V. Gordon Childe's "The Urban Revo" Flashcards
V. _____ Childe
Gordon
If the Neolithic Revolution created “Barbarism villages”, then the …
Urban Revolution created Civilization Cities.
Urban Revolution brought who to the cities?
Specialists
What qualifies a place as a “Civilization City” accord to Childe?
Systems of writing / recording.
A city is a unit of settlement which performs specialized functions in relationship to … ? -Bruce _____
… a broad hinterland -Bruce Trigger
The city is a new economic and ____ mode
social
cities never rose independently. there were always _____ there.
preliterate farmers
until the Neolithic most cities were very temporary, because of the low _____ of environmental niches.
carrying capacity
Specialists were all just farmers moonlighting on “freelance gigs” until what …
cities
Back in the day, division of labor was based on ____ … not ____ …
age & sex / not specialization
what kind of dynamic likely existed between the first groups to create a larger settlement … and what did Durkheim call this dynamic?
“wolf-pack” dynamic … Durkheim called “mechanical”
What did specialists have to reject, back in the day?
Kinship ties (because they had to move wherever the action was going down)
Where were first cities and what enabled them?
Indus River Valley Civ … irrigation and wheeled carts.
Irrigation allowed for agriculture without …
Prolonged fallow periods
The Pharaohs of Egyptttttt were actual ______
Gods.
