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The Dialectic of Technology and Environment

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unstable relationship of reaction and counter-reaction that is an inherently progressive.
Ex. Transportation building the city around that can’t take it away because people depend on it
Ex. Discovering antibiotics means people are surviving more people = more food
Antibiotics makes animals bigger can’t take these benefits away or people won’t survive

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Chimpanzees

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patriarchy, territorial, hierarchical, violent:
fight for power to be Alpha male
monopolize preproduction, if overthrown children killed`

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Bonobos

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matriarchy, promiscuous, peaceful
no mating season, relatives are known through mothers
alliances on kinship (family)
the most successful social model is not ideal

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Denisovans

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(400,000-50,000 B.C.E.): Neanderthal DNA found in those in the middle east, extinct subspecies of a human, only tooth found
Ex. red hair

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Homo Sapiens and the “Great Leap Forward”

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different “cultures” cave paintings belief systems
Recognizable cultures emerged (toolkit)
Culture allows people to evolve quickly not genes

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The Cave Paintings of Lascaux:

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150 feet underground risky and limited air
Could have a deeper meaning
First signs of writing back in the day

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Diversity at Origins Principle

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the point of origin is the greatest point of diversity
Haplotypes and human origins: if 2 people have the same haplotypes they must have shared a common ancestor
Human DNA is measured by this

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Lice

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Clothing and hair lice have become 2 different species
People started wearing clothes regularly 100,000 and 150,000 years ago
Before Neanderthals only wrong clothes when it was cold this made it lice become 2 different species

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Clothing

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was not worn regularly by Neanderthals only when it was col, became a thing 100,000 and 150,000 years ago

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Killing Fields

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massive wave extinction among local animals
Close correlation with when human arrived
Human migration: relentless expansion and large economic disruption

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Dimitri Belyaev

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selected wolves that are obedient and less skittish
Created a species that are cute, appearance: childlike, thinner bones
Domestication through selective breeding

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the holocene

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end of the ice age

Evidence: sea levels, warm times

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sedentarization

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living in the same place (born, raised, died)
No one before the ice age was sedentary
Hard to accumulate things left behind elders and children born sick
10,000 BCE people started moving around

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Gobekli Tepe

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first evidence of agriculture

Site was built several thousand years ago before the first evidence of agriculture

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Blekinge

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Pickled fish factory in Sweden
120 million pounds of fish were processed at site
This proves sedentary

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Co-evolution Dogs

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domestication of dogs
Dogs realized that they get benefits from being with humans it was a win-win situation
Dimitri Belyaev played a role in this

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Catal Hoyuk

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town developed because of agriculture
No one moved, built defense system
Patriarchy system resulted in cruel punishments
Believed in a Neolithic goddess

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The East-West Axis of Migration

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Americas furthest travel: north to south
Africa: North to South
Eurasia: East to west

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River Valley Civilizations

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these were built near rivers along the East-West Axis of Migration
Came with fertile, rich soil for agricultural purposes

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Ziggurats

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Society created then, ancient cities were built around ziggurats

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Cuneiform writing

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oldest known form of writing
Made from beer and rotten grain
Agriculture record keeping

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The Rebus Principle

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system of writing sounds

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Chinese Oracle Bones

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Bones taken from cow, written on and fired

Form of fortune telling depending on how the bone fired and cracks

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salinization

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environmental degradation

Deforestation

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Measles

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stemmed from close living quarters and living with dogs
Decrease lifespan
Increase infant mortality

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Code of Hammurabi

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set of laws, social side with a cost of society

Slavery, patriarchy and matriarchy

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The Bronze Age

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4th age
Cooper + tin = bronze
Both material not found in the same location evolving this was not possible during the pre-human, Paleolithic and Neolithic age

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Sargon of Akkad

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interrupted the supply chain (trade system), fight for power, thief

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Shiang Dynasty

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bronze caldron to show off bronze resources

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Tong Lu Shan Mines

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2 kilometers long

1 kg of cooper smelting

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From Bronze to Iron

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seven million nails were left behind by the romans
All the bronze was used up so they moved on to iron
The bronze was better but it was hard to work with

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Slag

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cooper production of 200,000 tons

200 million trees used up (16x the size of Cyrus island) led to deforestation

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Environmental Degradation

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using up all the lands resources for society purposese

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deforestation

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Exhausted the material they have to trees

Used to smelts silver

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Rio Tinto

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largest silver mine pollution
Pollution was very visible in Greenland
6.6 million tons of slag

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Normads vs. Settled Societies

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Nomadic societies: productive economic activities
Not autarchic, depends on the existence of settled people
Can’t survive by themselves may steal from others
Settled societies:

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Historical Linguistics

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similarities around the world
Language is not biological
Same “family” family tree

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Horse

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first domesticated for meat and milk, later carts were attached to them for easy transportation
Wagons carts chariots

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spoke-wheeled chariots

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after the domestication of horses these became a thing everyone wanted them everyone uses them

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Sintashta

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warriors in chariots

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The Indo European Technological Complex

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bronze, composite bows, horses, spoke-wheeled chariots

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Bantu Language family

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same language family, yellow is the large majority of Africa; West Africa

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African iron

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Nok culture developed iron tools without bronze developed locally

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Nok Culture

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iron working

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desertification of North Africa

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sub-Saharan desert

Harder to cross no one did

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the outrigger canoe

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tying boats together easy transportation of bananas, yams, pigs, and chicken (think Moana)

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The Austronesian Technological Complex

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outrigger canoes

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Easter Island

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cut down the last tree to make the stone heads

No trees, no boats, just stone heads everything declined compared to Hawaii

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The Axial Age

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great thinkers of the axial age

East-west migration, political integration (leaders), increase of economic intergration, cosmopolitan (follow money)

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Achaemenid Empire

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from Africa Europe edge of india
2,000 miles long
35 million people

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Qanat

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irrigation system, water shed channels underground

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Persian Royal Road

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thousands of miles across empire
guest houses available
Safe Haven

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Postal Service

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111 along road, 40-50 miles apart

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Zoroastrianism

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religion common in India

Fire temple

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The Polis

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adopted religion of the ruling class of empire

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Hoplite Phalanx

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a chain of defense sword and shield

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olympics

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games all cities participated in

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Herodotus

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may have been the first historian

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Y.C.O.C.T.E.T.I.A.T

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you can only conquer the empire that is already there

Alexander the Great only conquered the persian empire

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MAcedonian Phalanx

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a row of long giant rods called pikes

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The hellenistic period

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Alexandrian legacy, greek culture basis of cosmopolitan civilization for the wprld of the Persian empire
This survived long after the empire was gone

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The Roman “Constitution”

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patriarch’s vs plebeians 
	Senate
	Assembly
	Consuls
	Tribunes
	Dictator
	Triumphs
	Universal citizenship
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The Roman “tortoise”

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complicated shield, large easy to get tripped up

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roman roads

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building together the empire

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aqueducts

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water system of romans brought water from the ocean or river

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Pax Romana

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peaceful expansion

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