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Types of Societies Guns, Germs, and Steel—The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Types of Societies
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Society = a group of people living together in a particular place or at a particular time and having many things in common
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Band Tribe Chiefdom State Different types of societies
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Element = a point of comparison which is contained in the different types of societies Membership Government Economy Society
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Membership Number of People dozenshundreds thousandsover 50,000
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Membership Settlement Pattern nomadicfixed: 1 village fixed: 1 or more villages fixed: many villages and cities
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Membership Basis of Relationship kinkin-based clans class and residence
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Membership Ethnicities and Languages 11 11 or more
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Government Decision Making (Leadership) “egalitarian”“egalitarian” or big-man centralized, hereditary centralized
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Government Bureaucracynone none, or 1 or 2 levels many levels
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Government Monopoly of Force and Information no yes
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Government Conflict Resolution informal centralizedlaws, judges
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Government Hierarchy of Settlement no no >> paramount village capital
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Economy Food Production nono >>> yes yes >>> intensive intensive
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Economy Division of Labor no no >>> yesyes
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Economy Exchangesreciprocal (given by both sides) redistributive (“tribute”) redistributive (“taxes”)
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Economy Control of Land bandclan chiefvarious
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Society Stratifiedno yes, by kinyes, not by kin
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Society Slaveryno small-scalelarge-scale
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Society Luxury Goods for Elite no yes
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Society Public Architecture no no >>> yesyes
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState Society Indigenous Literacy no often
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState
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Types of Societies BandTribe ChiefdomState
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Types of Societies
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