Exam 9: Public Spaces, Self, and Cognitive Evolution in Early States

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According to Eric Havelock the origin of the pageantry and the theatrics of storytelling, including singing, dancing and costume making shows

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Using coined money with fixed prices on commodities requires:

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Question 22

Compared to the United States upper classes, the upper classes in ancient cities:

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Question 23

The status of women in agricultural states:

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Question 24

The invention of the alphabet:

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Question 25

Unlike simple tokens, complex tokens were:

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Question 26

Complex tokens were circulated as a means of currency among the general population in Mesopotamia.

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Question 27

Compare the pros and cons of oral storytelling to the alphabet as information transmission systems. Include: Memory storage Scope of communication beyond the host culture Abstract thinking Power of myths Power of artistic imagination Persuasive power to manipulate

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Question 28

The existence of goddesses in Mesopotamia showed that:

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Question 29

Give an example of when, as a little boy or little girl, you went through all three of Vygotsky's learning stages: local interpersonal; internalization; and global interpersonal: A) Describe what you were trying to learn and how old you were. B) Name the roles of the people involved and the materials and tools utilized C) Describe how each stage played out.

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Question 30

To imagine that a spiritual presence is no longer in particular haunts, but is everywhere requires:

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According to Eric Havelock the origin of the pageantry and the theatrics of storytelling, including singing, dancing and costume making shows

Using coined money with fixed prices on commodities requires:

Compared to the United States upper classes, the upper classes in ancient cities:

The status of women in agricultural states:

The invention of the alphabet:

Unlike simple tokens, complex tokens were:

Complex tokens were circulated as a means of currency among the general population in Mesopotamia.

Compare the pros and cons of oral storytelling to the alphabet as information transmission systems. Include: Memory storage Scope of communication beyond the host culture Abstract thinking Power of myths Power of artistic imagination Persuasive power to manipulate

The existence of goddesses in Mesopotamia showed that:

To imagine that a spiritual presence is no longer in particular haunts, but is everywhere requires:

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 Sacred Chiefs Part III State-Based Systems

The Temple and the Palace

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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