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Oct 19, 1565
Earlier rulers
• the earliest rulers would engage in symbolic activities that were important to the maintenance of their power, they would have extravagant displays of wealth such as human sacrifices, temples, palaces and monument to the dead -
Gender divide
• Men would claim a natural superiority outside of the household and women would remain inside and cook and stay, this is how they were defined, the gender divide -
Power over labor
• Where ever monumental structures such as Easter Island and Stonehenge existed there were most likely leaders with enough power to organize and coordinate the labor of hundreds to thousands of persons -
Farming communities
• Farming communities had more resources available to them and more persons than the foraging communities. With more resources in general, the farming communities were the ones to turn to while agriculture was starting out -
Foragers
• within two or three generations foragers realized they were outgrowing the resources available to them in their environment, this results in migration to find better sources. -
Agriculture's early spread
• After agriculture had started to appear in any one region it spread primarily because farming communities grew so fast, they had to find new land to farm, spreading also came from villages budding and young families clearing and settling -
Rapid popultion growth
• There was rapid population growth, innovations could not keep up with this growth, this was due to the increased productivity of agriculture -
Humanity in the era
• 70% of humanity may have lived during the agrarian era -
First written document
• 3000-5000 BCE was when history began and the first written documents appeared in the two largest world zones, Americas and Afro-Eurasia -
Series of innovations
• From 4000 BCE there were a series of innovations that allowed farmers to make more efficient uses of the secondary products of large livestock, this means production could be done without killing the animals and using secondary products like milk, fibers, manure and traction power to plow -
community growth
• communities would become larger and people had to find new ways of living and determining who had access to stored resources and other relationships -
Preperation of states
• Leadership processes prepared the way for the more powerful structures, states which appeared parallel with cities. this was in a way preparation