Exam 3: Agriculture in States Flashcards
With an increase in population, with the dawn of agricultural states, there was also an increase in disease, along with it an increase in mortality rate.
True
What were the two reasons for the decline in overall health with the coming of agricultural states?
Poor nutrition from a carbohydrate rich diet.
Disease brought by crowded population centers and warfare.
What three pieces of evidence found in skeletal remains are used to make the assumption of poor health?
Enamel Hypoplasia
Dental Caries
Harris Lines
Enamel Hypoplasia
Horizontal lines and striations developed on teeth due to a deficiency in tooth enamel.
Harris lines
Harris lines are often discussed as a result of juvenile malnutrition, disease or trauma.
porotic hyperostosis
a disease that causes bone tissue to become soft and spongy.
Cribra orbitalia
when your bones grow down into your eye sockets.
hutchinson’s incisor
a sign of congenital syphilis.
periostitis
inflammation of the periosteum, a layer of connective tissue that surrounds bone. causes porous bones.
What three major innovations were seen in agriculture with the dawn of states?
- Irrigation and the management of water
- Fertilization
- The Plow
What are sumarian clay tablets, and what were they used for?
Developed by agricultural states, they are the first know form of writing used to keep records, laws, medical records, food distribution carved in stone, bone, wood.
Most Ag states had bureaucratic organization.
True.
They had authority and power.
Complete control over their people.
these states had no social stratification.
False.
The society was stratified by a division of laborers into peasants, merchants, craftsmen, emperors
What was the major source of wealth and hierarchy in these states?
Land.
Political Elite
Controls the prices of trades, who trades with who, where trading takes place, and anything else that can be considered an exchange.
