First city

2. One of the largest neolithic settlements in southwest asia