WEEK 5 READING #2: CH4 (from the textbook)

Question 1

What haps in the past 5-7 thousand years?

Answer 1

states

Question 2

What haps in 1789?

Answer 2

French Revolution / start of nationhood? Maybe?

Question 3

What’s the “hydraulic theory”?

Answer 3

Settlements and states are the result of water. Either flooding or drought. (Wittfogel)

Question 4

One of the key ways you can create the idea of nationhood?

Answer 4

othering / creating enemies

Question 5

Painting of Brits celebrating what caused who to get really what

Answer 5

Paintings of Brits celebrating defeat of Napoleon made French really sassy

Question 6

Nation-states are glorified as vehicles of modernization, unity, economic development … but some argue they are vehicles of (2 things) …

Answer 6

ethnocide and genocide

Question 7

Approx how many people have been killed by their own nations …

Answer 7

only 360 million

Question 8

How do “clever” individuals make money from atrocities?

Answer 8

Putting a “spin” on them so that they are accepted / not protested

Question 9

What simple fact makes GDP a weird measure of productivity?

Answer 9

Each point of GDP means that energy has been consumed.