Bonus Blog: Characteristics of the State
Although I feel that many of the primary and secondary characteristics go hand in hand with one another, or are related, I believe that the primary characteristics of a ‘civilization’ are most...
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Of all the primary and secondary characteristics, I would argue that intensive agriculture is by far the most important. Other primary and secondary characteristics even seem to have evolved around the...
View ArticleState Authority: Bonus Blog
The primary characteristics of a state include urban settlement, agriculture, specialization, complex economy, stratification, and state authority. While these characteristics are often interwoven in...
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Out of the six primary characteristics of a state, agriculture is the most important. Though this might seem the obvious answer, it is agriculture that is required before both specialization, and a...
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I truly believe that all of the primary and secondary characteristics of the state relate to each other in some way or another. This being said, to me they all seem to stem in someway or another from...
View ArticleBonus Blog: Agriculture and Writing
With each ancient state we have studied this term, the primary and secondary characteristics of state societies consistently presented themselves as vital elements in the rise, and in some instances...
View ArticleBonus Blog- Urbanism
Of all the primary characteristics of the state that we looked at, I think that agriculture is probably the most important of them all, seeing as how it is a unifying thread that winds its way at the...
View ArticleBonus Blog: Primary and Secondary Characteristics.
In writing my last blog post for this class I am already reflecting on what I wrote in my final exam paper regarding the primary characteristics of an ancient state. My initial response is that...
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Defining what characteristics form the civilizations, or states, in is important because such classifications are important in laying the foundation for the understanding of the entire concept of...
View Article♪ ♫ ♪ Three Cheers for State Authority ♪ ♫ ♪
After much though, among the primary and second characteristics of an ancient state I believe that the most crucial is state authority. When I first read the question, the quality that popped into my...
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