Question 1

What is the organizational feature that Johnson and Earle point to as the key difference between chiefdoms and early states?

Accepted Answer

A)  the ability to perform complex celebrations 
B)  specialized institutions of regional control 
C)  tasteful representations of the human form 
D)  cross-cousin marriage 
E)  monumental architecture 
A)  the ability to perform complex celebrations 
B)  specialized institutions of regional control 
C)  tasteful representations of the human form 
D)  cross-cousin marriage 
E)  monumental architecture

Question 2

Can you think of instances where there are clear egalitarian relations within a nomadic hunting-gathering society (or a simple horticultural society) and this is coupled with a clear hierarchy in the sacred world between sacred beings?

Accepted Answer

In a nomadic hunting-gathering society o

Question 3

Explain why chiefs are better candidates for individualism than either big-men of simple horticultural societies or the headman of nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Please consider
a) the kind of work done
b) the amount of leisure time
c) dwelling size
d) kinship bonds

Accepted Answer

Chiefs are better candidates for individ

Question 4

How would you compare the life of women in nomadic foraging societies with the life of women in simple horticultural societies and the life of women in chiefdoms?
You need to address all the following in your explanation:
a) The worth of female labor
b) The occasion for which the object was produced
c) Sexual freedom
d) Sibling relations
e) Bonds with other women
f) Violence against women
g) The age of the women

Accepted Answer

In nomadic foraging societies, the worth

Question 5

What is it about techniques of power that make it possible for larger and larger polities to emerge?

Accepted Answer

A)  the development of more convincing creation myths 
B)  the emergence of more effective public health regulations 
C)  the increasing ability to extract resources from more and more distant locations 
D)  greater control over micro-organisms 
E)  improvement in the quality of mass entertainment 
A)  the development of more convincing creation myths 
B)  the emergence of more effective public health regulations 
C)  the increasing ability to extract resources from more and more distant locations 
D)  greater control over micro-organisms 
E)  improvement in the quality of mass entertainment

What is the organizational feature that Johnson and Earle point to as the key difference between chiefdoms and early states?

Can you think of instances where there are clear egalitarian relations within a nomadic hunting-gathering society (or a simple horticultural society) and this is coupled with a clear hierarchy in the sacred world between sacred beings?

Explain why chiefs are better candidates for individualism than either big-men of simple horticultural societies or the headman of nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Please consider a) the kind of work done b) the amount of leisure time c) dwelling size d) kinship bonds

What is it about techniques of power that make it possible for larger and larger polities to emerge?

History and Social Evolution

The Comparative World-Systems Approach

Biological Bases of Social Evolution

Building a Social Self: The Macro-Micro Link Part II Stateless Systems

World-Systems of Foragers

The Gardeners Web Chapter Indigenous North American World-Systems Before the Rise of Chiefs

The Temple and the Palace

Public Spaces, Self, and Cognitive Evolution in Early States

The Early Empires: Semiperipheral Conquerors and Capitalist City-States

The Central System Part IV-The Long Rise of Capitalism

The Long Rise of the West

The Modern World-System

The Early Modern Systems in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

The Global Nineteenth Century

Public Spaces, Individualism, and Cognition in the Modern Age

The Twentieth-Century Age of Extremes

The World-System Since 1945: Another Wave of Globalization, Hegemony, and Revolutions

Late Globalization: The Early Twenty-First Century

The Next Three Futures: Another Round of Us Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy

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Exam 7: The Sacred Chiefs Part III State-Based Systems

What is the organizational feature that Johnson and Earle point to as the key difference between chiefdoms and early states?

Can you think of instances where there are clear egalitarian relations within a nomadic hunting-gathering society (or a simple horticultural society) and this is coupled with a clear hierarchy in the sacred world between sacred beings?

Explain why chiefs are better candidates for individualism than either big-men of simple horticultural societies or the headman of nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Please consider a) the kind of work done b) the amount of leisure time c) dwelling size d) kinship bonds

What is it about techniques of power that make it possible for larger and larger polities to emerge?

History and Social Evolution

The Comparative World-Systems Approach

Biological Bases of Social Evolution

Building a Social Self: The Macro-Micro Link Part II Stateless Systems

World-Systems of Foragers

The Gardeners Web Chapter Indigenous North American World-Systems Before the Rise of Chiefs

The Temple and the Palace

Public Spaces, Self, and Cognitive Evolution in Early States

The Early Empires: Semiperipheral Conquerors and Capitalist City-States

The Central System Part IV-The Long Rise of Capitalism

The Long Rise of the West

The Modern World-System

The Early Modern Systems in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

The Global Nineteenth Century

Public Spaces, Individualism, and Cognition in the Modern Age

The Twentieth-Century Age of Extremes

The World-System Since 1945: Another Wave of Globalization, Hegemony, and Revolutions

Late Globalization: The Early Twenty-First Century

The Next Three Futures: Another Round of Us Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy

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