˗ˏˋ social complexity ´ˎ˗

Question 1

how is most of the world divided?

Answer 1

into sovereign (independent) entities with an institutionalized and central government.

Question 2

what is legitimacy?

Answer 2

a quality or status achieved when the right of a centralized authority to have power is accepted and can be based on consensus or coercion.

Question 3

what is an egalitarian society?

Answer 3

a society in which the only differences in status are based on skill, age, and gender.

Question 4

what is a ranked society?

Answer 4

a society in which there is a hierarchy of prestige not linked to age, gender, or ability.

Question 5

what is a stratified society?

Answer 5

a society in which access to key resources is linked to prestige.

Question 6

what is a state?

Answer 6

s society in which power is organized on a supra-kin basis or by a bureaucracy that uses force.

Question 7

who is elman service?

Answer 7

said that societies can be divided into bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.

Question 8

what is urban society?

Answer 8

a society in which people live in large cities and v. gordon childe developed 10 criteria defining an urban society.

Question 9

what are the 10 criteria defining an urban society?

Answer 9

urban centers, surplus production and storage, taxes to a deity or king, monumental architecture, a ruling class, writing systems, exact and predictive sciences, sophisticated art styles, foreign trade, and specialist craftsmen.

Question 10

what are empires?

Answer 10

• political entity that brings together a diverse and heterogeneous group of societies under a single ruler
• lasting effects on population, culture and ecology