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    Agrarian Pyramid Gender

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    of agriculture where groups of people settled in one area and formed a community. These societies were shaped in a spherical or teardrop hierarchy which presents an equal society that rules through group decisions. (Morillo 25) These bands and chiefdoms eventually fell to the rise of state level hierarchies that were more pyramid formed. According to Morillo‚ warfare was the main driving factor in development of complex societies with the development of elites‚ strong leadership‚ and the role of

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    Basseri Tribe of Iran

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    people better known as the Basseri. Iranian Basseri’s are a “pastoralist tribe that practice under a chiefdom under leaders known as Khans of various villages” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). Basseri people have the means to self-govern and reside in small settlements while raising their families and animals on the open ranges of Iran. Basseri pastoralists have a culture that is deeply rooted in a chiefdom that roams the region in small bands of tent villages. The tribe is pastoral since they don’t raise

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    be known by the English as "Chief Powhatan." Each of the tribes within this organization had its own weroance (chief)‚ but all paid tribute to Chief Powhatan.[5] After Chief Powhatan’s death in 1618‚ hostilities with colonists escalated under the chiefdom of his brother‚ Opechancanough‚ who sought in vain to drive off the encroaching English. His large-scale attacks in 1622 and 1644 met

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    Chapter 2 First Farmers The Revolutions of Agriculture‚ 10‚000 b.c.e.–3000 b.c.e. Chapter Overview CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES • TO MAKE STUDENTS AWARE THAT AGRICULTURE EVOLVED INDEPENDENTLY IN SEVERAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD • To trace the development of agriculture and its local variations • To consider the social implications of the Agricultural Revolution Chapter Outline I. OPENING VIGNETTE A. In the past two centuries‚ there has been a dramatic decline in

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    not want to. Authority is the skill of making people willingly do your will. It also the right to give orders‚ enforce obedience or make decisions. 2. Compare and contrast the features of the leadership of bands‚ tribes‚ chiefdoms and state societies A chiefdom is a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship‚ and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or houses. These elites form

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    of Tonga were based around Christianity. “The constitutional monarchy prescribes a legislative assembly with twenty members representing the thirty three nobles and twenty members elected as the people’s representatives. “The king converted the chiefdoms to Christianity which further united the country.” In the early 1800’s the first King of a united Tonga‚ King Siaosi Tupou I‚ celebrated the "giving of Tonga to God"”‚ The monarch became the ultimate ruler‚ and this was passed down through primogeniture

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    Zulu Tribe

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    centuries will be detailed from traditional to modern views within this paper. Shaka of the Zulu nation was a notorious warrior king from 1816 until 1828‚ he was often considered the first Zulu king because Shaka continued Zulu overrule to other chiefdoms in KwaZulu-Natal bringing dozens of people from clans and chieftainships and ultimately changing the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation that occupied a large portion of Southern Africa. Shaka was a fierce and militaristic king‚ some might

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    ! Body Paint‚ Feathers‚ and VCRs 1. As adaptive mechanisms to our environment‚ we create an attachment to our ‘home’. A place which serves as a foundation to our quotidian lifestyle. A place that gives for further continuation. It is a place like this‚ that one must commit to as a whole community. This is exactly what the Kayapó people of Brazil did‚ they stood up to preserve their home. They treated this event just as they would with any other‚ with determination and respect. !

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    Theory of Origin of State

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    A Theory of the Origin of the State “Traditional theories of state origins are considered and rejected in favor of a new ecological hypothesis.” Robert L. Carneiro For the first 2 million years of his existence‚ man lived in bands or vil-lages which‚ as far as we can tell‚ were completely autonomous. Not until perhaps 5000 B.C. did villages begin to aggregate into larger political units. But‚ once this process of aggregation began‚ it continued at a progressively faster pace and led‚ around 4000

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    Beginning of Agriculture

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    farmers would pick wild plants and take them to newly formed and formed because-of farming chiefdoms and plant the crops nearby. To-be farmers did not see this as an alternative to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle‚ but a supplement to caught or un-caught animals. They used the crops as a resort to low volumes of animals killed during a day and as a somewhat additive to their diets. As years passed‚ the chiefdoms became permanent towns and kingdoms because of the permanence required of farmers to maintain

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